NO. 15 ROLL CALL OF IROQUOIS CHIEFS — FENTON 61 



is prominent in all sets of drawings, sometimes the doorway is shown, 

 and the cane pictograph appears to indicate a type of log house which 

 was formerly constructed on the Grand River with the logs set in 

 vertical position. 



14. Dehonareken, Daona'roken'ah, Tehone'oken'ah, De'na-egen"a', 

 "He the small forked root" (Hewitt); "Two branches" (Hale). 

 "Two words (voices) meet" dwenaigen'a (Oa.), dodwennaigen'ah 

 (C.)) (S.Gibson). 



15. Adyadonneatha, Hadya'tonnen'tha*, "He swallows an object 

 (body)" (Hewitt) (Morgan); "He slides himself down" (Hale), 

 or "His body is swaying" (Gibson). A body is prominent in all the 

 drawings and on the cane; Chief Charles favored "swallowing" as 

 the root idea ; but the pictograph on the cane stresses a massive body, 

 elbows and knees flexed, faceless, withal like the seventeenth-century 

 war records, illustrated in the Paris Document of 1666 (O'Callaghan, 

 1849, vol. I, p. 23). 



The second group of Oneida chiefs numbers the last three of the 

 Turtle clan. 



16. Adahoneayenh, Dewada-hon'den'yonk, "Two ears hanging," 

 "Pendulous vibrating ears" (as if slit) (S. Gibson). The latter, citing 

 the Deganawi'dah legend, stated that this chief when first seen had 

 enormous ears that had probably been slit for the insertion of feathers, 

 leaves, etc., which on removal left the helix and lobe to hang vibrating. 

 "Moving his ears" is the current interpretation (H. Skye). A large 

 ear is figured. 



17. Ronyadashayouh, Ronya'dasha-'yonk (M.), Ganiya'dasha-'yen' 

 (Oa.), "A pouch (of fawn skin) resting" (Hewitt), "Swallows 

 slowly" (S. Gibson), "Easy throat" (Hale). At best obscure, as 

 witness Hale (1883, p. 157). The pouch theory is favored by the 

 drawing on the cane and the Charles drawings. 



18. Ronwatshadonhonh, Honwatsaton'honh (M.), Honwatca'don''- 

 hwi' (Oa.), "One has covered him with fog" (Hewitt), "He is 

 covered with mist" (S. Gibson), Hale's "He is buried" is not sup- 

 ported by the drawings, which show a man enshrouded with vapor. 

 The pictograph on the cane shows a face and head having some sort 

 of covering protruding above which does not appear to be mist. 



The latter three were the Bear clan chiefs of the Oneida, and as 

 such were cousins to the other six. 



This was the roster of the Oneida chiefs. 



The Onondaga pictographs. — The next are the "uncles, the name 

 bearers." 



