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November 16, 2023

110 YEARS AGO

Over 800 relics of Indian times have been presented to the museum at the Village Club by Dr. James C. Ferguson of St. Paul, Minnesota, a former resident of Cooperstown. The specimens are now being catalogued by Manager George N. Smith and will soon be on exhibition. Three hundred of the specimens were picked up along the Susquehanna River and the shores of Otsego Lake. Many of the remaining relics were found near Ontario, Canada, at Chickamunga Park, Tennessee, and at Richfield Springs. Several spear heads were found in the collection as are some of the copper arrowheads. Also found in the collection are beads used in barter and as ornaments of dress, as well as bone awls with which the Indians bored holes, and a number of bone drills which are in an excellent state of preservation.

November 12, 1913

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