Finding Emily

Al - I on my monthly move through this area. The subject is not in my intrest are but your work is without reproach. Considering how bad I "inhale" at figures, when I see something like this, that belongs in a museum....I am truly humbled....

Do you give lessons????

Rounds Complete!!

For the Haudenosaunee, you are either born into the clan or adopted. In the first instance, your mother's clan is your clan, as we are matrilineal. Also, no two people of the same clan can marry, and this is highly stressed across the Longhouse Nations. For example, every person in a Wolf Clan, no matter what Nation they belong to within the Haudenosaunee, are considered almost like family to each other. Myself, I belong to the Coyote Wolf (Little Wolf) Clan of the Mohawk Nation, and presume I meet someone of the opposite gender from the Mohawk Timber or Grey Wolf Clans, or any Wolf Clan from the other member Nations. Any notion of a quick tango or prolonged romantic interest would be considered quite literally as incest. (There are the rare cases this has happen, however. Not to mention what Urbanlamb would do to me.)

As for clan identity, our people would display their relevant animal symbol on their clothing and the walls of the longhouse. This practice continues even today, with the symbol displayed in their homes and used as part of their signature.

Mohawk: Wolf, Bear and Turtle
Oneida: Wolf, Bear and Turtle
Onondaga: Wolf, Bear, Turtle, Deer, Eel, Hawk, Beaver, Heron and Snipe
Cayuga: Wolf, Bear, Turtle, Heron and Snipe
Seneca: Wolf, Bear, Turtle, Deer, Hawk, Beaver, Heron and Snipe
Tuscarora: Wolf, Bear, Turtle, Deer, Eel, Beaver and Snipe

This just scratches part of our societal makeup, and if you're interested, I will try to put together a synopsis outlining our laws and traditions.
 

Are there ways to identify the clans? The first I became aware of the clan system was in the Tony Hillerman novels, where a character would be identified as being "of the X clan for the Y clan." I couldn't figure if that was some indication that a person was expected to marry into the clan he/she was "for." I asked a reenactor at an event and he didn't know what that meant.

I sort of understand the Sioux societies, such as the dog soldiers and kit fox and some of the identifying traits of those, but beyond knowing there were clans which I guess helped in keeping marriages straight, I haven't seen any references about the Eastern clans.

aj, read your email and you're very welcome. If you ever want to learn more about the Haudenosaunee, don't hesitate to drop me a line. I've heard people say they can just "Google" the information, but I and many others just  at that: there's a lot more to us than any mainstream website will tell you. (Even many Haudenosaunee or individual Nations' sites don't tell you everything.)

By the way, decided yet which of the Clans (Wolf, Bear, Turtle) this fellow is from?

Best regards.

Jagdwolf

Huxy wrote:

ajlafleche wrote: That's the best photo I've seen in a long time! 75mm... what scale would that equal to?

Thanks, Huxy. 75mm is about 1/24 scale.

ajlafleche wrote:

That's the best photo I've seen in a long time!

75mm... what scale would that equal to?

NICE JOB!! All the color, but still stays suttle .... very nice.

Where did you get the base the whole thing sits on? Nice height and adds to the overall "feel" at the same time.

Kudos....