﻿No. 
  122.] 
  

  

  105 
  

  

  Ga-re-gwa, 
  or 
  spear. 
  

  

  No. 
  64 
  

  

  3 
  fee^ 
  

  

  The 
  spear 
  is 
  not 
  an 
  Iroquois 
  weapon 
  ; 
  although 
  in 
  later 
  years 
  

   articles 
  of 
  this 
  description 
  of 
  American 
  manufacture 
  have 
  some- 
  

   times 
  been 
  found 
  among 
  them. 
  Thej 
  had 
  no 
  name 
  in 
  their 
  lan- 
  

   guage 
  for 
  spear, 
  until 
  it 
  became 
  necessary 
  to 
  give 
  one 
  to 
  the 
  for- 
  

   eign 
  weapon. 
  The 
  one 
  figured 
  above 
  was 
  purchased 
  of 
  an 
  Onon- 
  

   daga 
  on 
  Grand 
  river, 
  and 
  is 
  said 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  used 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  war 
  

   between 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  Great 
  Britain. 
  

  

  Ga-ne-a-ga-o-dus-ha, 
  or 
  war 
  club. 
  

  

  No. 
  65. 
  

  

  The 
  deer 
  horn 
  war 
  club 
  was 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  ancient 
  weapons 
  of 
  the 
  

   Iroquois 
  at 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  their 
  discovery. 
  In 
  some 
  instances 
  in 
  

   later 
  times 
  a 
  steel 
  blade 
  was 
  substituted 
  for 
  the 
  deer 
  horn, 
  as 
  in 
  

   the 
  above 
  specimen, 
  thus 
  rendering 
  it 
  a 
  more 
  deadly 
  weapon 
  than 
  

   formerly. 
  

  

  Ga-snii 
  Ga-o-wo, 
  or 
  bark 
  canoe. 
  

  

  I 
  Plate 
  15. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  construction 
  of 
  >the 
  bark 
  canoe, 
  the 
  Iroquois 
  exercised 
  

   considerable 
  taste 
  and 
  skill. 
  The 
  art 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  com- 
  

   mon 
  to 
  all 
  the 
  Indian 
  races 
  within 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  the 
  republic, 
  and 
  

   the 
  mode 
  of 
  construction 
  much 
  the 
  same. 
  Birch 
  bark 
  was 
  the 
  

   best 
  material 
  ; 
  but 
  as 
  this 
  birch 
  did 
  not 
  grow 
  within 
  the 
  home 
  

   territories 
  of 
  the 
  Iroquois, 
  they 
  generally 
  used 
  the 
  red 
  elm 
  and 
  

   bitternut 
  hickory. 
  The 
  canoe 
  figured 
  in 
  the 
  plate 
  is 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  