﻿FIFTH 
  REPORT 
  OF 
  THE 
  DIRECTOR 
  I908 
  65 
  

  

  tion 
  " 
  Wrong 
  not 
  the 
  whose 
  joy 
  thou 
  art," 
  the 
  blank 
  for 
  the 
  

  

  word 
  heart 
  being 
  supposed 
  to 
  be 
  supphed 
  by 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  the 
  

   brooch 
  itself. 
  

  

  There 
  are 
  no 
  sets 
  of 
  tools, 
  dies 
  or 
  punches 
  for 
  making 
  brooches, 
  

   in 
  the 
  museum. 
  I 
  never 
  saw 
  or 
  heard 
  of 
  any 
  such. 
  

  

  Yours 
  very 
  truly 
  

  

  [Signed] 
  Joseph 
  Anderson 
  

  

  These 
  letters 
  and 
  documents 
  speak 
  for 
  themselves 
  and 
  leave 
  us 
  

   to 
  infer 
  either 
  one 
  of 
  two 
  things: 
  First, 
  The 
  Indians 
  furnished 
  

   the 
  idea 
  for 
  the 
  brooches 
  which 
  were 
  adopted 
  by 
  Europeans, 
  the 
  

   Scotch 
  in 
  particular, 
  and 
  the 
  brooches 
  were 
  made 
  in 
  quantities 
  

   in 
  Scotland 
  afterward 
  and 
  sent 
  to 
  America 
  to 
  be 
  traded 
  to 
  the 
  

   Indians 
  ; 
  or, 
  second, 
  the 
  Scotch, 
  or 
  other 
  Europeans, 
  carried 
  them 
  

   to 
  America 
  where 
  they 
  caught 
  the 
  fancy 
  of 
  the 
  Indians 
  who 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  them 
  as 
  gifts 
  or 
  in 
  trade, 
  and 
  later 
  manufactured 
  them 
  

   themselves. 
  The 
  second 
  hypothesis 
  seems 
  more 
  probable 
  in 
  the 
  

   light 
  of 
  the 
  evidence. 
  There 
  are 
  few 
  brooch 
  patterns 
  in 
  the 
  pos- 
  

   session 
  of 
  collectors 
  or 
  museums. 
  In 
  every 
  case 
  within 
  the 
  writer's 
  

   knowledge 
  the 
  majority 
  of 
  the 
  patterns 
  were 
  lost 
  or 
  not 
  accessible. 
  

   An 
  examination 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  patterns 
  indicates 
  their 
  manufacture 
  

   by 
  die 
  cutting, 
  the 
  dies 
  being 
  true 
  edged 
  and 
  geometrically 
  perfect. 
  

   The 
  patterns 
  ^vllich 
  we 
  are 
  describing 
  were 
  not 
  made 
  with 
  chisels 
  

   used 
  singh^ 
  in 
  cutting 
  out 
  the 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  design, 
  or 
  if 
  so 
  the 
  

   tools 
  were 
  of 
  a 
  character 
  which 
  might 
  be 
  expected 
  to 
  be 
  found 
  

   in 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  a 
  skilled 
  jeweler. 
  Through 
  information 
  given 
  

   by 
  the 
  Director 
  of 
  this 
  museum, 
  the 
  Archeologist 
  has 
  found 
  that 
  a 
  

   set 
  of 
  die 
  stamps 
  had 
  been 
  in 
  the 
  possession 
  of 
  an 
  Albany 
  jeweler 
  

   whose 
  forebears 
  also 
  were 
  jewelers 
  and 
  who 
  sold 
  many 
  sets 
  of 
  pat- 
  

   terns 
  to 
  the 
  Indians 
  in 
  times 
  past. 
  A 
  fuller 
  description 
  of 
  these 
  dies 
  

   with 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  silversmithing 
  art 
  found 
  in 
  a 
  paper 
  

   by 
  the 
  Archeologist, 
  Sik'crzuork 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois} 
  

  

  Seneca 
  burden 
  strap 
  in 
  process. 
  During 
  the 
  autumn 
  of 
  1903 
  

   when 
  the 
  Archeologist 
  was 
  engaged 
  in 
  archeological 
  field 
  work 
  on 
  

   the 
  Cattaraugus 
  Reservation, 
  an 
  old 
  Indian 
  informed 
  him 
  that 
  

   he 
  had 
  a 
  relic 
  of 
  interest 
  which 
  he 
  had 
  found 
  in 
  an 
  old 
  chest 
  

   and 
  which 
  hi 
  wished 
  to 
  sell. 
  The 
  '"relic" 
  turned 
  out 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  

   burden 
  strap, 
  gus'-ha, 
  in 
  an 
  incomplete 
  condition. 
  The 
  hemp 
  

   card, 
  the 
  elm 
  bark 
  warp 
  fiber 
  and 
  bundles 
  of 
  moose 
  hair 
  of 
  

   various 
  colors, 
  were 
  packed 
  in 
  the 
  box 
  with 
  the 
  " 
  strap 
  " 
  and 
  the 
  

   entire 
  process 
  and 
  materials 
  of 
  the 
  weaving 
  were 
  made 
  apparent. 
  

   The 
  peculiar 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  process 
  is 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  belt 
  is 
  com- 
  

  

  1 
  Manuscript 
  prepared 
  for 
  publication 
  in 
  a 
  museum 
  bulletin 
  on 
  Iroquois 
  

   Ethnology. 
  

  

  