F. W. Waugh's notebook on Tiionen'Ioté (Oneida) customs. Fieldnotes. 64 pages : handwritten, with drawings. CMC Control No. E200-17.1.001-E200-17.1.067. This information was obtained from Jacob Schuyler, David Williams and Anthony Day in...

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[F. W. Waugh's notebook on Tiionen'Ioté (Oneida) customs. Fieldnotes. 64 pages : handwritten, with drawings. CMC Control No. E200-17.1.001-E200-17.1.067. This information was obtained from Jacob Schuyler, David Williams and Anthony Day in Oneidatown, Ontario in 1912. Topics include: names of people who had their pictures taken, ceremonial procedures, "witchcraft" , torches, transportation methods including pack baskets, silversmith's tools, related vocabulary list and methods, manufacture of bows & strings, traps, weather-related beliefs, Handsome Lake, Jacob Schuyler on tanning techniques, Buffalo Dance & other medicine societies, beliefs concerning twins, reincarnation, Oneida way of wearing earrings, plant dyes, bees, food preparation, games, medical treatments, dreams, childbirth, clans at Oneidatown, Oneida numerals, weather signs and vocabulary, O'jiwe ceremony Waugh attended, cosmological story (in Oneida), notes on a headdress beadwork design (sketch), description "of costume worn by Allan Farmer, November 1912, Oneidatown."]

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Current Location: Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Canada

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: grasac_1361

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GKS Reference Number: 600

Record Creation Context

Created for GKS Pilot demonstration in April 2005

Approximate Place of Origin

47.4, -88.2

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