Administered by Waterloo Library and Historical Society 31 East Williams Street Waterloo New York 13165
Located Canoga Cemetery Route 89 Canoga New York
Date:
Installed Oct. 1891
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1994.
National Park Service, American Monuments and Outdoor Sculpture Database, NY5083, 1989.
Monumental News, Nov. 1891, pg. 420.
Summary:
Grey granite "oak" tree trunk with two truncated limbs branching out from either side near the top. The sculpture stands on an octagonal granite base with four bronze relief plaques. The plaque on the front of the base features a high relief profile head of a snarling wolf at the top; and at the bottom, a relief of a peace pipe and crossed tomahawk (the latter a copy of one Washington presented to Red Jacket). Two other sides of the base feature relief tablets of the Great Seal of the United States and an engraving of a figure in Native-American dress handing a peace pipe to a figure in Western dress (copies of the two sides of the Red Jacket Medal presented to the chief by Washington in 1792). Clustered around the base of the monument are six boulders representing and bearing the names of the six nations of the Iroquois.
