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ever, bone tubes may have supplied their place. Small bone tubes 

 are found on Iroquois sites, but may have been used for ornaments. 

 Among- the Onondagas long tubular bone or cane whistles were 

 employed in medicine making, even within a few years. 



Fig. 122 is a tube of dark green striped slate, generally rectangu- 

 lar in section, but with the broader sides somewhat convex and the 

 narrower concave. It comes from the Oswego River, and is of a 

 slightly tapering form. The perforation is usually smaller at one 

 end than the other, and in this case is three eighths by nine six- 

 teenths of an inch. It is three and one half long by one and one 

 fourth inches wide. 



Fig. 123 is a cylindric tube of grey striped slate from Camillus, 

 five and five eighths inches long by one inch in diameter. This is 

 the usual form. Fig. 124 is of light olive green slate, a little over 

 three and one fourth inches long, and comes from the town of 

 Van Buren. The orifice is half an inch at one end, and five eighths 

 of an inch in diameter at the other. It is not quite elliptic in sec- 

 tion, being flattened on one side. This was found in 1846, and is 

 a rare form. Fig. 125 is a cylindric, .tapering tube, of a very beau- 

 tiful striped green slate, with interrupted bands. It is seven inches 

 long, and was found in Palermo, Oswego County. It is thickest 

 toward one end. 



Fig. 128 is a long sandstone tube, apparently, but Mr. S. L. Frey 

 thought it might be steatite on microscopic examination. It is one 

 of several found in graves at Palatine Bridge. The orifice at the 

 small end is over five eighths of an inch wide, and the diameter of 

 the tube there is one inch. The general diameter is about one and 

 one eighth inches, and the length nine and one half, being reduced 

 in the illustration. The perforation is quite uniform until near the 

 broad end, where the outside of the tube suddenly expands, and has 

 a small central perforation in the end. Another is longer. A simi- 

 lar one, belonging to Mr. A. G. Richmond, is 10 inches long, but 

 a little narrower than the one described. It was found in the same 

 cemetery. The graves were quite remarkable, and contained other 

 relics. Fig. 129 is one of a different form, found at the same place, 

 but not in the same grave. The outline is undulating, much like 



