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Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1943-1963
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Cook, Julius | Michael, Glynn | Ka-Hon-Hes | Fadden, Ray
Subject:Adoption | Kinship | Politics and government | Government relations | Art | Indian artists | Museums
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Photographs | Correspondence | Speeches
Extent:5 items
Description: Materials relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Mohawk history and culture. Items include documents, newspaper clippings, and photographs regarding Wallace's adoption by the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, including a copy of Ray Fadden's (Tehanetorens, Aren Akweks) speech; Wallace's correspondence with Glynn Michael regarding the death of Chief William Loft; Wallace's correspondence with Chief Julius Cook requesting Wallace's aid in defeating some unspecified Senate bills; Wallace's correspondence with John Fadden (Ka-Hon-Hes) regarding the exhibition and sale of John Fadden's paintings; and images (paintings, photographs) relating to Fadden's exhibition at State Museum, including works such as "Hunting Party Surprised by Bear," "Iroquois Delegation to the Aztecs," and "Youth Dreams of his Guardian Manito (an eagle)."
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1903-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Poole, Earl L. | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Social life and customs | Pennsylvania--History | Moravians | Clans | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Art | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Newspaper clippings | Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Shawnee language, history, and culture. Includes an essay on Speck's visit to an excavation site at Fort Hill, Pennsylvania in July 1903 in which he identifies the site as Shawnee; a letter from Carl Voegelin and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin transmitting lists of Shawnee dances to Speck; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin concerning field data on Shawnee use of false faces; an undated report by Wheeler-Voegelin on general burial traits, including a brief account of field experiences and an 8-page outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure; a letter from Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning Shawnee legends, asking about silk applique techniques, and enclosing news clippings; and 16 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Shawnee notes and correspondence, including two letters from Earl L. Poole (Reading Museum), together with a transcript of a 1747 letter of Conrad Weiser taken from American German Review: 12: 4, 18-19, April 1946, regarding meeting of Shawnees and Count Zinzendorf; a postal card from "C" on grasshopper war; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin; a letter from War Eagle concerning Bread Dance; 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; and notes on Shawnee clans.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)