106 EDIBLE BRITISH MOLLUSCA. 



extensive transfer of land, delivered by the Lenni- 

 Senape Sachem Indians to William Penn, at the Great 

 Treaty, under the elm-tree at Shackamaxon, in 1682. 

 It was handed down for generations in the Penn family, 

 and was presented to the Historical Society of Phila- 

 delphia in 1857. It was composed of eight strings of 

 " wampum," formed of white and black beads, worked 

 upon leather thongs, and the whole made into a belt, 

 twenty-eight inches in length by five and a half inches 

 in breadth. The ground is of white beads, and the 

 pattern consists of three diagonal stripes of black beads, 

 and, in the centre, Penn is represented taking the hand 

 of the Indian Sachem, the former being the larger 

 figure of the two."* 



The native money of New Britain consists of small 

 cowrie-shells strung on strips of cane — called in Duke 

 of York Island, Dewarra — measured in lengths. The 

 first length being from hand to hand across the chest, 

 with the arms extended ; the second length from centre 

 of breast to the hand, one arm extended ; the third 

 from the shoulder to the tip of the fingers along the 

 arm ; fourth, from the elbow to the tip of the fingers > 

 fifth, from the wrist to the tip of the fingers ; and sixth, 

 finger lengths. Fish are generally bought by their 

 length in Dewarra, unless they are too small. A large 

 pig will cost from thirty to forty lengths of the first 

 measure, and a small one, ten. The measurement of 

 the shell-money is the same in New Britain as in 

 Duke of York Island, though called by another name, 

 Taboo.f 



The deep valves of Pecten maximus are used by 



* < Flint Chips,' by Edward T. Stevens, pp. 460—462. 

 f * Wanderings in a Wild Country,' by Wilfrid Powell. 



