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17th century Allegany reservation apertures arms border bracelets brass bead brass crucifix brass medal broad Bronze ring brooch from Onondaga buckle Buffalo bust Canada Cattaraugus Cattaraugus reservation Cayuga county character chief circle Clark cloth Converse collection cordate crenulated crenulated edge crown brooch cylindric early earring elliptic figure flat Fleming Geology George glass gorgets head heart and crown Heckewelder Hist inches long Indian castle Indian hill inscription Iroquois Johnson letters LL.D loop Loskiel Masonic brooch McLachlan Mohawk valley Montreal Munnsville museum reports native copper O'Callaghan obverse octagonal Oneida Onondaga reservation Ontario county pendants perforations Pewter medal plain Plate Pompey Red Jacket reverse ring brooch semicircular Seneca shows side silver brooches silver cross silver medal small bosses Small circular brooch smaller star brooch surface tion Tonawanda tracery triangular tubes Tuscarora reservation unique worn writer has seen York Indians York State Museum
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Page 31 - This form does not appear in any New York collections. The earliest unmistakable form was of copper wire, bent at an acute angle in the center, and having the ends bent into a flat coil. This done, the wire was hammered down to half its first thickness. They are often broken in the center, and then give no suggestion of their use. In their symmetric form their purpose is evident. They are occasional in Canada, but are probably more frequent on Onondaga sites than elsewhere. The smallest which has...
Page 13 - This day there came unto the ship's side divers canoes, the Indians apparelled as aforesaid, with tobacco and pipes steeled with copper, skins, artificial strings and other trifles to barter ; one had hanging about his neck a plate of rich copper, in length a foot, in breadth half a foot for a breastplate, the ears of all the rest had pendants of copper.
Page 13 - ... very workmanly made. Their chains are many hollow pieces cemented together, each piece of the bigness of one of our reeds, a finger in length, ten or twelve of them together on a string, which they wear about their necks : their collars they wear about their bodies like bandeliers a handful broad, all hollow pieces, like the other, but somewhat shorter, four hundred pieces in a collar, very fine and evenly set together.
Page 8 - ... tis done by the denotas which are bags of their own making. Their ornaments consist of scoring their bodies, or painting them of various colors, sometimes entirely black, when they are in mourning; but mostly the face. They twine both white and black wampum around their heads; formerly they were not wont to cover these, but now they are beginning to wear bonnets or caps, which they purchase from the Christians; they wear wampum in the ears, around the neck and around the waist, and thus in their...
Page 20 - ... were fastened a number of small round silver bells, of about the size of a musket ball. All these things, together with the vermilion paint, judiciously laid on, so as to set her off in the highest style, decorated her person in such a manner, that perhaps nothing of the kind could exceed it.
Page 13 - They have also great store of copper, some very red, and some of a paler color: none of them but have chains, ear-rings or collars of this metal: they head some of their arrows herewith much like our broad arrow heads, very workmanly made.
Page 76 - ... and a belt or two of wampum hanging to their necks. The women, at the expense of their husbands or lovers, line their petticoat and blue or scarlet cloth blanket or covering with choice ribands of various colours, or with gartering, on which they fix a number of silver broaches, or small round buckles. They adorn their leggings in the same manner; their...
Page 74 - ... their men wear shirts; but the greater part of them are generally half naked. In winter their legs are covered with stockings of blanket, and their feet with socks of deer skin. Many of them are fond of ornaments, and their taste is very singular. I have seen rings affixed, not only to their ears, but to their noses. Bracelets of silver and brass round their wrists, are very common.
Page 24 - In an ancient grave excavated not far from Salem, Massachusetts, in 1873, were found five skeletons, one of which was supposed to be that of the chief Nanephasemet, who was killed in 1605 or 1606. He was the king of Namkeak. On the breast of this skeleton were discovered several small copper tubes . . . from 4 to 8 inches in length, and from one eighth to one fourth of an inch in diameter, made of copper rolled up, with the edges lapped.