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Title: ... The code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca prophet
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
Subjects: Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 Iroquois Indians -- Religion Iroquois Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Publisher: Albany, University of the state of New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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aknife, and a hatchet that the boy may look upon these things whenI speak and perhaps the truth will come (see plate 14). One ofthese things will move though not touched and he shall be thewitness. So the head men did as bidden and placed the objects asdirected. In the middle of the floor they spread a blanket and putthe articles upon it. Then they gathered around it and watched,and as they watched he spoke and the bullet moved. Thus ithappened. Then spoke Ganiodaiio, This brings the confirmationof the rumor. Truly the youth has murdered his father, andfurthermore I say that the crime was committed between Ganos^and Hanenkgaek.* On the south side of a mountain, where halfway up an elm is broken, leaning over on the downhill side to thewest lies the body buried in the leaves of the top branches. He, thefather, is buried in the leaves. So he said when he spoke. The ^ Cornplanter village. 2 Cattaraugus village, the principal town of the Cattaraugus region. Franklin, Pa. ♦Oil City, Pa.
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THE CODE OF HANDSOME LAKE 53 chiefs and head-men appointed a delegation to see if all he had saidwere true. So they went as they had been told and found the bodyof the father and brought it back with them. Eniaiehuk. SECTION 57 Now another message to tell your people. You may ask three questions concerning three privileges whenyou go among your relatives at the ceremony of NTskowukni^ andask what one is fitted for then. Who among you likes best to call upon the afflicted? Whoamong you loves to commune alone in the forests ? Who amongyou is most anxious concerning religious conditions? So they asked him. Eniaiehuk. SECTION 58 Now another message. Now this matter will devolve upon you. The people will assemble in council and ask, Who amongus is able to say, I compel you to assemble? Now when the question is set forth each person must makereply. The chiefs must demand it. Now it happened that he fulfilled the requirements and all thepeople assembled and with one accord acclaimed that Gan

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