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alone. These are properly mound articles, thus far unknown in 

 New York. He found there many articles of sheet copper, some- 

 times stamped or ornamented, naturally suggesting recent 

 material but clearly aboriginal. It is definitely known that 

 natiye copper was beaten thin enough for turning the edges 

 under and oyerlaying prepared forms. Out of one of these mounds 

 Mr Moorehead took a copper ax 22 inches long and 6 inches wide. 

 This weighed nearly 38 pounds, not quite seyen times as heayy 

 as the largest New York implements of this kind. — Mooreheady 

 p. 325 



Wisconsin naturally affords the greatest supply, being near the 

 ancient mines. Mr F. S. Perkins sold 143 local copper imple- 

 ments to the Wisconsin historical society, and in 1886 had 

 another collection of oyer 600 exclusiye of beads. The Hamilton 

 collection is also notable, containing most Kew York forms, as 

 well as small fishhooks and unusual ornaments. The Uniyersity 

 of Pennsylyania has 560 articles gathered from a space of 5 acres 

 in Wisconsin. The writer met with a curious Wisconsin collec- 

 tion at Manitou Col. The articles were flat and symmetric, cut 

 from rolled or beaten copper and showing none of the irregulari- 

 ties of early implements. Some found at Brewerton N. Y. are 

 suggestiye of these. ]S'atiye copper articles occur in Michigan 

 and Minnesota. In the latter they are well distributed and 

 include eastern forms but are not numerous. Canadian imple- 

 ments are nearty related to those of Xew York, and the shores 

 of Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence haye afforded many. 

 Others occur on both sides of Lake Champlain. 



New England is fairly represented and has some notable forms. 

 Pennsylyania has a number of implements and ornaments. Dr 

 0. C. Abbott knew of 128 copper articles in New Jersey in 1885, 

 but they were not all fully wrought. They included 11 celts, fiye 

 spears, eight arrowheads, 13 bracelets, 70 beads and 21 pieces of 

 copper. At one time he had thought it " not improbable that 

 all the copper articles found along the Atlantic coast were 

 brought from western localities. A careful resuryey of many 

 localities where ordinary Indian stone implements occur in 



