Class Eighth.—OTOAUGUNA.
The name is derived from Otowug, meaning implements of, or relating to the ear. It is a noun inanimate in a. Under this head all pendants and ornaments for the ear are comprised.
Otoauguna Statuesque. Fig. 3, Plate IV. This pendant for the ear is made out of sea shell. It bears eight perpendicular and four transverse dots. Locality, old fort, site near Jamesville. Onondaga.
Otoauguna Pyramidal. Fig. 2, Plate I. This article varies in size, in the specimens examined, from nine-tenths to one and five-tenths inch, in the greatest length. It is an inequilateral triangle, generally, as here shown, varying to a very acute truncated prism reversed. Thickness from four to six lines. Perforated. Material, red pipe stone. Locality, Onondaga county.
Otoauguna Bifurcate. Fig. 4, Plate I. Length eight-tenths inch. Perforated. Red pipe stone. Onondaga county.
Otoauguna Quadralateral. Fig. 5, Plate 2. Material, red pipe stone. Onondaga county.
Class Ninth.—ÆS.[76]
[76] Æs, a generic name for a shell—Algonquin.
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.
Class Tenth.—OCHALIS.[77]
[77] From the Shawanoe word Ochali, a nose.
This class of ornaments were worn as pendants from the inner cartilage of the nose. The material of nose-jewels in modern times, when worn, is, generally, silver or some metal. Anciently bone or shell were the chief substances.
Ochalis Odä-ä.[78] Plate 1, Fig. 3. The material is a part of some massy species of sea shell. The outer coating is partially decomposed, exhibiting an opaque, limy appearance. Length, eight-tenths of an inch—rounded, heart-shaped. Onondaga. [J. V. V. Clarke.]
[78] Heart-shaped, or like.