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these might well be described and illustrated as New York speci- 
mens. Those found in the mound at Brockville are merely sepa-— 
rated from the New York shore by the St Lawrence, and are like 
those found elsewhere in the state. | | 
The collection of Mr A. E. Douglass, of New York city, 
includes 78 copper objects, mainly from Ohio. He does not state 
how many are of native copper, but divides them into spears, 
_ celts, knives, hammers, vessels, beads in lots, bracelets, imple- 
ments, ornaments, tubes, pipes, arrows and grooved axes. Of 
these one arrow, one implement, two bracelets and six orna- 
ments are from New York. Nearly half are from Ohio. 
Prof. George H. Perkins has described and figured some of the 
native copper implements of Vermont and Dr Abbott has illus- 
trated a celt from Maine. Some copper articles have been found 
in Manitoba, but these do not essentially differ from those farther 
east. Excepting a small space in Ohio distinguished by quite 
remarkable articles, there is thus a very large district in which 
nearly all native copper relics are practically of the same types. 
It must be remembered that the occurrence of these in the 
territories of historic nations is no evidence that they were made 
by them. They are scattered all through the territory of the 
Iroquois family, but are not found on the village sites of that 
people, early or late. The presumption is that they were made 
by an earlier people still. They are found in the land of the 
Lenape, but we must connect them with known villages of that 
people before we can assert they were made by them. As far as 
evidence goes, in the eastern states they were usually lost by the 
wayside or in temporary camps, or else were buried with the 
dead. An observation by Dr D. 8S. Kellogg on those of Lake 
Champlain is worthy of attention. ‘Of copper spearheads, 
hatchets and gouges about two dozen have been found. These 
have been entirely surface or field finds. Not a single copper 
relic has as yet (1887) been obtained from a dwelling site.” This 
is not invariable elsewhere, but is a general rule having im- 
portance. In New York, at least, all native copper articles may 
be safely called prehistoric. 
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