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remember whether it is a piece of a skull, as is probable. There is 

 one very large perforation, and part of another intersected by one 

 worked edge, showing that it w r as at first a larger ornament, which 

 was broken and recut. The two worked edges are curved. This is 

 black and light brown in color, and from the Atwell fort. 



Fig. 333 is part of a perforated skull found by Dr Amidon in 

 Jefferson county. It was evidently much larger, but a small part 

 of the original curved and polished margin now remaining. There 

 are now two holes, the one farthest from the curved margin probably 

 being near the original center. In the plate the fragment is much 

 reduced, the full length being 2f inches. Dr Getman has similar 

 articles, one having an ornamented edge and several perforations. 



Mr Twining reported some articles from the old Tamblin farm, 

 in the town of Rutland, Jefferson co. and among these " an amulet, 

 some 5 inches in diameter, drilled with seven holes, and cut from a 

 human skull. The holes were undoubtedly made on the head of a 

 living subject, judging from the appearance of the openings." He 

 furnished the sketch for fig. 141, also from Rutland, but that is 

 smaller and has more perforations. At another place in that 

 county he found " two circular amulets with holes therein, from 

 human skulls." 



In the Brewerton cemetery Dr Hinsdale obtained a flat piece of 

 bone, sawed so as to have six edges. The extreme length was 2f 

 inches. In this was a large circular perforation, {■ of an inch across. 

 The ultimate design can only be surmised. 



A very curious long skull was found in Cayuga county a few 

 years ago, which was circularly perforated in an upper angle of the 

 forehead, but not by drilling. The proportions were very remark- 

 able, being 8 by 4-J inches, and caused by pressure. The interior 

 ends were rather smooth, and the sides strongly corrugated. 



Among human bones may be mentioned a much flattened tibia, 

 found in the grave with the walrus tusk implements at Brewerton 

 by Dr Hinsdale. It is 8f inches long, 1J inches wide in the center 

 and $%■ of an inch thick, which is a moderate form of platycnemism. 

 Most of the bones in this grave were decayed. Fig. 336 is another 

 human bone from the same place, which is worked at one end and 

 the natural groove deepened. This is reduced. 



