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WAMPUM AND SHELL ARTICLES 369 
pum pipes are common on recent Iroquois sites, the shorter and 
thicker beads are often angular, but disks and spheres are by no 
meansrare. Out of a large number of the thicker and shorter beads 
some characteristic forms are shown. | 
Fig. 196, 198 and 214 from Pompey present several much reduced, 
which are in the Bigelow collection. Fig. 106 is of actual size, 
as are those which follow. The angles are rounded, and in sec- 
tion it follows the curve of the shell. This is from Indian hill, 
Pompey, occupied from 1650 to 1681. Beads of this class range 
from small to large sizes, and vary much in form. Fig. 84 is a 
long, flat bead, of moderate thickness, found on the Dann farm 
near Honeoye Falls. Fig. 130 is from the same site, and is tri- 
angular in section. Massive beads have been abundant there. Fig. 
136 is somewhat spheric, and is from the same site. Fig. 109 is 
a large bead from Scipioville, where similar forms are frequent. 
Fig. 112 is from a recent grave at the East Cayuga site. Fig. 114a 
comes from Venice in the same county. This somewhat cordate 
form is frequent there. Fig. 151 is larger, but resembles the last. 
Fig. 141 differs slightly from these, and is from the same town. 
Fig. 107 is a longer form from Pompey. Fig. 113 is another of 
these large heads, most of which are flattened. Fig. 129 is a large 
angular bead, also from Pompey. Fig. 137 is similar and smaller. 
Fig. 152 shows another bead from the same town, almost cylindric. 
Fig. 150 comes from Baldwinsville, and resembles the last except 
in being triangular in section. To these many might be added. 
Sometimes there is a double perforation part way, and in one case 
a fossil shell has been used. Large shell beads are more common 
from Madison county to the Genesee river than farther east, and 
can only be expected on town sites or in graves. Almost all are 
recent. Fig. 204 is a globular bead from Pompey, and fig. 213 a 
short cylindric bead from the same town. Both are reduced. 
Long beads 
The name of wampum pipes seems to have been applied to long 
cylindric beads about the size of common pipestems, and which re- 
semble them when weathered. Fig. 193, 194 and 207 show strings 
