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Fig. 165 is a slender copper fishhook from the recent site 
; known as Upper Cayuga, on lot 114, Ledyard. There were many 
_of these there and at Scipioville. Fig. 166 is a large iron fish- 
hook from Scipioville, where several were found. This one has 
the line still wound around the shank, where it was preserved 
by iron rust. 
Fig. 162 is a pewter mug from a grave at East Cayuga site, 
lot 95, Fleming. In the mug were 44 French coins, dated from 
1642 to 1656, and mostly having two holes for suspension. AI] 
were of copper, about the size of our half cents but thinner. 
This mug was found by and still belongs to Mr John Perkins. 
Fig. 15 is a bullet as it came from the mold, found at Indian 
Castle, north of Watervale. Musket balls often occur in good 
condition, ready for use but unfinished. The writer has figured 
bullet molds from the same place. 
Two immense iron hoes were found at Fort Bull near Rome 
N. Y. One of them was 7# inches broad by 7 inches deep with 
an ample socket for the wooden handle. On the Cattaraugus. 
reservation may still be seen similar great hoes which the Sen- 
ecas Say were presents from Washington. 
Tobacco boxes were commonly changed into paint boxes and 
receptacles for ornaments. One of these, filled with trinkets, 
was found in a grave 24 miles west of Fort Plain. They often 
occur in graves, placed there when it was the fashion to inter 
articles with the dead. This one was nearly 3 inches across. 
Mr W. W. Adams took out of one Cayuga grave the following 
articles, May 2, 1888: One brass kettle, 17 flints, two gunflints,. 
six bullets, six long shell beads, a bone harpoon, three buck- 
horn handles, a knife with buckhorn handle, 21 gaming flints, 
three bars of lead, five rubbing stones, 16 bears tusks, two 
axes, two pairs of shears, four pairs of bullet molds, two gun- 
locks with flints, 47 pieces of gunlocks, 382 knives and cutting 
implements, two large iron shears, a gun 4 feet 8 inches long, 
a pipe, a piece of black paint, a piece of mica, two trigger guards, 
one wormer, a gun cleaner, steel and two flints, a quantity of 
