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adorned themselves with it on occasions of festivity. 

 In another chapter I have reproduced (P. 156), in 

 illustration of this, his drawing of a Huron belle 

 dressed for a dance. 



That it was carried to great distances is shown 

 by the discovery of tropical shells far to the north, 

 in the interior of America. I have seen the remains 

 of a necklace found in a grave at Brockville, on the 

 St. Lawrence, composed in part of shells of Purpura 

 lapillus from the distant coast of New England, and 

 in part of rude beads of native copper from Lake 



Fig. 28. SHELL AND TERRA GOTTA BEADS, HOCHELAGA. 



Superior. When Cartier left Stadacona with Donna- 

 conna as his prisoner, the people brought twenty-four 

 strings or necklaces of wampum as a ransom for 

 their chief, no doubt thinking that even in the distant 

 country of the stranger so large a quantity of treasure 

 would be a fortune too tempting to be refused. So 

 when a great chief died, treasures of wampum were 

 placed with him to enrich him in the other world ; 

 and even the infant had strings of it twined around 

 its little corpse, to secure a welcome in the happy 

 fields of the west. 



