﻿METALLIC 
  ORNAMENTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  INDIANS 
  13. 
  

  

  Gosnold 
  met 
  with 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  Massachusetts 
  coast 
  in 
  1602, 
  and 
  one 
  

   of 
  his 
  associates 
  has 
  left 
  us 
  quite 
  am 
  account. 
  Brereton 
  said 
  that 
  

   the 
  Indians 
  " 
  have 
  also 
  great 
  store 
  of 
  copper, 
  some 
  very 
  red, 
  and 
  

   some 
  of 
  a 
  pale 
  color 
  : 
  none 
  of 
  them 
  but 
  have 
  chains, 
  earrings 
  or 
  

   collars 
  of 
  this 
  metal; 
  they 
  head 
  some 
  of 
  their 
  arrows 
  herewith, 
  

   much 
  like 
  our 
  broad 
  arrowheads, 
  very 
  workmanly 
  done. 
  Their 
  

   chains 
  are 
  many 
  hollow 
  pieces 
  connected 
  together, 
  each 
  piece 
  of 
  

   the 
  bigness 
  of 
  one 
  of 
  our 
  reeds, 
  a 
  finger 
  in 
  length, 
  ten 
  or 
  twelve 
  

   of 
  them 
  together 
  on 
  a 
  string, 
  which 
  they 
  wear 
  about 
  their 
  necks 
  ; 
  

   their 
  collars 
  they 
  wear 
  about 
  their 
  bodies 
  like 
  bandeliers 
  a 
  handful 
  

   broad, 
  all 
  hollow 
  pieces 
  like 
  the 
  other, 
  but 
  somewhat 
  shorter, 
  four 
  

   hundred 
  pieces 
  in 
  a 
  collar, 
  very 
  fine 
  and 
  even 
  set 
  together. 
  Besides 
  

   these 
  they 
  have 
  large 
  drinking 
  cups 
  made 
  like 
  skulls, 
  and 
  other 
  thin 
  

   blades 
  of 
  copper 
  very 
  much 
  like 
  bur 
  boar 
  spear 
  blades." 
  Brereton 
  y 
  

   ser. 
  3, 
  8:91 
  

  

  Another 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  company 
  tells 
  of 
  " 
  tobacco 
  pipes 
  steeled 
  with 
  

   copper," 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  savage 
  who* 
  had 
  " 
  hanging 
  about 
  his 
  neck 
  a 
  plate 
  

   of 
  rich 
  copper, 
  in 
  length 
  a 
  foot, 
  in 
  breadth 
  half 
  a 
  foot 
  for 
  a 
  breast- 
  

   plate, 
  the 
  ears 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  rest 
  had 
  pendants 
  of 
  copper." 
  

  

  It 
  can 
  hardly 
  be 
  doubted 
  that 
  this 
  was 
  European 
  metal, 
  the 
  pale 
  

   copper 
  approaching 
  brass 
  or 
  bronze, 
  though 
  Brereton 
  understood 
  

   from 
  the 
  signs 
  of 
  an 
  Indian 
  that 
  they 
  dug* 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  mainland. 
  

   The 
  same 
  kind 
  of 
  arrowhead 
  is 
  yet 
  found 
  on 
  recent 
  Iroquois 
  sites. 
  

   The 
  hollow 
  cylinders 
  of 
  metal 
  had 
  reached 
  the 
  Mohawk 
  valley 
  cer- 
  

   tainly 
  as 
  early 
  as 
  1600. 
  The 
  belts 
  with 
  their 
  short 
  tubes 
  still 
  occur- 
  

   in 
  recent 
  Iroquois 
  graves, 
  " 
  very 
  fine 
  and 
  evenly 
  set 
  together." 
  All 
  

   these 
  will 
  be 
  illustrated 
  from 
  various 
  collections, 
  and 
  their 
  identity 
  

   can 
  be 
  shown 
  by 
  comparison 
  with 
  the 
  famous 
  relics 
  at 
  Fall 
  River. 
  

  

  The 
  " 
  tobacco 
  pipes 
  steeled 
  with 
  copper 
  " 
  present 
  the 
  same 
  diffi- 
  

   culty 
  that 
  is 
  met 
  with 
  in 
  those 
  described 
  by 
  Hudson 
  in 
  New 
  York 
  

   bay. 
  If 
  both 
  descriptions 
  are 
  allowed, 
  they 
  must 
  also 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  

   same 
  origin 
  as 
  the 
  arrowheads 
  and 
  tubes. 
  In 
  this 
  connection 
  it 
  

   may 
  be 
  suggested, 
  as 
  is 
  probably 
  true, 
  that 
  Roger 
  Williams's 
  famous 
  

   statement 
  that 
  the 
  Narragansetts 
  " 
  have 
  an 
  excellent 
  Art 
  to 
  cast 
  

   our 
  Pewter 
  and 
  Brasse 
  into 
  very 
  neate 
  and 
  artificiall 
  Pipes," 
  had 
  

   some 
  slight 
  early 
  ground. 
  Brass 
  and 
  pewter 
  pipes 
  occur 
  on 
  Indian« 
  

  

  