4? NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
- His ability and experience are well known, and these have been 
of great service in the present work. 
Among the articles of native copper not figured here is one 
formerly in the state museum, from H. Van Rensselaer’s farm 
near Ogdensburg. It is classed as a copper pickax. A fine tri- 
angular copper celt also belongs to the museum which came 
from Stuyvesant, Columbia co. One article of native cop- 
per was found on D. F. Shafer’s farm, Schoharie. Mr Henry 
Woodworth of East Watertown has a fine spear of this material 
4 inches long. A neighbor found a larger one which he un- 
wisely polished. Mr W. P. Letchworth: of-Portage says: “I 
once had in my collection an ancient copper hatchet, excavated 
near Silver Creek N. Y. which disappeared in a loan exhibition 
held in Buffalo many years ago.” 
Copper implements have been reported at East Aurora, but 
most relics are recent there and these may be inferred to be the 
same. At the opening of the Cambria ossuary in 1823 copper 
and iron implements were found with flint arrowheads and 
pottery. Though of an early date the copper there was prob- 
ably not native. 3 
The Wagman collection was sold at auction in 1886. It was 
made up of articles found not far from Saratoga and in it were 
three of native copper. One was described as a combined spear- 
head and bodkin, probably a spear with a long and sharp tang. q 
This was from Glens Falls and measured 64 inches by € inch. 
An arrowhead from the same place was 44 by 24 inches, which 
is unusually wide for such an article. An elliptic and pointed 
spearhead was 6 by 14 inches. In the Smithsonian report for 
1879, Mr N. Cole mentioned a native copper spear, found near 
West mountain, Warren co. 
Copper articles were found in opening a mound in Mount 
Morris in 1835. These have since been reported as of brass, 
including brass kettles. Mr Hough mentioned a native copper 
chisel in Eliisburg, Jefferson co. Mr T. A. Cheney said, in 
describing a circular work and its relics on the east bank of the 
Allegany river: 
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