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trals must have possessed some means of cutting and polishing 
stone in a superior manner to that of the later tribes. When these 
heads were discovered a number of tomahawks and axes were 
buried with them. It is said that these relics of a by-gone age were 
buried by the Iroquois. A curious opening is cut out on the back 
of the stone head, oblong, evidently as a hook to fasten the stone on 
a pole or beam. 
Many of the archaeological relics found in American and Can- 
adian museums relate back to a race of men and an age which have 
passed beyond the ken of modern Indian traditions. In support of 
Mr. Alison’s theory is a remarkable representation of human heads, 
(Figs. 1 and 2), carved ona funeral base, called the ¢zzune cup, found 
in 1819 on a fork of the Cumberland River, Western N.Y. The 
object is thus described : ‘‘It consists of three heads joined together 
“fat the back part, near the top, by a stem or handle, which rises 
“above the head about three inches. This stem is hollow, six 
“inches in circumference at the top, increasing in Size as it des- 
cends.” : 
Are these relics, found so far apart-from one another, relics of the 
same age? Let some antiquarian answer. 
J. ROSS HOLDEN. 
