acute in front, with an angular line extending
from the cliin downwards. Onondaga.
Opoaguna Etruscan (Fig. 14).—Material similar
to Opoag. Aztec '. Figure double headed..—heads
alike, placed back to hack, like the Grecian deity
Janus, connected by fiYe parallel fillets, — howl
rudely formed* by hand. Onondaga.
, C LA S S V. MINACEA.*
Articles of this kind hold the relative character
of modern beads[ or. necklace ornaments.
They are made; of shells, bones, fissile minerals,
sometimes pieces of dalchreous or crystal. The
*.'F.Tom meen, a berry; and ace; a diminutive; hence mi»
nas or minace, a bead, or | oihaEaenf the necfe. ,
s u b s t i t u t ê a of the European period are glass and
pastes. •
Fig/tfó*
' ;Mindcea Mhghdrdc. This-article
was first disclosed o p e n in g the-Grave-creek
rriound, in the Ohio: valley, in'1839-, and received
the false designation offiV^y. It is figured
and described in the first YOlume of the Trans-
aetionS'-ofifhe American Ethnological Society,
published at NeW York in 1645, Where its character
^determined. It has often the appearance
of hawing been formed of solid masses of
horn It is believed to he, hbwever, in .every
case, a product 'of massy sea^he^ ^composition
^ p white a^ect, and
fimF feel. : The powder ^rap ed f om the surface
effervesces in acids. It is generally, not uniformly,
an exact circle, ajid resemhles ex.t3-emely
aw^-y thick horh; Button-aipuH. J**» characteristic
of the.orifice, that i in ^ a r s to %Ye been
perforated with an instrument giving a spiral or
circular line. This ancient ornament was also
disclosed in my visit to the Beverly bone deposits
of Canada in 1943. Its occurrence, m Onondaga,
denotes the universality of the art, during