University of the State of New York 



New York State Museum 



Frederick J. H. Merrill Director 

 Bulletin 50 March 1902 



HORN AND BONE IMPLEMENTS 



OF THE 



NEW YORK INDIANS 



PEEFACE 



It was expected that corrections and additions relating to the 

 matter of these bulletins would be made from time to time, as these 

 publications were intended to impart knowledge and call forth 

 more. Among other traces of aboriginal occupation I have thus 

 recently learned of camp sites extending some miles east of Pulaski, 

 on the higher lands along the Salmon river. These were to be 

 expected there, and they have the usual early relics. In the vicinity 

 of New York, M. Raymond Harrington has successfully explored a 

 number of rock shelters in Westchester county, and at Port Wash- 

 ington on Long Island he opened about 100 pits containing human 

 and canine remains. I have also observed and located 50 of the 

 Perch river mounds, to be described later. They are the same type 

 as those of the Bay of Quinte. A trip to the Susquehanna in the 

 summer of 1901 allowed a brief examination of the great shell 

 heaps of Unio complanatus there, and secured a plan of 

 Spanish hill. Some new sites have been examined there and else- 

 where at my own expense. 



S. L. Frey properly corrects an error of names. There was a 

 large recent site at Fort Plain ; but the Canajoharie of Johnson's 

 day was at Indian Castle, Herkimer co. Names of villages often 

 followed them in removals. Mr Frey also agrees with Gen. Clark 

 in placing Andagoron half way between Sprakers and Auriesville. 



