RELICS OF THE EARLY FRENCH PERIOD IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 
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The early French traders introduced glass and porcelain beads in 
large quantities, and these soon displaced the native article. Most of 
the beads of this period to be found in the museum of this Society, 
and at the University, have been recovered from graves. Dr. Smith 
recovered a large number of colored beads of glass and porcelain from 
the graves at Tracadie. These were strung on fibres, which Professor 
Ganong determined to be the root fibres of the spruce. The 
various forms are shown on plate xi, fig. 2. 
The museum of the University has a number of beads recovered 
from graves at Grand Lake, and very similar to those found by Dr. 
Smith. The large flesh-colored glass bead or pendant (plate xi, fig. 1) 
was found on the Washademoak River, and is in the University 
museum. It is octagonal in form and perforated from end to end. 
Fig. 3, plate xi, shows a porcelain bead, evidently made in imita- 
tion of the old Indian wampum beads. Its surface is covered with 
cracks and the hole for suspension is very small. It was ploughed 
up in 1898, on his farm near Nerepis Station, King’s County, by 
Geo. A. Harding, who gave it to the Society. 
In early intercourse with our Indians, the belt or collar of wam- 
pum was used as a flag of truce, and served the same purpose as the 
pipe served in other parts of the continent. 
Father Baird states* that beads were generally interred with the 
remains of women. 
* Jesuit Relations, etc., Vol. III., p. 123. 
