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Photo: The Mohawk Warriors.
Here are represented some of the customs of the famous Mohawk Indians, noted for their ferocious warfare. A war party has returned with two Mohican prisoners, one of whom has thrown down his burden and is about to be killed. With folded arms he awaits his fate when a clan matron coming up from the village holds forth the ransom wampum, saving his life for a family adoption. The background represents a Mohawk town on the hills south of the Mohawk River at Spraker's station.
Iroquois Indian Exhibit — Return of the Mohawk Warriors — Scene, Sprakers, State Museum, Education Building, Albany, N. Y.