﻿POLISHED 
  STONE 
  ARTICLES 
  USED 
  BY 
  THE 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  ABORIGINES 
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  Fig. 
  215 
  is 
  a 
  narrow 
  form, 
  of 
  light 
  greenish 
  stone 
  with 
  a 
  groove 
  all 
  

   around. 
  This 
  is 
  reduced 
  in 
  the 
  figure 
  and 
  is 
  from 
  Jefferson 
  County. 
  

   Some 
  occur 
  of 
  the 
  more 
  typical 
  forms^ 
  specially 
  in 
  the 
  southwest- 
  

   ern 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  They 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  more 
  numerous 
  east 
  of 
  

   the 
  Mississippi 
  than 
  west, 
  but 
  this 
  may 
  be 
  due 
  to 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  

   collectors. 
  The 
  southern 
  Indians 
  have 
  used 
  them 
  in 
  historic 
  times. 
  

   The 
  single 
  grooves 
  were 
  for 
  attaching 
  the 
  handles, 
  and 
  sometimes 
  

   there 
  are 
  double 
  grooves. 
  They 
  have 
  been 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  Pueblo 
  

   Indians. 
  

  

  While 
  so 
  rare 
  in 
  New 
  York, 
  Dr. 
  Abbott 
  reported 
  many 
  from 
  New 
  

   Jersey, 
  and 
  from 
  every 
  part. 
  One 
  axe 
  weighed 
  nearly 
  14 
  pounds, 
  

   and 
  several 
  large 
  caches 
  of 
  these 
  implements 
  have 
  been 
  found 
  there. 
  

   One 
  contained 
  120 
  axes. 
  Among 
  three 
  from 
  Tioga 
  County, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  

   was 
  one 
  of 
  eight 
  pounds. 
  There 
  were 
  none 
  in 
  the 
  Wagman 
  col- 
  

   lection 
  at 
  Saratoga. 
  

  

  Celts 
  and 
  gouges 
  are 
  sometimes 
  roughened 
  or 
  grooved 
  for 
  secur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  handle, 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  broad 
  axes 
  rather 
  suggest 
  than 
  have 
  the 
  

   groove. 
  Fig. 
  219 
  is 
  a 
  flat 
  axe 
  of 
  brown 
  sandstone, 
  not 
  grooved 
  

   across 
  the 
  surface, 
  but 
  with 
  a 
  deep 
  and 
  broad 
  notch 
  in 
  each 
  lateral 
  

   edge. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  form, 
  altogether 
  unlike 
  the 
  typical 
  implement. 
  

  

  POL.ISHEID 
  PERFORATORS 
  

  

  Fig. 
  221 
  is 
  a 
  neat 
  polished 
  perforator 
  of 
  brown 
  sandstone, 
  from 
  

   Madison 
  County. 
  It 
  is 
  two 
  and 
  three 
  eighths 
  inches 
  long, 
  and 
  much 
  

   like 
  some 
  bone 
  perforators 
  in 
  general 
  appearance. 
  Those 
  like 
  this 
  

   are 
  rare, 
  for 
  the 
  early 
  comers 
  used 
  flint, 
  and 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  very 
  much 
  

   preferred 
  horn 
  and 
  bone, 
  yet 
  these 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  belonged 
  to 
  them. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  222 
  is 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  place, 
  and 
  is 
  notched 
  and 
  more 
  angular. 
  

   The 
  broadest 
  part 
  is 
  near 
  the 
  point. 
  This 
  is 
  two 
  and 
  three 
  fourths 
  

   inches 
  long. 
  Another 
  of 
  black 
  basalt, 
  with 
  an 
  oblique 
  central 
  notch, 
  

   comes 
  from 
  the 
  Nichols 
  Pond 
  site, 
  the 
  Oneida 
  town 
  of 
  161 
  5. 
  It 
  is 
  

   three 
  and 
  one 
  eighth 
  long 
  by 
  five 
  eighths 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  thick. 
  This 
  

   is 
  decisive 
  of 
  its 
  Iroquois 
  use, 
  but 
  such 
  a 
  splinter 
  of 
  stone 
  might 
  

   be 
  ground 
  as 
  easily 
  as 
  bone, 
  the 
  general 
  form 
  being 
  the 
  same. 
  

  

  GROO\^D 
  BOULDERS 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Onondaga 
  and 
  Seneca 
  territory 
  specially, 
  are 
  found 
  large 
  

   boulders 
  with 
  straight 
  grooves, 
  from 
  one 
  to 
  seven 
  in 
  number, 
  and 
  

  

  