﻿METALLIC 
  ORNAMENTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  INDIANS 
  JI 
  

  

  extended, 
  as 
  if 
  welcoming 
  these 
  persons 
  to 
  a 
  new 
  and 
  happy 
  habita- 
  

   tion. 
  This 
  side 
  is 
  surrounded 
  by 
  the 
  following 
  inscription: 
  VND 
  

   DV 
  SOLLT 
  EIN 
  SEEGEN 
  SEYN, 
  i 
  b, 
  Mos., 
  XIL, 
  V. 
  2, 
  and 
  

   across 
  the 
  bottom 
  as 
  follows: 
  GOTT 
  GIBT 
  SIEWIEDER. 
  Clark, 
  

   2:274 
  

  

  This 
  is 
  a 
  great 
  amount 
  of 
  detail 
  for 
  one 
  medal. 
  The 
  quotations 
  

   are 
  from 
  the 
  German 
  Bible, 
  and 
  relate 
  to 
  Abraham's 
  migration. 
  

   Clark 
  questioned 
  whether 
  the 
  medal 
  might 
  not 
  be 
  a 
  relic 
  of 
  the 
  

   Zeisberger 
  mission 
  of 
  1750, 
  but 
  the 
  site 
  where 
  it 
  was 
  found 
  had 
  then 
  

   been 
  long 
  abandoned, 
  and 
  it 
  suggests 
  the 
  encouragement 
  of 
  emigra- 
  

   tion 
  from 
  the 
  fatherland. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  referred 
  to 
  the 
  end 
  of 
  the 
  17th 
  

   century. 
  

  

  Mr 
  Clark 
  gives 
  figures 
  and 
  descriptions 
  of 
  several 
  small 
  medals, 
  

   but 
  those 
  which 
  follow 
  are 
  mostly 
  those 
  examined 
  by 
  the 
  writer, 
  and 
  

   are 
  but 
  a 
  sample 
  of 
  those 
  abundant 
  during 
  the 
  Jesuit 
  missionary 
  

   period. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  296 
  shows 
  one 
  which 
  differs 
  from 
  the 
  rest 
  in 
  having 
  a 
  German 
  

   inscription, 
  and 
  its 
  age 
  may 
  be 
  uncertain. 
  It 
  was 
  found 
  on 
  an 
  

   Indian 
  camping 
  site 
  near 
  Baldwinsville 
  in 
  1880, 
  and 
  is 
  of 
  brass, 
  

   elliptic 
  and 
  thin. 
  On 
  one 
  side 
  is 
  a 
  border 
  of 
  15 
  stars, 
  inclosing 
  a 
  

   cross 
  placed 
  above 
  the 
  letter 
  M. 
  Below 
  is 
  a 
  flaming 
  heart, 
  with 
  

   another 
  pierced 
  by 
  a 
  sword. 
  On 
  the 
  obverse 
  is 
  the 
  Virgin 
  Mary, 
  

   with 
  a 
  halo 
  around 
  the 
  head 
  and 
  drooping 
  palm 
  branches 
  in 
  each 
  

   hand. 
  She 
  seems 
  to 
  be 
  treading 
  on 
  a 
  serpent, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  corroded 
  

   and 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  date. 
  The 
  German 
  inscription 
  follows 
  the 
  border 
  in 
  

   a 
  double 
  line. 
  It 
  is 
  now 
  indistinct 
  and 
  the 
  writer 
  made 
  it 
  out 
  as 
  

   follows: 
  GEHEPAGEN 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  NDE 
  EMPFANGEN. 
  RITT. 
  

   FUR. 
  UNS. 
  The 
  inner 
  line 
  is 
  D: 
  W: 
  ZU: 
  D: 
  UNSRE: 
  ZU: 
  

   FURCHT. 
  NEEPMEN. 
  As 
  some 
  letters 
  are 
  doubtful 
  Mr 
  Stewart 
  

   Culin 
  suggested 
  that 
  the 
  opening 
  words 
  might 
  be 
  Gehe 
  fagen, 
  and 
  

   the 
  last 
  but 
  one 
  Flucht. 
  The 
  medal 
  has 
  disappeared, 
  and 
  the 
  inscrip- 
  

   tion 
  remains 
  in 
  doubt. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  recent, 
  as 
  the 
  writer 
  has 
  exam- 
  

   ined 
  a 
  smaller 
  silver 
  one 
  of 
  1830, 
  found 
  at 
  Mobile 
  in 
  1868, 
  closely 
  

   resembling 
  this. 
  It 
  has 
  but 
  12 
  stars, 
  and 
  the 
  double 
  inscription 
  is 
  

  

  in 
  English: 
  

  

  " 
  O 
  Mary, 
  conceived 
  without 
  sin, 
  

  

  Pray 
  for 
  us 
  who 
  have 
  recourse 
  to 
  you." 
  

  

  