NATURE STUDY. 



PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 



Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Vol. III. Ji^ly, 1902. No. 2. 



Indian Implements in the Musemii of the Man- 

 chester Institute. I. 



BY WILLIAM H. HUSE. 



When the museum of the Manchester Institute was 

 burned last January, there was destroyed one of the finest 

 collections of Indian relics in New Hampshire. This was 

 one of the losses most to be deplored because the stone im- 

 plements used by the aborigines of this locality are com- 

 paratively rare and are yearly becoming more so. This col- 

 lection formerly owned by Mr. W. H. Heath, represented 

 years of collecting, and contained specimens varying from 

 the rudest chips to the most polished instrument produced 

 by the latest skill. 



Since the destruction of this collection another, and per- 

 haps the only large collection in this city, has been secured. 

 This is the fruit of many years of labor of Mr. James O. 

 Harriman, an enthusiast of no little ability in the study 

 and knowledge of such objects and the many things found 

 in woods and fields. Years of research about the camp- 

 ing places of the natives of this section coupled with a 



