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at Onondaga Lake, and others are from the extreme end of Long 

 Island. 



It will be found that those of stone did not essentially differ from 

 the shell gorgets, worn by the Iroquois in colonial days, which usu- 

 ally have ornamental designs and two perforations for suspension. 

 The well known buckle of the silver brooch, still in use, shows that 

 the Indian had a good idea of the advantage of two points of con- 

 tact. With good tools the flat ornaments of shell and stone usu- 

 ally had two longitudinal perforations, insuring the best modes of 

 attachment or suspension. There seems abundant testimony, his- 

 torical and otherwise, that the American stone gorget was an orna- 

 ment, but it is not necessary to produce all this here. 



Fig. 206 has two long parallel sides, and is made from a banded 

 yellowish olive quartzite, which is almost a sandstone. It has three 

 holes, and another has been commenced on one side. One end is 

 gouge-like, and the dimensions are four and five eighths by one and 

 one half inches. It is from the Seneca River. Fig. 207, from Mon- 

 roe County is very different. The base line is one and three quar- 

 ters inches long, and from this the sides rise three and one fourth 

 inches with a concave sweep. The width is then two and three 

 eighths inches, and above this the top lines converge to a point, 

 making the extreme length four and one eighth inches. It is of 

 brown striped slate, and has but one hole. 



Fig. 208 is one of green ribbon stone, or striped slate, much like 

 the last but with the tip broken. It has but one hole, and the extreme 

 length now is four and one eighth inches. This is from the Oswego 

 River. Fig. 209 is a beautiful gorget of green striped slate from 

 Oneida Lake. It has two holes, tapering sides, and expanded and 

 somewhat rounded ends projecting beyond these, rather abruptly 

 leaving the sides. The length is three and five eighths and the 

 breadth two and one eighth inches. 



Fig. 211 is a remarkable gorget of dark olive slate, found in a 

 small mound in Jefferson County, and which could have been used 

 only as a breastplate. It has two small holes, and the sides are 

 generally parallel. Two of them, however, expand near the base, 

 which becomes nearly six and one half inches wide. The general 



