IROQUOIS SILVERWORK (CLASSIC REPRINT)

Excerpt from Iroquois SilverworkMost numerous of all are the brooches which may still be found occasion ally in the hands of the Indians. Those, as may be seen in the figure, are flat silver disks of different sizes, ranging from about a fourth of an inch to six inches in diameter, cut into many artistic forms, and often engraved, stamped, and embossed as well. Each has a central opening, crossed by a tongue (like that of a buckle) pivoted at one end, which serves to attach it to the fabric. Six principal patterns may be recognized, which I have called