Notes on a Supposed Marriage Emblem of American Indian Origin

Abstract

A REMARKABLE form of “Indian relic,” varying somewhat in details, but having much in common, and never approaching any other stone implement or ornament, is occasionally met with in the “finds” of the Atlantic coast States and westward to the Mississippi. In New Jersey they are less abundant, I believe, than in the States west and south, but a sufficient number of them have been gathered by myself and others to indicate their having been, at one time, a marked feature in the dress of our aborigines.