Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 237
163 ONONDAGA be seen two ordinary discoidal beads of polished steatite. Fig. 51, c, represents an unusual specimen which seems to be part of the stem of a soapstone pipe, deeply scored in several places in the process of cutting it into sections intended to serve as beads. … Fig. 48. — Fragment of a terracotta pipe from Putnam site, Black River, Jefferson county, (f .) Soapstone beads, with crinoids, small nat- urally perforated concretions, and shell disc-beads, examples of all of which were found at the Putnam site, seem to have been preferred by the Jefferson county…
Iroquois Indians
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