Haudenosaunee materials, Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language: English
Date: 1796-1798
Contributor: Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject: Rites and ceremonies | Missions
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 2 items
Description: Two letters to John G. E. Heckewelder. The first inquires whether Heckewelder knows of the sacrifice of a large tortoise or other animal by the Onondaga. The other is regarding an Onondaga vocabulary and an Indian Bible which Heckewelder is to send. [Both from originals in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection Mss.B.B284d