NO. 15 ROLL CALL OF IROQUOIS CHIEFS — FENTON 37 



PI. 7, 

 fig.rf 

 4th design represents "his lodge" (a typical log 4 



cabin on Six Nations 

 Reserve) 

 5th design '" "the world" (paths) 5 



[Cf. 6 and 7 on back of cane, which this and the following reverse and 

 combine.] 7 



6th design represents "winding path of the dead" 8 



For some obscure reason Hewitt and his informant failed to 

 enumerate and interpret tv^o units, of vi^hich there are eight, on this 

 side of the cane. Following the house (No. 4) are two square units, 

 the first of which resembles No. 7 on the back, "hall of ineeting," 

 with addition of diagonal lines, indicating that death has altered this 

 assembly in some way; and the next or sixth unit, which is quite 

 similar to No. 6 on the back, "all are notified." Then would follow 

 the winding paths of "the world," and the "winding path of the 

 dead," with its dentate margins like the string of black wampum 

 symbolized in the third unit on the back. 



The cane measures 38 inches over-all (pi. 7, fig. a), including the 

 crook which has the effigy of a bear, possibly the clan eponym of its 

 maker, at its head. The material is of white hickory (Carya glabra 

 (Mill.)). 



Vision stick of Seneca prophet. — The second wooden record from 

 the Six Nations Reserve pertains to the revelation of Handsome Lake, 

 the Seneca prophet; it is a pine stave some 31 1 inches in length, a 

 maximum width of i^f inches, and a maximum thickness of 9/16 

 inch. It is soiled with long use, and broken with a longitudinal diag- 

 onal break that has been repaired ; and it is fitted with an eye at the 

 top of proper dimension to admit the speaker's index finger. Dr. S. A. 

 Barrett collected the specimen in 191 8 on the Grand River for the 

 Milwaukee Public Museum (Cat. No. 24601/61 58), but from whom 

 we do not know, and efforts to reach Dr. Barrett by letter have failed 

 to elicit further information. While no data accompany the specimen, 

 the incised pictographs are so clear that one may compare the legend 

 with Parker's "Code of Handsome Lake" (1913) and recognize the 

 beginning at Dyononh'sadegen, "Burnt-house" (Cornplanter Reserva- 

 tion) , when the Four Messengers appeared to the prophet in the month 

 of May, 1799. (PI. 8.) Rather than attempt a description of this 

 specimen now and an analysis of its pictographs, suffice it to say that 

 the drawings of houses, plants, and the human figures are in the same 

 style as the figures on the roll-call stick of A. Spragg. The Handsome 

 Lake stick, which is in character with the message and prayer sticks 

 of the Shawnee and Kickapoo prophets, deserves a separate paper. 



