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Date:1946-1989
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Foster, Michael K. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Skye, Howard | Green, Mrs.
Subject:Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography
Type:Text | Sound recording
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: The Cayuga materials in the Lounsbury Papers are located primarily in the "Cayuga" section of Series II, which contains extensive field notes and transcriptions made by both Lounsbury and Michael Foster of Cayuga stories and speeches given by Alexander General, Howard Skye, and Mrs. George Green, along with related discussions. See also Series VII, Audio Recordings, which includes some recordings featuring the Thanksgiving Address and the Condolence ceremony. See also correspondence in Series I, which includes Michael K. Foster's work on Cayuga Midwinter ceremonies, William Sturtevant's work with Oklahoma Seneca-Cayuga, and Marius Barbeau's materials on Cayuga and Tuscarora.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language:Cayuga
Date:1945
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs
Extent:2 sound tape reels (54 min.)
Description: The Cayuga materials in the William Fenton audio collection are located in "Series 4: Sour Springs Cayuga, Dark Dance." These materials were originally recorded on phonograph discs, and later transfer to reel-to-reels, and may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1936
Contributor:Randle, Martha Champion | Black, Edward | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Shanks, Robert
Subject:Dance | Music | Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Extent:4 sound tape reels (4 hr., 10 min.)
Description: Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse, recorded by Martha Champion Randle on phonograph discs in 1936. These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (Mss.Rec.17)
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Date:1862; 1913-1996
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Goldenweiser, Alexander A., 1880-1940 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019 | Day, Gordon M. | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Latham, Robert Gordon, 1812-1888 | Lyford, Carrie A., (Carrie Alberta) | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Thomas, George | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Pendergast, James F., 1921-2000 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2004
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Medicine | Masks | Place names | Cosmology | Crafts | Ethnography
Type:Text | Sound recording
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Lounsbury Papers are vast in scope ranging from ceremonial recordings in Series VII to secondary sources in Series II to Lounsbury's own linguistic work among the Haudenosaunee (see notes on Mohawk, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida, and Onondaga materials). The correspondence, in Series I, includes notes by Marius Barbeau on six Iroquoian language varieties, a recording of the Condolence Ceremony recited by George Thomas, Gordon Day's work on Iroquois place names in Vermont, William Fenton's work on Iroquois-Cherokee linguistic relations, a manuscript of Mary Haas' comments on FGL's "Iroquois-Cherokee Linguistic Relations," George Harnell's work on Iroquois culture, Gunther Michelson's work on Iroquois place names, James Pendergast's study of longhouse construction and LaSalle's 1669-1670, Morris Swadesh's notes on the Caughnawaga Iroquois in Brooklyn, NY, Elisabeth Tooker on Iroquois cosmology, a manuscript of Iroquois grammar by Carl Voeglin, William Wykoff's study of Iroquois prehistory.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1973
Subject:Dance | Folklore | Food | Material culture | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | New York (State)--History | Plants | Sullivan's Campaign of 1779 | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Stories
Extent:11 sound tape reels (29 hr., 41 min.)
Description: Interviews and discussions with the Seneca artist Ernest Smith on his paintings of Seneca customs, stories, ceremonies, crafts, food preparation, and other traditional ways. Smith was a Seneca from the Tonawanda Reservation in New York state. The paintings were done in the 1930s and are presently in the Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, New York. The recordings were made by William N. Fenton and his student, Jeanette Collamer, in 1973 at the museum in Rochester. The paintings are referred to on the recordings by the museum's catalog numbers for the paintings. Some of the paintings do not have assigned titles. Sound quality is fair overall, with severe distortion and prominent background noise on the final tape. Some of the recordings are restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Interviews concerning the paintings of the Seneca artist Ernest Smith (Mss.Rec.126)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Date:1941, 1945, 1948
Contributor:General, Alexander | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Thomas, David | Johnny John, Chauncey | Buck, George | Styres, Edward | John, Willie | Green, George | General, Jack | Jones, Albert
Subject:Music | Rites and ceremonies | Dance
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs
Extent:14 phonograph discs (2 hr., 20 min.)
Description: Audio recordings of Haudenosaunee speeches, ceremonies, and songs, recorded by William Fenton. The records are copies made at the Library of Congress from original field recordings made on a Presto Disk Recorder. Discs 1-4, recorded at Six Nations of the Grand River in 1945, consist of recordings of the Condolence Ceremony, demonstrated by Alexander General (Deskaheh) and David Thomas. Discs 5-10, recorded at Allegany in 1941, contain songs relating to the Little Water Medicine Society, sung by Chauncey Johnny John. Disc 11, recorded at Allegany in 1945, contains recordings of Drum Dance and Corn Dance sung by Chauncey Johnny John and Albert Jones. Disc 12-14, recorded at Six Nations of the Grand River in 1945 and 1948, consist of a variety of mostly social dance songs. The majority of this collection consists of culturally sensitive recordings for which reproduction and remote access is restricted.
