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warrior of the Stone Age armed himself with home-made bow 

 and stone tipped arrows. By 1650 these had been relegated to 

 the rubbish heap, and in their place the warrior carried a "mis- 

 erable gun" with its accoutrements, a good European knife, and 

 perhaps an iron ax. One such outfit was found with the body 

 of a man in the Bunce cemetery at Victor. The gun was a 

 flint lock mnsket, six feet long, the European flint being still in 

 position. A bag contained five extra flints, some swan shot and 

 a bullet, a bullet mould, flint and steel. Beside the body lay a 

 good knife with a carved bone handle, the remains of a sheathed 

 dagger or short sword, an iron harpoon point, a large steel and a 

 piece of flint for striking fire, red, yellow and black paint, scis- 

 sors, possibly to trim his hair, three flat sandstone pebbles, and 

 a heap of beautifully made triangular arrowpoints. 



All the people had not yet adopted European arms. A few, 

 old-fashioned or ultra-conservative, still clung to their Stone Age 

 articles. Some, though armed in modern fashion with gun and 

 ax, still carried their flint points and chipping tools. 



An old man and a young woman, perhaps his daughter, 

 were buried together at Gandougarae in a double grave. The 

 girl's body was bedecked with her necklace of glass beads and 

 bracelets of brass and iron, and a wide wampum belt encircled 

 her waist. Yet at the old man's feet the mourners placed his 

 entire flint chipping outfit, his chipping tools of antler, some 

 blocks of chert, some unfinished work and a point. 



Two per- 

 sons, both 

 o f promin- 

 ence in the 

 village o n 

 the B e al 

 farm , took 

 with them 

 to their 



graves, 

 chipping 

 outfits and 



flint, though in both cases the flint was not of local origin. One 

 had points of flint evidently chipped from European gun-flints. 



The complete outfit of a flint chipper. 



