﻿ABORIGINAL 
  CHIPPED 
  STONE 
  IMPLEMENTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  67 
  

  

  articles 
  accompanying 
  these. 
  Fig. 
  182 
  is 
  a 
  smaller 
  one 
  from 
  the 
  

   same 
  grave. 
  

  

  It 
  will 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  the 
  proper 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Mohawks 
  was 
  

   Kaniengas, 
  People 
  of 
  the 
  flint, 
  and 
  that 
  their 
  proper 
  symbol 
  was 
  a 
  

   steel 
  and 
  flint; 
  often 
  only 
  the 
  former. 
  Their 
  associations 
  were 
  not 
  

   so 
  much 
  with 
  the 
  flint 
  as 
  material 
  for 
  arrows. 
  From 
  almost 
  the 
  first 
  

   they 
  connected 
  with 
  it 
  its 
  fire 
  producing 
  powers. 
  As 
  soon 
  as 
  they 
  

   had 
  guns 
  — 
  and 
  they 
  were 
  the 
  earliest 
  New 
  York 
  Indians 
  to 
  possess 
  

   them 
  — 
  they 
  saw 
  occasional 
  economy 
  in 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  their 
  favorite 
  

   stone. 
  On 
  this 
  point 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  curious 
  passage 
  in 
  the 
  Jesuit 
  relations 
  

   of 
  1668, 
  of 
  an 
  incident 
  which 
  happened 
  when 
  the 
  French 
  missionaries 
  

   were 
  about 
  two 
  miles 
  north 
  of 
  Ticonderoga. 
  ' 
  We 
  all 
  stopped 
  in 
  

   this 
  place, 
  without 
  knowing 
  the 
  cause 
  of 
  it, 
  until 
  we 
  saw 
  our 
  savages 
  

   gathering 
  upon 
  the 
  edge 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  gun 
  flints, 
  all 
  nearly 
  shaped. 
  

   We 
  gave 
  this 
  not 
  much 
  thought 
  at 
  the 
  time, 
  but 
  afterwards 
  learned 
  

   the 
  mystery, 
  for 
  our 
  Iroquois 
  told 
  us 
  that 
  they 
  never 
  fail 
  to 
  stop 
  in 
  

   this 
  place, 
  to 
  render 
  homage 
  to 
  a 
  nation 
  of 
  invisible 
  men, 
  who 
  dwell 
  

   there 
  in 
  the 
  depth 
  of 
  the 
  water, 
  and 
  are 
  occupied 
  in 
  preparing 
  gun 
  

   flints, 
  nearly 
  all 
  ready 
  for 
  the 
  passers 
  by, 
  provided 
  they 
  do 
  their 
  de- 
  

   voirs 
  in 
  presenting 
  them 
  tobacco; 
  if 
  they 
  give 
  much 
  of 
  it 
  they 
  make 
  

   them 
  a 
  large 
  largess 
  of 
  these 
  stones.' 
  These 
  men 
  were 
  farther 
  de- 
  

   scribed, 
  but 
  the 
  French 
  concluded 
  that, 
  in 
  storms, 
  ' 
  when 
  the 
  wind 
  

   comes 
  across 
  the 
  lake, 
  it 
  casts 
  upon 
  this 
  shore 
  a 
  quantity 
  of 
  stones, 
  

   hard 
  and 
  fit 
  to 
  strike 
  fire.' 
  This 
  sufficiently 
  shows 
  that 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   often 
  provided 
  their 
  own 
  gun 
  flints, 
  instead 
  of 
  using 
  those 
  imported 
  

   by 
  traders. 
  

  

  Many 
  scrapers 
  are 
  almost 
  or 
  quite 
  elliptical, 
  and 
  some 
  circular 
  

   forms 
  may 
  be 
  gun 
  flints. 
  Fig. 
  184 
  is 
  a 
  fine 
  example 
  of 
  the 
  former 
  

   class 
  from 
  Brewerton. 
  It 
  is 
  of 
  drab 
  flint, 
  thin 
  and 
  flat, 
  and 
  the 
  edges 
  

   are 
  beveled 
  all 
  around 
  from 
  one 
  surface. 
  It 
  is 
  one 
  and 
  three 
  eighths 
  

   inches 
  in 
  length. 
  One 
  much 
  like 
  this 
  is 
  from 
  Auburn, 
  and 
  is 
  one 
  and 
  

   five 
  eighths 
  inches 
  long. 
  It 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  a 
  rare 
  form, 
  but 
  grades 
  

   into 
  knives. 
  

  

  A 
  heavy, 
  rounded, 
  triangular 
  scraper 
  from 
  Oswego 
  Falls, 
  has 
  a 
  

   double 
  curve 
  in 
  the 
  long 
  section, 
  and 
  is 
  one 
  and 
  one 
  half 
  inches 
  long. 
  

   Another 
  of 
  similar 
  outline 
  is 
  from 
  Cross 
  lake. 
  It 
  is, 
  however, 
  uniform 
  

   in 
  thickness, 
  with 
  edges 
  abruptly 
  beveled 
  in 
  opposite 
  directions, 
  

  

  