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And this has been the great law of peace. So, this object, which was in Albany, for a long period of time, went back in the year 1989 to where it belonged all along, uh, at the
Onondaga Nation. So I'll pass some copies of this around, if anybody wants to take a peek and asks some questions about it, but let's get your questions first, or comments,
about the four kings and their portraits.
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[Audience member] Did you say something about the mezzotints? [Sullivan] I'm sorry? [Audience member] Did you say something about the mezzotints?

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[Sullivan] Oh, the mezzotints, well, actually, yes. Uh, this is another of the ripple effects, these [[?]] portraits were the big hit. They were commissioned by the Queen. But they, there was such a popular clamor in London and in England, to know more about the four Indian kings that, uh, a number of engravers took it upon themselves to make copies, and this is a man named Simon. These, uh, mezzotints, are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery and they're not bad.

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Uh, there is another set which is mostly, I think, at uh John Carter Brown Library at at Brown University, uh which dates from the same period. Um, but it was like all fads, you know, it was-it was Iroquois madness in London for a period of time and you had to be seen with them, you had to have been in the theater when they went to see Hamlet, uh so forth and so on. And so there was this proliferation.

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We are extremely lucky, as Ian said earlier, that the Canadian Government has generously loaned us these originals, which are part of Canadian heritage, because today there is a Six Nations reserve, an Iroquois reserve at Brantford, Ontario, uh, which was uh, the refuge of those who fought on the English or losing side in the Revolution, and there are also Mohawk bands who live on the north side of the St. Lawrence River.

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[Audience member] I can certainly see that the British would have loved to hear that the Indians wanted missionaries. [Sullivan] Yes. [Audience member] But.