Set of 6: Iroquois Indian Exhibit: New York State Museum
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Iroquois Indian Exhibit - Oneida Industries at Nichols Pond
Depicts six Oneida figures engaged in traditional industries: basket making, weaving, flint chipping, wood carving, moccasin making, and pottery molding. The scene is set with Nichols Pond as the background. Iroquois Indian Exhibit - Corn Harvest, NY State Museum LIFE GROUP: NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM HARVEST TIME AMONG THE SENECAS. This scene, posed on the banks of the Genesee River below Squakie Hill, at Mount Morris, N. Y., shows the activities of the Senecas at harvest time. The men cleared the land and attended the fields until the corn was safe from the crows, when the women hoed and harvested. The figures in these groups were cast from carefully selected types of living New York Indians and the backgrounds are historic scenes. Iroquois Indian Exhibit - Onondaga Council House, Albany, NY Life Group: New York State Museum Council of the Onondaga Turtle Clan. Four principal chiefs of the great Onondaga nation have met for a clan council. The turtle clan has some matter of importance to bring before the nation. One chief is arguing the subject while the clan matron views his attitude with disfavor, instructing her spokesman what to reply for her and all the women of the clan. The bark house is genuine and was one inhabited by Indians. Iroquois Exhibit: Return of Mohawk Warriors, Sprakers Scene Here are represented some of the customs of the famous Mohawk Indians, noted for their ferocious warfare. A war-party has returned with two prisoners, one of whom has thrown down his burden and is about to be killed. With folded arms he awaits his fate when a clan matron coming up from the village holds forth the ransom wampum, saving his life for a family adoption. The background represents a Mohawk town on the hills south of the Mohawk river at Sprakers station. Iroquois Indian Exhibit - Seneca Hunter Group This group, representing the hunting phase of Indian life, depicts a Seneca hunter and his family posed before their lodge. The hunter is coming with a fawn, the wife is preparing a skin for tanning, the older son in the costume of a warrior, is trying his bow, the daughter is preparing jerked venison and the younger son is burning down a tree. Hunting, the quest for meat-food, was difficult and arduous. The background scene shows Genundewa, the sacred hill of the Senecas, on Canandaigua Lake; the time, early morning in the spring of the year. Iroquois Indian Exhibit - False Face Ceremony, Cayuga Lake This group depicts the period after the coming of the white man, who brought steel tools, cloth and beads. The Indians now lived in log houses and wore cloth clothing cut in native style. This ceremony represents the mid-winter purification rite of the False Face Companions, who build a new fire, sweep the lodge, sprinkle ashes upon the heads of the people, bring good cheer and drive out the witches of evil and disease. The building here used is a real Indian log house from the Tonawanda reservation. |
