1878. | Relic Hunting on the Mohawk. 783 
The bones of animals, like those in similar situations in other 
countries, are all split and broken to extract the marrow, and the 
teeth and jaws of bears, and deer, and beaver are as well pre- 
served as though buried yesterday. Many necklace bones like 
Fig. 17, are found which show a great deal of laborious scraping. 
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Necklaces of this kind were made by some of the tribes of fhe finger 
bones of their enemies, the squaws usually commencing the tor- - 
ture of a prisoner by sawing off the forefingers with a clam shell. 
Upon all the village sites, upon the surface of the fields, and in- 
the graves, the usual forms of stone implements are found, those 
