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ing three holes and the beginnings of two more. Fig. 128 is of 

 rather large size, of a generally elliptic form, and one long edge is 

 nearly straight. On the other edge two holes approach the margin. 

 This and the next are from Venice. Fig. 123 has a pyriform outline 

 and two perforations. It is smaller than the last. Fig. 165 is a fine 

 one from Cayuga, half an inch deep and having one hole. Fig. 163 

 is of an oval form, with two holes at the broad end, and comes from 

 Pompey hill. All Onondaga specimens seem of the 17th century, 

 but some may be later. 



These were not rare on the modern site on the Dann farm, near 

 Honeoye Falls. Fig. 162 is the largest found there, being 3.3 

 inches across. It has two sloping holes, the slope possibly coming 

 from use. These are quite far apart, and there may have been a 

 third where a piece of the shell has been lost. Fig. 164 is from the 

 same place, has two large holes, and is 1.9 inches wide. Fig. 164a 

 also belongs to this site and is 2.15 inches long, being about as 

 irregular as the last, though nearly circular. It has two very small 

 lioles, quite close together. Another from this place is of about the 

 same form and size, but is unperforated. These four are in Mr 

 Dann's collection. Fig. 210 is also unperforated, but is of very 

 neat workmanship, and is in the Bigelow collection. Like all others 

 it was made from the whorl of a large shell, and is somewhat ellip- 

 tic in outline. In the figure it is reduced, being 1.6 inches long. It 

 was found near Baldwinsville. The actual size appears in fig. 167. 



These sufficiently represent the ordinary shell gorgets of New 

 York, all but one reported being plain. There are similar but 

 smaller ornaments of turtle shell. 



It may be added that Joseph Brant's large shell gorget was long 

 preserved in his family, and .that there is an old picture of him with 

 this attached below the throat. It had two holes for this purpose, 

 and was quite hke those used by the Onondagas in recent times. 



Miscellaneous 



From M. R. Harrington, by kind permission of Prof. F. W. Put- 

 nam, has come an account of the aboriginal shell objects in the 

 American museum of natural history, in Central park. New York. 



