. Otzinachson : a history of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna: its first settlement, privations endured by the early pioneers, Indian wars, predatory incursions, abductions and massacres, together with an account of the fair play system; and the trying scenes of the big run-away ... biographical sketches of the leading settlers .... n their rude workshops. Thestudy of these relics alone affords a profitable pastime. His collection ofgorgets, pestles, sinkers, gouges, stone axes,tomahawks, pipes and ceremonial weapons,is also very large, and many of the speci-mens are exce
. Otzinachson : a history of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna: its first settlement, privations endured by the early pioneers, Indian wars, predatory incursions, abductions and massacres, together with an account of the fair play system; and the trying scenes of the big run-away ... biographical sketches of the leading settlers .... n their rude workshops. Thestudy of these relics alone affords a profitable pastime. His collection ofgorgets, pestles, sinkers, gouges, stone axes,tomahawks, pipes and ceremonial weapons,is also very large, and many of the speci-mens are exceedingly rare and the manufacture of pipes the Indiansseem to have takengreat pains, as the3- pipe figured con- spicuously in their numerous the appearance of the whites theyknew nothing of the use of iron, conse- ^g- 4- quently their rude axes were cut and fashionedfrom stone, and were clumsy and not of muchservice for cutting pur-poses, but terribly efiect-ive in war when wieldedby a strong arm. Whenthe iron hatchet or toma-hawk was introduced theIndians were quick toseize upon it as an im-provement, and they atonce discarded their stone weapons. Thesetomahawks assumed many fanciful shapesand the part they played in Indian warfare Fig. 6. and barbarous practices is frightful to contemplate. A few choice.
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