I04 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



a model by Dwight Franklin, of an Indian settlement on the 

 Passaic River about the year 1620; photograph of a rock shelter 

 in Westchester County, N. Y. ; sections of typical Indian shell 

 deposits and pits ; map of New York City and vicinity, showing 

 known locations of shell deposits ; photograph of an Indian grave 

 uncovered at Tottenville ; etc. The descriptive text is well 

 written and is brief but thoroughly comprehensive under each 

 heading such as " clothing," " dwellings," " food," " customs," 

 " relics," etc., and a useful bibliography, in which our Proceed- 

 ings are listed by title, is appended. Inasmuch as these Indians 

 belonged to the same tribe, the Leni Lenape, which also occupied 

 Staten Island, this little pamphlet is of direct interest to us. 



A. H. 



The Indians of Greater New York^" 



The subject of this book is treated under six heads. The first, 

 which bears the same title as the book, namely '* The Indians of 

 Greater New York," discusses the three tribes and their various 

 subdivisions found on Manhattan Island and in its vicinity at the 

 time of the arrival of the Europeans. The next three chapters 

 are entitled, respectively, " The Indians and their Life," " Cus- 

 toms of the Delaware " and " Contact with the Whites." In 

 these chapters are brought together many quotations from 

 DeVries, Bankers & Slyter, and other old time Dutch authors, 

 descriptive of the Indians and their manners and customs. This 

 is probably the most valuable part of the book, as it brings 

 together in the compass of a few pages the first-hand information 

 on these subjects, which as our author explains is very meager, 

 '' for our forefathers were far too busy fighting the savages to 

 bother writing about them." Accounts are given of many of 



10 The Indians of ] Greater New York | By Alanson Skinner | Assistant 

 Curator of Anthropology | American 'Museum of Natural History, New 

 York I With a Map of the Region | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | The Torch 

 Press, 1915. 



(Little Histories of North American Indians, No. 3.) 



