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There can be hardly a doubt that the two skulls (Numbers 4 

 and 5 ) found in a refuse heap at Gandagora in immediate contact 

 with the bones of deer were those of captives who had been dis- 

 membered and probably eaten. 



Greenhalgh during his stay at Gandagora witnessed the tor- 

 ture of captives. He says of it : "Thatt day at Gandagora there 

 were most cruelly burnt four men, four women and one boy. 

 The cruelty lasted seven hours. When they were almost dead 

 setting them loose to the mercy of ye boys and taking the hearts 

 of such as were dead to feast on." When EaSalle and Galinee 

 visited the Senecas, a captive was put to death, but these two, 

 fearing violence, left the village. Some of the Frenchmen of the 

 party stayed, however, out of curiosity, and their description of 

 it has been preserved by Galinee, who says: "At last after two 

 hours of this barbarous amusement they killed him with a stone 

 and afterwards everyone throwing himself upon him, tore him to 

 pieces. One carried off his head, another an arm, a third some 

 other limb, and everyone hurried away to put it in the kettle to 

 feast on it." 



The preparation and serving of food was probably much the 

 same as they were in earlier days of the Stone Age. European 

 steels were in fairly common use for striking fire. Three came 

 from graves at Gandagora. The older and more primitive 

 method of making fire by striking iron pyrites against flint was 

 still in use. Several sets of pyrites and flint were taken from 

 graves at Gandagora. 



European brass kettles had nearly supplanted the aboriginal 

 cla}^ kettles, and even their high cost did not prevent the Seneca 

 women from taking advantage of their lightness, convenience and 

 wearing qualities. Consequently a great many are found on all 

 the sites of the period. 



They are the commonest articles found in graves. There is 

 a story amongst the collectors in Victor that a collector found 

 on the main village site of Gandagora a nest of nine kettles of 

 graded sizes, evidently just as some trader had cached them. 

 Those in the graves range in size from one as small as a teacup, 

 which was found in a child's grave at Gandagora, to one "nearly 

 as big as a bushel basket", said to have been found in a grave 

 at the Factory Hollow site. The commonest kettle seems to have 

 been one holding about six or eight quarts. Many kettles show 

 the evidences of hard usage. Some have been patched to repair 



