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Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1921-1949
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin), 1877- | Deardorff, Merle H., 1890-1971 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Isserman, Ferdinand M. (Ferdinand Myron), 1898-1972 | Luongo, James M. | Redeye, Clara | Clark, Evangeline | William, Spencer F. | White, Clayton | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Redeye, Sherman
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Social life and customs | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Dance | Rites and ceremonies | Religion | Masks | Medicine | Place names | Folklore | Oklahoma--History | Specimens
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notes | Field notes | Charts | Photographs
Extent:16 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Seneca language, history, and culture. Several folders contain correspondence, including one with six letters from Jesse Cornplanter to Speck and others on topics such as his religious beliefs and changes in the way of life; praising Speck; pay for Native consultants; sending Christmas greetings; and husk faces. Other correspondence includes letters from Charles E. Congdon concerning Coldspring Longhouse ceremonies, use of stick and post in dance, Tonawanda and Cattaraugus medicines, congratulating Speck on his Iroquois (1945), describing Alleghany ceremonials, and giving a sketch of the arrangement of participants; from James M. Luongo concerning Seneca and other specimens; from Clara Redeye transmitting a 1941 picture of four generations and sending dolls; from Spencer F. William, a Seneca writer seeking work; from Evangeline Clark sending thanks for reprints, which she had sent to Suffolk University; from Merle H. Deardorff concerning consultant Clayton White, Pennsylvania place names, Speck (1942), and a lengthy discussion of the practices of Handsome Lake adherents; and from Speck to Deardorff concerning an Iroquois conference at Allegany. Other folders contain William N. Fenton's Seneca ceremonial calendar from Coldspring, 131 pages of organized, detailed field notes on ceremonies; Congdon's 4-page essay comparing the religion of Handsome Lake with Judaism and Greco-Roman spirits; Clayton White's description of the one-year death feast; Clayton White's description of a False Face Dance at Coldspring Long House, taken for Deardorff; Speck's miscellaneous notes containing words and two letters from Sherman Redeye to Speck concerning corn-husk masks; Speck's notes on the Oklahoma Seneca with an outline of ceremonials and a chart, with special attention to dances and funerary practices; and Ferdinand Isserman's student paper "Mythology of Seneca Indians." Some of these materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Date:1964-2015
Contributor:John, Hazel V. Dean | Nichols, David A. | Pollak, Margaret | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Wyler, Barbara | Heron, George
Subject:Dance | Health | New York (State)--History | Oklahoma--History | Politics and government | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text | Still Image | Cartographic
Genre:Dissertations | Essays | Interviews | Maps | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:1427 pages
Description: Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under John, Nichols, Pollak, Roark-Calnek, and Wyler.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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
Date:1951
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject:Dance | Ethnography | Music | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Essays
Extent:1 volume, 200 p.
Description: Analysis of music; scores of songs; choreography. This item is restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Seneca music and dance style: songs and ceremonies of Coldspring longhouse (Mss.497.3.K965s)
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:
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)
Culture:
Date:1946-1991
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Greene, Elton | Mithun, Marianne | Rudes, Blair A. | Crouse, Dorothy | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Kenohenyo, Nora Carrier | Printup, Marjorie | Smith, Dan | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Gansworth, Nellie
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Folklore | Ethnography | New York (State)--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Description: The Tuscarora materials in the Lounsbury Papers include a dictionary by Chief Elton Greene, J.N.B. Hewitt's Tuscarora version of the Seneca Cosmology, and Blair Rudes's notes as he was developing his Tuscarora Dictionary in Series II. The recordings in Series VII include Lounsbury's work with Tuscarora speaker and teacher Marjorie Printup, which includes work on grammar, stories with explanations, Christian phrases, pedagogy, and reminiscences, etc. Also included are a significant number of tapes Lounsbury made with Tuscarora speaker Nellie Gansworth, many unidentified.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)