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Award in Iroquois anthropology
The
Cornplanter Medal
was named for the Iroquois chief
Cornplanter
and is an award for scholastic and other contributions to the betterment of knowledge of the
Iroquois people
. It was initiated by
University of Chicago
anthropologist
Frederick Starr
with seed money from nine associates in order to engrave and print sketches of Iroquois games and dances. Starr had two main goals while he planned the medal:
One, he wanted to recognize and award the people who were contributing to research and knowledge of the Iroquois.
Two, he intended to prove that the tribe, contrary to some academic opinion, had artisans that showed abilities of a "true artist", by presenting and preserving the art of the Iroquois youth
Jesse Cornplanter
.
The medal was endowed through sales of the publication of the sketches in the booklet
Iroquois Indian Games and Dances
(c. 1903). The young artist of the sketches was credited as "Jesse Cornplanter, Seneca Indian Boy".
First presented in 1904 by the
Cayuga County
Historical Society in Auburn NY,
it was awarded every two years to people who fall into one or more of the following classes:
- Ethnologists, making worthy field-studies or other investigations among the Iroquois.
- Historians, making actual contributions to our knowledge of the Iroquois.
- Artists, worthily representing Iroquois life or types by brush or chisel.
- Philanthropists, whose efforts are based upon adequate scientific study and appreciation of Iroquois conditions and needs.
List of medal recipients
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- 1904
General John S. Clark, historian and archaeologist
- 1906
Rev.
William Martin Beauchamp
, archaeologist and ethnologist
- 1908
Dr. David Boyle
, archaeologist and ethnologist
- 1910
William P. Letchworth
, philanthropist
- 1912
Reuben Gold Thwaites
, historian
- 1914
J.N.B. Hewitt
, ethnologist
- 1916
Arthur C. Parker
, archaeologist and ethnologist
- 1919
Alvin H. Dewey, philanthropist
- 1920
Mary Clark Thompson
, philanthropist
- 1923
Professor Frederick Houghton, archaeologist
- 1926
Edwin H. Gohl, archaeologist and artist
- 1965
William N. Fenton
, ethnologist and historian
- 1966
William A. Ritchie, archaeologist
- 1967
Merle H. Deardorff, ethnologist and historian
- 1968
Aldelphena Logan, artist
- 1969
Kenneth E. Kidd, historian and archaeologist
- 1970
Anthony F. C. Wallace
, ethnologist and historian
- 1971
Floyd G. Lounsbury
, linguist and ethnologist
- 1975
Marian E. White
, archaeologist and historian; and
Walter K. Long
, artist
- 1977
Richard S. MacNeish
, archaeologist
- 1979
Bruce G. Trigger
, historian and archaeologist
See also
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References
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- Attributions
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