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ARTICLES OF ADORNMENT 
The articles of personal adornment consist of beads and pendants. 
Possibly, as among the Hurons, 1 the braids of hair were decorated with 
ornaments. Some of the finely polished bone objects described as awls 
may have been hairpins, 2 but the only awl found in a position that would 
suggest its use for this purpose, lay near the occiput of the skull of a 
woman in grave 40; this, however, was probably accidentally introduced 
into the grave, as all the graves in this part of the site were covered with 
refuse containing similar bone awls. No evidence of the use of nose 
ornaments was discovered; 3 but the fact that the ears of some of the 
human face masks on earthenware pipes (Plate XVI, figures 16, 18, and 20) 
are pierced with holes, suggests that the practice of piercing the ears for 
the attachment of ornaments was common among the Indians; Father du 
Peron mentions the custom as existing among the Hurons. 
Beads 
The beads are made of stone, shell, bone, teeth, earthenware, pot- 
sherds, and pieces of broken pipe stems. A faceted, blue glass bead, found 
in the muck surrounding one of the springs at the site, is unlike any of the 
glass beads from seventeenth century Iroquoian sites in Ontario and New 
York, and was, therefore, probably dropped quite recently. 4 
Discoidal Stone Beads. Ninety-one beads, of which more than half 
are in Mr. White’s collection, are made of stone; seventy-seven being made 
of soapstone of various colours, seven of limestone, four of sandstone, and 
three of slate. One of the beads is almost spherical (Cat. No. VIII-F-9181) 
and the rest are flat, discoidal forms (Plate XV, figure 5), but none is 
uniformly circular. The diameter of the beads varies from A inch to l^c 
inches, but the majority are about ^ inch; and they are from inch to 
^ inch thick. Most of the holes, very few of which are exactly in the 
centre, are biconcave and are from ye to inch in diameter. The only 
decorated bead had grooves around part of its periphery (Cat. No. VIII- 
F-10082). Most of the soapstone beads are highly polished. 
The manufacture of these discoidal stone beads is illustrated by 
twenty-seven specimens (ten of them being in the White collection) which 
include: two partly worked pieces of soapstone and two of slate; seventeen 
roughly circular disks that are probably unfinished, the flat sides of three 
retaining the striae resulting from the rubbing process; and three with the 
hole commenced on one face, and six others showing the beginnings of 
holes on both faces. Judging from the appearance of some of the speci- 
mens, the final polishing was not attempted until after the hole was drilled. 
The periphery of the beads was smoothed and finished off either straight 
or round by rubbing, probably on some of the flat pieces of rock consid- 
ered as whetstones. 
1 Father du Peron, op. cit., p. 155. 
2 Mills (2: 48) suggests that large, double-pointed bone and antler awls, found directly below some of the human 
skulls in the Gartner mound in Ohio, were hairpins. 
9 The Jesuit missionaries do not seem t.o have noticed this custom among the Hurons or Neutrals; Champlain 
(III, p. 116) says the Cheveux Relev6s, Algonkian neighbours of the Hurons, pierced their noses for ornaments. 
4 A string of Bmaller beads of this type, some of which are of the same colour, was found in a grave of what was 
probably a Wyandot Indian, near Amherstburg, Ont.; they are Cat. No. VIII-F-2362, Nat. Hus., Canada. 
