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Publishers Note

Although in most cases we have retained the Authors original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern readers benefit.

We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

IROQUOIS CRAFTS

BY

CARRIE A. LYFORD

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER

MAP

ILLUSTRATIONS

Beaded edging on womans legging (MAI)

1. Map showing Iroquois reservations today (EHC)

2. Onondaga palisaded village (BAE)

3. Iroquois longhouse (NY)

4. Single family dwelling (RM)

5. Cayuga longhouse of logs (BAE)

6. Diorama showing Iroquois Indians harvesting corn (AMNH)

7. Seneca woman pounding corn (MAI)

8. Collecting maple sap in birchbark container (AMNH)

9. Clay pot (RM)

10. Pump for making fire (MAI)

11. Early Seneca costume (MAI)

12. Seneca woman with baby (BAE)

13. Seneca womans costume

14. Womans leggings (AMNH)

15. Iroquois combs (AMNH)

16. Mohawk buckskin shirt (AMNH)

17. Iroquois mans buckskin coat (AMNH)

18. Onondaga mans coat (AMNH)

19. Woven sash with beaded design and border (MAI)

20. Mans beaded hat (AMNH)

21. Moccasins: Oneida, Iroquois, Iroquois, Onondaga (AMNH)

22. Moccasins: Seneca, Seneca, Seneca, Mohawk (AMNH)

23. Quilled bag (MAI)

24. Embossed beading on bag (MAI).

25. Seneca leggings; Iroquois sash (AMNH)

26. Detail of weaving (AMNH)

27. Belts: Iroquois, Onondaga (AMNH)

28. Diorama showing carving of falseface (AMNH)

29. False face, Laughing Beggar (BAE)

30. False face, Red Spoon Mouth (BAE)

31. Woven Iroquois corn husk mask (BAE)

32. Braided Iroquois corn husk mask (BAE)

33. Water drum (BAE)

34. Seneca horn rattles (BAE)

35. Seneca bark rattles (BAE)

36. Seneca turtle rattle (BAE)

37. Seneca lacrosse bat (BAE)

38. Bonework of early period (RM)

39. Iroquois war club (AMNH)

40. Loom for weaving wampum belts (MAI)

41. Wampum belt with Evergrowing Tree design (NY)

42. Clay pipes (RM)

43. Iroquois elm bark vessel (AMNH)

44. Iroquois elm bark ladle (AMNH)

45. Seneca bark tray (BAE)

46. Maple sugar utensils (AMNH)

47. Uses made of tump lines (AMNH)

48. Tump line with moosehair decoration (197 inches long) (MAI)

49. Seneca pack frame (BAE)

50. Baby carriers: Seneca, Iroquois, Iroquois (AMNH)

51. Felling a tree by burning and scraping (AMNH)

52. Allegany hominy sifter with hexagonal plaiting (WF)

53. Corn washing basket of black ash showing twill weaving (CM)

54. Iroquois corn mortar and pestle (AMNH)

55. Carved wooden spoons: Seneca, Mohawk, Iroquois (AMNH)

56. Seneca wooden spoons (BAE)

57. Snowshoes and burden baskets (AMNH)

58. Seneca corn husk foot mat (AMNH)

59. Husk basket (BAE)

60. Seneca husk moccasins (AMNH)

61. Corn husk bed mat (AMNH)

62. Corn husk doll (AMNH)

63. Seneca head dress (AMNH)

64. Garter woven of bark or nettle cord, decorated with fine embroidery in moose hair (CNHM)

65. Cayuga womans skirt (AMNH)

66. Womans beaded leggings (MAI)

67. Beaded edging (MAI)

68. Embossed beading on mans cap (AMNH)

69. Beaded cloth bag (AMNH)

IROQUOIS DESIGNS

1-2. Designs used on metal ornaments

3. Shell runtees

4-6. Quill designs

7-8. Celestial tree designs

9. Designs on belt and breech cloth

10-13. Border designs

14. Beaded patterns

15. Bead and appliqu borders

16. Beaded designs on hair ornaments

17. Scroll designs 95

18. Floral designs 96

19. Designs used in moosehair and quill embroidery

Illustrations through the courtesy of:

(AMNH) American Museum of Natural History, New York City

(BAE) Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D.C.

(CM) Charles Mohr

(CNHM) Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Illinois

(MAI) Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City

(NY) New York State Museum, Albany, New York

(RM) Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester, New York

(WF) William Fenton

Line drawings of Iroquois designs were prepared by Mr. Albert van der Loo of the Construction Division, Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The map of Iroquois reservations in New York State was drawn by Mr. E. H. Coulson of the Forestry Division, Bureau of Indian Affairs.

INTRODUCTION

HISTORY OF THE IROQUOIS

Indian history on the North American continent reveals nothing more stirring and colorful than the story of the League of the Iroquois, the five (and later six) tribes or nations which, under Dekanawideh, founder and law giver, had been welded into a powerful confederacy about 1570. The tribes had been weakened by continuous wars with the Algonquin and their own kinsmen, and the League was formed for the double purpose of acquiring strength and for the establishment and enforcement of peace. The nations that formed the League were politic and judicious. They expected all other nations to acknowledge the Leagues supremacy and join it beneath the symbolic peace tree.

The League of the Iroquois was governed by a carefully worked out constitution that was transmitted orally from one generation to another by certain leaders (lords or sachems) whose business it was to learn and to recite the laws and regulations. For many generations these laws and regulations were recorded in a collection of wampum belts and strings, twenty-five of which are preserved today in the New York State Museum, whose director has been proclaimed the keeper of the wampums.

In spite of the ideal of peace, the history of the League, during the seventeenth century, was one of intertribal warfare. The members of the League showed themselves fierce and formidable. They obtained firearms from the Dutch with whom they came in contact early in the century and, thus armed, they developed a power destined to make them the scourge of the Indian tribes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from Ottawa to Tennessee. They are known to have penetrated as far west as the Black Hills and to have attacked the Catawba in South Carolina and the Creek in Florida. The golden age of the League was from 1650 to 1755, after which its power declined. In the eighteenth century the tribal locations and movements were determined by the French and British Colonial policies in their struggle for the control of the continent.

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