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used as a personal ornament, and there is no game known to which 

 it can be assigned^ unless it might be that of the moccasin, where an 

 article is hid in one of three shoes by one party^ to be found by 

 the other. It seems most reasonable to infer that similar articles 

 may have been used in some game. 



Fig. 232 is unmistakably a complete article, found on the Nellis 

 farm, near Canajoharie. It is a neatly made bird of the hawk 

 family, broad-shouldered and with folded wings. It shows a per- 

 foration by which it might be suspended or worn. A conjectural 

 use would be that of a token or amulet, such as we know were some- 

 times kept by the Iroquois, much like the medicine of other nations. 



Fig. 233 suggests a similar use, though of a different kind. It 

 was found on the Oneida river about the year 1840, and represents 

 a recumbent lamb with a raised head, in terra cotta, although the 

 ears suggest an animal of a very different nature. If the first form 

 be allowed, it might be considered the Agnus Dei of some devout 

 Iroquois convert, but both the identification and use are uncertain. 

 It is quite probable that the Iroquois then knew little of living 

 lambs, while quite familiar with their representations. In any case, 

 this figure had probably some sacred use. 



Fig. 234 is a fragment of what was apparently a large and pretty 

 disk, ornamented both on the edges and sides in sweeping lines. 

 It is of a light mud color, and was found at Erewerton. So little is 

 left of it that its true form and use can not now be determined, but 

 no secondary work appears on it. 



Fig. 235 is a head from a recent Cayuga site near Mapleton, and 

 the projection over the eyes, as well as the general character of the 

 head dress, gives the impression of a helmet of steel. Caps of 

 similar kinds are more common among the Cayugas and Senecas 

 than farther east, as they longer maintained their primitive arts. 

 The cock's and boar's head are among other examples of their 

 terra cotta work. 



Fig. 236, a, b, c, d, e, f, show Cayuga clay beads and pendants; 

 a being a thick disk bead^ d an oblong one, and e, f, two which are 

 spherical. Two clay pendants appear in h, c. These are nowhere 

 common. 



