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Photographer: Courtesy New Brunswick Museum Archaeology Collection, images courtesy Leo Doucet
Caption: Marker detail: Fishing implements / Outils de pêche
Additional Description: (left)
This two-pronged bone harpoon, with a line attachment hole, would have been used to tip a spear for hunting large fish or sea mammals.
Ce foène double, qui comprend un dispositif de fixation pour une ligne, aurait été emmanché à une lance pour la chasse au gros poisson ou aux mammifères marins.

(center)
Stone plummets, such as this 3500 year old artifact, were used by First Nation's peoples as weights for fishing lines and nets.
Les plombs en pierre, comme cet artefact datant d'il y a 3500 ans, étaient utilisés par les peuples des Premières Nations pour lester leurs lignes et leurs filets de pêche.

(right)
This small stone knife would have been used for preparing fish or meat for cooking.
Ce petit couteau de pierre aurait servi à préparer le poisson ou la viande pour la cuisson.
Submitted: April 8, 2020, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p516185
File Size: 1.579 Megabytes

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