NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Unio shell in Mr Loveland's collection obtained some years ago 

 from the very site where we worked on Homer Heath's farm. 



The most interesting ornament found was the greater part of a 

 disk or gorget made of human skull with six perforations, another 

 article of which nearly every local collection has one specimen. 

 Stone gorgets were not found by the expedition and the few found 

 to my knowledge on these Iroquois sites by local collectors could 

 better be called pendants, being rather thick and perforated only 

 near the end or edge quite unlike the typical gorget which I never 

 saw on or from an Iroquoian site. A bear's tooth perforated for 

 suspension was also evidently an ornament. Perhaps under this 

 head may be included also some sheets of mica, a quartz crystal, 

 and a paint stone showing rubbing. 



Under the head of games are classified the usual perforated deer 

 phalanges for playing the game of " cup and peg," other phalanges 

 rubbed to a sort of pyramidal shape characteristic of this region; a 

 large number of small disks of slate and pottery, some of which were 

 wholly or partially perforated, and some scratched on one side. 



The vegetable foods of the old people were represented by charred 

 corn, kernels, stalks and cobs, wild plum stones, hickory nuts, but- 

 ternuts, and calamus roots ; animal foods by the bones of the deer, 

 bear, raccoon and other mammals, by the bones of various but as 

 yet unidentified birds, of sturgeon and other fishes, and by the shells 

 of the Unio or fresh-water clam. Specimens showing the method 

 of manufacture of stone implements were confined to a few flint 

 and quartz chips and rejects, and unfinished beads and disks of 

 serpentine and slate. An unusual process, observed for the first 

 time here, was the chipping into form of large pieces of bone for 

 bone awls and harpoons. Bone beads and awls were also obtained 

 in the process of manufacture by the more usual grooving, shaving 

 and rubbing methods. 



Wads of clay and parts of coils preserved by accidental burning 

 tell of the manufacture of pottery vessels and sherds chipped roughly 

 into circular form, of the making of pottery disks. 



Finally a charred bit of birch bark found in an ash pit may have 

 been intended for making some vessel of domestic use. 



Taking the collection from both sites as a whole, it can be said to 

 be thoroughly Iroquoian. The form and the decoration of the 

 pottery and the pipes, the triangular form of the flint arrowheads, 

 and the exclusive use of celt axes in place of grooved axes, taken 

 together, are unmistakable. In a few minor details, however, the 

 material culture differs from that of other Iroquois regions examined 

 by the expedition ; there are certain features peculiar to the locality. 



