NO. 15 ROLL CALL OF IROQUOIS CHIEFS — FENTON 33 



love to get for a walking stick. Evidently its owner did not prize 

 it highly, since he left it by the road. 



Another carved Chief's cane was seen in the Royal Ontario Museum 

 of Archaeology (Toronto), it being part of the Chief swood collection 

 of Miss Evelyn H. C. Johnson (Cat. No. HD 12622). It once be- 

 longed to Daniel Springer of Six Nations Reserve, Brantford. It 

 is Janus-faced and measures 31.5 inches. (PI. 4, a and b.) 



There are two such canes from the Huron or Iroquois of eastern 

 Canada in the ethnological collections of the Provincial Museum 

 of Quebec. No information is available on their provenience, except 

 that they belonged to the Government before the establishment of the 

 Quebec Provincial Archives Office and were transferred to the 

 Archives without accession records, if such existed. One bears the 

 head of a dog or wolf, and the rope motif of the stick appears to 

 represent grass snakes, according to Dr. Antoine Roy, Quebec Pro- 

 vincial Archivist, to whom I am indebted for the photograph and for 

 an intensive search.^^ (PI. 4, c and d.) 



Four fine examples of carved canes were collected in 1918 by 

 S. A. Barrett in western New York and Ontario for the Milwaukee 

 Public Museum. These specimens were seen and examined briefly 

 during a visit to the museum August 27, 1947, thanks to the courtesy 

 of the curator, Robert Ritzenthaler, and since then both he and 

 Dr. W. C. McKern have supplied data from Barrett's field notes, 

 which did not accompany the specimens or were not evident in the 

 catalog. The two finest specimens of Chief's canes bear animal-effigy 

 handles, bear and wolf. (PI. 5, a and b, and pi. 6, fig, i.) The bear- 

 effigy cane (Cat. No. 54,962/16,425) was found in the Museum 

 without data. The wolf-effigy (Cat. No. 24,598/6158) ingeniously 

 swallows the shaft of the cane which measures 37.5 inches. (PI. 6, 

 fig. I, b.) Collected in Ontario in 1918, it obviously comes from Six 

 Nations Reserve. A third, obviously quite modern, is crudely done; 

 it also has the wolf effigy; and on it is carved the title S'agogen'he' 

 and the year 1918. (PI. 5, d, and pi. 6, fig. 2, b.) The title is that 

 of the twelfth chief on the Onondaga list in the League Council, and 

 means "he saw them" or "he saw the people." The main interest that 

 attaches to the specimen is the proof that individual chiefs had carved 

 canes, and here is one bearing his title, a clan effigy, and the probable 

 date of his installation. Unfortunately, the legend does not appear 

 in the illustration, and the catalog number is not at hand. 



Greater interest attaches to the fourth cane in another connection. 



^7 Roy, Antoine, personal communication, April 16, May 5, 1947. 



