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Photo: The Seneca Hunter's Family.
This group, representing the hunting phase of Indian life, depicts a Seneca hunter and his family posed before their lodge. The hunter is coming with a fawn, the wife is preparing a skin for tanning, the older son in the costume of a warrior, is trying his bow, the daughter is preparing jerked venison and the younger son is chopping down a tree. Hunting, the quest for meat-food, was difficult and arduous. The background scene shows Genundewa, the sacred hill of the Senecas, on Canadaigua Lake; the time, early morning in the spring of the year.
Iroquois Indian Exhibit — Seneca Hunter Group — Scene, Canandaigua Lake. State Museum, Education Building, Albany, N. Y.