In this article from William Wilkinson’s scrapbook “One Hundred Great and Near-Great Events, Person and Places in Rochester History” (1947) he writes about an Indian feast. I am pretty sure that the Indians in this area didn’t live in wigwams.

His cartoon is meant to be funny not historically accurate. Beside including wigwams, he also included a car. Maybe that was a Pontiac. Also if you look close in the lower right corner there is a 6-pack of Genesee beer.

On a day in January 1813, the Senecas gathered on the site of Livingston Park , to hold their last sacrifice of the White Dog. At that time five small encampments still lingered on the fringes of the village, two years later these camps had disappeared. The last sacrifice of the White Dog, celebrating the return of the tribe from a hunting trip, lasted nine days. Several braves participated in a mask dance, each wearing a hideous and terrifying mask. They visited each wigwam in turn, where, by weird incantations with fire brands the evil spirits infesting the wigwams were supposed to be driven into the bodies of the dancers, who then by secret ceremonies transformed the evil spirits into one member of their group. He, in turn transmitted the spirits to the white dogs. Then the dogs were cast onto a sacrificial pyre and roasted. The Indians believed that their own sins had been consumed in the flames. Apparently the evil spirits did not inhere in the bodies of the dogs, for these were afterwards converted into a stew and eaten by the tribe.