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Onondaga left their seats in the hilly country east of the foot of 

 Lake Ontario. Thereafter the Iroquois began another period of 

 integration that finally led to the formation of their famous con- 

 federacy. Up to this time the early Seneca had mingled more with 

 the Erie and the Neutral nations, than with the Onondaga and 

 Mohawk. 



When the site was finally given up and was claimed as the abiding 

 place of the departed spirits, the living people marched down the 

 Honeoye to a new place. Their arts and crafts were perpetuated, 

 though their pottery gradually lost its collar and the notches at the 

 bottom of the collar became the notched rim of the pot. Gradually 

 the goods of the strangers from across the sunrise sea began to creep 

 in and as the village moved on again and again the original town was 

 forgotten to all save the keepers of the traditions. 



A MIDCOLONIAL SENECA SITE IN ERIE COUNTY 

 By M. RAYMOND HARRINGTON 



The possibilities of western New York as a field for archeological 

 research have long been known, so many years that it seems remark- 

 able that the region has not been entirely exhausted. But notwith- 

 standing the more or less systematic labors of many investigators 

 there are still a number of interesting sites to be found in the general 

 vicinity of Buffalo that will repay the efforts of the careful arche- 

 ologist. This is well illustrated by the results obtained from the 

 exploration, in the summer of 1903, of an ancient fort and burial 

 site about 2j^ miles up Cattaraugus creek from Lake Erie and about 

 30 miles southwesterly from Buffalo, on the Cattaraugus Indian 

 reservation. The investigation was carried on by Arthur C. Parker 

 and myself, under the direction of Prof. F. W. Putnam for the 

 Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. To Mr Parker is due the credit of furnishing the informa- 

 tion which led to the selection of this particular locality for explora- 

 tion, and it was his knowledge of the region that made possible the 

 speedy discovery of a suitable site upon which to work. 



We arrived at the Cattaraugus reservation early in Mav 1903, 

 and immediately made inquiries and investigations. We visited a 

 number of places where arrowheads and potsherds had been reported, 

 but did not discover anything of importance until May 4th, when 

 we came upon the vestiges of an old fortified Indian village or strong- 

 hold situated on a terrace overlooking the flood plain of Cattaraugus 

 creek, about 1 5^ miles eastward from the little village of Irving. 



