SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



Vol. Ill, No. 15, PL 7 



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a b c ^ 



Cane Used at a Chiefs Wake, Six Nations Reserve 



rt. Over-all view of cane (collected by J. N. B. Hewitt. 1916; U.S.N. M No. 

 384288. Division of Ethnologv) : h, front view detail: notice of death and the 

 funeral ; c, right side detail : wampum belts of notification ; d. lett side detail : 

 passage of the soul to the hereafter. 



