30 HOUSES AND HOUSE-LIFE OF THE AMERICAN ABORIGINES.* 
with their names in the Seneca dialect, and their arrangement in classes to 
facilitate the attainment of unanimity in council. In foot-notes will be 
found the signification of these names, and the gentes to which they 
belonged. 
Table of sachemships of the Iroquois.’ 
MOHAWKES. 
I. 1. Da-gii-e’-o-ga.’ 2. Hii-yo-went’-ha.” 3. Da-gii-no-we’-di.® 
II. 4. So-ii-e-wii’-ah* 5. Da-yo’-ho-go.’ 6. O-ii-a'-go-wi.® 
Ill. 7. Da-an-no-gii’e-neh.” 8. Sii-da’-gii-e-wii-deh.* 9. _Hiis-dii-weh’- 
se-ont-hii.° 
ONEIDAS. 
I. 1. Ho-diis’-hii-teh."” 2. Ga-no-gweh’-yo-do." 3. Da-yo-hii’-gwen- 
da.” 
Il. 4. So-no-sase’.’ 
III. 
*  §. To-no-ii-gi’-o.* 6. Hia-de-ai-dun-nent’-hi.” 
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Da-wii-dii’-o-dii-yo.* 8. Gii-ne-ii-dus’-ha-yeh.” 9. Ho-wus’-ha- - 
da-o.® 
ONONDAGAS. 
1. To-do-dii’-ho.” 2. To-nes’-sa-ah. 3. Da-iit’-ga-dose.”° 
4. Gii-neii-di’-je-wake.' 5. Ah-wii’-ga-yat.” 6. Da-ii-yat’-gwi-e. 
Ill. 7. Ho-no-we-ni-to.” 
8. Gii-wi-ni’-san-do.“. 9. Hii-e’-ho.” 10. Ho-yo-ne-ii’-ne.* 11. 
Sa-dii’-kwii-seh.” 
V. 12. Sii-go-ga-hii’.* 13. Ho-sa-hi’-do* 14. Skii-no’-wun-de.” 
1These names signify as follows: 1. ‘‘ Neutral,” or ‘‘‘The Shield.” 2. ‘*Man who Combs.” 3. 
“Tnexhaustible.” 4. ‘Small Speech.” 5, ‘‘At the Forks.” 6. ‘At the Great River.” 7. ‘“‘Dragging 
his Horns.” 8. ‘‘Eyen-Tempered,” 9. ‘‘ Hanging up Rattles.’? The sachems in class one belonged to 
the Turtle gens, in class two to the Wolf gens, and in class three to the Bear gens. 
10. ‘‘A Man bearing a Burden.” 11. ‘‘A Man covered with Cat-tail Down.” 12. ‘Opening 
through the Woods.” 13. ‘‘A Long String.” 14, ‘A Man with a Headache.” 15. ‘Swallowing Him- 
self.” 16. ‘‘Place of the Echo.” 17. ‘*War-club on the Ground.” 18. ‘‘A Man Steaming Himself.” 
The sachems in the first class belong to the Wolf gens, in the second to the Turtle gens, and in the 
third to the Bear gens. 
19. “Tangled,” Bear gens. 20. ‘‘On the Watch,” Bear gens. This sachem and the one before 
him were hereditary councillors of the To-do-di/-ho, who held the most illustrious sachemship. 21. 
““Bitter Body,” Snipe gens. 22. Turtle gens. 23. This sachem was hereditary keeper of the wampum; 
Wolf gens. 
24. Deer gens. 25. Deer gens. 26. Turtle gens. 27. Bear gens. 28. ‘‘ Having a Glimpse,” Deer 
gens, 29. ‘‘Large Mouth,” Turtle gens. 30. ‘‘Over the Creek,” Turtle gens. 
