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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  yielded 
  up 
  through 
  necessity 
  their 
  old-time 
  ways, 
  and 
  the 
  modern 
  

   substitutes 
  for 
  their 
  ancient 
  usages 
  are 
  often 
  pitiful 
  caricatures. 
  

   For 
  instance, 
  in 
  the 
  council 
  house 
  upon 
  ceremonial 
  occasion, 
  we 
  

   find, 
  not 
  the 
  buckskin 
  legging, 
  noisy 
  with 
  rattles 
  of 
  deer 
  hoofs, 
  nor 
  

   the 
  white 
  doeskin 
  body 
  wrappings, 
  symbolic 
  with 
  colored 
  quill 
  em- 
  

   broidery, 
  nor 
  do 
  regal 
  eagle 
  feathers 
  or 
  white 
  heron 
  plumes 
  wave 
  

   from 
  chieftains' 
  heads, 
  nor 
  belts 
  of 
  wampum 
  hang 
  from 
  war 
  poles 
  

   or 
  long 
  wampum 
  strings 
  dangle 
  from 
  the 
  moving 
  hands 
  of 
  speakers. 
  

   Instead 
  of 
  these 
  things, 
  overalls 
  of 
  blue 
  jeans, 
  gingham 
  jumpers, 
  

   broad 
  brimmed 
  hats 
  or 
  tattered 
  caps 
  or 
  perchance 
  upon 
  the 
  occasion 
  

   of 
  the 
  feasts 
  some 
  modern 
  makeshift 
  for 
  the 
  old-time 
  requirements. 
  

   This 
  exhibition 
  of 
  departed 
  glory 
  is 
  pitiful 
  and 
  pathetic; 
  or 
  if 
  one 
  

   should 
  say 
  this 
  picture 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  pagans 
  " 
  only 
  and 
  then 
  not 
  cor- 
  

   rect 
  entirely, 
  let 
  us 
  look 
  at 
  both 
  " 
  pagan 
  " 
  and 
  Christian 
  Indian 
  upon 
  

   other 
  holiday 
  occasions. 
  Men, 
  young 
  and 
  old, 
  with 
  kid 
  gloves, 
  stiff 
  

   hats, 
  stiff 
  collars, 
  stiff 
  shirts, 
  stiff 
  shiny 
  shoes 
  ; 
  women, 
  young 
  and 
  

   old, 
  with 
  kid 
  gloves, 
  feathery 
  hats, 
  rustling 
  petticoats, 
  lace 
  shirt- 
  

   waists, 
  kid 
  bootees. 
  Some 
  of 
  these 
  ultramodern 
  Indians 
  will 
  not 
  

   be 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  reservations 
  but 
  out 
  in 
  the 
  strenuous 
  white 
  man's 
  

   world 
  struggling 
  side 
  by 
  side 
  with 
  the 
  pale 
  invader 
  as 
  college 
  

   students, 
  teachers, 
  nurses, 
  clerks, 
  accountants, 
  engineers, 
  electricians, 
  

   newspaper 
  men, 
  athletic 
  trainers, 
  bandmasters, 
  musicians, 
  doctors, 
  

   philologists, 
  anthropologists 
  and 
  what 
  not. 
  And 
  among 
  these 
  

   modern 
  people 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  Five 
  Nations 
  one 
  must 
  conduct 
  his 
  

   researches 
  in 
  ethnology, 
  folklore 
  and 
  philology. 
  It 
  is 
  late, 
  far 
  too 
  

   near 
  the 
  hour 
  when 
  a 
  new 
  epoch 
  will 
  dawn 
  and 
  there 
  will 
  be 
  no 
  

   more 
  red 
  men 
  as 
  such. 
  Yet 
  in 
  the 
  short 
  time 
  that 
  remains 
  it 
  is 
  our 
  

   purpose 
  to 
  save 
  at 
  least 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  tattered 
  fringe 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  

   fabric 
  that 
  was, 
  and 
  from 
  this 
  small 
  part 
  learn 
  something 
  of 
  its 
  

   entirety. 
  It 
  will 
  be 
  apparent 
  that 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  collecting 
  ethnological 
  

   material 
  from 
  the 
  Indians 
  themselves 
  is 
  concerned, 
  there 
  is 
  little 
  to 
  

   be 
  obtained, 
  except 
  slowly 
  and 
  in 
  small 
  quantities. 
  

  

  The 
  purpose 
  of 
  archeology. 
  Specifically, 
  archeology 
  is 
  the 
  

   science 
  which 
  relates 
  to 
  the 
  conditions, 
  culture 
  and 
  circumstances 
  of 
  

   prehistoric 
  man. 
  Man 
  is 
  a 
  problem 
  to 
  himself. 
  His 
  remote 
  origin, 
  

   his 
  ancestry, 
  his 
  early 
  struggles 
  for 
  existence 
  and 
  his 
  evolution 
  are 
  

   from 
  the 
  standpoint 
  of 
  science, 
  things 
  veiled 
  and 
  obscure. 
  Man 
  

   struggles 
  to 
  learn 
  the 
  causes 
  which 
  impel 
  him 
  to 
  certain 
  actions, 
  the 
  

   facts 
  of 
  his 
  origin, 
  evolution, 
  distribution 
  and 
  development, 
  in 
  order 
  

   to 
  get 
  a 
  better 
  understanding 
  of 
  himself 
  as 
  an 
  individual 
  and 
  as 
  a 
  

   race. 
  What 
  man 
  was 
  has 
  an 
  important 
  bearing 
  on 
  what 
  man 
  is 
  and 
  

  

  