NO. 15 ROLL CALL OF IROQUOIS CHIEFS — FENTON 4I 



fig. I, d). Why Newhouse stopped at i6, the first Seneca class, remains 

 a mystery, for 19 classes or committees may be distinguished (fig. 

 I, a). The mnemonic is almost the same as the one on the cane, and 

 it is identical to the pattern f 01 laying out kernels of corn at rehearsals. 

 It would seem that Newhouse had started with an old system and 

 then proceeded to his list. The same names appear as headings for 

 the tribal rosters, and the numbered classes of chiefs are transferred 

 from the mnemonic to the list itself where the titles are carefully 

 spelled out (pis. 9 and 10). Newhouse recorded the same mnemonic 

 as well as the titles, also in his great work on the Constitution (Fenton, 

 1949). 



Numbers in parentheses are written in bold ink. They are followed 

 by penciled capitals, U.M. and L.M., in some cases, denoting Upper 

 Mohawk band and Lower Mohawk band, respectively. 



In the same hand at the very top of the sheet is written "(U.M. 

 are cousins)"; beneath the first tribal name in parentheses appears: 

 "One totem of another family of the same totem are brothers." 

 (PI. 9-) 



The second page has been altered less than the first. Penciled ad- 

 dition upper right. The notes on the Ball and Eel clans at 23 and 29 

 are in longhand purple ink. A suffix has been added in pencil to 25, 

 making the name correspond to modern usage ; the enumerator who 

 added numbers changed the prefix on 29. (PI. 10.) 



Penciled notes link the 8 Seneca chiefs together in pairs : "i and 2 

 are cousins"; 45 and 46 are cousins; 47 and 48; 49 and 50. (Pis. 11 

 and 12.) 



Mnemonic pictographs of Chief Abram Charles. — Based on the 

 same mnemonic but of a different character from the list just de- 

 scribed are the mnemonic pictographs of Cayuga chief Abram Charles 

 which Hewitt collected and partly described and which the writer 

 brought out as a footnote to the present study (Hewitt and Fenton, 

 1945). Chief Charles could not write or read such a list as his con- 

 temporary prepared, so he reverted to an older method for illustrating 

 the spatial arrangement of tribes and tribal rosters. He recorded a 

 series of grouped dots in the arrangement that he followed in laying 

 down kernels of corn when instructing Eulogy singers in the roll call 

 of chiefs, and the identical pattern is found in the arrangement of 

 pegs on the Cayuga Condolence cane (fig. i, a and h). Moreover, 

 he composed pictographic representations of the titles, which again 

 have a general resemblance to the pictographs on the cane. 



Pattern for laying down corn at rehearsals. — There seem to be two 



