26 INDIANS OF THE WOODLANDS 



Power Room 



At the end of the corridor is the power room where may be seen demon- 

 strated the transformation of the potential energy of coal 

 into heat, light and motion. 



WEST CORRIDOR 



To the iiLclit or west of the Jesup statue are three halls devoted to Indian 

 collection-. To reach these the visitor passes through the West Corridor 

 which is devoted to the temporary display of recent acquisitions or small 

 collections of particular interest. Here hangs a -eric- of paintings of -Mount 

 Pclee, by the late Angelo Heilprin. 



On the Landing, at the head of the stairway is the William Demuth 

 collection of pipes and fire-making appliances from many parts of the world. 



SOUTHWEST WING 



Indians of the Woodland- 



The halls to the west contain collections from the North American 



Indians and together with 



Indians of the , , „ . , , , 



„ r ,. the hall in the south central 

 Woodlands 



wing present the nine great 

 culture areas of North America. (See 

 maps on the south wall.) The hall you 

 now enter represents chiefly the Indians in 

 the Southeastern and Eastern Woodland 

 areas, or all those formerly living east of the 

 Mississippi River and south of the Great 

 Lakes. They are, therefore, intimately 

 connected with the early history of the Carved birch bark kettle of the 



" .Penobscot Indians 



colonies. In the eastern section of this hall, 



are the New York State Indians of whom the Iroquois are the most impor- 

 tant because of their superiority in organization and power. 



The League of the Iroquois, or the Five Nations, comprised the Mo- 

 hawk, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga and Cayuga, later the 

 Tuscarora, when it was styled the Six Nations. This league 

 was formed probably as early as 1539 and with the purpose, as its founders 

 boa-ted, of bringing peace and breaking up the spirit of perpetual warfare. 

 The Oneida Indians were the only members of this league who, as a tribe, 

 adhered to the colonists in the war of the Revolution. 



In the wall case on the right are shown the dress, occupation- and 



dwellings of the Iroquois. A life-size model of an Iroquois representing a 



messenger is holding out a belt of wampum. This wampum, made chiefly 



__ of the shells of the "quahog" or common hard clam of OUT 



Wampum .,...'. , . , 



markets, was utilized in various ways: it was greatly prized 



as an ornament and a< trimming on garments; was an important feature 



