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edged and delicately chipped. It is much smaller than the 

 notched type, having an average length of an inch and a quarter 

 and a width of but three-eighths of an inch. The straight sides 

 of the type frequently become curvilinear and the straight base 

 often becomes concave, forming in exaggerated cases, vicious 

 barbs. 



This unnotched triangular point is essentially an Iroquoian 

 type. It characterizes the entire region once occupied by the 

 Five Nations, from the Hudson to the Niagara. Other types 

 are found along with this type, but so steadfast is this that it 

 may be styled a true Iroquois type. West of the Niagara it also 

 occurs, but either not so freqnently or as a modified form. The 

 Neutrals used this type, though the most nearly typical Neutral 

 point is a small triangle, modified b3* the addition at the base of 

 notches, making it a notched type. The Hurons, also, used the 

 triangular type. 



Being Iroquois, the triangular type is strictly a village type, 

 that is, it characterizes the villages, rather than the camp sites. 

 Throughout the entire Frontier every village site is character- 

 ized by this type. Other shapes may occur on the sites, but the 

 points of the triangular type predominate. For instance, on 

 Site No. 22, East Hamburg, every point found is a triangle. 

 Though points of all shapes are found in abundance on Site No. 

 7, Buffalo, )^et of the two hundred found in its refase heaps, 

 every point was a triangle. Of the large number of points found 

 by Mr. Parker on the Erie site at Ripley, N. Y. , but two were 

 notched. 



Just as the village sites are characterized by triangular 

 points, so are the camp sites characterized by the notched type 

 of point. Every camp site on both sides of the Niagara River 

 yields them ; — some sites in abundance. They are usually well 

 chipped, but not so delicately worked as the triangular points. 

 They are frequently of a browner chert than our local chert, and 

 sometimes they are made of chalcedony or some other foreign 

 material. 



Though characteristic of the camp sites, notched points are 

 not confined to camps, They occur on most village sites. But 

 two sites, No. no, Bertie, and No. 22, East Hamburg, fail to 

 yield them. They are absent from the refuse heaps of Site No. 

 7, Buffalo, though abundant on the surface. On the East Elma 



