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Fig. 47 is a small, black and polished ball, out of a large quantity 

 found together in an Indian cemetery at Dresden, on Seneca Lake. 

 One of these is an inch in diameter, and another a little larger. 

 They are not quite a perfect sphere. Fig. 53, from a stockade on 

 the Seneca River, closely resembles these, and is an inch in general 

 diameter, but is a little oblong. It is black and polished, and is 

 quite heavy. 



Fig. 49 is one of the larger balls, probably used in war clubs. 

 It is of polished quartzite, naturally grey, but stained dark and with 

 russet streaks. A distinct flattened zone encircles it one way, but 

 is not conspicuous, and there are obscure facets. The diameter 

 is about two and one eighth inches. This comes from the Onon- 

 daga town of 1696, near Jamesville. A large granite ball, one foot 

 in diameter and worked all over, comes from the same place. It 

 may have been used in games. 



Fig. 51 is a ball of pink quar.tzite, faceted, picked and ground. 

 There are four facets on opposite sides, and another begun. It is 

 two and one half inches in diameter, and was found on a village 

 site near Baldwinsville. 



A polished brown sandstone ball was found near Amboy, which 

 was covered with red paint, and was three and one fourth inches 

 in diameter. A very irregular faceted one of brown sandstone is 

 from Indian Hill, occupied by the Onondagas in 1654. It is two 

 inches in diameter, and ground but not polished. One of picked 

 ironstone was long in the possession of the Webster family, on the 

 Onondaga Reservation. It is two and one fourth inches in diam- 

 eter, and a little irregular. Many such balls are found in Cayuga 

 County, where oblong grooved pebbles also occur. A large 

 grooved ironstone ball, on the Onondaga Reservation, is unpol- 

 ished, and three and seven eighths inches thick. A spherical one 

 comes from Indian Hill. 



Near Baldwinsville they are frequent on fortified sites, and else- 

 where. One of light greenstone, from the double walled fort, has 

 distinct facets, and is one and three quarters inches in diameter. 

 Another, from the same place, is of light greenstone and has irreg- 

 ular facets. The diameter is two and one quarter inches, and it is 



