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A handsome ornament of variously colored beads was also 

 plowed up on Indian hill in Pompey the same year. The beads 

 were kept in place by the brass wire on which they were strung. 

 There was a large circle of these, with several pendants of beads 

 attached. In 1902 the writer found there other glass beads, pre- 

 served on brass wire. 



Fig. 224 is a large open heart of brass wire from Fort Plain. A 

 wire loop is soldered in the angle above. Fig. 225 is a heavy cop- 

 per pendant, found on the sand plains near Rome N. Y. Of this 

 two views are given. The disk below has a large ring in the heavy 

 loop above. This may have been of the 17th century, or early in 

 the 18th. 



Of about the same date is a fine brass ornament in Mr Stanford's 

 collection, 3^ inches long by 1^ wide. The upper half is lyre- 

 shaped and open; the lower open and circular, but with a projection 

 at the base. Both halves form one piece. In the openings hang 

 open, six pointed stars, nearly filling the space. Fig. 395 shows 

 this. It suggests an ornament from harness. 



Fig. 285 is from Indian castle in Pompey, and is a flat and nar- 

 row piece of brass, rounded on the upper surface and terminating 

 in a trefoil at the broader end. Xear that end is an elliptic per- 

 foration, which may have been for attachment or suspension, but 

 probably the former. Fig. 380 is a broader article of the same kind, 

 and from the same place. The lobes of the trefoil are rounder, and 

 the perforation is circular, as in most other cases. Still another is 

 from the same place. In every case meeting the writer's eye, the 

 base has been broken. 



The Onondaga specimens might have been worn in the hair or 

 attached to the dress, being straight. Mr Stanford's specimens, at 

 Munnsville, require a different view. In two of these, longer than 

 those from Onondaga, the base is abruptly bent upward. Each of 

 these is about 4^ inches long. A third is of quite a different char- 

 acter, and not far from the same length in a direct line. Two 

 abrupt curves make the actual length much greater. Viewed from 

 the side, it suggests the curved handle of an old-fashioned door- 

 latch, or the handles sometimes used with shawl straps. About the 

 middle of this curve it is nearly f of an inch wide. There can be 

 little doubt that this was an ornamental handle of some kind. The 

 others may have had a secondary use after being broken. 



