With: 2 gelatin silver prints. One 4½x3½" showing Chief Logan sitting with an American flag, horn, pipe, tiny canoe, wearing beaded collar, leggings, headdress with a few feathers, etc. Other, 4¾x3¾" of Chief Logan standing wearing an elaborate feathered headdress, leggings, beaded collar, long pipe in mouth, wooden pole with horn attached. Verso is inked and penciled “Sa go-nah-qua-ten (Provoker) [he who makes everybody mad], Albert Cusick, Onondaga Res., Photo by DeCost Smith.” * And, book: Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian by Tim Johnson. 205 pp. Illus. from numerous photos (including 1 image “Chief Frank Logan…and children, 1888…by DeCost Smith”). 4to. Cloth, pictorial jacket. 1st Ed. Smithsonian Institution, [1998].
The Onondaga (Omundagaono or the People of the Hills) are one of the five original constituent tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy, based in and around Onondaga County, New York. Albert Cusick (“Provoker”), of the Eel clan, was ordained as deacon by Bishop Huntington in 1891. He was the first full-blooded Iroquois to be ordained as Episcopal priest. Born in Niagara County 1848, Cusick became a warrior chief of the Six Nations in 1862. Later adopted Christianity and became an English scholar who promoted education and temperance among his people.