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worked celts are angular, having almost invariably a rectangular cross section 

 and squared butt. Types 1 and 3 also occur, but the celt with the rectangu- 

 lar cross section seems most typical of the Iroquoian region. Many small 

 celts, made of flat fragments or chips of stone, are also found in this area, 

 and these could scarcely have had a use as chopping tools. 



In the Niagara watershed and extending eastward as far as the Genesee 

 valley, an angular adze like form having a trapezoidal cross section occurs. 

 It is found principally in what was the territory of the Attiwandaronk, Kah- 



FIG. 13. A HAFTED CELT FROM A POND AT THORNDALE, DUTCHESS CO N. Y. 



Length of celt 16.6 cm. 



Kwah, or Neutral Nation (an Iroquoian tribe, early annihilated by the Five 

 Nations). It also occurs, as has been stated, on the sites of villages of the 

 Iroquois proper, but is- not abundant. South of the Iroquois in central 

 Pennsylvania, another form which does not occur in this region is the chipped 

 celt, usually of flint or other hard stone. This form is, however, frequent in 

 the country about the headwaters of the Delaware. 



In the "American Anthropologist," Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 296 et seq., Mr. 

 C. C. Willoughby has figured and described the celts of the New England 



