NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 19)

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This and later crops stalled our attempts for nearly two and a half years to finish this pit. In the fall of 1961, after again obtaining permission from the landowner, who must remain anonymous to protect the site, we again started excavating. At this time we were able to dig two large and one small pits before the site was again planted, this time to wheat, only ten days after corn had been harvested. Worked bone material recovered from the site consisted of four complete and five broken bone awls. One of the complete awls is decorated by incising and is one of the finest ever recovered by the writer. This is shown as Fig. A. A phalange bone bead was also found in one of these pits. At least four different pipes were represented here. One bowl is undecorated, another has a single line horizontally around the top of the bowl wit h vertical rows of short horizontal lines beneath (Fig. B). The third pipe has four horizontal lines around the top of the bowl with a horizontal row of vertical punctates beneath (Fig. C). The fourth