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Artist:

Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1844-1917

Sitter:

Seneca Ray Stoddard, 1844-1917

Medium:

Albumen silver print

Type:

Photograph

Date:

1879

Topic:

Exterior\Landscape

Equipment\Camera

Seneca Ray Stoddard: Visual Arts\Artist\Photographer

Portrait

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Larry J. West

Object number:

S/NPG.2007.111

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National Portrait Gallery

Record ID:

npg_S_NPG.2007.111

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Artist:

George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872

Sitter:

Seneca Steele

Medium:

oil on canvas

Dimensions:

21 3/4 x 16 3/4 in. (55.3 x 42.5 cm)

Type:

Painting

Date:

1831

Topic:

Ethnic\Indian\Seneca

Portrait male

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

Object number:

1985.66.269

Description:

George Catlin described Seneca Steele as having a “hatchet in his hand.” The artist probably took this portrait in Washington, in February 1831. (Catlin, 1848 Catalogue, Catlin’s Indian Gallery, SAAM online exhibition)

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Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1985.66.269

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Artist:

Unidentified

Medium:

daguerreotype

Dimensions:

plate: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

ca. 1850

Topic:

Cityscape\town

Landscape\river\Seneca River

Landscape\New York\Seneca Falls

Landscape\waterfall\Seneca Falls

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Object number:

1994.91.232

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1994.91.232

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Artists/Makers:

Oscar Howe (Mazuha Hokshina), Yanktonnai Nakota, 1915-1983

Object Name:

Painting

Media/Materials:

Paper, watercolor, ink

Techniques:

Painted

Dimensions:

30.1 x 45.2 cm

Culture/People:

Yanktonnai Nakota

Object Type:

Painting/Drawing/Print

Place:

South Dakota; USA

Date Created:

1948-1952

Catalog Number:

24/9006

Collection History:

Part of a series of paintings commissioned by Dr. Oscar Brousse Jacobson (1882-1966, artist, scholar, Native art patron, and director of the University of Oklahoma's School of Art from 1915 to 1954) for "North American Indian Costumes, 1564-1950," a book by Oscar B. Jacobson and Oscar Howe and published by Editions d'Art C. Szwedzicki. Nice, France, 1952. The original paintings were purchased by MAI from Dr. Jacobson before 1966.

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Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

Record ID:

NMAI_264932

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Creator:

Bartoli, F

Subject:

O'Bail, John

Kaiiontwakon

By What One Plants

Ki-on-twog-ky

Physical description:

1 8x10 in photograph

Culture:

Iroquois Seneca

Indians of North America Northeast

Seneca Indians

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1796

Local number:

NAA INV 9377100

OPPS NEG 928

Notes:

Known as John O'Bail, a chief. Also called Kaiiontwakon (By What One Plants or Ki-on-twog-ky). Born 1732-40; died 1836. Mixed blood. See Handbook of American Indians

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Negative 928, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) 1850s-1930s

Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_93872

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Artist:

Unidentified

Medium:

daguerreotype

Dimensions:

plate: 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.8 x 14.0 cm.)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

ca. 1850

Topic:

Architecture\industry\factory

Cityscape\town

Cityscape\New York\Seneca Falls

Landscape\river\Seneca River

Architecture\industry\Cowing and Co.

Architecture\industry\Sash and Blind Factory

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Object number:

1994.91.231

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1994.91.231

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Author:

Chafe, Wallace L.

Object Type:

Smithsonian staff publication

Electronic document

Year:

1961

Citation:

Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 183: 1-302.

Data source:

Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Record ID:

SILSRO_89939

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Artist:

William H. Rau, born Phildelphia, PA 1855-died Phildelphia, PA 1920

Medium:

albumen silver print

Dimensions:

sheet and image: 17 1/4 x 20 3/8 in. (43.8 x 51.7 cm.)

