﻿REPORT, 
  

  

  The 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  having 
  renewed 
  their 
  appropri- 
  

   ation 
  for 
  the 
  further 
  enlargement 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  collection, 
  and 
  

   again 
  committed 
  its 
  expenditure 
  to 
  the 
  undersigned, 
  he 
  asks 
  

   leave 
  to 
  submit 
  the 
  following 
  

  

  REPORT 
  : 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  an 
  easy 
  matter 
  to 
  bring 
  together 
  the 
  fabrics 
  and 
  inven- 
  

   tions 
  of 
  the 
  modem 
  Iroquois 
  in 
  sufficient 
  completeness 
  to 
  illus- 
  

   trate 
  the 
  present 
  condition 
  of 
  Indian 
  society 
  within 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  

   the 
  State. 
  Their 
  range 
  and 
  diversity 
  are 
  neither 
  so 
  wide, 
  or 
  so 
  

   complicated, 
  as 
  to 
  preclude 
  the 
  possibility 
  of 
  a 
  minute 
  exhibition 
  

   of 
  the 
  articles, 
  of 
  every 
  name, 
  which 
  are 
  either 
  of 
  original 
  or 
  

   secondary 
  manufacture. 
  If 
  the 
  effort 
  for 
  their 
  collection 
  is 
  con- 
  

   tinued 
  for 
  a 
  few 
  successive 
  years, 
  it 
  will 
  not 
  only 
  result 
  in 
  ex- 
  

   hausting 
  the 
  subject, 
  so 
  far 
  as 
  their 
  present 
  fabrics 
  are 
  concern- 
  

   ed, 
  but, 
  acting 
  backwards 
  upon 
  the 
  past, 
  it 
  will 
  draw 
  forth 
  many 
  

   ancient 
  inventions 
  which 
  are 
  now 
  held 
  in 
  the 
  memory 
  of 
  the 
  

   aged, 
  or 
  in 
  the 
  grasp 
  of 
  tradition. 
  

  

  When 
  every 
  thing 
  which 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  can 
  furnish 
  of 
  their 
  

   present 
  manufacture, 
  or 
  recall 
  through 
  tradition 
  from 
  the 
  past, 
  

   is 
  brought 
  into 
  one 
  collection, 
  it 
  is 
  but 
  a 
  commencement 
  of 
  the 
  

   interesting 
  work 
  of 
  gathering 
  together 
  whatever 
  will 
  illustrate 
  

   the 
  inventive 
  intellect 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  family. 
  In 
  a 
  general, 
  but 
  

   correct 
  view 
  of 
  this 
  subject, 
  it 
  is 
  unnecessary 
  to 
  discriminate, 
  ex- 
  

   cept 
  for 
  classification, 
  between 
  the 
  fabrics 
  and 
  inventions 
  of 
  the 
  

   Iroquois, 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  Indian 
  family 
  at 
  large. 
  They 
  are 
  uni- 
  

  

  