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 ANTHROPOLOGICAL NOTES

DURING the March meeting of the Cayuga County Historical Society, Mrs. Mary Clark Thompson of Canandaigua was awarded the Corn- planter Medal for marking the sites of Iroquois villages and burial sites and for her endowment of the Iroquois section of the New York State Museum. This award, like that to William Pryor Letchworth, was for philanthropy rather than for direct contributions to knowledge. The 1918 medal was awarded to Alvin Hiram Dewey, President of the Lewis H. Morgan Chapter of the New York State Archeological Society for his work in organizing a state-wide association of archaeologists and for his success in stimulating numerous students to a scientific study of the New York aborigines.

MR. ARTHUR C. PARKER, archaeologist of the New York State Museum commenced operations on Boughton Hill, Ontario county, early in May. Boughton Hill is the site of the Seneca capital destroyed by Denonville in 1687. During the autumn of 1919, Mr. Parker dis- covered numerous graves in the site and made a considerable collection that included numerous specimens of wood and fabric preserved by contact with brass and copper objects.

DR. TRUMAN MICHELSON, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, has left Washington with the intention of continuing his investigations among the Fox Indians near Tama, Iowa. About the first of July he expects to begin a rather extended visit to various other Algonquian tribes which will occupy about three months.

THE League of the Six Nations of Canada is now engaged in litigation with the Dominion authorities whereby it seeks to retain its national identity. This "confederacy" of the Iroquois claims ancient origin and that it has always been recognized by British authorities as independent. Its claim is that in its relations to Canada it has served as an ally of Great Britain and not as a subject people. The Six Nations Confederacy claims to occupy a domain and not a reservation and further that it has an effective constitutional government that antedates that of the Do- minion of Canada. This struggle of the descendents of the famous Iroquois League to retain its identity will be watched with interest.

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