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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo09amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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SKIXXER, INDIANS OF MANHATTAN ISLAND 161 worked celts are angular, having almost invariably a rectangular cross section and squared butt. Ta^dcs 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-
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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., INIr. C. C. Willoughby has figured and described the celts of the New England

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