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Grave 

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Reclining. 



10. (Bryant.) Flexed, Brass kettle, berry seeds, wooden 

 head west. ladle. Kettle wrapped in cloth and 



covered with bark. 



11. (Bryant.) Child, Few beads and some brass, 

 bones badly decom- 

 posed. 



12. (Bryant.) Fragment Brass kettle bottom wrapped in bark, 

 of sknll and a few 



bones. 



13. (Bryant.) Young Brass kettle bottom wrapped in bark, 

 adult, bones almost 



decayed. 



Mr. Heman J. Coates in a letter to the writer gives the following infor- 

 mation regarding graves opened by him at this point: 



Posture. Articles. 



Kettle, two rings, lead image of man playing 

 a pipe. 



2. Sitting. Rim of brass kettle, 205 glass beads, 18 shell 



crescents, 3 massive shell beads, 22 corn shaped 

 glass beads. 

 Sitting. Kettle rim and wooden ladle, 938 beads, part of 



copper bracelet. 



Kettle rim, 6 bullets, bell. 



2 kettles, gun barrel, knife handle. 



2 kettles, clay pipe with grooved stem and 

 human face. 



Sitting. Small iron celt, square piece of iron, kettle rim 



covered with bark, perforated bear's tooth. 



Sitting. Broken sword blade, 1100 small glass beads, 370 



large glass beads, 40 wampum beads, 50 wheat 

 shaped glass beads, 15 long shell beads from 

 2)4. inches to 5^ inches long, 1 shell gorget, 1 

 shell mask, 1 shell totem of bird's head, 10 

 finger rings, 3 bells, 1 clay pipe, iron spoon, 

 kettle full of seeds. 



Calcined human bones in a bed of charcoal and ashes at depth of 5 feet. 

 On edge of the pit a pistol barrel. Below ashes 200 beads, 5 gaming 

 flints ("gun flints?"). 



Reclining. 



2 skeletons in grave, 

 bones scattered. 



2 skeletons in grave, 

 bones scattered. 



The Fox Farm Site. 



This is a large village on the farm of Henry Fox at Wheeler 

 Station on the New York Central, in East Bloomfield. It is one 



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