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The Buffalo News from Buffalo, New York • 27

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The Buffalo Newsi
Location:
Buffalo, New York
Issue Date:
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27
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and and BONES MUST BE THREE HUNDRED YEARS OLD Probably Belonged to So-called Neutral Nation, Which Was Exterminated by Its Neighbors in 1652. With the single exception of a flint arrowhead not even the most fragmentary specimen of the handicraft of the bony fingers in the ancient ossuary discovered day, before yestera farm near Orangeport, has yet been unearthed. The continued excavations yesterday afternoon under supervision of several scientists from Buffalo, merely brought the total number of skeletons thus far discovered up to 175. The general formation of the skulls and lack, of pottery and weapons of lead the conclusion that the remains must be those of the Neuter Indians during their primitive period, at least tury before the coming of the "white menine Neuter or Neutral tribes of Indians, so-called by the French, because occupied neutral territory along both, the banks wars of the between Niagara the Hurons river dur- and the Nations buried their dead in this way." declared Harry assistant curator of the museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, who was present during the excavations yesterday, "According to the accounts of early Jesuit explorers the Neuters were the most barbaric of call the their tribes, only they ornaments wore no were clothing tattoo marks. "They placed their dead on birch bark scaffolds in trees or over their own cabins.

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