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pum pipes are common on recent Iroquois sites, the shorter and 

 thicker beads are often angular, but disks and spheres are by no 

 means rare. Out of a large number of the thicker and shorter beads 

 some characteristic forms are shown. 



Fig. 196, 198 and 214 from Pompey present several much reduced, 

 which are in the Bigelow collection. Fig. 106 is of actual size, 

 as are those which follow. The angles are rounded, and in sec- 

 tion it follows the curve of the shell. This is from Indian hill, 

 Pompey, occupied from 1650 to 1681. Beads of this class range 

 from small ta large sizes, and vary much in form. Fig. 84 is a 

 long, flat bead, of moderate thickness, found on the Dann farm 

 near Honeoye Falls. Fig. 130 is from the same site, and is tri- 

 angular in section. Massive beads have been abundant there. Fig. 

 136 is somewhat spheric, and is from the same site. Fig. 109 is 

 a large bead from Scipioville, where similar forms are frequent. 

 Fig. 1 12 is from a recent grave at the East Cayuga site. Fig. 1 14a 

 comes from Venice in the same county. This somewhat cordate 

 form is frequent there. Fig. 151 is larger, but resembles the last. 

 Fig. 141 differs slightly from these, and is from the same town. 

 Fig. 107 is a longer form from Pompey. Fig. 113 is another of 

 these large heads, most of which are flattened. Fig. 129 is a large 

 angular bead, also from Pompey. Fig. 137 is similar and smaller. 

 Fig. 152 shows another bead from the same town, almost cylindric. 

 Fig. 1^0 comes from Baldwinsville, and resembles the last except 

 in being triangular in section. To these many might be added. 

 Sometimes there is a double perforation part way, and in one case 

 a fossil shell has been used. Large shell beads are more common 

 from Madison county to the Genesee river than farther east, and 

 can only be expected on town sites or in graves. Almost all are 

 recent. Fig. 204 is a globular bead from Pompey, and fig. 213 a 

 short cylindric bead from the same town. Both are reduced. 



long beads 



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The name of wampum pipes seems to have been applied to long 



cylindric beads about the size of common pipestems, and which re- 

 semble them when weathered. Fig. 193, 194 and 207 show strings 



