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some may be restored. Because of the many unique features, the 

 collection of pots may be regarded as the most remarkable ever 

 taken from a single site in New York State. 



Among the interesting products of the aboriginal Erie potter are 

 six terra cotta pipes each differing in form from the other. Especi- 

 ally beautiful is a pipe having a bowl shaped like a human head with 

 a delicately molded face on either side. Four carved stone pipes 

 of unique forms were taken from the burials. The material of 

 which they are rnade is foreign to the locality and seems to be trans- 

 Mississippian. In the upper stratum of the soil above the ash pits, 

 three other stone pipes were found, one a crude imitation in the local 

 shale of the beak or claw pipe, and the other two, pipe bowls of the 

 Wisconsin form. 



A large number of polished, picked and rough edged stone celts 

 were found, some of which are rare forms in New York. 



Shell articles were not common, but one necklace of discoidal 

 beads having two shell gorgets and a long pendant was found about 

 the neck of an aged female. Flint objects were commonly found in 

 graves especially those of males and include spears, knives, arrow- 

 heads of the triangular form, blank blades and chips. Black and 

 red pigments were sometimes found in little deposits near the skulls. 



Pits in village site. Fifty ash and refuse pits were opened in 

 the village section of the site and yielded quantities of relics. The 

 pits here were from 2 to 5 feet deep and in general had diameters 

 equal to depths. The ash and carbonaceous matter in the pits, as 

 is the case in all ash pits wherever found, preserved the bone and 

 antler objects of which large numbers were found. Of the bone 

 articles many beautiful ones were discovered, among which may be 

 mentioned awls, beads, needles, shuttles, markers, balls, hooks, 

 pendants, tubes and various objects the use of which is conjectural. 

 The antler implements include spades, hoes, picks, punches, pitching- 

 tools, awls, flakers, pendants, chisels and scrapers. There were also 

 scrapers made of beaver teeth and several kinds of perforated 

 animal teeth found. 



Stone objects were numerous, all the common types being 

 represented. 



Several pottery cups and thousands of pot fragments were taken 

 from the pits. One sherd is particularly interesting from the fact 

 that it is decorated with two parallel bands of brown on a back- 

 ground of orange. Whether this is an intentional decoration or an 

 accident of baking is difficult to determine but if the color decora- 



