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Materials relating to The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an Offshoot of the Calumet Dance, Bureau of American Ethnoloy Bulletin 156

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4398
Creators:
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Smith, Ernest, 1907-1975 (Seneca)
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes: 1. Correspondence and notes on the eagle dance. Ca. 1937-1951. 2. Plates 1-28, Bull. 156 and figures 1 and 2. 3. (In oversize file) Two original paintings by Ernest Smith, Seneca. Published in Bull. 156 (Copy Negatives 43,792 and 43,792-A) 4. First draft and author's final draft of manuscript. For disposal when Bull. 156 published. Date destroyed: November 9, 1953. 5. Negative of portrait of Will West Long, Cherokee. Sent to Photo Lab for filing Neg. Number 42612. Slides: "The Seneca Eagle Dance." From oil painting in Bureau of American Ethnology Archives by Ernest Smith, Seneca artist of Tonowanda, N.Y. (Reproduced in Fenton, "The Iroquois Eagle Dance," Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 156, 1953, Pl. 27.) "Dew Eagle dances on the deer." From water color by Ernest Smith, Seneca artist of Tonowanda, N. Y. (Reproduced in Fenton, "The Iroquois Eagle Dance," Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 156, 1953, Pl. 1)

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4398, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4398
OPPS NEG 43,792
OPPS NEG 43,792-A
OPPS NEG 42612


Keywords

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Eagle dance -- Iroquois Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Drawings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Long, Will West (Cherokee) Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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