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This one is stained red, a rare feature, and it presents other 
peculiarities. A smaller slender and delicate harpoon was 
found near the lake shore, and I have seen none prettier. It 
has six barbs on either side, and seems much older than the 
one represented. The same form, but less delicate, occurs on 
the Seneca River. 
Both copper and iron fish-hooks are met with, and some- 
times the corroded metal has preserved the cord. None of 
bone or horn have appeared near Cayuga Lake, though sev- 
eral have been found in Onondaga and Jefferson Counties. 
Three or four prehistoric specimens, with barbs, have come tO" 
my notice. Among other Cayuga fishing implements are in- 
numerable flat sinkers and perhaps the ovoid grooved stones. 
The former are of more general distribution than the latter. 
Bears' teeth occur, as in other places. Fig. 3 is one of six- 
teen from the same grave. They were used much earlier, and 
often perforated for suspension. Human teeth I have found 
thus perforated. While examining an old Cayuga burial 
place, Mr. S. L. Frey, of Palatine Bridge, found an arrow made 
of a fossil shark's tooth, only altered by cutting slits to bind it 
to the shaft. A single glass bead, found at the same time, 
makes its age doubtful. 
Stone arrow and spear-heads are in moderate numbers; 
scrapers and drills very rare, owing to the small number of 
early Cayuga sites, these being early implements. Some of 
the triangular arrows, made of sheet copper or brass, occur,. 
generally with one or two perforations for binding the arrow, 
but sometimes with none. Fig. 4 shows one with part of the 
shaft remaining attached. They are of the same pattern as 
those found with the Fall River skeleton. Mr. Adams has 
also belts with copper tubes, suggesting those encircling the 
skeleton mentioned. Such arrows in Onondaga belong to the 
latter half of the seventeenth century. The copper age of the 
Five Nations lasted nearly a century, when they adopted silver 
for ornaments. During the earlier period of European contact 
they used copper wire bracelets, brooches and ear-rings, 
bronze rings, copper beads, and other articles. Of these Cayuga 
