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  ABORIGINAL 
  CHIPPED 
  STONE 
  IMPLEMENTS 
  OF 
  

   NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  ARCHEOIiOGICAI. 
  WORK 
  IN 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  While 
  much 
  has 
  been 
  done 
  by 
  the 
  state 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  in 
  the 
  pres- 
  

   ervation 
  and 
  dissemination 
  of 
  documents 
  relating 
  to 
  early 
  days, 
  little 
  

   until 
  now 
  has 
  been 
  accomplished 
  in 
  collecting 
  and 
  arranging 
  those 
  

   still 
  earlier 
  records, 
  found 
  so 
  largely 
  in 
  stone, 
  which 
  reveal 
  much 
  

   unwritten 
  history. 
  All 
  early 
  writers 
  describe 
  a 
  condition 
  of 
  things 
  

   evidently 
  not 
  representative 
  of 
  periods 
  which 
  were 
  then 
  already 
  days 
  

   of 
  old. 
  Implements 
  and 
  ornaments 
  had 
  changed, 
  arts 
  and 
  history 
  

   had 
  been 
  forgotten, 
  a 
  new 
  race 
  had 
  displaced 
  the 
  old, 
  as 
  we 
  have 
  

   taken 
  its 
  place 
  in 
  turn. 
  We 
  can 
  only 
  know 
  what 
  that 
  history 
  and 
  

   those 
  arts 
  were, 
  by 
  seeking 
  their 
  surviving 
  memorials 
  in 
  the 
  soil. 
  

  

  The 
  state, 
  however, 
  has 
  done 
  valuable 
  service 
  in 
  embodying 
  so 
  

   much 
  relating 
  to 
  what 
  is 
  called 
  indian 
  history, 
  in 
  many 
  of 
  its 
  publica- 
  

   tions. 
  Crude 
  as 
  was 
  Mr 
  Schoolcraft's 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  made 
  

   in 
  1845, 
  it 
  was 
  a 
  boon 
  to 
  the 
  public, 
  and 
  preserved 
  or 
  suggested 
  much 
  

   valuable 
  matter. 
  This 
  was 
  notably 
  the 
  case 
  with 
  the 
  several 
  Iroquois 
  

   dialects, 
  afterwards 
  much 
  enlarged 
  by 
  him. 
  The 
  Documentary 
  history 
  

   and 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  colonial 
  documents 
  made 
  other 
  interesting 
  matter 
  

   accessible. 
  The 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  indian 
  problem, 
  in 
  1889, 
  wisely 
  placed 
  

   the 
  Iroquois 
  treaties 
  before 
  the 
  public, 
  although 
  it 
  was 
  great 
  mis- 
  

   fortune 
  that 
  the 
  signatures 
  to 
  these 
  were 
  not 
  submitted 
  to 
  an 
  expert 
  

   in 
  indian 
  names. 
  It 
  would 
  have 
  saved 
  a 
  host 
  of 
  needless 
  errors. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  regents 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  direction 
  has 
  been 
  good 
  as 
  

   far 
  as 
  it 
  has 
  gone. 
  The 
  annual 
  reports 
  which 
  contain 
  the 
  papers 
  of 
  

   L. 
  H. 
  Morgan 
  on 
  recent 
  Iroquois 
  implements 
  and 
  ornaments, 
  are 
  

   yet 
  among 
  the 
  most 
  popular 
  and 
  best 
  preserved. 
  Part 
  of 
  these 
  were 
  

   afterwards 
  embodied 
  in 
  his 
  valuable 
  League 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  and 
  were 
  

   first 
  produced 
  nearly 
  half 
  a 
  century 
  since. 
  The 
  publication 
  of 
  Father 
  

   Bruyas' 
  Mohawk 
  lexicon, 
  written 
  two 
  centuries 
  ago, 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   earliest 
  attempts 
  to 
  bring 
  a 
  New 
  York 
  indian 
  language 
  before 
  the 
  

   public, 
  when 
  systematically 
  arranged. 
  It 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  fully 
  trans- 
  

   lated. 
  The 
  publication 
  of 
  the 
  explorations 
  and 
  plans 
  of 
  Messrs 
  

   Hough 
  and 
  Cheney, 
  in 
  the 
  northern 
  and 
  western 
  parts 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  

   gave 
  prominence 
  to 
  the 
  interesting 
  earthworks 
  in 
  both 
  sections, 
  

   with 
  occasional 
  notes 
  from 
  others. 
  

  

  