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gorgets. The mound is about 4 feet high, 25 feet in diameter and 

 situated on a gentle slope on the Tonawanda reservation, near Indian 

 Falls, Genesee county. The neighboring fields yield numerous 

 notched flint spearheads and arrow points. 



6 An isolated burial near Athens, Greene county, and near the 

 Hudson, contained a pendant gorget, more than one hundred native 

 copper beads, globular shell beads and pendant columella. Burials 

 here have yielded banner stones. 



7 On the John F. White estate at Squawkie hill, Mount Morris, 

 are three low mounds. All contained graves, boxed by stone slabs, 

 the upper edges of which projected above the surface of the ground. 

 These graves contained two highly polished and finely formed 

 monitor pipes, many perforated pearls, two copper chisels, a copper 

 double cymbal ear ornament held by hollow copper rivets, two gor- 

 gets, two celts and several finely chipped notched spears or knives. 

 In the fields about the mounds have been found numerous flints, 

 many celts and several grooved axes, cylindrical and bell pestles, 

 notched choppers, broken and complete monitor pipes, and one stone 

 pipe bowl. There are numerous other objects, as broken imple- 

 ments, hammerstones, anvils and notched sinkers. 



8 Several graves have been found in a gravel bank near Vine 

 Valley on Canandaigua lake. None of the graves was opened by 

 experts and hence there was no opportunity for close observation. 

 The specimens found in the graves, however, are of exceptional 

 interest. From one grave was taken a large tablet gorget (see plate 

 22), a copper chisel blade, a segment of a mastodon ivory dagger, 

 an antler awl, a pendant gorget of bone, a bar amulet, a broken 

 bar amulet and two stone tubes (see plate 24). From another grave 

 was taken a stone tube, two long strings of shell beads, and a chip- 

 ped knife, 10 inches in length. Fragments of a large cord-marked 

 pottery jar were found similar to the Irving pottery found by Mr 

 Burmaster. 



Most of the objects above described are in the New York State 

 Museum collections, though Mr John F. White has most of the 

 Mount Morris material. Unfortunately the finding of the skeletons 

 in mounds and on mound sites in New York is usually done by those 

 who fail to observe the relation of the specimens to the skeleton. 

 At other times the skeleton is far too greatly decayed to permit any 

 knowledge of the relative position of the object, and therefore a 

 proper conjecture as to the use of the so-called problematical forms. 



We are able to state, however, that some of these burials would 

 be considered ordinary in Ohio. The pottery resembles Ohio mound 



