CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction i 



The cane of Andrew Spragg i 



The man 1 1 



A museum specimen i8 



Material description 22 



Shape and general appearance 22 



Material and dimensions 23 



Panels or sections of pegs 23 



Pictographs 23 



Reverse side 25 



General symbolism 26 



Recognition by the Iroquois and by anthropologists 26 



Opinions of ritualists at Six Nations 28 



Canes in Iroquois ceremonialism 29 



Old men and supernatural 29 



The implement of a chief 30 



Other Condolence canes 30 



Cane for Moccasin game at chief's wake 35 



Vision stick of Seneca prophet 37 



Roll calls of other forms 38 



Roll-call wampum 38 



List of chiefs by Seth Newhouse 40 



Mnemonic pictographs of Chief Abram Charles 41 



Pattern for laying down corn at rehearsals 41 



Function : a reminder to the Eulogy singer 42 



Rehearsals 42 



Use confined to the Lower Cayuga band 



Use in the Condolence Council 47 



Journeying on the road to the woods' edge 47 



Inside the longhouse 49 



Specific interpretation 49 



Back : Introduction to the Eulogy 49 



Front : The roll call of the founders 53 



Title and pictograph 58 



The Mohawk pictographs 59 



The Oneida pictographs 60 



The Onondaga pictographs 61 



The Cayuga pictographs 64 



The Seneca pictographs 66 



Evidence of age 68 



Conclusion 69 



Bibliography 70 



