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  Council 
  summons, 
  calling 
  the 
  clans 
  to 
  a 
  meeting. 
  This 
  belt 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  

   be 
  a 
  memorial 
  to 
  the 
  clan 
  laws 
  of 
  Hiawatha. 
  By 
  some 
  it 
  is 
  considered 
  an 
  

   alliance 
  belt 
  sealing 
  a 
  pact 
  between 
  the 
  Seven 
  Nations 
  of 
  Canada 
  and 
  the 
  

   Iroquois. 
  

  

  2 
  Treaty 
  belt. 
  Originally 
  there 
  were 
  five 
  diagonal 
  bars. 
  

  

  3 
  Remembrance 
  belt. 
  Records 
  the 
  treachery 
  of 
  a 
  French 
  missionary 
  at 
  

   Onondaga 
  who 
  sought 
  to 
  summon 
  the 
  French 
  army 
  from 
  Canada. 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  

   admonition 
  against 
  the 
  French 
  religion. 
  

  

  4 
  Caughmauwaugua 
  belt. 
  Records 
  an 
  alliance 
  between 
  the 
  Caughmau- 
  

   wauga 
  tribe 
  and 
  the 
  St 
  Regis 
  band. 
  The 
  crooked 
  lines 
  indicate 
  that 
  the 
  

   former 
  had 
  forsaken 
  the 
  old 
  ways 
  for 
  the 
  white 
  man's 
  religion. 
  

  

  5 
  Condolence 
  belt 
  of 
  the 
  Senecas 
  once 
  held 
  by 
  Governor 
  Blacksnake. 
  It 
  

   was 
  used 
  in 
  mourning 
  councils 
  in 
  the 
  ceremony 
  of 
  raising 
  the 
  new 
  names 
  

   and 
  new 
  sachem 
  to 
  office. 
  

  

  6 
  Huron 
  alliance 
  belt, 
  said 
  to 
  symbolize 
  the 
  alliance 
  of 
  the 
  Hurons 
  with 
  

   some 
  other 
  tribe. 
  After 
  the 
  overthrow 
  of 
  the 
  Hurons 
  in 
  1650 
  it 
  became 
  a 
  

   Seneca 
  belt 
  and 
  was 
  taken 
  to 
  Canada 
  after 
  the 
  Revolutionary 
  War. 
  

  

  