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New York mounds and the occupied sites contiguous to them, 

 particularly those in Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie and Livingston 

 counties, indicate that the people of the mound culture used (i) 

 platform pipes, (2) grooved axes, (3) celts, (4) adzes, (5) gouges, 

 (6) gorgets, (7) banner stones, (8) boat stones, (9) bird stones, 

 (10) stone tubes of several varieties, (n) native copper implements 

 and ornaments such as chisels, celts, spearheads and arrowheads, 

 beads, ear ornaments, etc., (12) numerous flint drills or perforators, 

 (13) shell beads, (14) pearl beads, (15) mica ornaments, (16) 

 bone and antler implements, (17) notched and triangular arrow- 

 heads and spearheads, (18) hematite articles, (19) pottery, (20) 

 discoid stones, (21) concaved disks, (22) cylindrical and bell pest- 

 les, (23) were a village-dwelling people, (24) that they buried in 

 small mounds, (25) cultivated corn and other vegetable foods and 

 tobacco, (26) made woven fabrics. 



The evidences of the mound culture are more numerous in extreme 

 western New York than east of the Genesee river. The culture seems 

 to have entered the State along the shores of Lake Erie and up from 

 the Allegheny river. Chautauqua, Erie and Cattaraugus counties 

 thus contain a larger number of mounds than do other portions of 

 the State, though certain other sections, as the Genesee valley, have 

 yielded relics in abundance. 



The regions showing the greatest evidence of the mound culture 

 are: (i) the south shore of Lake Erie from Westfield to the mouth 

 of Cattaraugus creek, (2) the valley and terraces of the Cattaraugus 

 to Gowanda, (3) the Allegheny valley, (4) the valley of Chautau- 

 qua lake and the Chadekoin river, (5) the Connewango valley, (6) 

 the Cassadaga valley, (7) Clear Creek valley, (8) the valley of Buf- 

 falo creek, (9) the valley of Tonawanda creek eastward to the 

 overland trails to the Genesee, (10) eastward along the Allegheny 

 valley from Bradford northward along the tributaries, thence over- 

 land to the Genesee valley, (u) the Genesee valley from Portage- 

 ville to the mouth of the river, (12) Irondequoit creek, (13) Canan- 

 daigua Lake valley, (14) the region of the Finger Lakes, to the 

 Seneca river, (15) the valley of the Seneca river, (16) southward 

 and about the southern shores of Oneida lake, (17) scattering relics 

 along the Oswego river, (18) Jefferson county along the shores of 

 Ontario and the lower waters of the neighboring creeks, (19) the St 

 Lawrence valley, (20) south of the Finger Lakes, especially along 

 the headstreams of the Susquehanna and of the Delaware are 

 scattering relics, (21) portions of the Hudson valley, as near Athens. 1 



