﻿No. 
  122.J 
  71 
  

  

  cas 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  They 
  number 
  in 
  all 
  two 
  

   hundred 
  and 
  twenty, 
  and 
  the 
  articles 
  themselves 
  are 
  of 
  one 
  hun- 
  

   dred 
  and 
  fifteen 
  distinct 
  species. 
  

  

  Ga-sweh-tii 
  Ote-ko-a,^ 
  or 
  belt 
  of 
  wampum. 
  

  

  No. 
  3. 
  Plate 
  I, 
  figure 
  1. 
  

  

  Ote-ko-a, 
  or 
  string 
  of 
  wampum. 
  

  

  No. 
  4. 
  Plate 
  2, 
  figure 
  2. 
  

  

  The 
  use 
  of 
  Wampum 
  reaches 
  back 
  to 
  a 
  remote 
  period 
  npon 
  

   this 
  continent. 
  It 
  was 
  an 
  original 
  Indian 
  notion 
  which 
  prevail- 
  

   ed 
  among 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  as 
  early, 
  at 
  least, 
  as 
  the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  

   League. 
  The 
  primitive 
  wampum 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  consisted 
  of 
  

   strings 
  of 
  a 
  small 
  fresh 
  water 
  spiral 
  shell, 
  called 
  in 
  the 
  Seneca 
  

   dialect 
  Ote 
  ko-a^ 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  which 
  has 
  been 
  bestowed 
  upon 
  the 
  

   modern 
  wamjDum. 
  When 
  Ba-gll-no-we-dd^ 
  the 
  founder 
  of 
  the 
  

   League, 
  had 
  perfected 
  its 
  organic 
  provisions, 
  he 
  produced 
  seve- 
  

   ral 
  strings 
  of 
  this 
  ancient 
  w^ampum 
  of 
  his 
  own 
  arranging, 
  and 
  

   taught 
  them 
  its 
  use 
  in 
  recording 
  the 
  provisions 
  of 
  the 
  compact 
  

   by 
  which 
  the 
  several 
  nations 
  were 
  united 
  into 
  one 
  people. 
  At 
  a 
  

   subsequent 
  day 
  the 
  wampum 
  in 
  present 
  use 
  was 
  introduced 
  

   among 
  them 
  by 
  the 
  Dutch, 
  who 
  in 
  the 
  manufactured 
  shell 
  bead 
  

   offered 
  an 
  acceptable 
  substitute 
  for 
  the 
  less 
  convenient 
  one 
  of 
  

   the 
  spiral 
  shell. 
  These 
  beads, 
  as 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  plate, 
  are 
  purple 
  

   and 
  white, 
  about 
  a 
  quarter 
  of 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  length, 
  an 
  eighth 
  in 
  di- 
  

   ameter, 
  and 
  perforated 
  lengthwise 
  so 
  as 
  to 
  be 
  strung 
  on 
  sinew 
  or 
  

   bark 
  thread. 
  The 
  white 
  bead 
  w^as 
  manufactured 
  from 
  the 
  great 
  

   conch 
  sea 
  shell, 
  and 
  the 
  purple 
  from 
  the 
  muscle 
  shell. 
  They 
  

   are 
  woven 
  into 
  belts, 
  or 
  used 
  in 
  strings 
  simply, 
  in 
  both 
  of 
  which 
  

   conditions 
  they 
  are 
  employed 
  to 
  record 
  treaty 
  stipulations, 
  to 
  

   convey 
  messages, 
  and 
  to 
  subserve 
  many 
  religious 
  and 
  social 
  purpo- 
  

   ses. 
  The 
  word 
  wampum 
  is 
  not 
  of 
  Iroquois 
  origin. 
  Baylie, 
  in 
  his 
  

   History 
  of 
  New 
  Plymouth, 
  informs 
  us 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  first 
  known 
  in 
  

   New-England 
  as 
  Wampumpeag^ 
  from 
  which 
  its 
  Algonquin 
  deri- 
  

   vation 
  is 
  to 
  be 
  inferred 
  ; 
  and 
  Hutchinson 
  says 
  that 
  the 
  art 
  of 
  

   making 
  it 
  was 
  obtained 
  from 
  the 
  Dutch 
  about 
  the 
  year 
  1627. 
  

  

  1. 
  Note. 
  — 
  The 
  reader 
  should 
  note 
  the 
  characters 
  hy 
  which 
  the 
  difFerent 
  sounds 
  of 
  

   the 
  vowel 
  a, 
  the 
  letter 
  upon 
  which 
  the 
  g'reatest 
  variations 
  are 
  made, 
  is 
  indicated 
  : 
  — 
  

   a 
  is 
  sounded 
  as 
  in 
  arm 
  ,• 
  a 
  as 
  in 
  at 
  ; 
  a 
  as 
  in 
  ale. 
  All 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  words 
  used 
  are 
  in 
  

   the 
  Seneca 
  dialect 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  language. 
  

  

  