NO. 15 ROLL CALL OF IROQUOIS CHIEFS — FENTON 47 



of the League called the Four Brothers side of which the Cayugas 

 take the leading roles among the Six Nations of Grand River. And 

 until recently reproduced from drawings supplied by Cranbrook In- 

 stitute, no other such decorated specimen was known to informants. 



USE IN THE CONDOLENCE COUNCIL 



Journeying on the road to the woods' edge. — On the day of the 

 Condolence Council, when the Four Brothers install a new chief on 

 the Three Brothers side, chiefs and warriors of the Four Brothers 

 meet at Lower Cayuga Longhouse at about ii o'clock and rehearse. 

 The one who was appointed to sing on the road formerly carried the 

 cane while chanting the Eulogy or roll call. Meanwhile, the Three 

 Brothers are cooking at Onondaga and they send down their warriors 

 with a portion of food for the rehearsing chiefs at Lower Cayuga. 

 When ready to set out on the road for Onondaga, the Four Brothers 

 dispatch a messenger, a warrior who is supposed to run the distance. 

 As the runner enters Onondaga Longhouse to deliver the message, 

 the mourning chiefs present stand and listen. 



The Eulogy to the Founders of the League, or the roll call, com- 

 mences at the fire of the clear-minded. This chant has four names : (i) 

 it is called simply Hai Hai, a general name for the entire Condolence 

 Council ; (2) Hai Hai at'ahino''ge, "the chant for going on the road" ; 

 (3) hodihwisa''g hodinohsyoni • di, "they founded the League of the 

 Longhouse" ; and (4) ijdathhnuhse'dedakhkwa', "calHng at another 

 house," or "what a nation uses for calling at another nation's house." 

 And the singer of this chant carries the cane, mentioning all the 

 chiefs by name who were founders, by classes and nations to which 

 they yet belong. This was the role at which Andrew Spragg distin- 

 guished himself. 



The introductory part of the Eulogy, of 18 phrases covered by 

 symbols on the back of the cane, is chanted inside the longhouse of 

 the clear-minded, and when the singer reaches the first title of the 

 roll call, he goes out the door to take up the path to the fire of the 

 mourners. On the road the condoling chiefs march to the place of 

 installation in twos, forming a procession behind the singer with the 

 cane. The Hai Hai has ancient cultural roots ; it is mentioned in the 

 literature on the Huron Feast of the Dead as the cry of the souls 

 marching from the burial platforms to an ossuary in another village ; 

 Bruyas ( 1862, p. 23) noted the root "to take up the path" ; its opening 

 stanzas refer to the long-dead founders lying in their graves now 

 overgrown with grass and brush having put the League as a pillow 



