Cornplanter Medal

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The Cornplanter Medal 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 and was first awarded in 1904. It was named for the Iroquois chief Cornplanter and was endowed through sales of works by the artist Jesse Cornplanter.

It is awarded 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

1904 General John S. Clark, historian and archaeologist

1906 Rev. William M. 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

References

Cornplanter Medal Wikipedia

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