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a leak, the patches being usually riveted on. Brass kettle ears 

 and scrap brass are fairly abundant in the refuse heaps of all 

 the sites. 



The abundance of clay kettles in graves of the Seneca sites 

 is worthy of notice. They have been found buried with the dead 

 on the Dann farm where they are numerous, on the Factory 

 Hollow site, and the Warren farm, where they are numerous, at 

 Gandagora, where but one has been found, at Lima and at the 

 small cemetery north of L,ima, and in the cemeteries at the Beal 

 farm and at Gandougarae. This seems to show that clay kettles 



A clay kettle from the Beal site. 



were in common use when these villages were inhabited, yet the 

 refuse heaps, to which fragments of broken kettles eventually 

 found their way, do not always corroborate the evidence of the 

 graves. No potsherds are reported as ever having been found in 

 the refuse of Gandagora, Totiakto, Gandougarae or the Dann 

 farm. The deep refuse heaps which spill over the edge of the 

 escarpment bounding the Factory Hollow site are full of pot- 

 sherds. The people of the later villages seem to have discarded 

 them in household use, but to have continued putting them into 

 graves. The one found in the bone pit of Gandagora seems to 



