<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47210"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Hi folks,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47256"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47330" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">I have a colleague who found an artifact on an Iroquoian site in Ontario and has two questions about it:</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47506" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47546" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">1) Could it be ivory?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47399" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47331" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">2) What function could it have? A pendant is the best interpretation I could think of considering the two (partial) perforations, but I wonder if there could be any other possibilities I should consider?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47356" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47431" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">You can see pictures of the artifact on this link to Drobox, including a close-up picture of the fractured section showing the structural composition of the object:<br><br><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47432" href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/se3me603yawe098/AACWXklkNoXRzWcXzpRHle7ea?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/se3me603yawe098/AACWXklkNoXRzWcXzpRHle7ea?dl=0</a></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47472" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47469" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Any suggestion, hint or comment would be much appreciated.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47468" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47467" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Best,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47437" dir="ltr"><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255"></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47211"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47212" class="signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14059" dir="ltr"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14084">Christian Gates St-Pierre</b>, PhD<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14070" dir="ltr">Chercheur invité / Invited Researcher<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14071" dir="ltr">Département d'anthropologie</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1429623001091_14072" dir="ltr">Université de Montréal</div>christian.gates-st-pierre@umontreal.ca</div><br> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47217" class="yahoo_quoted"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47216" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47215" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, linéale; font-size: 16px;"> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>