﻿AN 
  ERIE 
  INDIAN 
  VILLAGE 
  AND 
  BURIAL 
  SITE 
  465 
  

  

  welcome 
  to 
  this 
  historic 
  city, 
  and 
  provided 
  a 
  dinner 
  for 
  the 
  dele- 
  

   gates 
  on 
  their 
  arrival 
  this 
  noon. 
  The 
  Albany 
  City 
  Railway 
  courte- 
  

   ously 
  put 
  at 
  their 
  disposal 
  special 
  cars 
  and 
  the 
  senior 
  members 
  of 
  

   the 
  University 
  staff 
  who 
  met 
  them 
  at 
  the 
  train 
  have 
  acted 
  as 
  their 
  

   escorts, 
  showing 
  them 
  through 
  the 
  University 
  offices, 
  the 
  State 
  

   Library, 
  the 
  Indian 
  museum 
  and 
  the 
  chief 
  rooms 
  of 
  the 
  Capitol. 
  

   Rev. 
  Dr 
  Battershall, 
  rector 
  of 
  St 
  Peter's 
  will 
  extend 
  the 
  welcome 
  

   for 
  the 
  city, 
  Regent 
  T. 
  Guilford 
  Smith, 
  chairman 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  

   committee, 
  who 
  has 
  from 
  the 
  first 
  shown 
  the 
  most 
  active 
  interest 
  

   in 
  the 
  Indian 
  museum 
  and 
  its 
  welfare, 
  will 
  speak 
  for 
  the 
  Regents. 
  

   Mr 
  Paige 
  as 
  the 
  lawyer 
  who 
  drew 
  the 
  papers 
  and 
  who 
  has 
  carefully 
  

   attended 
  to 
  all 
  the 
  legal 
  details, 
  will 
  announce 
  the 
  transfer, 
  and 
  by 
  

   special 
  request 
  Mrs 
  Converse 
  will 
  speak 
  to 
  us 
  briefly 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  

   women, 
  among 
  whom 
  she 
  is 
  proud 
  to 
  take 
  her 
  seat 
  here 
  today. 
  

   Then 
  we 
  are 
  to 
  hear, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  time 
  permits, 
  from 
  one 
  or 
  more 
  

   representatives, 
  of 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  nations. 
  

  

  By 
  the 
  provisions 
  of 
  a 
  law 
  which 
  states 
  that 
  " 
  all 
  scientific 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  and 
  collections, 
  works 
  of 
  art, 
  objects 
  of 
  historic 
  interest 
  and 
  

   similar 
  property 
  appropriate 
  to 
  a 
  general 
  museum, 
  if 
  owned 
  by 
  the 
  

   State 
  and 
  not 
  placed 
  in 
  other 
  custody 
  by 
  a 
  specific 
  law, 
  shall 
  con- 
  

   stitute 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  ..." 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  became 
  the 
  

   custodian 
  of 
  the 
  wampums 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  Iroquois. 
  The 
  

   Director 
  of 
  the 
  Museum 
  thus 
  virtually 
  holds 
  the 
  title 
  of 
  Official 
  

   Custodian 
  of 
  Records 
  and 
  Wampum 
  Keeper 
  of 
  the 
  Six 
  Nations 
  of 
  

   Iroquois 
  of 
  New 
  York. 
  

  

  The 
  collections 
  secured 
  by 
  Mr 
  Richmond 
  and 
  Mrs 
  Converse 
  came 
  

   under 
  the 
  immediate 
  charge 
  of 
  the 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  

   and 
  were 
  installed 
  in 
  cases 
  in 
  the 
  corridors 
  about 
  the 
  western 
  stair- 
  

   case, 
  on 
  the 
  fourth 
  floor 
  of 
  the 
  Capitol. 
  At 
  this 
  time 
  Dr 
  William 
  

   M. 
  Beauchamp, 
  the 
  well 
  known 
  authority 
  on 
  New 
  York 
  archeology, 
  

   was 
  engaged 
  to 
  write 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  bulletins 
  describing 
  the 
  imple- 
  

   ments 
  and 
  ornaments 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  aborigines 
  and 
  this 
  series, 
  

   now 
  completed, 
  has 
  attracted 
  widespread 
  interest 
  and 
  has 
  greatly 
  

   stimulated 
  archeologic 
  research 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  sudden 
  death 
  of 
  Mr 
  Richmond 
  in 
  1898, 
  the 
  Indian 
  sec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  museum 
  lost 
  its 
  foremost 
  worker. 
  Field 
  work 
  in 
  lines 
  

   of 
  archeology 
  entirely 
  ceased. 
  Likewise 
  the 
  fruitful 
  work 
  of 
  Mrs 
  

   Converse 
  which 
  brought 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  treasured 
  ceremonials, 
  the 
  

   medicine 
  masks, 
  silver 
  crowns, 
  brooches 
  and 
  hundreds 
  of 
  other 
  ob- 
  

   jects 
  of 
  historic 
  and 
  ethnic 
  interest 
  was 
  soon 
  thereafter 
  closed 
  by 
  

   death. 
  

  

  Time 
  has 
  slipped 
  by. 
  The 
  Iroquois 
  have 
  become 
  in 
  a 
  measure 
  

   anglicized. 
  Robbed 
  of 
  their 
  forests 
  and 
  hiding 
  places 
  they 
  have 
  

   been 
  pushed 
  back 
  in 
  small 
  corners 
  called 
  reservations 
  and 
  have 
  

  

  