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have been originally buried in some individual's grave, and to 

 have been taken with his bones when these were removed from 

 their first resting place for re-burial in the pit. It was found in 

 three pieces in three different parts of the pit. On the Beal and 

 DeLong sites clay kettles were found in original burials. 



For serving and eating, wooden spoons and ladles were in 

 common use as they still are among the Senecas. The fragments 

 of a wooden ladle, the handle of which is carved to represent a 

 tiny bear, came from a brass kettle in the grave of a child on the 

 site of Gandagora. It was of the usual Seneca type, resembling 

 a butter ladle in shape. The fragments of another came from a 

 brass kettle in which were berry seeds. 



Modern wooden bowl and ladles. 



Fragments of wooden ladles are numerous at the Dann farm, 

 and in the cemeteries on the Beal farm, the DeI,ong farm and the 

 Marsh farm. 



Some spoons were made of more substantial material. One 

 made of bone came from the Bunce cemetery. A very large one, 

 the zig-zag handle of which represented a snake, was taken by 

 Mr. Hamlin from a grave on the Marsh farm. Mr. Dann has 

 two with long handles. 



