Chiefs of the Six Nations in Council explaining their wampum belts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA INV.9384300

OPPS NEG.961 C 2
label: Local Note
content: Original cabinet photo by James N. Edy, Brantford, Ontario is owned by Musee du Seminaire, Quebec (Album 6-G, page 109). This cabinet has the notations by Hale on the reverse. Beauchamp's quotation above varies slightly--Indian names are added, the exact day in September noted and name of #6 is rearranged. Copy of Hale's notation is in photo information file. Xerox copy of cabinet provided by W. C. Sturtevant.--PJF 7/78
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy film negative
name: label: Creator
content: Edy, James N.
label: Names
content: Buck, John, Chief
label: Names
content: Deyonhehgon, Mohawk
label: Names
content: Hahriron, Onondaga
label: Names
content: Hill, Isaac
label: Names
content: Johnson, George H. M.
label: Names
content: Johnson, John Smoke
label: Names
content: Johnson, Seneca
label: Names
content: Kanonkeredawih, Seneca
label: Names
content: Kawenenseronton
label: Names
content: Sakayenkwaraton, Mohawk
label: Names
content: Skanawatih, Onondaga
label: Names
content: Snow, Joseph, Onondaga
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Edy, James N.
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Mohawk
label: Culture
content: Onondaga
label: Culture
content: Seneca
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Edy, James N.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Photographer: James N. Edy, Brantford, Ontario.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Sep 14 1871
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in William M. Beauchamp, Wampum and Shell Articles...New York State Museum Bulletin 41, volume 8, 1901, Plate 281.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Original hangs in Onondaga Council House in Ohsweken, Canada, according to W. N. Fenton.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Beauchamp, page 417, records that the photograph was procured by Horatio Hale in September 1871. He quotes a note by Horatio Hale on the back of the photograph used in his article: "This picture represents the chiefs of the Six Nations, on their reserve near Brantford in Canada, explaining their wampum belts. (Sept. 14, 1871). These chiefs were [left to right]: (1) Joseph Snow (Hahriron), Onondaga chief; (2) George H. M. Johnson (Deyonhehgon), Mohawk chief and government interpreter. Son of Number 4; (3) John Buck (Skanawatih), Onondaga chief and wampum keeper: (4) John Smoke Johnson (Sakayenkwaraton), Mohawk chief and speaker of the council; (5) Isaac Hill (Kawenenseronton), Onondaga chief and fire keeper; (6) Seneca Johnson (Kanonkeredawih), Seneca chief."

All are seated except John Smoke Johnson. All are holding wampum belts and all are wearing contemporary occidental dress, except that Seneca Johnson is wearing a turban-like headgear, probably a finger-woven sash, wrapped around his head.