METALLIC ORNAMENTS OF NEW YORK INDIANS \J 



from the early Cayadutta fort, south of Johnstown. This is nearly 

 7 inches long, straight and cylindric, and is the only European 

 article yet reported from that site. Had these forts been near the 

 Mohawk river, there might have been a possibility that these beads 

 were lost by wayfarers. Their positions are too remote and difficult 

 for this; and, as their date is just before the great influx of European 

 articles, they may be connected with Cartier's visit to Montreal, or 

 with traders who soon followed. [After the above was in print the 

 writer examined a tubular bead of European copper, found on an 

 early village site in Jefferson county in 1903. This and a fragment 

 of pottery definitely placed this village in the latter part of the 16th 

 century. The bead retains its smooth surface and is 1^ inches long.] 



A few later ■ examples of the same class of ornaments may be 

 given. Fig. 243 is a fine cylindric brass bead, found by Mr Frey 

 •on the site of the early Mohawk town of Tionontoguen. This is 3^ 

 inches long. From another site he has a similar larger one, n£ 

 inches long and nearly half an inch in diameter. Fig. 244 is longer 

 "than the last figured, and slightly tapering, as though it might once 

 have been the stem of a brass pipe. It is 3|- inches long, and was 

 found within the stockade in Chase's woods, on the south line of 

 Pompey. Fig. 254 is an unusually slender brass bead, found at 

 Indian hill in Pompey. This gives it an age of nearly 250 years. 

 It is about 2-§ inches long and is well made. Fig. 255 is from the 

 fort near Pompey Center, a little earlier than the last and a few 

 miles farther south. It is ruder than most others. Fig. 257 is from 

 the same fort, and is very neatly finished and in fine preservation. 

 It is less than an inch long. Fig. 249 shows four small beads of 

 polished brass, also from this site and of fine workmanship. The 

 l)rass is neatly cut at the edges and symmetrically rolled. Three 

 •of them are much smaller at the ends than in the center, differing 

 from most that the writer has seen. 



While many of these beads retain their first use, no small portion 

 "were worked up from broken kettles, as other ornaments were. Fig. 

 248 is probably not of this character. It is a neat and cylindric coil 

 of narrow brass or copper, forming a close but elastic tube, 3! 

 -inches long and over f inch in diameter. It was taken from a grave 



