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Dr Rau said of this fine article : 



The figure, representing a deer horn fishhook, is copied from a 

 drawing kindly sent by the Rev. ~W. M. Beauchamp of Baldwins- 

 ville, Onondaga co. N. Y. This specimen was found, in 1880, by a 

 laborer on what is called the Atwell site, in Pompey township, 

 ( >nondaga (or Madison) co. X. Y., and is in possession of Mr L. W. 

 Ledyard, of Cazenovia, in Madison county of that state. The hook 

 being provided with a barb, Mr Beauchamp thinks that it was made, 

 in imitation of the European fishhook, by an Onondaga Indian in the 

 17th century. There was an earthwork and ditch on the site, which 

 has yielded deer horn forks or combs, bone punches, awls of deer 

 horn, clay pipes, some of them exhibiting curiously intertwined 

 human faces, pottery with human faces at the angles of the rims, 

 and many other objects. The specimen here figured is the only 

 regularly barbed fishhook of aboriginal manufacture known to me, 

 and Mr Beauchamp's view as to its recent origin appears very 

 plausible. Rem, p. 128 



This fort belonged to the Onondagas, and has been ascribed to 

 lot 44, Pompey. It is really just east of this in Madison county, and 

 was apparently occupied at the end of one century and the begin- 

 ning of another. The general character of this fine article is much 

 like that of the old Kirby hook. 



Fig. 211 is a hook which J. S. Twining bought of a boy named 

 Pryor, who found it 3 feet deep in ashes on Dry hill, some miles 

 south of "Watertown 1ST. Y. It is a large, fine hook, with a pecu- 

 liar barb, and a knob at the top of the shank very neatly rounded. 

 The Twining collection is now in the state museum. Brewerton 

 has furnished several fine barbed bone hooks, described in this par- 

 agraph. Fig. 212 is the largest of these, and is in the AVaterbury 

 collection. It came from a fireplace on the island, and is narrow 

 for its size. The barb is not sharp, and the top of the shank is a 

 little thickened. Fig. 215 was found on the north side of the river 

 by Dr Hinsdale. There were fish bones in the ashes with it. It is 

 nearly fiat, and the slight knob at the top has been broken off. 

 Fig. 216 was found with this, and is a little larger. The sloping 

 and small knob at the top remains. In both these the shank tapers 

 to the top, and they probably had the same maker. Fig. 221 is in 

 the "Waterbury collection, and w r as also from the north side of the 

 river. The barb and interior curve were mainly formed by the 

 large perforation, leaving two straight lines to be cut to this. The 



