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 missionary at 

 Onondaga who sought to summon the French army from Canada. It is an 

 admonition against the French religion. 



4 Caughmauwaugua belt. Records an alliance between the Caughmau- 

 wauga 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 Blacksnake. 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 became a 

 Seneca belt and was taken to Canada after the Revolutionary War. 



