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states. Measures were accordingly taken for their subjugation, which was effected 

 in 1779, and the few subsequent years. The remains of this once powerful con- 

 federacy are yet seen scattered through the state of New York, subdued in spirit 

 and debased by their fondness for intoxicating drinks. Some remnants of tribes 

 -however, have assumed agricultural habits, and do comparatively well ; but the 

 Iroquois are rapidly diminishing in number, and will soon be known only in 

 history. 



PLATE XXXV. 



CAYUGA. 



The skull of a Cayuga chief which I received from Dr. Pitcher, U. S. A., with 

 the following note: "This man was one of the original emigrants, with his tribe, 

 from the state of New York to Ohio, and lastly to Arkansas, where he died at the 

 age of nearly one hundred years, A.D. 1834» His name was Wan-yiin-ta; and 

 he was also long known to the government of New York, in their treaties with 

 the Iroquois, by the name of the Tall Chief. He was a good speaker, and a firm, 

 shrewd, sensible man, whose merit alone raised him from a plebeian origin to be 

 chief of his tribe." 



MEASUREMENTS, 



Longitudinal diameter 

 Parietal diameter, 

 Frontal diameter. 

 Vertical diameter, 

 Inter-mastoid arch, 

 Inter-mastoid line. 



7.8 inches. 



5.1 inches. 



4.2 inches. 



5.4 inches. 

 14.2 inches. 



4.5 inches. 



