REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I915 II 



$13,000, and the wiring and lighting contract by the Fox Co. at 

 $717. With the deHvery and acceptance of the work the installa- 

 tion of the Iroquois groups at once began, and it is confidently 

 hoped that all will be completed and opened to the public in the 

 course of the present winter. This Iroquois exhibit, which is a 

 memorial to the late Governor of the State, Myron H. Clark, will 

 represent a series of prehistoric groupings of life casts in natural 

 and historic surroundings in the following order from the west 

 end of the hall : 



1 Seneca group. Family activities outside an elm-bark lodge 



on the west shore of Canandaigua lake, the background 

 showing Genundewa, the sacred hill of the Seneca nation, 

 across the waters of the lake. Five life figures. 



2 Mohawk group. A bark lodge village with captured Delawares 



taken on the war trail. Scene from Sprakers on the 

 Mohawk, looking west and north. Six figures. 



3 Council house; Onondaga group. This is the interior of an 



actual council house, with the council in session. The 

 scenery through the doors of the house shows the rocky 

 ledges of the southern Onondaga country. Seven figures. 



4 Log cabin and False Face ceremony. This is the interior of 



the log lodge in use among the Indians of western New 

 York at the time of the Sullivan raid. In the cabin a 

 ceremony of the False Face Company is in progress. 

 Through the door and window are seen the moonlit frozen 

 waters of Cayuga lake. Six figures. 



5 Industry group; Nichols pond; Oneida lake. This is designed 



to show the characteristic Indian industrial occupations : 

 the potter, the basket maker, the arrowmaker, the weaver, 

 etc., and the scene is set on the banks of the pond where 

 Champlain met the Iroquois in 1614 (?) and was defeated 

 by them. Six figures. 



6 Agriculture group. The harvest of the maize. An autumn 



view of the high banks of the Genesee river looking up 

 from Squakie hill, Mount Morris. Six figures. 



The planning of these groups has been the work of the Arche- 

 ologist, Mr Parker, whose intimate knowledge of the New York 

 Indians is an assurance of the ethnological accuracy of the repre- 

 sentations. The very exacting and highly artistic work of execut- 

 ing the large background scenery (each background being fifty- 

 five feet long and sixteen feet high), placing the figures, setting the 



