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and the feet protracted into long notched ridges along the stem, 

 while the spine and upper arm were dotted. The face looked some- 

 thing like the modern Seneca ceremonial wooden masks or 

 " ga-go-sa," so much that the Indians considered the pipe a repre- 

 sentation of a masker blowing ashes between his fingers as do the 

 '' False-face Society " men of today. A quantity of charred 

 material, perhaps Indian tobacco, was found in the pipe (see 

 figure 23). 



Fig. 37 Serpent efligy pipe from Silverheels site. 

 Natural Sciences collection, x about'^- 



Buffalo Society of 



Taking up the articles of European origin collected on this site, 

 we find beads of very common occurrence. These are of four sorts : 

 small round white and blue glass beads cjuite similar to those used 

 by the Indians today, larger multicolored spherical beads and long 

 cylindrical ones, generally a dull red and a close imitation of the 

 original catlinite article, but sometimes blue. Sometimes it was 

 possible to trace in the sand small parts of beadwork designs, which, 

 were usually in curved lines. 



There were also small beads that had some appearance — verdi- 

 gris and the like — of being made of copper. Upon closer exami- 

 nation they appeared to be of glass, in the manufacture of which 

 some salt of copper had been used as a pigment. They preserved, 

 however, the sinew or fiber cord on which they had been strung and 

 any organic substance with which they came in contact. 



A number of pieces of sheet brass were procured in different 

 graves, some of which at least had served a definite purpose, per- 

 haps as ornaments. In pit 67 were found several pieces, probably 

 parts of a large sheet, one of which was triangular, notched along 



