INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND 



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the Hudson River at more or less 

 frequent intervals as farupasPeekskill; 

 on Croton Point and between Nyack 

 and Hook Mountain on the west shore 

 they attain considerable size. There 

 are a few small deposits, however, 

 composed mainly of fresh water clams 

 (Unio) situated on fresh water lakes 

 in the interior of Westchester County. 

 There are many shell-heaps on Staten 



cemeteries of the Indians hold much of 

 interest to the archaeologist. 



Although most of the natives in the 

 vicinity of Greater New York did not 

 place objects in the graves with their 

 dead, some graves at Burial Ridge, 

 Tottenville, Staten Island, when 

 opened for the Museum in 1895, were 

 found to contain a great many interest- 

 ing and valuable remains. With the 



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INDIAN SKELETONS PIERCED BY ARROW POINTS, TOTTENVILLE, STATEN ISLAND. 



Island . Shell-heaps occur or did occur on 

 Constable Hook, New Jersey, and at 

 intervals between there and J ersey City 

 along the western shore of New York 

 Bay. The accompanying map gives 

 the location of the important known 

 shell deposits in the vicinity of New 

 York City. 



Besides the shell-heaps, the ancient 



skeleton of a child there was a great 

 deposit of utensils, both finished and 

 unfinished ornaments, such as beads, 

 pendants, and the like, a stone pipe 

 and a number of other objects, while 

 not far away the skeletons of three 

 Indian warriors were exhumed, in and 

 among whose bones there were found, 

 as shown in the cases devoted to the 



