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specimens that may be called flint hoes have ever been found in 

 New York State. 



Hut rings. It is believed that certain Indians excavated pits in the 

 earth and erected dome-shaped lodges over them covering the bent 

 poles with saplings and intertwined withes. Afterward the whole 

 was covered with thatch earth and sod. The Eskimo and certain 

 tribes in the United States have done this in historic times. When 

 the pole work supporting the structure rotted away there was left a 

 pit surrounded by a ring of earth. Hut rings of this kind have been 

 found at Perch lake in northern New York, and at Findley lake, 

 Chautauqua county. 



Fig. 58 Rock carving, Colliers 



Inscriptions. Rock inscriptions by incision and by painting are 

 rare in New York. Some occur along the St Lawrence, the Hudson 

 and the Mohawk. The famous Indian rock at Esopus is a good 

 example of a rock inscription, but it is recent, as the gun held in the 

 Indian's hand proves. A rock drawing near Colliers seems more 

 aboriginal, and consists of an owllike figure outlined by incisions in 



