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Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1929-1947
Contributor:Schoff, Harry L. | Cadzow, Donald A. | Skinner, Dorothy P.
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology | Mounds | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Reports | Notes | Photographs | Negatives | Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items relating to the excavation of Seneca-associated sites in New York and Pennsylvania under the Works Progress Administration. Skinner's 1929 "Reports of Pennsylvania Archaeological Survey," concerns the ethnological work of Dorothy P. (Mrs. Alanson) Skinner among Senecas at Quaker Bridge and Cornplanter Reservation, New York, with discussions of Frank G. Speck's field work among the Delawares and archaeological work at Clemson's Island, Pennsylvania. Schoff and Cadzow's collection of materials on the Irvine Mound Group in Warren County, Pennsylvania, consists of 100 photographs, 48 negatives, and 86 pages describing the excavations and artifacts, particularly of the Buckaloons site and the Nathaniel mound, and some letters to Edmund Carpenter from Frank M. Setzler, William N. Fenton, A. Wetmore, and Richard G. Morgan.
Collection:United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948 (Mss.913.748.Un3)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1941, 1945, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1956, 1962
Contributor:Bartlett, Charles E., -1976 | Buck, Joshua | Butler, Sadie | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Curry, Ed | Dowdy, Herb | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Gaus, Dorothy Shipley, 1928- | Gibson, Simeon | Jacob, John Ely | Jimerson, Avery | Jimerson, Danny | John, Richard | Johnny John, Amos | Johnny John, Chauncey | Johnny John, Richard | Johns, Albert | Jones, Albert | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Lewis, Tom | Logan, Joseph | Preston, Jack | Stevens, Fannie | Sundown, Roland
Subject:New York (State)--History | Ontario--History | Pennsylvania--History | Place names | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs | Speeches
Extent:13 hr., 27 min.
Description: The Seneca materials in the William Fenton audio collection are located in Series 1, 3, 5-7, and 11 of the finding aid. Most pertain to songs and ceremonies at Allegany, Tonawanda, and Grand River. Other noteworthy material includes an interview with Chauncey Johnny John on Seneca place names on the Allegheny River in Series 6. Recordings relating to ceremonial matters may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity considerations.
Collection:William Fenton audio collection (Mss.Rec.138)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:Bulk 1930s-1990s
Contributor:Abrams, George H. J. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Gibson, Simeon | Hauptman, Laurence M. | Heron, George D. | Jimerson, Dan M. | Lamb, Gerald | Lazarus, Arthur, Jr. | Ledsome, Thelma | Preston, Jack | Printup, Maribel | Printup, Wayne | Redeye, Clara | Redeye, Sherman | Seneca, Cornelius B. | Seneca, Martin | Seneca, Pauline | Seneca Nation of Indians | Seneca-Iroquois National Museum | Sonosky, Marvin J. | Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2004 | Waters, Somerset R. | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Johnny John, Chauncey
Subject:Botany | Kinship | Material culture | Medicine | Museums | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History | Place names | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Wampum | Music
Type:Text | Still Image | Sound recording
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Genealogies | Maps | Speeches | Songs
Extent:15+ linear feet
Description: Seneca materials make up the majority of the Fenton papers and can be found throughout all sections of the collection. Series I contains correspondence with numerous people on Seneca matters. Noteworthy Seneca correspondents include Simeon Gibson, Clara Redeye, Sherman Redeye, and other individuals such as those listed above. The largest body of material is in Series V, which includes Fenton's notebooks and other documentation from field work at Allegany, Cattaraugus, Tonawanda, and Grand River, beginning in the 1930s through late in his career. This section also includes extensive card files on "Materia Medica" or ethnobotanical information, and Seneca place names. Series VI consists of over 1000 photographs, the majority of which are from Seneca communities in the 1930s-1950s. Series VII contains one audio recording of Seneca songs. Series VIII includes additional field notes and other materials derived mainly from his 1930s fieldwork. Significant portions of these materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity, as Fenton's materials frequently pertain to areas of sacred traditional knowledge.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1959-1963
Contributor:Cusick, Chief | Dowdy, Herb | Jimerson, Avery | Jimerson, Walter | Redeye, Clara | Snyderman, George S., 1908-2000 | Sprague, Lorne | Sprague, Raymond
Subject:Medicine | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Interviews | Songs | Stories
Extent:4 sound tape reels (4 hr., 16 min.)
