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teeth, and many other evidences of savage life. It is upon a 
point of land where two ravines meet, was evidently palisaded, and 
must have been an impregnable fortress when the only weapons 
were bows and arrows. 
The labor that was required to surround such an extensive 
village must have been immense, especially when we remember 
that only axes of stone were used, similar to Fig. 1. These 
“celts” or hand axes 
are found the world 
over; this one is of a 
compact hard kind of 
green stone, has a fine 2 
_ cutting edge and is 2 
polished over its entire Foci C 
surface. se axes 
are called “thunderbolts” by the common people of many widely 
separated nations. Mr. John Evans, in his great work on the 
“ Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain,” gives much inter- 
esting and curious lore in regard to this and similar superstitions. 
I have heard the same name.applied to these ancient tools here 
in the Mohawk valley., Very poor tools we should call them, 
but in the hands of a savage proved wonderfully effective for 
cutting down trees and hollowing out canoes when used in con- 
nection with fire. 
In . 2 is presented a side and front view of a stone R 
Poe and skillfully cut out of a har ; 
black stone; it seems 
to have been worn 
as an ornament or a 
charm, grooves be- 
ing cut round it; as 
a specimen of the 
carving of a people 
having no iron tools 
it is certainly re- 
markable. The Mo- 
hawks were divided Fic. 2.—Side and front view s Totem—Indian and Bear. 
into three clans, the (full size.) 
turtle, the wolf and the bear, and possibly the Indian who owned 
this may have been of the bear genus, and this may have been — 
his “totem,” 
