. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 458 THE SENECA NATION water mussels from the nearby creeks. Occasionally shell from the ocean, and catlinite or Huron slate, reached them in trade with the Indians farther south or west. The really beautiful glass beads of the traders appealed to them, and from the very beginning the Senecas imported them in great numbers and variety. The most commonly used were small spherical beads, red or blue in color. An elliptical black bead seems to have been in vogue a great deal, possibly because it resembled purple wampu
. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Natural history; Science. 458 THE SENECA NATION water mussels from the nearby creeks. Occasionally shell from the ocean, and catlinite or Huron slate, reached them in trade with the Indians farther south or west. The really beautiful glass beads of the traders appealed to them, and from the very beginning the Senecas imported them in great numbers and variety. The most commonly used were small spherical beads, red or blue in color. An elliptical black bead seems to have been in vogue a great deal, possibly because it resembled purple wampum. The polychrome beads of Venice, large as gooseber- ries, of a variety of colors, and showing a star in cross section, were rare at the time, though more abundant later. L,ong thin cylindrical beads, similar to those which many years ago received amongst us the name of bugle beads, were in commcn Pipes.—(A) European clay pipe, (B) Seneca stone pipe. The others are clay pipes of Indian manufacture. Next to glass their commonest material for adornment was shell. This was brought in already made up into ornaments and also as raw material and made up in the villages. The Senecas seem to have prized it even more than glass, and worked it up into a large variety of ornaments. More than any other ornament, they used the small cylind- rical bead made of ocean clam shell, Venus mercenaria, which has come to be called wampum. At what time wampum was first used by the Senecas is unknown. It is probably a comparatively late introduction from coastal tribes. Stone Age Iroquoian vil-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. Buffalo, N. Y. : Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
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