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pot found at Bass Eiver. With the additional evidence that the stone 

 itself is similar in the two places there can be little doubt that the John- 

 ston, R. I., quarry supplied the Cape Cod Indians with their stone pots 

 and pipes. 



The only other interesting implements or weapons which were once 

 in the possession of the Cape Cod Indians and found along with their 

 other weapons of stone were two arrow-heads of brass, one of which the 

 writer's brother found at Buttermilk Bay, and the other was discovered 

 by the writer at Ceutreville, while hunting for Indian relics. They are of 

 very thin evenly wrought brass sheathing, and a notch in the edge of the 

 one, from Buttermilk Bay suggests that they were cut out by a metallic 

 knife or shears with a good cutting edge. The one from Centreville and 

 another which Professor Putnam found at Revere, Mass., were both 

 made ou the same pattern as the arrow-heads found with the celebrated 

 "skeleton in armor' 1 discovered at Fall River, with the exception that 

 the latter were pierced with holes for better securing them to the shaft. 



It was the custom of the, Indians of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, 

 and Nantucket, to bury their dead in a sitting posture, wrapped in bark 

 and, if a warrior, supplied with his usual weapons. On the east side 

 of Bass River, just above the lower bridge, while digging for a well, 

 a man found two Indians buried in this way. One of them had buried 

 with him a stone knife, spear, and arrows. The arrows were in a quiver 

 which, with the wooden shafts, soon crumbled on exposure to the air. 

 Other Indians have been found buried in this way on other parts of 

 Cape Cod, at Martha's Vineyard and at Nantucket. At Cedar Pond, 

 near Betty's Neck, in Lakeville, another one, "curled up" and carefully 

 wrapped in bark, was exhumed. Soon after their contact with the 

 whites the Indians gave up this method of burial. The writer has the 

 skull of an Indian buried at Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard, soon after 

 the whites settled on the island, the skeleton of which was lying hori- 

 zontally amidst faint vestiges of a coffiu. Ou the west shore of Oyster 

 Island, iu Cotuit Harbor, was found part of the skeleton of a large 

 Indian buried in a sitting posture, but much disarranged by the sliding 

 away of the bank which had uncovered it. 



During the period in which the Indians were gradually changing 

 from their old method of interment to that of civilized nations, it was 

 their habit to bury with their dead, ornaments and weapons obtained 

 from the whites, while, in other respects, the burial may have been 

 exactly similar to that of their ancestors. There is an account of such 

 a grave in Florida, where was found an ornament of gold, made from 

 metal of about the standard weight of the coiu taken to that coast by 

 the first settlers. In another southern grave was found an old sword 

 of the early settlers. Coats of mail were, sent to the colonists in Vir- 

 ginia and Plymouth colonies, to defend them from their enemies, the 

 Indians. Armor was used as late as the time of King Philip's war iu 

 1675. The disasters connected with Indian warfare among the colonies, 



