Plate 9 



1 Council summons, calling the clans to a meeting. This belt is 

 said to be a memorial to the clan laws of Hiawatha. By some it is 

 considered an alliance belt sealing a pact between the seven nations of 

 Canada and the Iroquois. 



2 Treaty belt. Originally there were five diagonal bars. 



3 Remembrance belt. Records the treachery of a French mis- 

 sionary at Onondaga who sought to summon the French army from 

 Canada. It is an admonition against the French religion. 



4 Caughnawaugua belt. Records an alliance between the Caugh- 

 nawaugua tribe and the St Regis band. The crooked lines indicate 

 that _ the former had forsaken the old ways for the white man's 

 religion. 



5 Condolence belt of the Senecas once held by Governor Black- 

 snake. It was used in mourning councils in the ceremony of raising 

 the new names and new sachem to office. 



6 Huron alliance belt, said to symbolize the alliance of the Hurons 

 with some other tribe. After the overthrow of the Hurons in 1650 it be- 



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ame a Seneca belt and was taken to Canada after the Revolutionary 



