ABORIGINAL CHIPPED STONE IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK 29 



nent distinctions. The same considerations have their application 

 to very many other things. Closely related as they were, each Iro- 

 quois nation had its own fashions. 



Fig. 48 is not common, and the work is somewhat coarse. The 

 basal line is also convex, a rare feature in this form, unless there is 

 a central notch or double curve, as in some of the following. The 

 lateral notches are also deep, and the implement is beveled. It is 

 of brown flint, one and three quarters inches long, and was found on 

 the Seneca river. Fig. 49, from the same place, is by no means 

 rare, though quite variable. This is of brown flint, one and one half 

 inches long, and with a basal width of one and three sixteenths inches. 

 The notches are quite deep, and the cutting edges convex. The base 

 is hardly as concave as in most of this form, which is of wide dis- 

 tribution, extending far to the south and west. Fig. 50 is of the same 

 general form, but has a hollower base and straighter edge. This 

 is of brownish white flint, and comes from Brewerton, at the foot of 

 Oneida lake, for ages a favorite resort of the aborigines. It is one 

 and five eighths inches long. Fig. 51 is of dark brown flint, one and 

 seven eighths inches long, the base being one and one quarter inches 

 wide. This is also concave, and the implement is thick. It comes 

 from Onondaga lake. Fig. 52 is another, made of common horn- 

 stone, with a fine concave base. The full length is two and one 

 quarter inches, and the base is one and three eighths inches wide. It 

 was found at Baldwinsville, and the form is rather frequent in that 

 vicinity. A much smaller one, with some peculiarities, conies from 

 the same place. It is but little over an inch long, and the base is 

 much deeper and more indented. This form even occurs in quartz, 

 but with less elaboration. 



Some of the smaller arrow-heads have peculiar features, and 

 slender ones, with one sided bases, occur occasionally. Fig. 53 is 

 a good illustration of these. It is of drab flint, one and five sixteenths 

 inches long, and quite inequilateral in every way, so much so as to 

 make it a question whether it should not be called a very small knife. 

 They are hardly common, and those figured here are from the Seneca 

 river. Fig. 54 is another of these, of the same material, but propor- 

 tionally much wider than the last. It is but little over an inch long, 



