Indian Relics of the Arnold Arboretum

With more than three centuries of history intervening between the present and the long period when the Boston area was occupied by the Indians, it is interesting that evidences of these earlier inhabitants and examples of their work can still be found here. For at least half of this historic period it is probable that no Indians lived here under the primitive conditions of the stone age, nor were any of the implements made then that we find on the old hunting and camping grounds. During much of this time, and especially since the middle of the nineteenth cen-