National Anthropological Archives

MS 2588 Onondaga and Mohawk Notes

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2588
Creators:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Buck, Joshua
Davey, Robert
Gibson, Simeon, 1889-1943
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Dates:
1916
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
74 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Notes on: Proscription following taking the Little Water Medicine (Onondaga text); Josha Buck's list of texts of myths relating to faces (False-faces); text (Acts XVII); Adonwa; Onondaga Bowl Game; footnotes on a text of White Dog Sacrifice (Onondaga); fragment of White Dog Sacrifice announcement (Manuscript by an Indian ?); names of months in Mohawk; note on Handsome Lake. 34 pages miscellaneous. Also text, Medicine and Tobacco, Onondaga, by S. Gibson, 1936/ 5 pages- interlinear by W. N. Fenton. Note to Genesis Story, native, 2 pages.

Administration

Custodial History
Previously titled "Notes."

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2588, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2588


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Religion -- Iroquois -- Onondaga Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Folklore -- Iroquois -- Onondaga Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Calendar -- Iroquois -- Mohawk Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Onondaga Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mohawk Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Iroquois Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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