Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ') Search this
Object Type:
Wampum
Place:
Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, Canada, North America
Accession Date:
4 Jun 1952
Notes:
From card: "Miniature set of strings of 'Requickening' wampum. Consists of short single strings of alternating purple and white wampum beads. Strings terminate at both ends in cut squares of soft doe skin. Quotation from Mr. Fenton's memoradum. '3) A miniature set of Requickening Strings in Church offering envelopes, dated 1919, evidently also from Chief A. Charles Cayuga. (I believe that these were used at the funeral of the chief and not in the large public ceremony of Condolence.).'"
The church offering envelopes that housed these miniature wampum strings are dated May and June 1919. "Local Notes", an internal Smithsonian staff publication, date July 10, 1919, p. 2 - 3, reports J. N. B. Hewitt's return to the office after fieldwork (he had left Washington, D.C. May 12, 1919, per p. 7 of the BAE 40th Annual Report) : "On July 5th, Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt, ethnologist of the Bureau of American Ethnology, returned to the Office from his field studies among the Onondaga, living near Syracuse, N.Y., and among the Mohawk, the Cayuga and the Onondaga, on the Grand River Grant near Brantford, Ont., Canada. ... On the Grand River ... He also purchased some fine museum specimens, including some strings of wampum belonging to the Ritual of the League."
