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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



The pipe is so balanced despite its bend that it will stand upon 

 its bowl. In a collection of several hundred Iroquoian pipes in 

 the State Museum, none approaches the Irondequoit pipe in form. 



Some very fine specimens of pre-Iroquoian art have come to the 

 Museum from the eastern shore of Canandaigua lake. The site 



The Irondequoit Pipe 



covers a small hillside and consists of an ancient burial plot, though 

 the skeletons are not placed in any degree of regularity, as to 

 location, nor are the graves numerous. The culture represented is 

 similar to that of the mound-building Indians of New York and 

 Ohio. 



