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8 bodies. Glass beads and shell wampum which was probably 

 brought in by traders, were abundant. In one grave was a 

 brass ring such as the Jesuits gave to their pupils and a hawk's 

 bill. Ten brass arrow points and two triangular stone points, 

 evidently the heads of a quiver full of arrows, were found with 

 a skeleton. 



On some of the Wenro burial places of the Buffalo Creek 

 group, European articles have been found. With the bodies 

 which were taken from Site No. 8, Buffalo, were iron axes, glass 

 beads, brass kettles, and it is said, some nails, and small mirrors. 

 With these were clay pipes, chert points, and, possibly, stone 

 axes. Nearly all the articles found in this burial place were 

 destroyed, lost or scattered by the workmen who found them. 



From burial place on Site No. 34, West Seneca, which was 

 plowed up many years ago, brass kettles and iron axes were 

 alleged to have been found with the bodies. All of these are 

 now lost. 



In graves found on Site No. 2, East Aurora, a brass kettle 

 and large quantities of glass beads are said to have been found. 

 These have been lost, but on the surface are still found clay 

 pipes and sherds, chert triangular points, bone awls, shell and 

 glass beads, and iron axes. 



Though few European articles were found in the refuse 

 heaps or on the surface of Site No. 22, East Hamburg, such 

 articles were rather abundant in the graves. An iron axe, the 

 rusted remains of three iron knife blades, a few wire bracelets 

 and some glass beads were found. In the same graves were 

 many fine clay kettles, a few fine clay pipes, some chert flakes 

 and a few long beads of a fine reddish sandstone, evidently made 

 by Indians with European tools. Nearly all the articles from 

 these graves are in the possession of the writer. 



The presence of traders' articles on the sites of such villages 

 as had established a trade with Europeans, is to be expected; 

 but the absence of such articles from sites occupied in historic 

 times by Indians who for nearly two hundred years had been in 

 close contact with Europeans is noteworthy. Practically nothing 

 has ever been found on the historic sites of Seneca and Onon- 

 daga villages along Buffalo Creek to indicate in any way that 

 these people had ever lived there. A few bits of leather moc- 

 casin, embroidered with glass beads, were dug up with the 

 bodies of Senecas when they were removed from their cemetery 



