. Guide leaflet. rve hone implements, charred corn and such perishable articles from decay in a way that the looser shells of the general layers fail to do. Shell heap-, while abundant along the seacoast, are seldom found inland,except on salt creeks or other streams having access to salt water. Theymay he Been all along the east shore of the Hudsoo River ;it more or less 10 AM ERIC AX MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS frequent intervals up as far as Peekskill, and on Croton Point and betweenXyack and Hook Mountain on the west shore they attain considerable are a few small deposits, however, co
. Guide leaflet. rve hone implements, charred corn and such perishable articles from decay in a way that the looser shells of the general layers fail to do. Shell heap-, while abundant along the seacoast, are seldom found inland,except on salt creeks or other streams having access to salt water. Theymay he Been all along the east shore of the Hudsoo River ;it more or less 10 AM ERIC AX MUSEUM GUIDE LEAFLETS frequent intervals up as far as Peekskill, and on Croton Point and betweenXyack and Hook Mountain on the west shore they attain considerable are a few small deposits, however, composed mainly of brook clams(Unio) situated on fresh water lakes in the interior of Westchester ere are many shell heaps on Staten Island. Shell heaps occur or didoccur on Constable Hook, New Jersey, and at intervals between there andJersey City along the western shore of New York Bay. The accompanyingmap (Fig. 5) gives the location of the important known shell deposits of thevicinity of New York FIG. 6. GRAVE OF SKELETONS WITH ARROW POINTS. On the opposite side (4B) of the upright case, the Iroquois exhibition iscontinued, but the last section is devoted to a small exhibit showing themanufacture of wampum by the Indians of Long Island with prehistoricimplements and a number of specimens of wampum belts and strings col-lected from the Iroquois of New York and Canada. The wall case1 (.>) at the western end of I lie room contains a group illus-trating the costumes of the Iroquois Indians of a period from about 1790io the present day. Beginning on the south side of the aisle, the easternmost upright case SKINNER, INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND II is devoted to the False Pace Society of the [roquois, while the tablecase v\ i immediately following contains objects from Westchester Countyand Staten Island. In these sections an interesting feature of aboriginallife is shown. Although mosl of the Indians of the vicinity of Greater NewYork did not place objects in the
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