348 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
After the death of Mr Hill in 1895 most of his beads were delivered 
to the Onondaga and Oneida chiefs. His personal name was Ga- 
haeh-da-seah, Whirlwind, but his chief name was Ga-no-gwen-u-ton, 
Setting up ears of corn in a row. It appears on the treaty of 1666. 
Of course other things might be used for invitations, as we have 
already seen. In his Archaeological report for 1890-91, p. 24, David 
Boyle describes some invitation quills which he had illustrated. 
They were for various occasions, and he quotes one use from the 
Rev. Peter Jones, among the Ojibwas. 
A young man is generally sent as a messenger to invite the 
guests, who carries with him a;bunch of colored quills or sticks 
about 4 inches long. On entering a wigwam he shouts out Kewee- 
komego, that is, ‘“ You are bidden to a feast.” He then distributes 
the quills to such as are invited. These answer to white people’s 
invitation cards. .. .° They are of three “col6rs,. red, 7eneem 
and white; the red for the aged, or those of the wahbuhnoo order; 
the green for the media order, and the white for the common people. 
—Jones, p. 94-95 
The writer has some mourning wampum, given him as a me- 
morial of Abram Hill by his wife, and a similar keepsake from her- 
self shortly before her death. Fig. 36 is the former. One mourn- 
ing string, in another case, was attached to a large silver ring, fig. 
33, and belongs to Albert Cusick, the ring being his mother’s. Such 
tokens do not seem common. Some of these figures are reduced. 
Fig. 34 has three strings of purple beads, each string terminating 
with white beads. Fig. 58 is a similar bunch. This was sometimes 
used in instructing a new chief. Fig. 39 and 40 are of fine purple 
and white beads, and might be used for any council purpose, or 
even for ornament. Fig. 42 is of much interest, though less showy. 
Out of thousands of old wampum beads of this class, these were 
all the writer could procure showing the aboriginal boring. This 
is much larger than usual, and wider at the ends than in the center, 
yet they may have been bored with steel awls. They are all white, 
and most of them are decidedly angular. In length they mostly 
exceed the common belt wampum. These are from Cayuga, and 
were associated with those having a smaller perforation, but which 
have an antique character. 