Description: Seneca dance songs recorded at Allegany territory and at Six Nations of the Grand River. Also includes a story, personal narratives, and interview discussions about sickness, medicine, witchcraft, and related Seneca ceremonies and customs. Portions of the recording collection pertaining to ceremonial matters are designated as culturally sensitive or potentially culturally sensitive and are restricted.
Collection:Seneca songs and stories (Mss.Rec.139)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1948
Subject:Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Extent:2 sound tape reels (48 min.)
Description: Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony and Chant of Handsome Lake, given by Sherman Redeye, and an origin of the False Faces, given by Clara Redeye. Recorded in September 1948 at Coldspring Longhouse, Allegany Reservation, New York. These tapes are identified by William Fenton as "originals or copies of recordings made for the Library of Congress: Nos. 21322, 21324." These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony; An origin of the False Faces (Mss.Rec.128)
Culture:
Date:circa 1925-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:7 folders
Description: There are some materials relating to Siouan languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials labeled as Siouan or Macro-Siouan. Researchers should also search for entries for specific Siouan languages and culture groups. Siouan materials are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is a folder containing a list of of Siouan-Iroquois words in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. In Subcollection II, correspondence with Hans Wolff concerns work on comparative Siouan and can be found in Series I. Correspondence; there are notes on Siouan in the "Miscellaneous languages" file in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries I. Eskimo-Aleutian; and there is a subseries on Macro-Siouan in the the same series (Research Notes). Subseries IV. Macro-Siouan contains files on Cherokee, Iroquoian, Oneida, and Yuchi grammatical notes.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject:Missions | Religion | New York (State)--History | Social life and customs | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Diaries | Travel narratives
Extent:181 pages
Description: This manuscript, entitled “An account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people,” was compiled by Halliday Jackson, a Quaker missionary, during his yearlong residence with the Seneca Nation in New York. Jackson's chronicle is well-written, detailed, and often fascinating. It includes descriptions of daily life, weather, customs, and minutes of councils. Another copy of this journal, worded differently, was edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published in Pennsylvania History 19 (1952): 177, 325.
Collection:Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799 (Mss.970.3.J25)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1952-1956
Contributor:Albert, Whitney | Brown, George | Buck, Gordie | Buck, Morris | Buck, Richard | Kenosha, David | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Lewis, Thomas | Link, Sam | Martin, John | Miller, Huron | Pamptopee, Betty | Roberts, Wilson | Shagonaby, Susan | Shalifoe, Thomas | Smoke, Percy | Thomas, Eli
Subject:Michigan--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording | Text
Extent:1 phonograph disc (45 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: A compilation LP record of Native American musical and dance recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath at numerous locations from 1952 to 1954, published in 1956. Also includes a 20-page booklet with extensive background information, biographical info on the performers, explanations of songs, musical analysis, and sheet music. All of the Onondaga and all but one of the Cayuga recordings in the collection are restricted due to cultural sensivity concerns.
Collection:Songs and Dances of Great Lakes Indians (Mss.Rec.22)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1950
Contributor:Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997 | Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997
Subject:Archaeology | Human remains | Mounds | Pottery
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Diagrams | Photographs | Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: A report to the American Philosophical Society, summarizing archaeological data on Pennsylvania tumuli contained in manuscripts deposited in its library (i.e., site reports in Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania [913.748 Un3]). All but essays, earlier theories, the position of the Iroquois; his conclusions; summaries of the Irvine Mounds group, the Sugar Run mounds; and essays on Sugar Run pottery and skeletal remains by James B. Griffin and T. Dale Stewart have been printed.
Collection:The ancient mounds of Pennsylvania (Mss.913.748.C223)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:Seneca
Date:November 10, 1933
Contributor:Cornplanter, Edward, 1856-1918 | Cornplanter, Jesse J.
Subject:New York (State)--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:102 pages
Description: "The Code of Handsome Lake." From a manuscript by Edward Cornplanter. Copy is from a document in possession of Edna (Mrs. Nick) Bailey, Tonawanda Reservation. In the hand of and signed by Jesse J. Cornplanter. Reproduction of the item is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:The code of Handsome Lake (Mss.970.6.H19.c)