<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">Early XVth century AD.<br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58700"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58701"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58702" 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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58703" class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58707" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58706" 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_58705" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, linéale; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58704" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58708" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> "Griffitts, Janet L - (griffitt)" <griffitt@email.arizona.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> Christian Gates St-Pierre <cgates70@yahoo.fr>; "Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn." <bonetools@listserv.niif.hu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> mardi 26 janvier 2016 14h19<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [Bonetools] A possible ivory pendant<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58709" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8959264800"><style type="text/css">#yiv8959264800 #yiv8959264800 --P{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv8959264800 </style><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58711" dir="ltr">
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_58710">Hi Christian</div>
<div>Do you have a general date range for the site?</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 26, 2016 12:08 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To:</b> Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.<br clear="none">
<b>Subject:</b> [Bonetools] A possible ivory pendant</font>
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<div id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47210"><span id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">Hi folks,</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47330"><span id="yiv8959264800yui_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>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47546"><span id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47255">1) Could it be ivory?</span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47331"><span id="yiv8959264800yui_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
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<div dir="ltr" id="yiv8959264800yui_3_16_0_1_1453820453316_47431"><span id="yiv8959264800yui_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 clear="none">
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