Type:

Photography-Photoprint

Date:

1899

Topic:

Landscape\New York\Watkins Glen

Landscape\lake\Seneca Lake

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Object number:

1994.91.152

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1994.91.152

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Donor Name:

Dr. William N. Fenton

Collector:

Fenton

Culture:

Iroquois (Haudenosaunee)

: Seneca

Object Type:

Doll

Place:

Coldspring Settlement, Allegany Reservation, New York, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1940-Aug-27

Topic:

Ethnology

Accession Number:

157457

USNM Number:

E380992-0

Specimen Count:

1

Record Last Modified:

29 Jun 2008

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Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Record ID:

nmnhanthropology_8416668

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Creator:

Bartoli, F

Physical description:

1 leaf

Culture:

Iroquois Seneca

Indians of North America Northeast

Seneca Indians

Type:

Works of art

Date:

1796

Local number:

NAA INV 08957700

Cite as:

Spc Ne Iroquois Seneca Bae (37)-(38), (41)-(42) National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Photographs of American Indians and Other Subjects 1840s-1960s

Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_79491

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Collector:

Hewitt, J. N. B (John Napoleon Brinton) 1859-1937

Creator:

Abrams, Chauncey

Physical description:

20 pages

Culture:

Iroquois Seneca

Indians of North America Northeast

Seneca Indians

Type:

Archival materials

Collection descriptions

Date:

October 1896

Topic:

Religion--Iroquois--Seneca

Cosmology--Iroquois--Seneca

Local number:

NAA MS 2330

Cite as:

Manuscript 2330, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_83590

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Publisher:

McKenney and Hall, 1836-1844

Lithographer:

Courbould, 19th century

Copy after:

Charles Bird King, born Newport, RI 1785-died Washington, DC 1862

Printer:

Charles Joseph Hullmandel, English, born London, England 1789-died London, England 1850

Sitter:

RED JACKET

SA-GO-YOU-WAT-HA

Keeper Awake

Medium:

hand-colored lithograph on paper

Dimensions:

sheet: 19 5/8 x 13 5/8 in. (49.9 x 34.6 cm)

Type:

Graphic Arts-Print

Date:

ca. 1837-1844

Topic:

Ethnic\Indian\Seneca

Miscellaneous\medal\Peace Medal

Portrait male

Portrait male

Portrait male

Occupation\other\chief

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase

Object number:

1985.66.153,293

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1985.66.153_293

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Creator:

Smith, Ernest

Physical description:

1 leaf

Culture:

Iroquois Indians

Seneca

Indians of North America Northeast

Type:

Works of art

Date:

1940

1940s

Local number:

NAA INV 08681100

NAA MS 4398 Oversize

Summary:

Indians Inside Longhouse Watching Four Men Perform Dance

Cite as:

Manuscript 4398 Oversize, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Materials relating to The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an Offshoot of the Calumet Dance, Bureau of American Ethnoloy Bulletin 156 [Fenton, William Nelson]

Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_76876

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Artist:

F. C. Flint

Sitter:

Blacksnake, 1753 - 1859

Medium:

Quarter-plate daguerreotype

Type:

Photograph

Date:

c. 1850

Topic:

Cased object

Portrait

Credit Line:

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Object number:

NPG.2010.24

Exhibition Label:

Blacksnake, a Seneca/Six Nations chief, was one of the few Indian leaders who remained on the American side in the War of 1812, fighting in several battles on the Niagara frontier.

Although Seneca soldiers were honorably mustered out, the War of 1812 was a disaster for American Indians. They suffered major defeats at Horseshoe Bend and the loss of their most gifted leader, Tecumseh. The Treaty of Ghent promised them peace, "to restore . . . all . . . [their] possessions, rights, and privileges," but Britain’s abandonment of Indian allies after the war ended its ability to resist an expanding America.

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Record ID:

npg_NPG.2010.24

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Author:

Chafe, Wallace L.

Object Type:

Smithsonian staff publication

Electronic document

Year:

1967

Citation:

Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 4: 1-126.

Abstract:

