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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- 1912 American Anthropological Association
- ISSN
- 0002-7294
- eISSN
- 1548-1433
- DOI
- 10.1525/aa.1912.14.1.02a00040
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Abstract
describe and figure many of the most characteristic objects that have been found and preserved in the region usually included in the Champlain valley. Here, as elsewhere, some extremely valuable articles, notably those of earthenware, have been lost or destroyed by ignorant finders, but there has been some advantage in this ignorance, for, because few have understood the value of the strange objects which have been exposed by plow or spade, there has been no attempt a t deception in regard to them, and I do not think that the manufacture of " Indian relics " hasever been undertaken in this region. Hence we may feel quite sure that all the objects in our collections from the Champlain valley are what they are represented to be. Probably because of the meeting in this valley of Algonkin and Iroquois and.the occupancy of now one site and then another by families of one or the other of these peoples, we find considerable variety in the stone and other objects found. Besides the specimens mentioned in the former papers there remain several kinds which should be added to the list, or it will be quite incomplete. As will be seen, some
Journal
American Anthropologist – Wiley
Published: Jan 3, 1912