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On the site are many refuse heaps which contain pot- 

 sherds, chert flakes and points, and animal bones. The points 

 are triangular. 



One burial place of the village adjoined it on the south. 

 This was excavated by Samuel Thompson. Another was a half 

 mile west. In this were nearly 100 skeletons. Two other ossu- 

 aries were just east of this, (l). 



Two elliptical mounds, about twenty feet in diameter, 

 and four or five feet high, and other earthworks were mentioned 

 by Mr. Turner (2). These are now visible. 



Mr. Turner says that the name "Kienuka" is a Tusca- 

 rora word which means "fort with a fine view". Other mean- 

 ings are given by Mr. Elias Johnson. Mt. Pleasant said that in 

 it, in Revolutionary times stood the Seneca "Refuge House", 

 where dwelt a Seneca woman named "Ge-gah-sa-seh" or "Wild 

 Cat", (3). 



Mr. H. R. Schoolcraft described this site and drew a 

 plan of it, (4) . 



Burial Place No. 40. Burial place in the village of L,ewiston. 



It was situated on the site of the blacksmith shop. It was 



excavated by Andrew Garlo. 



This was probably the burial place of the Seneca village 

 next to be described. . 



Site No. 41. A village of ten cabins of Seneca Indians existed 

 at Iyewiston, on the ' 'first hill' ' in 1719. The Indians worked 

 as porters on the Niagara portage. Peter Kalm found 200 

 Senecas in this village in 1750, (5). 



Burial Place No. 42. An Indian burial place is said to have been 

 discovered on the site of the Baptist Church in the village of 

 L,ewiston. 



Burial Place No. 43. A burial place on the property of Philip 

 Johnson, near the north line of the Tuscarora Reservation 

 was situated on the edge of the second (500 feet) escarpment 

 of the "Mountain Ridge". It was excavated by Samuel 



i. Reynolds, Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91, P. 512. 



2. O. Turner, Pioneer History of the Holland Purchase, P. 26. 



3. Reynolds, Bureau of Ethnology, 1890-91, P. 512. 



4. H. R. Schoolcraft, Notes on the Iroquois, P. 207. 



5. P. A. Porter, Historical Sketches of Niagara. P. 15. 



