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Notes on the Iroquois

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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Class Ninth — Æs76

The number and variety of sea and sometimes fresh water shells worn by the ancient aborigines, has not been ascertained, but is large. They are uniformly found to be univalves.


Æs Marginella. Fig. 10, Plate I. This species was first detected in the Grave Creek mound. It is a marginella. The figure is, incidentally, inexact. Onondaga.

Notes

76 Æs, a generic name for a shell—Algonquin.

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