EARTHENWARE OF THE NEW YORK ABORIGINES I4I 



ADDENDA 



It is expected that additions will be made to the types of articles 

 published in these preHminary bulletins^ and these may be occa- 

 sionally noted. One of interest is an obsidian leaf-shaped knife, 

 2j inches long^ recently found on the Seneca river, being the first 

 one reported in the state. One had been found in Pennsylvania 

 before this, but otherwise this material is not known in the east. 

 It is thus a notable find. 



Among articles of polished stone is a rare form of wide distribu- 

 tion in Ohio, one of which has been found in Canada, and now one 

 appears in the state collection at Albany, having been found in 

 Genesee county. It is a spherical piece of striped slate, with a 

 large perforation smallest at one' end. In this one the stripes run 

 around the stone^ which is a little over 2 inches in diameter. The 

 pecuharity is a longitudinal groove in one side of the stone, the 

 edges being neatly rounded. 



Another notable article is a tapering cylindric granite pestle from 

 Canajoharie^ belonging to Mr Richmond. It is 26J inches long, 

 and 2j thick in the largest part. About 3^ inches from the small 

 end it is perforated. One of Mr Richmond's recent acquisitions is 

 a beautiful and unusually long stone pipe of greenish gray slate, 

 from the town of Palatine. It is 9 inches long. 



Two large grooved boulders from Onondaga county have been 

 placed near the cases at Albany. The straight uniform grooves in 

 these are commonly supposed to have been used in arrow making. 

 In one of the cases is a flat pebble similarly grooved, which comes 

 from the Genesee valley. This article has not been reported so far 

 west before, nor are small ones anywhere common. This is 6 

 inches long by 2f broad. Usually they are large stones, not in- 

 tended to be moved. 



From the Cayadutta site Mr Robert M. Hartley, of Amsterdam, 

 has a small ornament of slate^ less than i inch in extent, of the 

 general figure of the butterfly banner stones^ but it probably belongs 

 to a very different class, although strongly suggestive of this. In 

 any case it is of much interest, as are some other small slate orna- 

 ments found at the same place. 



