These facts prove that the Mohegans carried on commerce of exchange with other tribes, and thus obtained articles that liad been brought from very remote localities.

Holes were drilled through stones for ornament or use by a drill ot flint, or a reed with water and sand. These were worked by a bow-string. The bow was an important article of the Indian's outfit, and was his chief weapon in war and in the chase. It was skillfully foshioned from ash or hickory-wood, and was strung with the sinews of the deer.

Another important article of manufacture was wampum, which was their medium of exchange, or money. It was made from the shell of the quoliog, or hard-shell clam. It was cylindrical in form, a quarter of an inch long, and in diameter less than a pipe-stem, drilled lengthwise, so as to be strung upon a thread. The beads of a white color rated at half the value of the black or

violet, made from the portion where the contracting muscle of the clam is attached to the shell. They were used for ornament as well as for coin, and ten thousand or more were sometimes wrought into the belt of some

1 Six by two inches, found in Bedford.

GROOVED HAMMER.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

great chieftain. The district about Byram Lake was called Cohemong, which meant the place where wampum is made.

There have been but few unbroken specimens of Indian pottery found in Westchester County, but

BIRD AND TORTOISE PIPE. Found in New Castle.