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An outline of Seneca ceremonies at Coldspring LonghouseBook 1936 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Fenton describes the calendric cycle of Seneca ceremonies at Coldspring Longhouse, giving specific information on the functions of individual societies, form and contents of the rites, functions of specific rituals, and the differences in ceremonial ...Masked medicine societies of the Iroquoisarticle 1940 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article gives very detailed descriptions of masks worn by the Iroquois of New York and Ontario, and explains the functions of the masks in the curing rites of the medicine societies. Origin accounts of the masks and the societies are also given....Iroquois suicideBook 1941 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper discusses the frequency, causes, and methods of suicide that Fenton observed among the Tonawanda Seneca in 1935. The author goes on to explore the cultural pattern of the behavior through descriptions in historical documents...The Iroquois Eagle Dance an offshoot of the Calument Dancebook chapter 1953 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This monograph is a reworking of Fenton's doctoral dissertation at Yale. This work describes and analyzes the variations of the Eagle Dance at different Iroquois communities. These data are marshalled in such a way as to show their bearing on the eth...The concept of locality and the program of Iroquois researchessay 1951 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article is a summary of various aspects of Iroquois culture of interest to anthropologists. It includes a brief discussion of Fenton's concept of the League of the Iroquois as a 'kinship state.'...Locality as a basic factor in the development of Iroquois social structureessay 1951 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is an examination of of the effects of locality or residence on the development of Iroquois social structure. In developing this subject Fenton examines the village and its residents and in concluding the article he offers his theory on coreside...Contacts between Iroquois herbalism and colonial medicineessay 1942 • Fenton, William N.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article is primarily concerned with the treatment of illness and bodily injury by the Iroquois. There are also data on the contact between the Iroquois and early settlers in which European medicinal plants were introduced to and became part of t...Mohawkessay 1978 • Fenton, William N. & Tooker, Elisabeth
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This document presents a history of the Mohawk Iroquois from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century (ca. 1970s). It deals with the location of various settlements within the United States and Canada, Mohawk relations with the French, English, ...The Feast of the Dead or Ghost Dance at Six Nations Reserve, Canadaessay 1951 • Fenton, William N. & Kurath, Gertrude P.
Iroquois • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article presents a detailed study of the ceremonial observance of the Feast of the Dead at Onondaga longhouse, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario in 1945 and at Sour Springs (Cayuga)longhouse, also at Six Nations in 1949. Fenton and Kurath describe al...