American Toby Jug Museum 

Hiawatha character jug produced by Staffordshire Fine Ceramics of Tunstall, England, circa 1975. Hiawatha, also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy. He was a leader of the Onondaga people, the Mohawk people, or both. According to some accounts, he was born an Onondaga but adopted into the Mohawks. Within the Iroquois Confederacy, which originally included five tribes (Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca), Hiawatha was a leader from the Mohawk tribe. There, he was well known and highly thought of by all of the tribes. He was a great speaker, and would eventually become the representative for the Great Peacemaker. The tail of Hiawatha's headdress forms the handle of the jug. This Hiawatha character jug was produced from original Westminster Pottery Big Chief molds.