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Similar belts were much used in Pennsylvania at this time. In 
the Memorials of the Moravian church it is said that on the occasion 
of a treaty at Philadelphia in 1757, about 12,000 new wampum beads 
were brought there, “upon which the Indian women were em- 
ployed to make a belt of a fathom long and 16 beads wide, in the 
center of which was to be the figure of a man, meaning the gover- 
nor of Pennsylvania, and five figures to his right and five to his leit, 
meaning the Io nations mentioned by Teedyuscung.” That chief 
sent several belts to the Indians the next year. A large one had 
five strings or lines across it of white wampum. A white belt had 
black strings across and was otherwise set with black beads. An- 
other of white wampum had black beads set across. These seem 
the earliest of these transverse lines, unless the antiquity of the Penn 
belt is allowed. This figure soon became common. At a council 
in Easton (Pa.) in 1761, there were many belts with stripes, bars 
and diamonds, and the width of each belt is given. Some stripes 
and bars were sloping. At a council in Philadelphia in 1758, a 
Seneca chief gave “a Belt, on one side of which are three figures 
of Men in Black Wampum, representing the Shawnees, Delawares, 
and Mingos, living on the Ohio. On the other Side Four figures 
representing the United Councils of the Six Nations in their own 
Country.” At Easton, that year, Gov. Denny gave a large belt 
with a man at each end, and a string of black showing the road 
from Ohio to Philadelphia. In 1760 a belt of nine rows and two 
. feet long, showed a road passing through 12 towns. Diamonds 
did not always represent villages or nations. In 1762 a belt of 
seven rows had two diamonds to show the councilors and warriors 
united in council. At Lancaster, that year, the Six Nations gave 
“a Belt of nine Rows, representing the figures of two Men in the 
middle, with a Heart between them, & Six Diamonds on each side; 
one of the men represents the Indians, the other the English.”— 
Penn. Minutes, 8:747 
A few belts of this kind came from Canada. At a council in 
1756, the Onondaga speaker described some French belts received 
in his town, speaking in his proper place. ‘“ Then the said speaker 
moved his seat and placed himself among the Oneida Chiefs and 
