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Canada, Ontario, Six Nations Reserve, Cayuga Indians, 1933-1934

Title
[Canada, Ontario, Six Nations Reserve, Cayuga Indians, 1933-1934] [sound recording] / collected by Frank G. Speck and Alexander J. General.
Format
Musical Recording
Physical description
38 cylinders : 85 rpm, coarse groove, mono. ; 2 1/4 in. x 6 in. + documention
URL
Access for [Bloomington] - (Available to authorized users)
Performer
Performed by Chief Deskaheh (A.J. General), Jerry Aaron, Levi Baptize, Timothy General, and other native musicians.
Recording info
Recorded by Speck and General in 1933-1934 at the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford, Ontario; sound quality fair to good.
Notes
Cayuga songs from the midwinter ceremonial. Accompanied by musical transcriptions prepared by G. Herzog and a manuscript bearing the title "Cayuga Long House Ceremonies." Indexed in Dorothy Sara Lee, Native North American Music and Oral Data (I.U. Press, 1979) and Indiana University, Bloomington, Archives of Traditional Music, Early Field Recordings (I.U. Press, 1987). Deposited at the Archives of Traditional Music under Option 1.
Local note
lcy 0113--0150; EC 10" 515--517
Contents
  • Adowa thanksgiving songs
  • Harvest songs
  • Medicine society songs
  • Raccoon dances
  • Social dances
  • Naked dances
  • Corn dances
  • Pigeon dances
  • Wasase dances
  • Stirring ashes ceremony
  • Fish dances
  • Duck dances
  • False face dances
  • Tutelo four night's song
  • Tutelo eating fire dance songs
  • Osage war dances
  • Mohawk song for new chief
  • Delaware dance song
  • Women's dance song
  • Dark dances
  • Planting songs
  • Sq aw dance
  • Eagle dances
  • Crocodile dance
  • Delaware and Chippewa adowas
  • Mohawk medicine songs
  • Buffalo society dances
  • Skin dance
  • Feast songs
  • Tuscarora women's songs
  • Beating pole dance
  • Redressing and spirit adoption songs
  • Bear society dances.
Subject
Cayuga Indians. Rites and ceremonies--Ontario. War songs--Ontario. Iroquois Indians. Ontario.
Local subject
N.M.9. Medicine songs, Cayuga. Eagle dance. Buffalo dance. Bear dance. Harvest songs--Ontario.
Related name/work
Aaron, Jerry. Baptize, Levi. General, Timothy. Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 General, Alexander.
Related name
Indiana University, Bloomington. Archives of Traditional Music.

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Archives of Traditional Music
Call Number
54-029-F ATL 8907 --8908
Location
Stacks
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Library
Blmgtn - Archives of Traditional Music
Call Number
ATL 8907
Location
Stacks
text this call number
Library
Blmgtn - Archives of Traditional Music
Call Number
ATL 8908
Location
Stacks
text this call number