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AMERICAN MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS 



frequent intervals up as far as Peekskill, and on Croton Point and between 

 Xvack and Hook Mountain on the west shore they attain considerable size. 

 There are a few small deposits, however, composed mainly of brook clams 

 (Unio) situated on fresh water lakes in the interior of Westchester County. 

 There are many shell heaps on Staten Island. Shell heaps occur or did 

 occur on Constable Hook, New Jersey, and at intervals between there and 

 Jersey City along the western shore of New York Bay. The accompanying 

 map (Fig. 5) gives the location of the important known shell deposits of the 

 vicinity of New York City. 



FIG 6. GRAVE OF SKELETONS WITH ARROW POINTS. 



( >n the opposite side (4B) of the upright case, the Lroqu »is exhibition is 

 continued, but the last section is devoted to a small exhibit showing the 

 manufacture of wampum by the Indians of Long Island with prehistoric 

 implements and a number of specimens of wampum belts and strings col- 

 lected from the Iroquois of New York and Canada. 



The wall case (5) at the western end of the room contains a group illus- 

 trating the costumes of the Iroquois Indian- of a period from about 1790 

 to the present day. 



Beginning on the south side of the aisle, the easternmost upright case 



