Emancipated Iroquois
The Bundeskunsthalle exhibition “Auf den Spuren der Irokesen” presents almost 500 exhibits.
PEOPLE OF THE LONGHOUSE. Their enemies called them Iroqu, meaning rattle snakes, because they regarded the Iroquois as wily. The indigenous people of North America saw themselves as considerably more peaceful and called themselves Haudenosaunee, people of the longhouse. The log cabin was the hub of Iroquois life and a faithful model of it can be seen at Museumsplatz in Bonn until October 2013. It forms part of the exhibition “Auf den Spuren der Irokesen” at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn until 2 August. Visitors to the exhibition discover that although the almost 25,000 members of the Indian tribe were probably frightful opponents in war, they lived according to a modern model of equality. Older women ruled over the houses and their clans, and they could even depose chiefs. The exhibition contains some 500 exhibits from the United States, Canada and Europe.
