416 THE SENECA NATION 



TRADE ARTICLES OF BRASS AND COPPER. 

 Brass kettles of all sizes were found. The smallest holds about a tea- 

 cupful. A few triangular arrow points were found. 



A belt is preserve d by its brass ornaments, and is shown in Beauchamp's 

 "Metallic Ornaments of New York Indians", fig. 297. 



"Jesuit" brass rings are abundant. 



A small copper kettle and a copper ladle were found. 



TRADE ARTICLES OF DEAD. 

 Bar lead and about fifteen pounds of bullets and slugs are shown. 

 Some leaden tobacco pipes. 

 A leaden owl with glass eyes. 



An "apostle spoon" came from a grave in which was a European earthen- 

 ware pitcher. 



TRADE ARTICLES OF GLASS. 



Beads are of the usual variety, including polychrome, spherical and 

 cylindrical types. 



In the collection from the Dann Farm preserved in the Genesee Valley 

 Museum at Letchworth Park are musket locks, flints, bullets and bar lead, 

 shell beads and pendants, an iron hoe, an iron fish spear, a hawk bell, a 

 button similar to one taken from the great bone heap at Gandagora, 

 lead figures, pigs' teeth and fragments of European pottery and a stone 

 gouge. 



The identity of this village is doubtful, and it is equally- 

 doubtful whether it belongs to the period from 1655 to 1687. 

 Mr. Nelson Olds, of Rochester, who has given the villages of 

 the Genesee valley much study is certain that it is the Totiakto 

 of Denonville. Mr. Ray Dann and Mr. Ernest Smith, both of 

 whom are familiar with the villages, say that it is later than 

 Denonville's time. There is little to support either theory. 



The "Tiotehatton" of Greenhalgh is undoubtedly the Kirk- 

 patrick site. He saw and described this in 1677. Totiakto was 

 burned in 1687, ten years later. A community as large as that 

 described as occupying "Tiotehatton", if it lived on the same 

 place for ten years, would leave, it seems to me, much more 

 evidence of its occupancy than is shown on the Kirkpatrick site. 

 That is, the evidence of Indian occupancy is not commensurate 

 with the number of inhabitants and the length of time. Yet 

 there is no doubt that the artifacts found on the Dann site are 

 later than those found on the site of Gandagora, and as this was 

 certainly contemporaneous with Totiakto and in constant inter- 

 course with it, there should be practically no difference. I am 

 inclined to think either that the Dann farm was occupied by the 



