Book
The Iroquois ceremonial of Midwinter
Syracuse University Press • Syracuse, N.y. • Published In 1970 • Pages:
By: Tooker, Elisabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Traditionally the Midwinter Ceremonial was the largest and most complex of Iroquois rituals. This study is divided into three major parts. In part I the author describes some of the basic principles of Iroquois ritualism, which are then interpreted in terms of the various components of the ceremonial itself (part II). In this section Tooker discusses cultural variations between different members of the Iroquois League (e.g., Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga), and changes that have been introduced in the ritual during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part III of this work presents the Midwinter Ceremonial in historical perspective. Here, through the eyewitness accounts of Halliday Jackson, Mary Jemison, Thaddeus Osgood, Lewis Henry Morgan, and J. V. H. Clark the Midwinter Ceremonial is described in detail as it was originally performed during the eighteenth through nineteenth centuries.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural participation
- Dance
- General character of religion
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1994
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1966 (p. xi)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- variable
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Elisabeth Tooker
- Includes index.|Bibliography: p. 179-183
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70119873
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians