. METALLIC IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK INDIANS (3 
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Miscellaneous 
Prefatory to an account of a few miscellaneous metallic ob- 
jects found on Indian sites, it may be well to mention some of 
those of all kinds on which duties were imposed in New York in 
1686, and which were intended for Indian trade. Most of these 
have the word “Indian” prefixed. 
_ They were Indian duffels, strouds, blankets, plain cottons, half 
thicks, white Olembriggs, kettles, hatchets, hoes, red lead, ver- 
milion, cotton, red kerseys, knives, shirts, shot, woolen stock- 
ings, Indian haberdashery, drawing knives, looking-glasses, 
- wooden combs, beads, tobacco in roll, belts, scissors, jew’s-harps, 
Indian paints, drills, tobacco boxes, Tinsie lace, gimp lace, 
needles, tobacco tongs, powder horns, Indian heales (steels). 
In the law of 1692 white osend cloth takes the place of white 
Olembriggs, and in that of 1699 it reads white Ozenbrugs Mel- 
lish. Both have bells instead of belts, and this is probably 
correct. Guns with all their parts afterward appeared among 
treaty presents, adzes, shears and toys, powder and ball, bars 
of lead, gun flints, shoes with and without buckles, hats, fans, 
articles of shell, laced coats and hats, red coats, jackknives, 
garters, tomahawks in 1714, silver medals, added to a large 
trade in ornaments of silver and brass. 
Peter Stuyvesant wrote to the duke of York on behalf of 
the Dutch inhabitants, in 1667, in regard to this trade: 
Since the Trade of Beaver, (the most desirable comodity for 
Europe) hath allwayes been purchased from the Indyans, by the 
Comodities brought from Holland as Camper, Duffles, Hatch- 
etts, and other Iron worke made at Utrick &* much esteemed 
of by the Natives, It is to be fear’d that if those Comodities 
should fail them, the very Trade itself would fall, and that the 
ffrench of Canida, who are now incroach’d to be too neare 
Neighbours unto us (as but halfe a days journey from the 
Mohawkes) making use of their Necessities and supplying them, 
they will in time totally divert the Beaver Trade, and then the 
miserable consequences that will ensue, wee shall not have one 
‘shipp from Europe to trade with us.—O’Callaghan, 3:164 
On this general question of use and supply the liberty is taken 
of quoting part of a letter from Mr S. L. Frey on recent articles 
