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mold. Yet these similarities are such as to warrant the belief 

 that either the same person made them, or that they are different 

 persons' expression of an identical idea. 



For instance, from a grave on Grand Island came a very- 

 rude clay pipe, around which is coiled a snake. This is merely 

 a spiral ridge, terminated by an oval containing two tiny depres- 

 sions for eyes. A similar one is from Totiakto, owned by Mr. 

 Smith of Honeoye Falls. This also, is rude, and about it coils 

 the same conventional serpent. A third was found at Cattar- 

 augus Creek by State Archeologist Parker. In these three, not 

 only were they found miles apart, but apparently years apart, for 



Seneca clay pipes. 



the grave at Grand Island can hardly be anything but Neuter, 

 ante-dating 1650, and that from Totiakto must be at least twenty 

 years later. 



Immense numbers of European pipes were used at this time 

 by the Senecas. These are the cheap, white clay pipes still in 

 use. Entire pipes of this type are rare, but one was found in 

 grave number 11 on the Beal farm with three Indian pipes. On 

 later sites pipes made of lead are found. 



In adorning their clothing and their persons the Senecas 

 were almost entirely dependent upon the traders. In their Stone 

 Age they had been restricted to the use of rude ornaments cut 

 from the bones of birds and animals and the shells of the fresh- 



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