Seneca materials, George S. Snyderman Papers
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language: English
Date: 1798; 1940-1980
Contributor: Snyderman, George S., 1908-2000 | Pierce, John, 1745?-1808 | Sharples, Joshua, 1747-1826 | Harris, Helen | Akweks, Aren | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Deardorff, Merle H., 1890-1971
Subject: Wampum | Folklore | Medicine | Witchcraft | Rites and ceremonies | Religion | Dance | Oklahoma--History | Pennsylvania--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Genre: Notes | Reports | Photographs | Stories
Description: The Seneca materials in the Snyderman Papers include information about the Kinzua Dam in Series III (the construction of which displaced 600 Seneca from the lands along the Allegheny River). A report on the Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma is in Series IV. The photographs in Series V include images of Longhouses in Allegany and Cold Springs as well as images of Seneca people with whom Synderman worked including Clara and Sherman Redeye, Henry Redeye, with over one hundred black and white silver gelatin prints, postcards, and color Polaroid of the Allegany Senecas and St. Lawrence Mohawks of New York, taken by William N. Fenton, Frank Speck, and Snyderman. See also the entry in this guide for general "Haudenosaunee materials, George S. Snyderman Papers".
Collection: George S. Snyderman Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.51