The Cayuga Condolence cane of Andrew Spragg. The roll call of the Iroquois chiefs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.9383400

OPPS NEG.956 C 2
label: Local Note
content: The cane came to the Cranbrook Institute in a collection obtained from Milford G. Chandler, a noted collector of ethnological materials among the Indian tribes of the Great Lakes Area. Mr Chandler first heard of the cane on a collecting trip to the Grand River in about 1917 or 1918. It was then in the possession of Andrew Spragg who at that time, refused to sell. About two years later, however, after the midwinter ceremony in February, the stick was acquired. With the stick was a manuscript, which according to Spragg, contained a list of chief's titles very similar to the list found in Morgan's "League of the Iroquois" (1851). The manuscript contained a sentence about each peg on the cane; it was formerly kept bound to the stick but was subsequently lost.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white original film negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Cayuga
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Made sometime after the middle of the nineteenth century, probably about 1860, its use was confined to the Lower Cayuga band on the Grand River...Although it is now a sacred relic, and it has been reproduced once more by the Cayugas, the Cranbrook specimen does not antedate the American Revolution and the dissolution of the League in New York. It cannot be referred, therefore, to the period of the founding of the League.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
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content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original specimen now owned by the Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.