﻿METALLIC 
  ORNAMENTS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  INDIANS 
  6j 
  

  

  has 
  a 
  mourning 
  woman 
  seated 
  under 
  a 
  tree. 
  To 
  the 
  left 
  is 
  an 
  eagle 
  r 
  

   and 
  to 
  the 
  right 
  an 
  ax, 
  etc. 
  The 
  legend 
  is, 
  " 
  Montreal 
  taken 
  

   MDCCLX." 
  In 
  exergue, 
  " 
  Soc. 
  promoting 
  arts 
  and 
  commerce." 
  

   Leronx, 
  p. 
  166. 
  As 
  these 
  have 
  Indian 
  symbols, 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  them 
  

   Amherst's 
  name 
  and 
  that 
  of 
  Montreal, 
  they 
  seem 
  to 
  suit 
  in 
  every 
  

   way 
  Johnson's 
  lavish 
  distribution 
  of 
  medals 
  at 
  Oswego, 
  when 
  sent 
  

   him 
  by 
  his 
  leader. 
  

  

  Red 
  Jacket's 
  medal 
  has 
  been 
  made 
  the 
  subject 
  of 
  controversy. 
  

   Fig. 
  411 
  is 
  taken 
  from 
  an 
  article 
  in 
  Harper's 
  Magazine, 
  1866, 
  in 
  

   which 
  its 
  history 
  is 
  given. 
  A 
  note 
  says: 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  said 
  that 
  there 
  are 
  in 
  existence 
  other 
  medals, 
  each 
  purporting 
  

   to 
  be 
  the 
  genuine 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  medal. 
  Possibly 
  copies 
  of 
  it 
  may 
  

   have 
  been 
  made 
  when 
  it 
  was 
  at 
  one 
  time 
  or 
  another 
  in 
  pawn 
  in 
  the 
  

   hands 
  of 
  those 
  to 
  whom 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  had 
  pledged 
  it 
  for 
  whisky. 
  

   But 
  none 
  of 
  these 
  copies 
  were 
  ever 
  owned 
  by 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  himself. 
  

   The 
  orig-inal 
  medal, 
  from 
  which 
  our 
  drawing 
  was 
  made, 
  is, 
  as 
  we 
  

   write, 
  open 
  to 
  public 
  inspection 
  at 
  the 
  jewelry 
  establishment 
  of 
  

   Messrs 
  Browne 
  and 
  Spaulding, 
  in 
  Broadway, 
  New 
  York, 
  by 
  whom, 
  

   with 
  the 
  assent 
  of 
  the 
  owner, 
  it 
  was 
  placed 
  at 
  our 
  disposal 
  for 
  illus- 
  

   tration. 
  We 
  have 
  in 
  our 
  possession 
  the 
  most 
  abundant 
  proof 
  that 
  

   it 
  is 
  the 
  genuine, 
  and 
  only 
  genuine, 
  medal 
  presented 
  by 
  Washington 
  

   to 
  Red 
  Jacket. 
  Harper's, 
  32:324 
  

  

  It 
  then 
  belonged 
  to 
  General 
  Ely 
  S. 
  Parker, 
  a 
  Seneca 
  chief. 
  In 
  

   1890 
  a 
  medal 
  was 
  presented 
  to 
  the 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  Club 
  of 
  Canandaigua, 
  

   as 
  having 
  belonged 
  to 
  that 
  chief. 
  Mr 
  William 
  C. 
  Bryant, 
  of 
  Buffalo, 
  

   wrote 
  to 
  Hon. 
  George 
  S. 
  Conover 
  on 
  the 
  subject, 
  in 
  the 
  following 
  

   words 
  : 
  

  

  Buffalo, 
  Feb. 
  3, 
  1891 
  

  

  Friend 
  Conover: 
  There 
  is 
  no 
  rational 
  ground 
  for 
  doubt 
  that 
  

   the 
  medal 
  worn 
  by 
  General 
  Parker 
  is 
  the 
  one 
  presented 
  by 
  President 
  

   Washington 
  to 
  Red 
  Jacket. 
  This 
  medal 
  was 
  a 
  familiar 
  object 
  to 
  

   all 
  Buffalo 
  residents 
  while 
  the 
  old 
  chief 
  lived; 
  and, 
  after 
  his 
  death 
  in 
  

   1830, 
  it 
  was 
  well 
  known 
  that 
  it 
  descended 
  to, 
  or 
  became 
  the 
  prop- 
  

   erty 
  of 
  Jemmie 
  Johnson, 
  Red 
  Jacket's 
  nephew 
  and 
  the 
  successor 
  of 
  

   Handsome 
  Lake, 
  the 
  great 
  Iroquois 
  prophet. 
  Soon 
  afterward, 
  and 
  

   shortly 
  before 
  Johnson's 
  death, 
  it 
  became 
  the 
  property 
  or 
  possession 
  

   of 
  General 
  Parker, 
  its 
  present 
  owner. 
  In 
  185 
  1 
  or 
  1852, 
  when 
  a 
  boy, 
  

   I 
  visited 
  Jemmie 
  Johnson 
  at 
  his 
  cabin, 
  and 
  he 
  exhibited 
  the 
  medal 
  

   to 
  me. 
  

  

  It 
  should 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  the 
  Red 
  Jacket 
  medal 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  

   unique 
  article, 
  but 
  one 
  of 
  many 
  which 
  were 
  stricken 
  off 
  by 
  the 
  

  

  