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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  be 
  recorded 
  and 
  illustrated. 
  These 
  are 
  often 
  the 
  links 
  which 
  serve 
  

   to 
  connect 
  widely 
  separated 
  sites. 
  The 
  knowledge 
  already 
  gained 
  

   of 
  the 
  primitive 
  articles 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  three 
  centuries 
  ago, 
  

   has 
  become 
  of 
  great 
  and 
  increasing 
  value, 
  and 
  will 
  hereafter 
  aid 
  in 
  

   solving 
  many 
  problems. 
  Different 
  nations 
  and 
  ages 
  had 
  differing 
  

   fashions, 
  and 
  the 
  characteristic 
  articles 
  used 
  and 
  left 
  behind, 
  will 
  

   throw 
  much 
  Hght 
  on 
  the 
  early 
  people 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  To 
  collect 
  these 
  

   articles 
  for 
  careful 
  comparison, 
  to 
  illustrate 
  them 
  so 
  faithfully 
  that 
  

   distant 
  students 
  may 
  have 
  the 
  most 
  significant 
  facts 
  before 
  them, 
  is 
  

   something 
  worthy 
  of 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  a 
  state 
  which 
  has 
  already 
  done 
  

   so 
  much 
  in 
  the 
  cause 
  of 
  science. 
  

  

  SPEARS 
  

  

  As 
  with 
  arrows, 
  so 
  is 
  it 
  difficult 
  to 
  place 
  an 
  exact 
  line 
  between 
  

   knives 
  and 
  spears. 
  Indeed 
  the 
  primitive 
  spear 
  may 
  often 
  have 
  been 
  

   but 
  a 
  knife 
  fastened 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  a 
  long 
  pole, 
  as 
  men 
  in 
  more 
  recent 
  

   times 
  have 
  armed 
  themselves, 
  when 
  lacking 
  suitable 
  weapons. 
  Even 
  

   arrow-heads 
  may 
  have 
  been 
  put 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  use 
  in 
  time 
  of 
  need. 
  

   Spears 
  and 
  knives 
  may 
  both 
  have 
  been 
  leaf-shaped, 
  stemmed 
  or 
  

   notched, 
  and 
  may 
  not 
  differ 
  in 
  the 
  least 
  in 
  outline. 
  Often 
  the 
  thick- 
  

   ness 
  and 
  sharpness 
  are 
  the 
  only 
  distinctive 
  features. 
  As 
  regards 
  size> 
  

   this 
  does 
  not 
  £.ffect 
  knives, 
  but 
  usually 
  small 
  points 
  are 
  called 
  arrows,, 
  

   and 
  the 
  large 
  ones 
  spears. 
  

  

  Dr 
  C. 
  C. 
  Abbott 
  made 
  a 
  division 
  of 
  spears 
  and 
  lances, 
  while 
  

   L. 
  H. 
  Morgan, 
  in 
  his 
  League 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  omits 
  spears 
  from 
  his 
  

   description 
  of 
  their 
  weapons. 
  In 
  his 
  subsequent 
  account, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Regents 
  report 
  for 
  1852, 
  he 
  says 
  that 
  they 
  did 
  not 
  use 
  them, 
  and 
  

   although 
  he 
  simply 
  asserted 
  this 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  without 
  some 
  reason. 
  

   Spears 
  do 
  not 
  generally 
  appear 
  in 
  early 
  pictures, 
  nor 
  are 
  they 
  usually 
  

   mentioned 
  in 
  accounts 
  of 
  early 
  indian 
  armor. 
  As 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  pictures 
  

   go, 
  this 
  is 
  of 
  little 
  importance. 
  They 
  were 
  sometimes, 
  perhaps 
  usu- 
  

   ally, 
  drawn 
  by 
  European 
  artists 
  from 
  descriptions 
  given 
  them, 
  and 
  

   they 
  availed 
  themselves 
  of 
  the 
  privileges 
  of 
  art. 
  Champlain 
  expressly 
  

   said 
  that 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  chiefs, 
  whom 
  he 
  killed 
  in 
  1609, 
  wore 
  arrow- 
  

   proof 
  armor, 
  but 
  in 
  the 
  picture 
  they 
  are 
  as 
  naked 
  as 
  all 
  their 
  followers^ 
  

   Capt. 
  John 
  Smith 
  said 
  of 
  the 
  Virginia 
  indians, 
  ' 
  They 
  of 
  Accawmack 
  

  

  