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broad handle, from which it is also distinguished at the neck. The 

 eye has two circular perforations, separated by a ring between. A 

 deep cut forms the mouth, and notches on either side of this are the 

 teeth. Although somewhat heavy for a war club it would have 

 been an effective weapon, and the sole signs of use are at the con- 

 tracted end, farthest from the head. This being so it can hardly be 

 doubted that it was a warlike weapon. 



Fig. 69 is a broken sandstone pebble, having a carved head with 

 a mouth and raised eyes or ears. It was found in 1879 at an early 

 site on the Seneca River. One side is flat, and the work is rude. 

 It now measures six and three quarters by one and three quarters 

 inches. A fine example of the carved pestle is in the State Museum, 

 having a fish's head. Several have occurred near the Seneca River 

 which have now disappeared. 



Fig. 70 is a fine cylindric pestle from the Seneca River, which has 

 been picked and polished. The greatest width, two and one fourth 

 inches, is just below the center, and it is nine and one half inches 

 long. A larger one, which has lost part of its length, is from the 

 same stream. It is of a long, tapering and cylindric form, polished, 

 but retaining a few pick marks, and is of brown sandstone. It is 

 still 14I long and one and five eighths inches thick at the small end 

 where it was broken. The thicker end is two and one eighth inches 

 in diameter. 



Fig. 71 is very frequent form on the Seneca River, and though 

 it shows use in pounding, it seems to have been oftener employed 

 in grinding, one side and edge being flattened by use. It is a brown 

 sandstone pebble, and was found at Onondaga Lake. The length 

 is eight and three eighths inches, and it is quite slender, the width 

 being one and three quarters, with a thickness of one and one eighth 

 inches. 



Fig. 73 is a cylindric and truncated pestle of brown sandstone, 

 which is perfect, and is five and one fourth by two and one fourth 

 inches. Another of similar form is also from the Seneca River, and 

 of a little larger dimensions. Fig. 74 is a truncated pebble, picked 

 at both ends, and comes from the same stream. It is a cylindric 

 sandstone, two and one half inches long by one and three quarters 



