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man is marked with a white heart, and the Indian with a dark one. 
When the treaty had been concluded, and the Indians came out 
of the council house with Penn, they presented him with a return 
belt as evidence of their good faith.” The usual idea is that the 
treaty was under a tree. ‘The house is imaginary, but the general 
character is much like that of the noted Penn belt; strictly the style 
of a later day. Thanks are due Mr Roddy for photographs of all 
these fine belts, which are of great value, though of uncertain age. 
William C. Bryant, of Buffalo, writes of two belts in his posses- 
sion: “ The large belt was read in the last great Canadian council 
at the Grand River, in the 70’s, being a treaty belt representing an 
Iroquois and a white man clasping hands from opposite sides of the 
belt. The second and smaller belt, consisting entirely of dark 
beads, was the credentials of a runner sent to convene a war coun- 
cil. I believe both belts were ante-revolutionary. J have a volume 
containing the proceedings of the above mentioned council, and the 
reading of the belts.” 
W. L. Hildburgh, in a recent letter to the writer, said: “ While 
in Rome I heard of what may be a large wampum belt in the mu- 
seum of the College of the Propaganda Dei Fides. My informant 
spoke French to me, and was not versed in American archaeology, 
so that J may be mistaken.” On farther inquiry it did not ap- 
pear. 
Mr Hildburgh made small photographs of four belts in the mu- 
seum of the Trocadero, Paris. One was lettered. Fig. 272 repre- 
sents another of eight rows, about 224 beads long, with purple 
swastikas on a white ground. Fig. 273 was called a scapular, but 
it may have been merely an exceptional form of belt. The general 
pattern is of hollow squares and crosses. In the widest part it has 
13 rows, and is about 260 beads long. Fig. 274 is 17 rows wide, 
and about 225 beads long. ‘There are Indians with bows in white 
on a purple ground, unusually arranged. 
He has also added another too late for illustration. He describes 
it as a Huron wampum belt in the Imperial museum of natural his- 
tory, Vienna, Austria. It is a white belt, with five double diagonal 
black bars, thus suggesting the Five Nations rather than the 
