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>ome of their arrows were headed only with a sharp point formed 

 directly on the shaft and hardened by semicharring. Harpoons were 

 inade of bone and sometimes there are several barbs, quite unlike, 

 however, the barbs in the European spear. 



Fishhooks were of the simple hook type without a barb and 

 resemble in every way the fish hooks found in the Ohio village sites, 



Fig. 1.4 Types of bone fishhooks from Richmond Mills, Ontario County. 

 Dewev coll. State Museum, xi. 



Fig 15 Heaver tooth with bone handle found by C. B. Moore, Kentucky. 

 This suggests how worked beaver teeth found in New York may have been 

 employed, 



as at Madisonville (see figure 14). Occasionally bone whistles are 

 found made from the long leg bone of some bird or the wing bone 

 of a wild turkey (see plate 33). 



Earthworks. No adequate idea of the prehistoric Iroquois can be 

 had without some description or mention of their earthworks. Scat- 

 tered through the western and northern portion of the State of New 

 York are more than 100 earth embankments, ditches and circular 

 inclosures. Most of these were probably not erected in any sense 





