Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . mong the Iroquois wherever the tribal governmentcontinues. These are deposited as public records, with the Onon-dagas, who are the law makers of the Six Nations, and are heldin safe-keeping by the guarding sachem, Ho-no-we-na-to, the hered-itary keeper of the wampum whose office as expounder of thelaw, is to read, or talk by the wampum at all the councils. These belts of wampum, or Ote-ko-a, the symbols of law, arewoven of purple and white cylindrical beads about three sixteenths 1 The national belts of the Iroquois were passed into the keepin
Myths and legends of the New York state Iroquois . mong the Iroquois wherever the tribal governmentcontinues. These are deposited as public records, with the Onon-dagas, who are the law makers of the Six Nations, and are heldin safe-keeping by the guarding sachem, Ho-no-we-na-to, the hered-itary keeper of the wampum whose office as expounder of thelaw, is to read, or talk by the wampum at all the councils. These belts of wampum, or Ote-ko-a, the symbols of law, arewoven of purple and white cylindrical beads about three sixteenths 1 The national belts of the Iroquois were passed into the keeping of the State Museum bythe chiefs and sachems of the Onondagas in June 1898. Ill January 1908 the chief of theOnondagas, Sa-ha-whe (Baptist Thomas), signed an indenture making the Director of theState Museum the wampum keeper of the Five Nations and conferring upon him and hissuccessors in office forever the title Ho-sa-na-ga-da (Ho-seh-na-geh-teh), Name Bearer,the official name for the wampum keeper [See N. Y. State Mus. 4th An. Rept Director].. Plate 10
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