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all out. I found a flint knife, 3 shell beads and a bone awl." He 

 reported 10,000 pieces in his collection. 



In Watertown, Jefferson co., Mr R. D. Loveland added nearly 

 40 pipes in 1904 to his already fine collection, and a large number 

 of bone articles. In both there were pieces of very great interest. 

 A barbed bone fishhook is now in his cabinet. Messrs Amidon, Get- 

 man, Loveland, Woodworth and others could furnish a notable 

 exhibit for the Jefferson county centennial. 



The evolution of the human face on pottery has been finely illus- 

 trated by a complete series from Jefferson county. First are the 

 three circles arranged for eyes and mouth ; then three horizontal 

 ellipses, either in lines or excavations ; these are next inclosed in a 

 diamond, followed by a pentagon and hexagon ; then lines are incised 

 for the nostrils and sides of the nose; and last comes the human 

 face, as yet rare in that county. The absence of this class of pottery 

 from Oneida sites has long been a matter of surprise to the writer, 

 but now he has an example from Fish creek in Oneida county, 

 though none from a village site. This has the slender form of a 

 man, with the usual conventional body and limbs. A still more 

 interesting find was that of Mr A. B. Skinner on Staten Island 

 made last spring. On a camp site he found most of the rim of an 

 earthen vessel, having "rude raised human faces upon it." They are 

 small, four in number, and at some distance from the top of the ves- 

 sel, which had a pointed base, like most others there. It should be 

 added that i't was from a shell heap, of which Mr Skinner said: 

 " No horn or bone implements obtained here. Recent relics, such 

 as a brass arrow point, bullets, gunflints, etc., have been found." 

 The inference would be that it was either the work of an Iroquois 

 captive or of an Algonquin who had been in the hands of that people, 

 at a recent date. 



A gouge with ridged back, from Lysander, is of interest, and long 

 and fine gouges have been found in Chautauqua county. One collec- 

 tion has several fine stone mortars from Seneca river, and another 

 has one which is long, elliptic and shallow. A small and deep one 

 came from Chautauqua county. A curious and pretty one is from 

 Oneida creek and may have been used for paint. It is small and 



