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Articles Obtained From Europeans or 

 Showing European Influence. 



European articles are found, for the most part, in graves. 

 Occasionally a few articles are unearthed in refuse heaps, as at. 

 Site No. 22 at East Hamburg, or on the surface or in caches, as 

 at Site No. 2, East Aurora. Most of the European articles come 

 from the graves of a few of the villages. During the very early 

 historic time when these villages were inhabited, European arti- 

 cles were the most precious belongings of a bereaved family, 

 and they were consequently buried with the dead. 



In the refuse-heaps of Site No. 22, East Hamburg, were 

 found a few pieces of sheet brass, the debris of some manufac- 

 ture ; a brass awl made of tightly rolled sheet brass ; a few pieces 

 of sheet brass rolled into the form of truncated cones, perforated 

 for suspension; a few pieces of iron, broken from an iron axe; 

 and a musket bullet. In the refuse-heaps of Site No. 23, East 

 Elma, a brass wire ring was found. On Site No. 24, East Elma, 

 a very heavy iron axe was picked up on the surface. The edge 

 of this is interesting, for a portion of it is doubled back, as 

 though from the effects of some tremendous blow on a rock. 



Another iron axe was found on Site No. 34, West Seneca, 

 and a lock of a flint-lock musket was found near-by. 



On Site No. 2, East Aurora, a cache of nine iron axes was 

 discovered, and others have been plowed up from time to time. 



From the great Neutral burial places on the "Mountain 

 Ridge", at St. David's (Site No. 107), at Kienuka (Site No. 39, 

 Lewiston) and at Cambria, (Site No. 38), large quantities of 

 European articles have been taken. Many of these articles have 

 been lost, but enough remain in the hands of collectors to show 

 that in the graves of the St. David site were glass beads, iron 

 axes and brass kettles, together with such shell pendants and 

 discoidal beads as were of primitive manufacture, In the ossu- 

 ary at Cambria (Site No. 38), brass kettles and iron axes were 

 found with the bodies, together with triangular chert points. 



Of the 59 bodies found in the Neutral cemetery on the Van 

 Son farm, Grand Island (Site No. 30) 18 were accompanied by 

 European articles. Two brass kettles and two iron axes of the 

 French type were found. Iron knives and iron awls accompanied 



