. Bulletin. Ethnology. 16th century, the number of Seneca clans, which are organized into two phrati' for the performance of both ceremonial and civil functions, have varied. The names of the following nine have been recorded: Wolf, Iforniat 'ludion'nV; Bear, Hodidjionin'^gd'; Beaver, no(Hgcn^'f/eijd\- Turtle, Hadinid'^drn'; Hawk, Jladi'- shwf'n'^gaiin\- Sandpiper, HodPne'd'iu', sometimes also called Snipe, Plover, an(l Killdee; Deer, Iladiuion/gitxtUu''; Doe, Ilodino'"-^ ^ deogcV, sometimes Ilonnord'- gondje'"'\; Heron, Hodidalun'^gd'. Inalist of clan names made in 1S8S by Gen.
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 16th century, the number of Seneca clans, which are organized into two phrati' for the performance of both ceremonial and civil functions, have varied. The names of the following nine have been recorded: Wolf, Iforniat 'ludion'nV; Bear, Hodidjionin'^gd'; Beaver, no(Hgcn^'f/eijd\- Turtle, Hadinid'^drn'; Hawk, Jladi'- shwf'n'^gaiin\- Sandpiper, HodPne'd'iu', sometimes also called Snipe, Plover, an(l Killdee; Deer, Iladiuion/gitxtUu''; Doe, Ilodino'"-^ ^ deogcV, sometimes Ilonnord'- gondje'"'\; Heron, Hodidalun'^gd'. Inalist of clan names made in 1S8S by Gen. Dear]>orn from information given him by Mr Cone, an interpreter of the Tona- wandaband, the Heron clan is called the Swan clan with the native name given above. Of these clans only five had an unequal representation in the federal council of the League; namely, the Sand- piper, three, the Turtle, two, the Hawk, one, the Wolf, one, and the Bear, one. One of the earliest known references to the ethnic name Seneca is that on the Original Carte Figurative, annexed to the Memorial presented to the States-General of the Netherlands, Aug. 18, 1616, on which it appears with the Dutch plural as This map is remarkable also for the first known mention of the ancient Erie, sometimes called (lahkwas or Kahk- wah; on this map they appear under the name last cited, Gachui (ch = kh), and were placed on the n. side of the w. branch of the Sus(]uehanna. The name did not originally belong to the Seneca, but to the Oneida, as the following lines will show. In the early part of Dec. 1634, Arent Van Curler (orCorlaer), the or factor of the INIanor of Rensselaerwyck (his uncle's estate), set out from Ft Orange, now Albany, N. Y., in the inter- est of the fur-trade, to visit the Mohawk and the Sinnekens. Strictly speaking, the latter name designated the Oneida, but at this time it was a general name, usually comprising the Onondaga, the Cayuga, and the Seneca, in addition. At
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