426 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Hurons. It is lo rows deep, and can easily be figured from the 

 formula of the upper row: i6 white, one black, two white, three 

 black, 20 white, one black, two white, three black, 20 white, one 

 black, two white, three black, 21 white, one black, two white, three 

 black, 21 white, three black, two white, one black, 21 white. In each 

 succeeding row move the black one bead to the right, making the 

 lower row begin with 25 white beads. 



Fig. 255 may be compared with one of these belts. It is taken 

 from a picture of one of the Mohawk chiefs who went to England 

 in 1710, and has two rows of hollow crosses on a purple ground. 

 The extreme length would be about 3 feet, and the width is esti- 

 mated at 20 rows. The crosses may refer to part of their mission. 

 This is from the picture of " Fee-yee-neen-ho-gOy (Tekarihoga) em- 

 peror of the Six Nations." 



In 1895 S. H. Goodwin sent the writer three small belts for ex- 

 amination, which he had from near the Georgian bay, Canada. Fig. 

 254 shows one of these, being an ordinary belt of seven rows, hav- 

 ing five rows of white beads arranged diagonally on the dark 

 ground. The others w^ere of unusual form, an expanding basket 

 shape, broad at the top. Fig. 169 shows one of these 28 rows deep, 

 having five open white diamonds on a dark ground. Fig. 170 is of 

 the same general form, and is 2^ rows deep. It has nine open 

 squares of white beads arranged diagonally. The foundation of 

 both is of twine. 



The writer attended a council at Ohsweken, Canada, in 1899, and 

 secured pictures of the belts there. Fig. 174 is six rows deep, and 

 has II broad vertical bands of black and 10 of white. Fig. 175 is 

 of 12 rows, mostly white. There are three double diagonal bands 

 of black, one and four beads wide. Fig. 176 is seven rows deep, 

 with 10 broad, black, diagonal bands, and the same of white. Fig. 

 177 is of eight rows, mostly white, with five triple diagonal bands, 

 two of one black, and one of three black beads. Fig. 178 is of 

 seven rows of white glass beads, perfectly plain. Fig. 179 has nine 

 rows, crossed by three double diagonal rows of single black beads 

 on a white ground. After John Buck's death most of the fine col- 

 lection of Canadian Iroquois belts quickly disappeared. 



