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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



Each cord of this set of wampum bears its own specific designation 

 which is derived from the name of the Theme or Burden of Hurts of 

 Life of the Requickening Address, for which it is a token. In fixed 

 order these designations are as follows: First Section: I. Tears or 

 One's Eves. IT. One's Ears or Passes into the Body. HI. One's 

 Throat or Passes into the Body ( = Spirit). Second Section of Re- 

 (juickening Addresses. I\'. Within One's Breast. A'. The Trail of 

 Blood from the Death Mat. \ I. The Thick Darkness of the Night 

 of Grief. \ II. One's Lost Sky. VHI. One's Loss of the Sun. 

 IX. At the Mound of Upturned Clay. — the Grave. X. Twenty, the 

 Cost, — /. e.. the Penalty for Homicide. XL The Hearth of the Home, 

 Where One Circles the Fire. XII. The Woman, — Our Mother. 



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Fig. 184. — Chief John Buck's home, a loghouse, and two of his children. 

 Six Nations, Canada. 



XIII. The Federal Chief, Ne" Roya'ne'r. XIV. The Mind's Loss of 

 Reason. And XV. The Ever-Burning Signal Torch And the Short 

 Cord of Wampum Out of the Aging Pouch of Skin. 



It may he worthy of record here that the Ritual of the Requicken- 

 ing Address, like the other six save one, of the Council of Condolence 

 and Installation, is composed of two Sections. I recall this fact here 

 because I have been unable to find an Iroquois informant who can 

 give the reason for this grouping of the contents of six Rituals into 

 two sections and because I myself have not found so far a satisfactory 

 explanation of this matter, although I have had this mysterious ques- 

 tion to solve for many years. 



I also made a final redraft of a translation of the text of the tra- 

 ditional biography of the great Iroquois statesman, Deganawida, in 



