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Fig. 239 is of seven rows, and has four pairs of black diamonds on 
a white ground. The diamonds are linked in pairs. Among the 
black beads at one end is a small white cross. Donaldson says of 
this that, having “the Five Nations upon seven strands, it illustrates 
a treaty with seven Canadian tribes before the year 1600.” It is 
probable there should be another pair of diamonds, but this age can 
hardly be allowed, as these tribes came into existence in the 18th 
century. Wampum like this was not known in the interior of New 
York till very much later than his date. In 1886 Webster called it 
a belt of admission to the league. It is a recent belt on buckskin 
thongs. 
Fig. 249 was once a fine belt of 13 rows, but 1s now quite defec- 
tive, having lost much since first seen by the writer. The ground 
is of white beads, with four triple diagonal lines of black. The 
outer lines of these are two beads deep, the inner one being sep- 
arated by white lines of two beads. This is on buckskin thongs. 
Fig. 236 is a belt of 7 rows, with a zigzag pattern at one end 
and a series of small dark crosses. Donaldson says this “‘ embodies 
the pledge of seven Canadian Christianized nations to abandon their 
crooked ways and keep an honest peace.” ‘The interpretation of 
1886 was “St Regis tribe belt, given to mark their submission to 
the power of the Six Nations, with a promise of peace.” The St 
Regis Indians are mostly of Iroquois stock, and about 150 years 
old as a people. This belt has twine thongs, and may have been 
made by white men. Fig. 250 shows what remained of another 
belt in 1878. It was probably a belt of eight rows. These were all 
then remaining out of double the number shown to Mr Clark 30 
years earlier. The missing ones had been consumed in messages, 
offerings and ceremonies. 
H. E. Krehbiel published some articles in the New York tribune, 
July 1897, on the Canadian Iroquois belts shown him by John 
Buck, or Skan-a-wah-ti, in 1892. Nation for nation, and chief for 
chief, the Six Nations of Canada keep up the same organization as 
in New York, and Buck was then wampum keeper. Mr Krehbiel 
said: 
