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whole shell shows age. This was found by Mr Percy M 1 . Van Epps 

 of Glenville. In his collection and those of his friends, the writer 

 found many interesting articles, mostly of stone. As the Mohawks 

 had no towns in Schenectady county, pottery is rare there, as well 

 as recent articles. 



The Bigelow collection has received a number of the curious orna- 

 ments made from the concave and convex ends of bones, pierced 

 for suspension. They are from Pompey sites of the pre-colonial 

 period. One retains traces of red paint. One massive and carved 

 bone bead is from the Christopher site. Mr Bigelow has also 

 recently obtained a fine tube from near Three River Point, and a 

 banner stone from Savannah N. Y. Both are of striped slate. A 

 bayonet slate weapon and a remarkable flattened bird amulet are 

 among his recent additions. 



Mr Theodore Stanford, of Munnsville, has a fine cylindric bone 

 arrowhead with barbs, and also a worked bone, about half as thick 

 as wide. This is 3 inches long and an inch wide it the broad end, 

 which is notched all around. Near that end is a lateral perforation. 

 The general form is flat, with rounded edges. 



The writer has also examined Mr R. D. Loveland's fine collection 

 in Watertown N. Y., which is rich in clay pipes from neighboring 

 forts. A few have stems fitted to bowls which were found on the 

 same sites and are of the same character. They are not always cer- 

 tainly parts of the same article, though of the same age. Some per- 

 fect examples are unique, as well as some imperfect. One of the 

 former, a small clay pipe, is like a high shoe in outline, but much 

 compressed. Dr A. A. Getman has a broken one of similar form. 

 In September 1901, the writer was present when Mr Oren Pomeroy 

 took out of a Jefferson county camp site a fine clay pipe bowl, hav- 

 ing a human face before and behind. This form is rare. On the 

 same visit, Dr R. W. Amidon presented him a small clay pipe bowl, 

 perforated for the insertion of a stem. 



In the Loveland collection one peculiar long and broad flat awl 

 has deep notches on each edge above the base. Another fine ex- 

 ample has been beautifully mottled by fire. A bone arrowhead is 

 one of the remarkable articles in this collection. It is angularly 

 shouldered but not strictly barbed, and has a long and moderately 

 slender perforated tang. Recently Mr Loveland obtained a pipe 



