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group of villages they are scarce. On Site No. 34 and 35, West 

 Seneca, they form a large proportion of the points. . On the 

 Mountain Ridge group, none are reported as having been found, 

 though it is probable that they occur there. 



On Plate I, Nos. 8, 9 and 13, though of size suitable for 

 spear points, are evidently knives. They show signs of having 

 had long usage as such. The edges are dulled, and the base of 

 No. 8, is worn smooth. It seems to have been loosely hafted 

 and worked back and forth in its socket. 



The elliptical and oval blades shown 011 Plate I, Nos. 5, 6 and 

 7 come from the Buffalo Creek group of sites, where they are 

 rather common. They are well made and evidently were knife 

 blades. The double-pointed blades are occasionally found on the 

 same sites. Fig. 11, is an excellent example of the so called 

 "Eskimo Woman's Knife". It was found near Site No. 34, 

 West Seneca, on the side of a glacial hill. 



It has been suggested that blades of the type figured in No. 

 6, Plate No. I, were set into the head of a war-club, much as iron 

 points were set later. This is merely conjecture. The blade, 

 Fig. 12, is a type found occasionally in fields near villages; these 

 were probably hoe-blades. 



Scraper blades are figured in Plate I, Nos. 35, 36, 37 and 

 38. They were used in scraping fat and flesh from hides and 

 perhaps, also, as planes in wood-working. The type is oval in 

 outline, wedge shaped in longitudinal section, with one edge 

 beveled. Frequently they are some what concavo-convex. They 

 are abundant in all the villages of the Niagara Frontier. Occa- 

 sional scrapers with notched bases are found. 



Fig. 34 shows a blade that might well be called a scraper > 

 but it is modified by the addition of serrations on its cutting 

 edge. It may be a saw. It comes from Site No. 22, Bast Ham- 

 burg, where such articles are frequently found. Only one other 

 site yields them, namely No. 110, Bertie. 



Like the triangular points, the scrapers are a village type. 

 They seldom are found on camp sites. 



Indians frequently found it necessary to perforate bones, 

 stones or shells. This they accomplished in several ways. In 

 this region all perforations seem to have been made by means of 

 flint drills. The type is essentially a shaft of chert, triangular 

 or lozenge-shaped in cross-section, pointed at one end, and at the 



