No clothing or hides were preserved in the Maritime Archaic Indian cemetery; however, hide manufacture is reflected in tools that were found in the graves. Caribou scapula (shoulder blades) were used as scrapers to clean fat off the skins. Awls and needles indicate that the Maritime Archaic Indians sewed clothing, using sinew as thread. Around the head of a young woman were found two rows of marine shell beads, believed to have been sewn to a hood she was wearing. Another skeleton had a row of harp seal claw cores lying across his hip area where the hem of a jacket would have been.

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