. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 447 warrior of the Stone Age armed himself with home-made bow and stone tipped arrows. By 1650 these had been relegated to the rubbish heap, and in their place the warrior carried a "mis- erable gun" with its accoutrements, a good European knife, and perhaps an iron ax. One such outfit was found with the body of a man in the Bunce cemetery at Victor. The gun was a flint lock mnsket, six feet long, the European flint being still in position. A bag contained five extra f
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES 447 warrior of the Stone Age armed himself with home-made bow and stone tipped arrows. By 1650 these had been relegated to the rubbish heap, and in their place the warrior carried a "mis- erable gun" with its accoutrements, a good European knife, and perhaps an iron ax. One such outfit was found with the body of a man in the Bunce cemetery at Victor. The gun was a flint lock mnsket, six feet long, the European flint being still in position. A bag contained five extra flints, some swan shot and a bullet, a bullet mould, flint and steel. Beside the body lay a good knife with a carved bone handle, the remains of a sheathed dagger or short sword, an iron harpoon point, a large steel and a piece of flint for striking fire, red, yellow and black paint, scis- sors, possibly to trim his hair, three flat sandstone pebbles, and a heap of beautifully made triangular arrowpoints. All the people had not yet adopted European arms. A few, old-fashioned or ultra-conservative, still clung to their Stone Age articles. Some, though armed in modern fashion with gun and ax, still carried their flint points and chipping tools. An old man and a young woman, perhaps his daughter, were buried together at Gandougarae in a double grave. The girl's body was bedecked with her necklace of glass beads and bracelets of brass and iron, and a wide wampum belt encircled her waist. Yet at the old man's feet the mourners placed his entire flint chipping outfit, his chipping tools of antler, some blocks of chert, some unfinished work and a point. Two per- sons, both o f promin- ence in the village o n the B e al farm, took with them to their graves, chipping outfits and flint, though in both cases the flint was not of local origin. One had points of flint evidently chipped from European The complete outfit of a flint Please note that these images are extra
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