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bone material consists of phalangeal cones of a type frequently- 

 found on similar sites, bone awls, cylindrical beads and bone needles 

 and shuttles. One harpoon tip and two antler pitching tools or 

 pins were discovered. The stone material consists of metates, 

 anvils, hammer stones, notched sinkers and small scrapers. A 

 large block of chert was found in one section of the site and 

 among the numerous fragments scattered about it were several par- 

 tially completed implements. The block was probably the source 

 of an arrow maker's material. Two perforated stones were found, 

 one a large discoid bead and the other a fragment of an unfinished 

 gorget. Unio shells were numerous and there were fragments of 

 the bones of deer, bear, wild turkey, raccoon and several varieties 

 of fish. 



Ash pits were numerous and within an area of one hundred 

 square feet, fourteen were noted. In nearly all of them the under- 

 lying sand was burned hard and red and the accumulation of white 

 ash in several instances was from three to six or seven inches in 

 depth. In a large deposit which appeared to be a central location 

 there was a saucer-shaped depression filled with ashes and car- 

 bonaceous substances. This depression was fourteen feet in 

 diameter and in the center there was a depression paved witli flat 

 stones. This was filled with ashes. The remains of a dog's jaw, 

 fragments of split deer bone, fish bones and several kernels of 

 charred corn and hickory nuts were found in the ashes. The stone 

 basin was taken up and has been restored for exhibition purposfes 

 in the Museum. 



An examination of the pottery articles leads to the conclusion 

 that they are of Algonkian origin. They are similar in every 

 respect to articles found on Algonkian sites along the Seneca river, 

 Oneida lake and along the east shore of Lake Ontario stretching 

 northward to the St Lawrence. Similar material is also found 

 southward in the valley of the Chenango and along the tributaries 

 of the Susquehanna. From the character of the articles we judge 

 that the site was precolonial and perhaps prehistoric. The occu- 

 pants were probably some division of the Delaware family who 

 came into the region before the Iroquois obtained control of central 

 New York. The collection has been cataloged and has already 

 been installed in archeological hall. 



One of the important specimens in the collection is the pottery 

 vessel restored from more than two hundred fragments. This vessel 

 is typical Algonkian in shape and decoration and is the largest 

 Algonkian pottery vessel now in the possession of the State Museum. 



