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man is marked with a white heart, and the Indian with a dark one. 

 When the treaty had been concluded, and the Indians came out 

 of the council house with Penn, they presented him with a return 

 belt as evidence of their good faith." The usual idea is that the 

 treaty was under a tree. The house is imaginary, but the general 

 character is much like that of the noted Penn belt; strictly the style 

 of a later day. Thanks are due Mr Roddy for photographs of all 

 these fine belts, which are of great value, though of uncertain age. 



William C. Bryant, of Buffalo, writes of two belts in his posses- 

 sion : " The large belt was read in the last great Canadian council 

 at the Grand River, in the 70's, being a treaty belt representing an 

 Iroquois and a white man clasping hands from opposite sides of the 

 belt. The second and smaller belt, consisting entirely of dark 

 beads, was the credentials of a runner sent to convene a war coun- 

 cil. I believe both belts were ante-revolutionary. I have a volume 

 containing the proceedings of the above mentioned council, and the 

 reading of the belts." 



W. L. Hildburgh, in a recent letter to the writer, said: *' While 

 in Rome I heard of what may be a large wampum belt in the mu- 

 seum of the College of the Propaganda Dei Fides. My informant 

 spoke French to me, and was not versed in American archaeology, 

 so that I may be mistaken." On farther inquiry it did not ap- 

 pear. 



Mr Hildburgh made small photographs of four belts in the mu- 

 seum of the Trocadero, Paris. One was lettered. Fig. 2^2 repre- 

 sents another of eight rows, about 224 beads long, with purple 

 swastikas on a white ground. Fig. 273 was called a scapular, but 

 it may have been merely an exceptional form of belt. The general 

 pattern is of hollow squares and crosses. In the widest part it has 

 13 rows, and is about 260 beads long. Fig. 274 is 17 rows wide, 

 and about 225 beads long. There are Indians with bows in white 

 on a purple ground, unusually arranged. 



He has also added another too late for illustration. He describes 

 it as a Huron wampum belt in the Imperial museum of natural his- 

 tory, Vienna, Austria. It is a white belt, with five double diagonal 

 black bars, thus suggesting the Five Nations rather than the 



