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J. S. Twining furnished the writer with several outlines of carved 

 bone articles from Jefferson county, but the details were too few for 

 reproduction here. Henry Woodworth, of East Watertown, has 

 worked and perforated pieces of human skulls in his fine collection, 

 and many of his bone articles have ornamental lines. Unfortunately 

 he would allow no drawings to be made. 



Fig. Ill appears to be a bone pendant, and was found near 

 Munnsville. Provision for suspension has been made, and the point 

 has been cleft. Fig. 85 is an open and ornamented bone, pointed 

 like an awl, but possibly an ornament for the ear or nose. It comes 

 from Buffalo. 



Fig. 63 and 64 represent a type of bone articles from some parts 

 of Jefferson county, which lias been reported nowhere else. They 

 are of various sizes, like a canoe paddle in outline, and with a knob 

 at the top. Sometimes they are ornamented with engraved lines. 

 The writer has seen them only in the Twining and Woodworth col- 

 lections, and they seem purely local. Since writing this he has 

 examined a fine one found in the summer of 1901 by Mr Pomeroy, 

 at Storrs Harbor, Jefferson co. It is flat and thin, and 5 inches 

 long. At the same place Mr Pomeroy got a fine clay pipe bowl, 

 with a human face before and behind. 



Fig. 130 may have been intended for an ornament, possibly a 

 pendant. It is perforated for suspension, and compressed at that 

 end, but was probably used for receiving charges of powder. It is 

 recent of course, and was found in Fleming. The material is horn, 

 and is quite thin. 



Fig. 56 may properly be called a bone pin, having a thin and 

 flat head, and a point which is moderately sharp for so thick an 

 article. The diameter is bat half as much the other way. Bone 

 pins with distinct heads are very rare, though one example may 

 have been already noticed. Dr Hinsdale found the one here 

 described at Brewerton. 



Fig. 278 is reduced from Schoolcraft's great work on the North 

 American Indians, and shows a long and slender pin of polished 

 bone, found in 1835, in excavating at Fort Niagara N. Y. It is 

 10J inches long, -§• of an inch thick, and is somewhat curved. The 

 head is bifurcated, and has two short hooks on each side. He 



