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scattered village on McCann farm, main village seems to have been 

 on a knoll on the Lusher farm, burials located in a gravel pit on Mc- 

 Cann farm about two-thirds of a mile to the west of the village. 

 Located by McCann while excavating for gravel and was extensively 

 worked by him and Mr Lusher in the gravel pit only, as the 

 gravel was taken out for road and building purposes. Mr McCann 

 thinks about fifty bodies were removed in all ; contained some clay 

 pottery, finely decorated clay pipes, bone combs and bone beads. No 

 European articles found, bundle burials noted, and the regular Sen- 

 eca position with legs drawn up. My cabinet specimen 976 was 

 presented to me by Mr McCann which contains twenty-nine wolf's 

 teeth and one bear's tooth, six long bones all polished and brown with 

 age, this is approximately one-half of the bone beads taken from this 

 site. One of the long bone beads possessed by McCann contains 

 evident record notches. The above mentioned beads are all per- 

 forated and show long usage. The pipes from this site are all orna- 

 mented with animal effigies, although one or two represented human 

 faces." 



Mr Lusher possesses a very fine highly polished game or gambling 

 stone, found in a grave. A. H. Dewey of Rochester possesses many 

 articles from this site. Surface findings consist of celts, few ham- 

 merstones, arrow points ; pestles rare. There are several black earth 

 spots scattered all over the two farms which resemble lodge sites, 

 but do not yield the usual bone or other marks of habitation. 



Greene County 



At the opening of the colonial period this county was occupied 

 by various branches of the Hudson river Mahikans, but there are 

 apparently earlier sites and a number of interesting remains which 

 do not seem characteristic of the* later Algonkins. Most of the sites 

 in the county are situated along the banks of the Hudson or in the 

 valley of Catskill creek. With the possible exception of a few 

 rock shelters and hunting camps, so far as is now known there are 

 no traces of aboriginal occupation of importance in the mountains 

 west oi the river. There are some extensive chert quarries on a 

 ridge of land back of Coxsackie and numerous small sites are scat- 

 tered along the shores of the Hudson. Greene county has been 

 studied with some care by Egbert Beardsley and Prof. George H. 

 Chadwick, both of Catskill, and by Orin Q. Flint of Athens. From 

 these observers our lists of sites in the county have chiefly come. 