Collection:Iroquois material (Mss.Rec.150)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Date:1951
Contributor:Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Personal names
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:5 sound tape reels (4 hr., 54 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: These recordings consist of a reading of an alphabetical listing of approximately 6200 Haudenosaunee personal names "in the Mohawk dialect", assembled by Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) from 1900-1951, and edited by Marius Barbeau. The accompanying manuscripts for these recordings are available in the "Iroquois personal names" collection (Mss.497.3.C772). (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)
Culture:
Date:1950
Contributor:Antone, Betsy | Antone, Billy | Antone, Harry | Antone, Rosa | Benedict, Charles | Benedict, Charles, Mrs. | Benedict, Ernest | Christian, Albert | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Curlyhead, Sadie | Cusick, Herbert | Dowdy, Lynn | Gansworth, Nellie | Henhawk, Floyd | Hickerson, Harold, 1923- | Homer, Pat | Jacobs, Elver | Jimerson, Laurence | Jimerson, Laurence, Mrs. | Johnny John, Amos | Johnny John, Colline | Johnny John, Richard | Jones, Albert | Lewis, Thomas | Lyons, Annie | Lyons, Louis | Mt. Pleasant, William | Owl, David | Owl, Jane | Redeye, Henry | Schanandoah, Chapman | Schanandoah, Chapman, Mrs. | Skye, Solon | Smith, Mr. | Smith, Mrs. | Smoke, Percy | Snow, Kenneth | Snow, Lena | Thomas, George, Jr.
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories
Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collections consists of texts in several Iroquoian languages (Cayuga, Cherokee, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora) recorded and played back to other speakers to test the mutual intelligibility of the languages for various speakers. The recordings comprise numerous texts in these languages, administered mutual intelligibility tests, stories, and conversations, all predominantly untranslated. Originally recorded on wire in the fall of 1950 at various locations in the United States and Canada. Later copied to sound tape reels. The Native speakers involved in these recordings are as follows. The Cayuga language speaker was Jane Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Cherokee speaker was David Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Mohawk speakers were Ernest Benedict and Sadie Curlyhead, recorded at Akwesasne (Saint Regis), and Ernest Benedict and Mr. & Mrs. Charles Benedict, recorded at Akwesasne (Cornwall, Ontario). The Oneida speakers were Harry Antone, Betsy Antone, Rosa Antone, Billy Antone, and Mr. & Mrs. Chapman Schanandoah, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and Albert Christian, recorded at Nedrow (N.Y.) The Onondaga speakers were Louis Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and George Thomas, Jr., Percy Smoke, Thomas Lewis, Pat Homer, and Floyd Henhawk, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Seneca speakers were as follows: Annie Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.); a Mr. & Mrs. Smith, recorded at the Oneida Nation of the Thames in southwestern Ontario; Richard Johnny John, Colline Johnny John, Amos Johnny John, Lena Snow, Kenneth Snow, Albert Jones, Hubert Cusick, Lynn Dowdy, Henry Redeye, Elver Jacobs, and Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Jimerson, recorded at the Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Jesse Cornplanter and Solon Skye, recorded at the Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Tuscarora speakers were Nellie Gansworth and William Mt. Pleasant, recorded at the Tuscarora Indian Reservation (N.Y.) (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Material on Iroquois Dialects and Languages (Mss.Rec.13)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1967
Contributor:Mad Bear, -1985 | Siemering, Bill | Wilson, Duffy
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Radio programs | Speeches | Stories
Extent:5 sound tape reels (2 hr., 41 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: A radio program in a 5-part series on the Haudenosaunee produced in 1967 by Bill Siemering (later a co-founder of NPR) at WBFO at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Each episode is based around interviews conducted at Tuscarora Reservation and Tonawanda with various Haudenosaunee people, including Mad Bear, Corbett Sundown, and Mr. and Mrs. Duffy Wilson. The five episodes are "Early History," "Trails of Tears," "Indian Affairs," "Religion," and "Legends and Speeches." (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Nation Within a Nation (Mss.Rec.234)
Culture:
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English | Oneida | Menominee | Potawatomi | Mahican
Date:1938-1996
Contributor:Abbott, Clifford | Picard, Marc | Ritzenthaler, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1911-1980 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Doxtator, Mercy, 1936- | Archiquette, Oscar | Beechtree, Andrew | Cornelius, Philip, 1934- | Skenadore, John A | Elm, Damas | Basehart, Harry W. | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Wonderly, Tony | Webster, Lafayette | Baird, Chauncey | Powless, Mrs.
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Pedagogy | Music | Wisconsin--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies | Songs | Plays | Essays | Hymns | Notes | Stories | Dictionaries | Notebooks
Description: The Oneida materials in the Lounsbury Papers include photographs in Series I. Series II contains plays and songs from the WPA Oneida Language Project and the Workers Alliance of the Oneida Indian Council. Also of interest are an Oneida dictionary by Mercy Doxtator, et al., a field notebook by Martin Joos, and Lounsbury's work on an Oneida dictionary. There are an abundance of recordings in Series VII including "Dekanawidah" as told by Demus Elm; the "opening" of the Thanksgiving address; sixteen conversations in Oneida; music. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Clifford Abbott's work, Oscar Archiquette's letter in Oneida, Harry Basehart work on Oneida language, medicine-compounding, false faces, [Oneida] hymnbooks, Leonard Bloomfield's study of alternative forms for Oneida numerals, William Fenton's studies of Oneida linguistics, Bryan Gick's the Harvey / Demus Creation / Tekanawita story in Oneida with a complete English translation, Tayokawe (Curtis John) language materials and recordings, Robert Ritzenthaler's Oneida recordings and translation of Oscar Archiquette's Oneida diary, Morris Swadesh on the Wisconsin Oneida language project, Tony Wonderly's list of Oneida personal names
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)