METALLIC ORNAMENTS OF NEW YORK INDIANS "Jl 



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. Mbs., XII., V. 2, and 

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

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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. NEOMEN. 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, 

 Prav for us who have recourse to vou." 



