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While usually scattered over the fields the writer has found them 

 arranged on brass wire, still well preserved after being, in the earth 

 for 250 years. On wire they were sometimes arranged in patterns. 



Another very distinct class has been misunderstood by those who 

 have not seen them. In 1654 Father Le Moyne presented the 

 Onondagas with " cent petits tuyaux ou canons de verre rouge qui 

 sont les diamans du pais," and in 1669 Father Bruyas, at Oneida, 

 rewarded his good scholars with " une corde de rassade, ou deux 

 petits tuyaux de verre ou deux bagues de leton." These " tuyaux 

 ou canons " were slender and cylindric glass tubes, of various colors 

 and often longitudinally striped. So slender and delicate are they 

 that it is surprising they have escaped destruction. While some are 

 quite small, others are several inches long, and many have a spiral 

 twist. Most of the latter are Indian red in color. Two of these 

 glass cylinders, or two brass rings, Bruyas seems to have thought 

 equal in value to a string of ordinary beads. 



Many carvings on bone, representing the human face, have been 

 figured since the issue of the bulletin on that material, and some of 

 the scrapers made of long bones so abundantly found in Ohio. 

 From the Chaumont ossuary came the finest horn spearhead o*r 

 knife as yet found in New York. It is 14 inches long and is orna- 

 mented with an elaborate pattern of straight lines on one surface. 



Worthy of notice also are three shell gorgets. One from Ni- 

 agara county is neatly worked from the outer whorl of Bitsycon 

 perversum, and is 6}i inches long by 4^ wide. Two perforations 

 have been made from the concave side, that being the side exposed 

 to view r . Another fine shell gorget from Wayne county is elliptic 

 and perforated. This lay in the soft muddy bottom of Seneca 

 river, and is in fine preservation. Another is from Onondaga 

 county, and is of an obtuse oval outline, being 3 inches long by 2^4 

 wide. From a circle around the central perforation radiates a four 

 pointed star, reaching halfway to the edge. Between these, arrow 

 form ornaments reach the edge, four in number. This also is in 

 good preservation. 



Some interesting circular stone ornaments have been found near 

 Corning, perforated and engraved with radiating lines and marginal 

 notches. They are pebbles about an inch across. 



A host of such things might be mentioned, but this brief summary 



