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soon as possible another shall be put in his place. This we say, we 
three brothers. 
Fig. 228 has some white beads at the end of the strings, as the 
last speech concludes with a call for the new chief. 
7 Now another thing we say, we Younger Brothers. We will 
gird the belt on you with the pouch, and the next death will re- 
ceive the pouch, whenever you shall know that there is death among 
us, when the fire is made and the smoke is rising. This we say and 
do, we three brothers. Now I have finished. Now show me the 
man. 
After attending a condolence himself, the writer persuaded Mr 
Cusick to arrange a full set of bunches like those he had seen used, 
and to give him any needed information. In this and every other 
effort to put on record the customs of his people, his aid was given 
at once. Explanations of the song are omitted here, and the bunch 
to be distributed has been mentioned elsewhere, yet it may be said 
‘ce 
that being “valued at twenty” refers to the wampum atonement 
for life, and the horns to official insignia. 
In Ely S. Parker’s will, dated Aug. 21, 1895, he thus disposed 
of his wampum received at a condolence: “ The wampum in this 
box is the credentials of my sachemship, and is designated by the 
Indians as the ‘Great horns.’ It is the wish of Amanda Poodry 
of the Tonawanda reservation, and the matron of the Seneca Wolf 
tribe, that when I die (if I die in New York city) that this wampum 
be placed upon my coffin until the grave is reached, when it will be 
taken off and handed to Mrs Harriet Maxwell Converse, who will 
take the earliest opportunity to restore it to Mrs Amanda Poodry.” 
On the cover of the box was this: “ Official wampum. Donchogawa. 
Sacred wampum.” 
Joseph Brant wrote of a council with western Indians in 1788: 
“ As they had lost three of their chiefs, we went through our ancient © 
custom of condoling with them, by giving about 10,000 wampum, 
as we could not proceed with our public business till such time as 
that ceremony was over.” This merely expressed sympathy. A 
letter from Cornplanter to Major Craig is more to the point. It 
was dated Dec. 3, 1795, a time when some chiefs had resigned and 
others had been killed. He needed wampum in filling their places, 
and said, “ Now father take Pitty on me & Send me 4o Dollars ° 
