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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Several 
  specimens 
  are 
  worked 
  smooth 
  at 
  the 
  bases 
  [see 
  pi. 
  33, 
  fig. 
  

   1-3]. 
  One 
  has 
  a 
  slot 
  running 
  from 
  the 
  edge 
  well 
  toward 
  the 
  top. 
  

  

  One 
  very 
  interesting 
  specimen 
  is 
  that 
  of 
  a 
  bone 
  fishhook 
  in 
  

   process. 
  If 
  finished 
  it 
  would 
  have 
  been 
  a 
  small 
  delicate 
  hook. 
  No 
  

   sign 
  of 
  a 
  barb 
  appears. 
  The 
  specimen 
  resembles 
  some 
  of 
  those 
  

   figured 
  by 
  Prof. 
  F. 
  W. 
  Putnam 
  in 
  The 
  Way 
  Bone 
  Fish 
  Hooks 
  Were 
  

   Made 
  in 
  the 
  Little 
  Miami 
  Valley. 
  

  

  A 
  pendantlike 
  tube 
  is 
  shown 
  in 
  plate 
  33, 
  figure 
  9. 
  Both 
  ends 
  

   show 
  the 
  marks 
  of 
  cutting 
  as 
  do 
  both 
  of 
  the 
  pendants 
  of 
  deer's 
  jaws 
  

   shown 
  in 
  the 
  next 
  figures. 
  Plate 
  33, 
  figure 
  10 
  is 
  notched 
  and 
  

   perforated 
  lengthwise. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  perhaps 
  not 
  customary 
  to 
  rank 
  deer 
  jaws 
  as 
  implements. 
  

   Nevertheless 
  the 
  Senecas 
  up 
  to 
  within 
  the 
  last 
  10 
  years 
  have 
  used 
  

   them 
  when 
  they 
  could 
  obtain 
  them, 
  for 
  scraping 
  corn 
  from 
  the 
  green 
  

   cob. 
  The 
  sharp 
  teeth 
  were 
  raked 
  over 
  the 
  kernels 
  to 
  break 
  and 
  cut 
  

   the 
  hulls 
  and 
  then 
  the 
  hold 
  on 
  the 
  jaw 
  changed 
  and 
  the 
  milk 
  and 
  

   meat 
  scraped 
  out 
  with 
  the 
  sharp 
  edge 
  that 
  is 
  nearest 
  the 
  chin. 
  The 
  

   writer 
  secured 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  jaws 
  in 
  1903 
  for 
  the 
  American 
  Museum 
  

   of 
  Natural 
  History. 
  It 
  is 
  entirely 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  Eries 
  used 
  deer 
  

   jaws 
  for 
  the 
  same 
  purpose, 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  Iroquois 
  and 
  closely 
  related 
  

   to 
  the 
  Senecas. 
  The 
  Senecas 
  have 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  jaw 
  when 
  used 
  as 
  

   an 
  implement 
  of 
  this 
  kind, 
  a 
  name 
  for 
  the 
  process, 
  and 
  called 
  the 
  

   corn 
  so 
  prepared 
  " 
  already 
  chewed." 
  Figure 
  27 
  is 
  a 
  drawing 
  of 
  one 
  

   of 
  these 
  " 
  jaw 
  corn 
  scrapers." 
  

  

  Fig. 
  27 
  Deer 
  jaw 
  scraper 
  

  

  A 
  serrated 
  rib 
  from 
  an 
  ash 
  pit 
  is 
  probably 
  an 
  implement 
  of 
  some 
  

   kind. 
  Its 
  notched 
  edges 
  suggest 
  its 
  employment 
  as 
  a 
  potter's 
  tool. 
  

   Perhaps 
  it 
  was 
  used 
  to 
  roughen 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  clay 
  which 
  was 
  

   afterward 
  smoothed 
  down 
  [see 
  text 
  fig. 
  23]. 
  

  

  Antler 
  

   Antler 
  objects 
  were 
  fairly 
  numerous, 
  though 
  not 
  of 
  great 
  variety. 
  

   Those 
  found 
  in 
  refuse 
  pits 
  were 
  well 
  preserved 
  but 
  those 
  from 
  

   graves 
  were 
  decayed 
  and 
  crumbling. 
  

  

  