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baskets, great and small. Some will hold four bushels or more: 

 and so downwards to a pint. . . The baskets and mats are 

 always made by the women : the dishes, pots and spoons are the 

 manufacture of the men. Gookin, 1 : 151 



John Josselyn adds this to the list already given : " Buckets to 

 carry water or the like, large Boxes too of the same materials, 

 dishes, spoons and trayes wrought very smooth and neatt out of the 

 knots of wood, baskets, bags and matts woven with Sparke, bark of 

 the Lime-tveQ and rushes of several kinds, dyed as before. Josselyn, 

 23:307 



Loskiel said of the New York Iroquois : " They make their own 

 spoons, and large, round dishes of hard wood, with great neatness. 

 In eating, many make use of the same spoon, but they commonly 

 sup their victuals out of the dish." Loskiel, 1 '.54 



The writer has several fine Iroquois spoons, which in their general 

 form and the projection at the back and top of the handle suggest 

 Eskimo forms, but has seen none where the bowl so nearly forms a 

 right angle with the handle as in two figured by Morgan. One of 

 these has a bear seated on the upper projection, and the other a 

 group of human figures. One more near the usual angle has two 

 men wrestling. A fourth has a bird at the top of the handle. Two 

 of these appear in the new edition of the League of the Iroquois, 

 and all four are included in Mr Morgan's report on the State 

 Cabinet in 1852. 



These figures being now accessible, the writer illustrates only 

 some of those found at Onondaga, merely describing the larger and 

 plainer examples. To these are added a few imperfect ones found 

 in graves. The Onondaga name is ah-to'-quat and the Seneca 

 ah-do-qua-sa. The Toronto collection has several taken from 

 graves. 



Figure 102 is of medium size, with a well carved group above. 

 A slender animal, like a monkey, is holding down a bird. Figure 

 103 is shorter and the bowl narrower than with most. The design 

 is a sleeping goose, which seems a favorite. It is of curled maple 

 like many others. This is in the writer's collection and came from 

 Onondaga. Like many modern examples, it has an angular expan- 



