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FIG. Pagb 



273 Belt called a scapular, an exceptional form of belt; at 



widest part having 13 rows and is about 260 beads 

 long 425 



274 Belt 17 rows wide and about 225 beads long, showing 



Indians in white on purple ground 425 



Plate 26 



^740 " Sir William Johnson dish belt ", nine rows wide, 



having four hexagons 428 



275 Defective white belt of 15 rows with one small open 



diamond and four large 429 



276 " Black Hawk belt " having the frequent double 



'diamonds on a dark ground, and is 10 rows deep . . 429 

 2yy Oneida belt of unique character, and 21 rows wide. . 429 



278 Penobscot marriage belt of unusual character, of dark 



beads edged with white and has velvet strings 430 



279 Penobscot belt said to have belonged to '* Molly 



Molasses " 429 



280 Penobscot marriage belt of dark beads edged with 



white and has elliptic beads on one border 430 



Plate 27 



281 Iroquois chiefs reading belts in Brantford, Canada, 



1871 417 



Plate 28 



282 Reproduction of La Hontan's picture of De la Barrels 



council at La Famine in 1684, from 2d English 

 edition, 1735 388, 440 



