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others south of Genoa village. Fig. 154 is a young turtle shell, 
neatly perforated, which came from one of the earliest Mohawk 
villages, the one in Ephratah. 
Fig. 23 and 24 came from a cache of chipped shells otherwise un- 
wotked, found in Lindley, Steuben co. All were pieces of marine 
bivalves and of about the same size. They may have been intended 
for either pendants or disk beads. This is the only cache of the 
kind reported. Fig. 140 is of a neatly cut shell from Brewerton, 
designed for some unfinished ornament. Fig. 264 is a pendant 
from the town of Venice, somewhat cordate in form. Fig. 142 may 
be an unfinished pendant, now unperforated. It is from Honeoye 
Falls. 
Rings. Bronze rings were so abundant that few were made of 
shell. Fig. 144 shows a fine signet ring from Cayuga, and fig. 51 
and 52 smaller and plainer ones from Ulster county. 
Masks. Masks were usually of stone or bone, but Mr Tooker 
has a small shell mask from Sag® Harbor. Fig. 139 is from one 
given by Schoolcraft, and found at the Onondaga fort of 1696. 
Fig. 126 is larger, and is in the Dann collection. It is of about the 
age of the last. 
Pins. W. H. Holmes, on page 213 of Art im shell, speaks of 
the pins fashioned from the columellae of large seashells as requir- 
ing much labor and skill. In his experience three fourths of these 
Were nade inom the Busycon pérversum, and Tennessee 
was the great storehouse for these and other ancient articles of 
shell. These pins are quite rare in New York, and those thus far 
found are of the latter part of the 17th century. Two are here fig- 
ured which came from a recent village west of Honeoye Falls, sup- 
posed to have been occupied by the Senecas about the time of 
De Nonville’s invasion in 1687. It affords abundant European 
articles, council wampum, bone combs and shell ornaments. These 
pins are shown in fig. 78a and 79. In examining them the writer 
did not identify the shell or part of the shell used in the second pin, 
as it was so much worked as to obliterate any striking features. 
The first is of Busycon. Nothing of the kind has been reported 
from any earlier site; and these may be the trophies of some Seneca 
