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405 has notches along one edge, and some good tracery. Fig. 410* 

 is much like this, but the fluting and tracery are somewhat different.. 

 The former has the central lines in scallops, but in the latter they 

 cross. Fig. 406 to 409 have no tracery, but are simply fluted. 

 According to the writer's notes, the figures are rather deep for the- 

 size. With the depth of little more than f of an inch, they should 

 be about 2.\ inches across, but this is of no special importance. The 

 form and style are well represented. 



Brass tubes in leather belts 



Brereton's account (1602) of the belts and collars, used by the- 

 New England Indians and made of hollow copper cylinders arranged 

 side by side has already been quoted. That these were of European 

 metal is now almost certain, though he thought them native. The 

 arrows described are like those on recent New York sites. The 

 copper plates, so called, are like others of brass elsewhere. The 

 arrangement of tubes to form an ornamental belt is one familiar in- 

 western New York. The skeleton found at Fall River Mass, had 

 similar articles, one being a brass plate 13 inches long, arrows pre- 

 cisely like those of the Iroquois in the I7th century, and a belt of: 

 brass tubes, each 4^ inches long, which was the width of the belt. 

 These were not arranged on leather, as in New York, but on pieces 

 of sinew, being much longer than our tubes. 



Capt. John G. Bourke described a similar ornament of tubes, ap- 

 parently not arranged as a belt: 



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. Bourke, p. 494 



In a grave in Caldwell county, N. C., were similar articles, but 

 they seem to have been strung as pendants for the ears. There 

 were five copper cylinders, i^ to 4^ inches long, and from a quarter 

 to half an inch in diameter, strung on leather. They were made of 

 thin strips of metal, rolled so that the edges met in a straight joint.. 



