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sachem." The Senecas were called Ho-nan-ne-ho-ont, the door- 

 keeper. Horatio Hale gives a list of 52 principal chiefs, the last 

 of the eight Senecas being Teyoninhokawarenh in Mohawk. The 

 Onondagas call him Ta-ho-ne-ho-gah-wen. In every form it means 

 the same. In the condolence song^ however, it is said of him and 

 another, /' these two guarded the doorway/' and their business was 

 to transmit messages from without, not to originate them. The 

 national or federal council did that. 



Fig. 230 is called a condolence belt, at first with the name of 

 Red Jacket, but Mrs Converse afterward found it was a Cornplanter 

 belt. It is of purple beads, seven rows deep, but has lost some beads 

 from the central part. The beaded portion is about 328 beads, or 

 36.25 inches long, being defective at one end. The full width is 

 not 2 inches. The outside thongs are of double and twisted buck- 

 skin; the inner, narrow and single. The five equidistant vacant 

 spaces may have had white diamonds. This was a private belt, not 

 related to those of the confederacy, and not in the wampum keeper's 

 care. Fig. 32a represents part of another belonging to Rev. W. M. 

 Beauchamp, and obtained from an Indian woman. It is of nine 

 rows, having three white rows on each side and one in the middle. 

 A dark row of thinner beads is on each side of the last. It has 

 been cut off at both ends, but the rows are now 65 beads long, 

 with a full width of 3 inches. The beads are strung with a double 

 thread of hemp on single buckskin thongs. The lines would indi- 

 cate part of an alliance belt. 



Fig. 243 is of a mutilated belt, nearly 2 inches wide and now 

 16.63 inches long. It is seven beads deep and 135 long, made on fine 

 buckskin thongs, the outer ones double and the inner single. 

 Three open white diamonds appear on a purple ground. These 

 represent nations, and two more would make it a Five Nations belt, 

 with a length of about 2 feet. The writer afterward saw and figured 

 the remainder of this belt, and found his conjectures verified. The 

 piece cut off is 59 beads long, has the two diamonds, and makes 

 the complete belt exactly 2 feet long. It is a good specimen of 

 this class, and the division took place for the convenience of a 

 friend of the writer. Mrs Converse's note follows: 



