New York State Education Department 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



Bulletin 117 

 ARCHEOLOGY 14 



EXCAVATIONS IN 



AN ERIE INDIAN VILLAGE AND BURIAL SITE 

 AT RIPLEY, CHAUTAUQUA CO., N. Y. 



REING THE RECORD OF THE STATE MUSEUM ARCHEOLOGICAL 

 EXPEDITION OF 1906 



BY 



ARTHUR C. PARKER 



Part I 

 ARCHEOLOGY IN NEW YORK 



INTRODUCTION 

 Beginnings of Archeology and Ethnology in the State Museum 



In the second annual report of the State Cabinet of Natural His- 

 tory [1849], Peter Wendell, Chancellor of the Board of Regents, 

 said, " In 1847, ^^ the suggestion of the Governor [Young] who had 

 visited the interesting Historical and Antiquarian Museum at Hart- 

 ford, Ct., it was resolved that an attempt should be made to estab- 

 lish a similar one in connection with the State Cabinet. A circular 

 was addressed to our fellow citizens asking for their aid in fur- 

 nishing relics of the ancient masters of the soil. The appeal has 

 not been unnoticed. . ." 



Thus the State Cabinet almost at its inception became the de- 

 positary of " an historical and antiquarian collection." At first this 

 collection was a miscellany of historical and Indian relics, the latter 



