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lowing is a list of utensils, &c., that were found on the cape, either by 

 the writer, or by his friends ; arrow-heads and spear-heads ; quiver and 

 arrows that crumbled on exi^osure ; axes, hatchets, and tomahawks of 

 stone ; leaf-shaped implements and skin scrapers ; needles ; graphite 

 for marking ; stone pestles and mortars ; sinkers ; stone-borers, gouges, 

 and sharpening stones ; stone pipes and pipe-stem (or bead) ; stone 

 knives, broken stone pots of steatite and pots of clay ; a sort of copper 

 or brass breastplate, found on Captain Crawford's farm (Centreville), 

 buried with a skeleton. 



At Bass Eiver, where the arrows were found in the quiver, while 

 sinking a barrel-well, a man found Indian skeletons in two places, 

 buried in a sitting or crouching position. With one of these were buried 

 a stone knife, a spear-point, and arrows, which afterwards were pur- 

 chased by a storekeeper of the place for a trifling sum. The position 

 of these buried Indians is the same as that of others described as found 

 on Cape Cod, Nantucket, and at Mattapoisett, and it seems to have 

 been the general method before the whites came to these places. The 

 skull of an Indian girl, probably sixteen to twenty years old, in the 

 opinion of Professor Putnam, was given to us by some one who found 

 it buried in a lying jjosition, in an Indian burying-ground at Chilmark. 

 The position, and presence of nails, very much decayed, but suggestive 

 of a coflQn, lead to the supposition that the burial must have taken i^lace 

 after the coming of the whites. 



At Mashpee and Gay Head are to be seen the mixed descendants of 

 the Indians, but here you can seldom see a strongly Indian face, for 

 the negro features predominate, and many of the men when warmed up 

 by whisky will break out into a real plantation song, thus showing a 

 talent which their red ancestors are said never to have possessed. 



The "History of Massachusetts" by John Warner Barber, contains 

 more information about Indians on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard 

 than is to be found in any other book, and a reference to it may be use- 

 ful in determining the distribution of Indians in these places after set- 

 tlement by the whites. 



