﻿New 
  York 
  State 
  Education 
  Department 
  

  

  New 
  York 
  State 
  Museum 
  

  

  John 
  M. 
  Clarke, 
  Director 
  

  

  Bulletin 
  117 
  

   ARCHEOLOGY 
  14 
  

  

  EXCAVATIONS 
  IN 
  

  

  AN 
  ERIE 
  INDIAN 
  VILLAGE 
  AND 
  BURIAL 
  SITE 
  

   AT 
  RIPLEY, 
  CHAUTAUQUA 
  CO., 
  N. 
  Y. 
  

  

  BEING 
  THE 
  RECORD 
  OF 
  THE 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  ARCHEOLOGICAL 
  

   EXPEDITION 
  OF 
  1906 
  

  

  BY 
  

  

  ARTHUR 
  C. 
  PARKER 
  

  

  Part 
  I 
  

   ARCHEOLOGY 
  IN 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  

  

  INTRODUCTION 
  

   Beginnings 
  of 
  Archeology 
  and 
  Ethnology 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  second 
  annual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  of 
  Natural 
  His- 
  

   tory 
  [1849], 
  Peter 
  Wendell, 
  Chancellor 
  of 
  the 
  Board 
  of 
  -Regents, 
  

   said, 
  " 
  In 
  1847, 
  at 
  the 
  suggestion 
  of 
  the 
  Governor 
  [Young] 
  who 
  had 
  

   visited 
  the 
  interesting 
  Historical 
  and 
  Antiquarian 
  Museum 
  at 
  Hart- 
  

   ford, 
  Ct., 
  it 
  was 
  resolved 
  that 
  an 
  attempt 
  should 
  be 
  made 
  to 
  estab- 
  

   lish 
  a 
  similar 
  one 
  in 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet. 
  A 
  circular 
  

   was 
  addressed 
  to 
  our 
  fellow 
  citizens 
  asking 
  for 
  their 
  aid 
  in 
  fur- 
  

   nishing 
  relics 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  masters 
  of 
  the 
  soil. 
  The 
  appeal 
  has 
  

   not 
  been 
  unnoticed. 
  . 
  ." 
  

  

  Thus 
  the 
  State 
  Cabinet 
  almost 
  at 
  its 
  inception 
  became 
  the 
  de- 
  

   positary 
  of 
  " 
  an 
  historical 
  and 
  antiquarian 
  collection." 
  At 
  first 
  this 
  

   collection 
  was 
  a 
  miscellany 
  of 
  historical 
  and 
  Indian 
  relics, 
  the 
  latter 
  

  

  