METALLIC IMPLEMENTS OF NEW YORK INDIANS (5D 
| ‘use, taste and ready supply. No durable article mentioned 
_ above has failed to appear in one place or another while the list 
might be much extended. The Indians used compasses for 
laying out geometric figures, and the writer has seen a hammer 
: stone, with circles and an inscribed star, which was found in 
an Indian fireplace. Thimbles, locks and keys, bars of lead, 
‘buckles, sword hilts, large and small vises, pewter platters, ~ 
‘Spikes, trammel hooks, handsaws, anvils, cannon balls, horse- 
‘shoes, hammers, files, hoes, steels for striking fire, are among 
“the articles found. Mr J. V. H. Clark says of the northern part 
| of Pompey: ‘“ Wagon loads of old iron have been taken from 
these grounds.” 7 
_ Fig. 108 is a fine and curious steel chisel from Pompey which 
“was in the Ledyard collection. The edge is good and there are 
~two long and deep grooves above this, one above the other, 
reaching about half way of the long and slender implement. 
The edges are chamfered near the base. 
Fig. 76 may be called an iron chisel. It is quite broad for its 
length, which is 44 inches including the broad tang. It was 
found in Fleming in 1887 and is much corroded. 
_ Fig. 126 is a quadrangular steel celt, found on lot 53, south- 
Yeast of Pompey Center. All other remains known to the writer 
“there are prehistoric, but the fort of 1640 is about a mile west 
of where this was found. It is a fine and unusual article. 
% ‘Fig. 124 is an iron awl from the fort just mentioned. It is 
“corroded, but sharp and somewhat curved. Fig. 125, from the 
“same place, is much like the last, but smaller. Some of the old 
« nondagas yet have similar ones in bone handles. Fig. 154 is 
‘i rom the same place, and is of the same general character. 
They are frequent there. 
_ Fig. 81 is in the Hildburgh collection and came from Ontario 
county. It is long, flat and sharp, and might be called an awl, 
but Mr Hildburgh considers it a brass arrow or spear head. In 
either case it is an unusual form. 
‘Fig. 161 is a slender, flat and curved copper awl from Indian 
A ill, Pompey, where many have been found. It has the appear- 
‘ance of being cast. 
