OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10151

Metadata
Title:		Seneca materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
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
Date:		1921-1949
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."
Extent:		16 folders
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10151
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		Seneca
		Haudenosaunee
		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:		Correspondence
		Essays
		Notes
		Charts
		Photographs
Type (DCMI):		StillImage
		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10151
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		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. 1921-1949. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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