Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House by Speck, Frank G.

Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803292314)

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Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House by Speck, Frank G.

Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House

$18.95
Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House by Speck, Frank G.

Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution. In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario. Collaborating with Alexander General (Desk疉eh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of special interest are the medicine societies that not only prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness. In a new introduction, William N. Fenton discusses Speck's distinguished career.

Author: Frank G. Speck
ISBN-10: 0803292317
ISBN-13: 9780803292314
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1995
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.94h x 5.97w x 0.53d
By Frank G. Speck
By Frank G. Speck
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William N. Fenton, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of anthropology, SUNY at Albany, is the author of The False Faces of the Iroquois.

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