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Anvils, that is flat stones upon which stone was hammered, are 

 fairly common. Now and then an arrow shaft rubber is found and 

 plenty of scratched stones, or " awl sharpeners," are in evidence and 

 an occasional " sinew stone " comes to light. 



Shell ornaments. The later Iroquois loved shell ornaments, such 

 as beads, perforated shells, runtees and disks, masketts and variously 



Fig. ii Pitted hammerstone and small anvil 



formed effigies, but they did not have them in any abundance until 

 the coming of the white man. Shell beads of spherical shape, 

 cylindrical, or even discoidal appear on early sites, most of them 

 made from the columella of the conch. Perforated periwinkles also 

 were used but only a few beads small enough to be similar to the 

 wampum of the colonial period have been found, compared with 



