METALLIC IMPLEMENTS OF Ni:W Y«iIlK INDIAN'S 77 



Fig. Kir) is a slciulcr eo[)i)or fishhook from the recent site 

 known as Tapper Caviififa, on lot 114, Ledyard. Tliere were many 

 of these there and at Scipiovilh^ Fig. 1(10 is a largo iron fish- 

 hook from Scipioville, where several were found. This one has 

 the line still wound around the shank, where it was preserved 

 bv iron rust. 



Fig. ir»2 is a pewter mug from a grave at East Cayuga site, 

 lot 95, Fleming. In the mug were 44 French coins, dated from 

 1642 to 1656, and mostly having two holes for suspension. All 

 were of copper, about the size of our half cents but thinner. 

 This mug was found by and still belongs to Mr John Perkins. 



Fig. 15 is a bullet as it came from the mold, found at Indian 

 Castle, north of Watervale. Musket balls often occur in good 

 condition, ready for use but unfinished. The writer has figured 

 bullet molds from the same place. 



Two immense iron hoes were found at Fort Bull near Rome 

 N. Y. One of them w\as 7f inches broad by 7 inches deep with 

 an ample socket for the w^ooden handle. On the Cattaraugus 

 reservation may still be seen similar great hoes which the Sen- 

 ecas say were presents from ^Yashington. 



Tobacco boxes were commonly changed into paint boxes and 

 receptacles for ornaments. One of these, filled with trinkets^ 

 was found in a grave 2J miles w-est of Fort Plain. They often 

 occur in graves, placed there w^hen it was the fashion to inter 

 articles with the dead. This one was nearlv 3 inches across. 



Mr W. W. Adams took out of one Cayuga grave the following 

 articles, May 2, 1888: One brass kettle, 17 flints, two gunflints, 

 six bullets, six long shell beads, a bone harpoon, three buck- 

 horn handles, a knife with buckhorn handle, 21 gaming flints, 

 three bars of lead, five rubbing stones, 16 bears tusks, two 

 axes, two pairs of shears, four pairs of bullet molds, two gun- 

 locks with flints, 47 pieces of gunlocks, 32 knives and cutting 

 implements, two large iron shears, a gun 4 feet 8 inches long, 

 a pipe, a piece of black paint, a piece of mica, two trigger guards, 

 one wormer, a gun cleaner, steel and two flints, a quantity of 



