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sides having indentations. The sides proper consist of two bars, 

 concave in outline, uniting so as to form a broader, ornamented 

 surface at each angle. The buckle crosses from point to point. 

 Those represented are all from the Onondaga and Tonawanda 

 reservations. One unique form is not described. 



Fig. 164 is the smallest the writer has seen. The angles are 

 ornamented with lines and small circles. Fig. 163 is the largest 

 in his collection, and may be as large as any. The surface orna- 

 ments are like the last, but the divisions of the angles are more 

 protuberant than usual. Fig. 161 has surface ornamentation nearly 

 all over. Fig. 162 is plainer. Fig. 165 and 167 have both bars 

 ornamented, but not the angles. They are among the handsomest 

 collected. Fig. 166 is much like these, but the angles are orna- 

 mented. 



The writer has a few simple silver brooches, which are open and 

 almost as slender as those which are simple rings or round buckles, 

 but they are angular. Fig. 134 shows one of these which is square, 

 but with the angles rounded. The tongue of the buckle reaches 

 from one of these to that opposite. Fig. 135 is a similar one which 

 has the angles indented. 



The Onondagas call the brooch Ah-ten-ha-ne-sah, shining orna- 

 ment. 



Headbands 



The silver headband is a long strip of sheet silver, straight on 

 tin- lower edge but usually with points of some kind on the upper, 

 and with some pretty pattern between. The Onondagas call these 

 Ta-yone-non-aich-han-hust'-ah. The whole headdress, which once 

 often included this, was called Gos-to-zwh by the Senecas. Part of 

 this, as given by Morgan, but without feathers, is shown in fig. 157. 

 Quite commonly, however, the headband encircled an ordinary hat, 

 and in this way the writer has seen several used by one person, one 

 being placed above another. Usually the wearer had but one, 

 which served as a foundation for other ornaments. They were 

 secured by strings in the holes at the ends. 



They are now difficult to obtain. The writer's inquiries on sev- 

 eral reservations have been unsuccessful, nor can they now be 

 found among the Iroquois of Canada. That the State Museum 

 has now several of these rare articles is due to the intelligent zeal 



