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Others south of Genoa village. Fig. 154 is a young turtle shelly 

 neatly perforated^ which came from one of the earliest Mohawk 

 villages, the one in Ephratah. 



Fig. 23 and 24 came from a cache of chipped shells otherwise un- 

 worked^ found in Lindley, Steuben co. All were pieces of marine 

 bivalves and of about the same size. They may have been intended 

 for either pendants or disk beads. This is the only cache of the 

 kind reported. Fig. 140 is of a neatly cut shell from Brewerton, 

 designed for some unfinished ornament. Fig. 264 is a pendant 

 from the town of Venice, somewhat cordate in form. Fig. 142 may 

 be an unfinished pendant, now unperforated. It is from Honeoye 

 Falls. 



Rings. Bronze rings were so abundant that few were made of 

 shell. Fig. 144 shows a fine signet ring from Cayuga, and fig. 51 

 and 52 smaller and plainer ones from Ulster county. 



Masks. Masks were usually of stone or bone, but Mr Tooker 

 has a small shell mask from Sag Harbor. Fig. 139 is from one 

 given by Schoolcraft, and found at the Onondaga fort of 1696. 

 Fig. 126 is larger, and is in the Dann collection. It is of about the 

 age of the last. 



Pins. W. H. Holmes, on page 213 of Art in shell, speaks of 

 the pins fashioned from the columellae of large seashells as requir- 

 ing much labor and skill. In his experience three fourths of these 

 were made from the Busycon perversum, and Tennessee 

 was the great storehouse for these and other ancient articles of 

 shell. These pins are quite rare in New York, and those thus far 

 found are of the latter part of the 17th century. Two are here fig- 

 ured which came from a recent village west of Honeoye Falls, sup- 

 posed to have been occupied by the Senecas about the time of 

 De Nonville's invasion in 1687. It affords abundant European 

 articles, council wampum, bone combs and shell ornaments. These 

 pins are shown in fig. 78a and 79. In examining them the writer 

 did not identify the shell or part of the shell used in the second pin, 

 as it was so much worked as to obliterate any striking features. 

 The first is of Busycon. Nothing of the kind has been reported 

 from any earlier sit^; and these may be the trophies of some Seneca 



