Memorial to Red Jacket's Mother, (sculpture).

Memorial to Red Jacket's Mother, (sculpture).

Kolb, Alphonse A., sculptor.

Memorial to Red Jacket's Mother, (sculpture).

Red Jacket's Mother, (sculpture).

Burial Site of Red Jacket's Mother, (sculpture).

Dedicated Oct. 21, 1933.

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Plaque: bronze; Base: stone.

Plaque: approx. 2 ft. 7 in. x 1 ft. 9 in. x 1 in.; Boulder: approx. 7 x 4 x 3 1/2 ft.; Base: approx. 10 in. x 5 ft. x 5 ft.

(On lower left edge of plaque:) A. A. KOLB (On plaque:) SENECA NATION WOLF CLAN/BENEATH THIS MONUMENT LIES/THE MORTAL REMAINS OF/THE MOTHER OF/SAGOYEWATHA - RED JACKET/ORATOR AND LEADER OF THE/SENECA INDIANS/WHOSE DOMAIN ONCE INCLUDED/THE REGION ABOUT KEUKA LAKE/WITH HIS FATHER AND MOTHER/RED JACKET SPENT HIS BOYHOOD/NEAR THIS SPOT/AND HERE THE FAMILY CABIN STOOD/1752/THIS, THE ACTUAL SITE OF THE/HOME OF RED JACKET'S MOTHER/BY THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED/TO HER MEMORY BY THE HEIRS OF/DR. J. C. WIGHTMAN, TO WHOM HER/BURIAL PLACE WAS DISCLOSED BY/ASA BROWN, A WHITE MAN,/ADOPTED BY THE JACKET FAMILY/ERECTED 1933/UNDER THE AUSPICES OF /NEW YORK STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL/ASSOCIATION signed

Attached to an oval boulder is a bronze inscription plaque adorned a the top with a relief depicting a wolf head and a sun rising over mountains. The bottom of the plaque features an image of a smoking pipe and a boiling pot. The boulder rest on a rectangular stone base.

Homage -- Ah-wey-ne-yonh

Ethnic -- Indian -- Seneca

Object -- Other -- Pipe

Object -- Other -- Cookware

Outdoor Sculpture -- New York -- Jerusalem

Administered by Yates County Genealogical & Historical Society, 200 Main St., Penn Yan, New York 14527

Located Branchport West Lake Road (Route 54A), Jerusalem, New York

The memorial marks the spot where Red Jacket's mother, Ah-wey-ne-yonh, lived and died. IAS files contain an article from the Chronicle Express (Penn Yan, NY), Special summer issue, 1964, pg. 1B; and excerpt from Miles A. Davis' "History of Jerusalem," 1912, pg. 37-41; and a Land Survey prepared by Alice J. Dunn dated Jan. 17, 1994.

Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985

Save Outdoor Sculpture, New York survey, 1993.

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