28 NEW-YORK STATE COLLECTION. 



269. An Indian pipe, manufactured from the steatitic pyroxene of Prof. 



Lewis C. Beck. Found near Fort George, Warren county. 



This relic presents the best specimen of indian design and sculp- 

 ture ever found in this State. It is three inches in height, and 

 represents an indian in a sitting posture, with his arms resting 

 upon his knees. The back constitutes the bowl of the pipe, at the 

 lower extremity of which there is a hole for the insertion of the 

 stem. 



270. An Indian relic, plowed up at the depth of a foot beneath the sur- 



face of the soil, in the town of Commerce, Oakland county, 

 Michigan, in the year 1848. 



This relic is made of novaculite, and in the form of an axe with 

 two edges, with a hole in the centre for the insertion of a handle. 



271. Tomahawk, which formerly belonged to the celebrated Indian Chief 



CORNPLANTER. 



