446 THE SENECA NATION 



No remains of a Seneca house of the period have been pre- 

 served for us. Their sites are undoubtedly marked by the deep 

 ash beds and refuse heaps of the great sites. Greenhalgh described 

 the houses at Totiakto as being the largest in all the Iroquois 

 cantons. His description has already been quoted. 



In the center of one of the two large towns was a square, in 

 which, according to Galinee, prisoners were tortured. Inside the 

 palisades of Gandagora were large bark receptacles used for 

 storing corn. 



Of such corncribs Lafitau wrote : ' 'At Tsonnontouan they 

 make bark granaries round and place them on elevations, piercing 

 the bark from all sides so that the air will get in and prevent the 

 moisture from spoiling the grain." (*) 



Various visitors to the Senecas described them as being fierce, 

 untiring warriors, professional trappers and hunters, and very 

 successful farmers. Archeology supports and corroborates these 

 accounts. 





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Gun-lock, flints, bullet mould and bullets, bar of lead and steel 



for striking fire. 



The equipment of the Seneca warrior and hunter of 1687 

 differed materially from that of his grandfather of 1600. The 



* Lafitau, Moeurs des Sauvages, Vol. II, p. So. 



