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County, and which is broken, has a lateral perforation, a frequent 

 feature for a secondary use of ornamental stones, allowing them to 

 be suspended as decorations. The edges are also notched, a fre- 

 quent feature of amulets, perhaps as a record. The remaining part 

 of this is three inches long. One from the Onondaga Reservation 

 was worn as a decoration by an Indian girl, being suspended by a 

 string passed through the secondary lateral perforation. This 

 amulet is of green slate, and has been broken, having lost the bill 

 or nose. It is still four and one fourth inches long by one and seven 

 eighths high. 



A fine one from the Oswego River, of green striped slate, is of 

 unusual form. The ears are elliptic, slightly raised but not stemmed, 

 and there is a shallow groove in each. It is three and one 

 fourth long by one and one fourth inches high. Another, of the 

 same slate, was found south of the Seneca River, and has projecting 

 ears. This is four and one half long by one and one half inches 

 high. Still another, of this material, is from St. Lawrence County, 

 and is one and three fourths inches high by three and one fourth 

 long. It is quite high for its length, and the tail is upright, which is 

 not a rare feature. One of light green slate, from the Seneca River, 

 is quite thin, and had small projecting ears, one of which has dis- 

 appeared. The tail is low, and the amulet is five inches long by 

 one and three fourths high. Many broken amulets might be de- 

 scribed, and some have interesting peculiarities. One of grey slate, 

 from Cayuga County, has a lateral perforation and an unusually 

 long neck. A water worn one, from the beach of Cayuga Lake, 

 has a rounded tail, and a groove across the base. 



It will be seen that the bar amulets are few in comparison with 

 the others, but they were apparently all used in the same way. All 

 have the terminal basal perforations, and usually they are slightly 

 raised in the center and at the ends. Fig. 147 represents the typical 

 form. This is of dark green striped slate, and was found on the 

 Seneca River. This is five and seven eighths inches long and three 

 fourths of an inch wide and high. It is slightly elevated and thick- 

 ened at the center and ends. Of course there is nothing specially 



