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shows the making of an arrow point 

 from a simple quartz pebble such as 

 might be picked up anywhere on the 

 shore, with the various stages leading 

 to the finished point; the tools 

 employed are also exhibited. Imple- 

 ments of stone for pecking, grooving, 

 and polishing; hatchets and axes; 

 pottery fragments, and household 

 utensils, such as hammers, axes, adzes 

 and gouges, will be found at hand. 



In the upright cases there is an 

 exhibit from Manhattan Island, made 

 up of specimens principally collected 

 by Messrs. Alexander C. Chenoweth, 

 W. L. Calver, and R. P. Bolton, in the 

 rock-shelters and village sites at In- 

 wood, showing as fully as possible the 

 life of the prehistoric Manhattan 

 Indians. 



In another table case are to be seen 

 implements and remains from the 



methods of cutting bone and antler 

 employed by these Indians. Bone 

 was cut by notching or grooving it 

 with a stone knife or flake, and then 

 breaking it at the groove. Antler wa> 

 worked in the same way, but it is very 

 probable that the Indians boiled antler 

 in order to make it more pliable and 

 easily cut. 



From the appearance of pottery 

 fragments now to be found on the sites 

 of the ancient Indian villages of this 

 vicinity and the methods of modern 

 Indian pottery makers, we may safely 

 conclude that most, if not all, of the 

 earthenware manufactured in this 

 locality was made by the coil process, 

 which consisted of the following steps. 

 The Indians first secured clay of a 

 suitable quality, which was mixed with 

 pounded shell or stones to make it 

 tougher and more durable. It was 



DIAGRAM OF A TYPICAL SHELL DEPOSIT. 



shell-heaps marking a long-forgotten 

 Indian village at Shinnecock Hills, 

 Long Island. This exhibit, which is 

 one of the most complete of its kind, 

 gives a rather adequate picture of the 

 ancient life of these people and is 

 especially valuable for the number and 

 variety of primitive manufactures 

 shown. One of the most interesting of 

 the sections demonstrates, by means of 

 a series of specimens, the primitive 



then worked into long rolls, and the 

 Indians, beginning at the bottom, 

 worked the pot up by adding coil after 

 coil, blending or smoothing the coils 

 with a smooth stone until they did 

 not show from either the interior or 

 exterior surface. When the pot was 

 completed, it was decorated by stamp- 

 ing or incising designs about the 

 exterior of the rim. 



The upright case at the end contains 



