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Indian relics, among them a finely shaped and hnished gorget 

 perforated at the ends, intended perhaps for a neck ornament. 



Harmony. In July 1887, W. W. Henderson, Prof. S. G. Love 

 and the writer examined an artificial mound west of the road lead- 

 ing from Stowe to Ashville on the farm then owned by L. B. Warner 

 of Harmony. It was 40 feet long, 35 feet wide and 5 feet high. Not 

 far from this mound upon the farm of A. C. Green in Harmony, a 

 flint knife, a very fine piece of Indian workmanship, was found a 

 few years ago. It was lance-shaped at both ends, 12 inches long, 3 

 inches wide and lYi inches thick. It was deposited in the museum 

 of the Jamestown Union School. 



" M. P. Chase about the year 1867 residing at Chautauqua on the 

 line of Harmony near Steadman, while scraping dirt from the road 

 near his house uncovered a large trench filled with human bones 

 which were much decayed. Their condition and rapid disintegration 

 after exposure to the air and the fact that the ground had never been 

 disturbed since the land was cleared by Wm. Chase's father 47 years 

 before, prove that the remains had been there a long time. The 

 trench appeared to be 6 feet wide and 10 or 12 feet long and the 

 number of persons buried seem to be about fifty. No weapons or 

 relics of any kind were seen, but some charcoal or cinders were 

 mixed with the bones. The trench was about 2 miles from Chautau- 

 qua and appeared originally to have been about 3 feet deep." This 

 is perhaps referred to in the Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnol- 

 ogy, 1890-91 (p. 506) in these words: " Bone Pit at Steadman. A 

 so-called ' Indian pit ' was dug into while making some road improve- 

 ments, near this place. Twenty or twenty-five bodies were uncov- 

 ered which lay in rows. There were no relics of an aboriginal 

 character."^ This may not be the same as that above mentioned by 

 William Chase. 



Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91 (p. 506) : 

 '' Three miles from the Chautauqua Assembly grounds at a place 

 called Whitney's Landing are two mounds situated upon the Whitney 

 farm, about 60 rods apart. The land upon which they are situated 

 rises considerably above the lake. No. i is 25 feet in diameter and 

 4 feet high. At a depth of 18 inches were found very large flat 

 stones, placed side by side and forming a perfectly level layer. The 

 trench was carried down to the original surface of the ground, but 

 nothing else was found, except some fragments of human bones 

 and the broken parts of an unbaked clay pipe." 



" It was afterwards ascertained from W^m. A. W. W^hitney that 

 this mound had been partly explored 40 years previous, which 

 exploration resulted in finding one plain stone pipe, 17 spearheads of 

 the long or knifelike type and human bones. An old pine tree 2 feet 

 in diameter then stood directly on top of the mound." 



** The second mound measured 38 by 31 feet in diameter. It was 

 opened at the same time as no. i by the same party with no other 



^ From the Jamestown JournLil, September 30, 1899. 



