Collection of Iroquois folklore, 1912-1918

Mss.398.2.W353

Date: 1912-1918 | Size: 1 volume(s), 1 item, ca. 900 p. typed carbon

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Abstract

This collection was gathered by Waugh at Six Nations Reservation from Cayuga and Onondaga speakers, with a scattering of Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Includes 157 different items of fiction, folklore, and history. With this is a description of the Collection by Martha Champion Randle, May 1953, which contains a detailed Index. - taken from APS Proceedings, vol. 97, 5, 1953, 611-633.

Background note

Canadian Frederick Wilkerson Waugh worked as an ethnologist.

Collection Information

Physical description

1 item, ca. 900 p. typescript with handwritten corrections.

Provenance

Presented by William N. Fenton, 1951.

Location of originals:

The original notebooks from which these typescripts were made are housed at the Canadian Museum of History, which also holds a typescript likely produced at the same time as the APS typescript. The bulk of these materials at the Canadian Museum of History are digitized and online as well.

Alternate formats available

These materials are also available on microfilm (Film 1273, 1375).

Indexing Terms

Geographic Name(s)

Six Nations Indian Reserve No. 40 (Ont.)

Subject(s)

Cayuga Indians
Haudenosaunee
Iroquois Indians -- Folklore
Mohawk Indians
Oneida Indians
Onondaga Indians
Seneca
Tuscarora Indians