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After the death of Mr Hill in 1895 most of his beads were delivered 



to the Onondaga and Oneida chiefs. His personal name was Ga- 



haeh-da-seah. Whirlwind, but his chief name was Ga-no-gwen-u-ton, 



Setting up ears of corn in a row. It appears on the treaty of 1666. 



Of course other things might be used for invitations, as we have 



already seen. In his Archaeological report for 1890-91, p. 24, David 



Boyle describes some invitation quills which he had illustrated. 



iThey were for various occasions, and he quotes one use from the 



Rev. Peter Jones, among th'S Ojibwas. 



A young man is generally sent as a messenger to invite the 

 guests, who carries with him a | bunch of colored quills or sticks 

 about 4 inches long. On entering a wigwam he shouts out Kewee- 

 koinego, that is, " You are bidden to a feast." He then distributes 

 the quills to such as are invited. These answer to white people's 

 invitation cards. . . They are of three colors, red, green 

 and white; the red for the aged, or those of the wahbuhnoo order; 

 the green for the media order, and the white for the common people. 

 —Jones, p. 94-95 



Thd writer has some mourning wampum, given him as a me- 

 morial of Abram Hill by his wife^ and a similar keepsake from her- 

 self shortly before her death. Fig. 36 is the former. One mourn- 

 ing string, in another case, was attached to a large silver ring, fig. 

 33, and belongs to Albert Cusick, the ring being his mother's. Such 

 tokens do not seem common. Some of these figures are reduced. 



Fig. 34 has three strings of purple beads, each string terminating 

 with white beads. Fig. 58 is a similar bunch. This was sometimes 

 Used in instructing a new chief. Fig. 39 and 40 are of fine purple 

 and white beads, and might be used for any council purpose, of 

 even for ornament. Fig. 42 is of much interest^ though less showy. 

 Out of thousands of old wampum beads of this class^ these were 

 all the writer could procure showing the aboriginal boring. This 

 is much larger than usual, and wider at the ends than in the center, 

 yet they may have been bored with steel awls. They are all white, 

 and most of them are decidedly angular. In length they mostly 

 exceed the common belt wampum. These are from Cayuga, and 

 were associated with those having a smaller perforation, but which 

 have an antique character. _ . . 