This work is an extended description of the structure of words in the Seneca language. A description of the grammar of Seneca words has already been published in the International Journal of American Linguistics (Chafe, 1960, 1961 a). A major omission from that work, however, was a comprehensive list of the verb roots, noun roots, and particles of the language, with specification of their grammatical peculiarities and examples of their use. The present work is designed to fill that gap. Its chief purpose is to make available a Seneca dictionary, or lexicon. Since, however, the dictionary contains many references to paragraphs in the Seneca Morphology mentioned above, it was thought useful to republish that work as part of this volume. Republication seems all the more useful in view of the fact that the original Seneca Morphology is scattered through eight numbers of two different volumes of the journal. Minor revisions and corrections have been made, but extensive changes, however desirable they might have been, were out of the question because the references in the dictionary were already keyed to paragraph numbers in the original version, as were the references given in the Grammatical Commentary of Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals (Chafe, 1961 b).
Seneca is at present the native language of a few thousand persons, most of whom live on the Allegany, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda Reservations in western New York State and on the Grand River Reserve in Ontario, Canada. There are few if any speakers now under 30 years of age. Seneca is historically important as the language of the Five (now Six) Nations of the Iroquois and as the language of Handsome Lake, the Iroquois prophet (Parker, 1913; for a history of the Seneca see Parker, 1926). Within the Iroquoian language family, Seneca is a member of the Northern Iroquoian subgroup, which includes also Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk, and Tuscarora among the languages still spoken. Seneca is most closely related to Cayuga, but the two are different enough to be considered separate languages. The dialect differentiation within Seneca itself is minor. Earlier works on Seneca include several brief grammatical sketches (Voegelin and Preston, 1949, and Holmer, 1952, 1953, 1954) and texts (Hewitt, 1903, 1918). A list of still earlier sources is available in Pilling (1888).
The material on which this work is based was obtained during four summers of fieldwork, 1956-59, on the three New York reservations. It consists of an extensive corpus of Seneca words and texts, including formal speeches, legends, historical accounts, and conversations. I am deeply grateful for the assistance provided by numerous speakers of Seneca, above all by Solon Jones and Leroy Button of the Cattaraugus Reservation, Lena P. Snow, Tessie Snow, and Edward Curry of the Allegany Reservation, and Corbett Sundown and Betsy Carpenter of the Tonawanda Reservation. Appreciation is also due to William N. Fenton, Floyd G. Lounsbury, the Smithsonian Institution, Yale University, and especially to the New York State Museum and Science Service, under whose auspices the fieldwork was conducted. Both the Smithsonian Institution and the University of California provided support for the completion of the manuscript, and thanks are due to Karlena Glemser, Myra Rothenberg, and Aura Cuevas for their help in this regard.
The lexicon of a language is a vast terrain which no one could hope to explore fully during a few scattered field trips. Although grammatical analysis can perhaps lead to a point of diminishing returns after a reasonable period of investigation, I doubt that such a point has even been approached for the vocabularies of any languages except those few which have a long tradition of lexicography. Certainly the experience which I and others have had with American Indian languages refutes the ethnocentric myth that such languages are poor in their means of expression. What is given in the dictionary of this work is simply what I was able to obtain in a period that was totally inadequate for the purpose.
In making this lexical material available, I have had several possible uses of it in mind. I should say first that I have not intended that anyone should use it for learning to speak the Seneca language, although I would be very happy if someone were to find it helpful for that purpose. Above all I have wanted to provide data that can be used in comparative Iroquoian studies. Such work is stymied, as it is in most American Indian language families, by the absence of detailed lexical material. This is the first modern dictionary of any Iroquoian language, and I fervently hope that other and better ones will follow. Reconstruction, subgrouping, and the possible establishment of relationships outside the family cannot proceed without them. Second, the listing of roots with examples of their use will serve to elucidate the morphological patterns of the language beyond the few examples provided in the morphology, and to show something of the scope and frequency of constructions mentioned there. I regret the absence of syntactic examples; this compilation is a byproduct of a preoccupation with morphology. Examples of syntactic patterns as well as further morphological examples may be culled from my "Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals" and from Hewitt's texts. Finally, this material may prove useful in "language and culture" studies of various kinds.

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10.5479/si.00810223.4.1

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Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Record ID:

SILSRO_113391

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Collector:

Hewitt, J. N. B (John Napoleon Brinton) 1859-1937

Creator:

Clute, Alexander H

Physical description:

30 pages

Culture:

Iroquois Seneca Law of the woman chief

Type:

Archival materials

Collection descriptions

Date:

1925

Topic:

Government--Iroquois--Seneca

Local number:

NAA MS 3510

Cite as:

Manuscript 3510, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_83597

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Microhabitat Description:

Dry or moist woods or prairies

Preparation:

Photograph

Common name:

Seneca snakeroot

Seneca-snakeroot

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Polygalales Polygalaceae

Published Name:

Polygala senega

Specimen Count:

1

Record Last Modified:

1 Jun 2013

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DC Flora

Botany

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NMNH - Botany Dept.

Record ID:

nmnhbotany_10385162

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Preparation:

Photograph

Place:

Dorcas Bay, Bruce Peninsula, CAN

Common name:

Seneca snakeroot

Seneca-snakeroot

Taxonomy:

Plantae Dicotyledonae Polygalales Polygalaceae

Published Name:

Polygala senega

Specimen Count:

1

Record Last Modified:

1 Jun 2013

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Plant Image Collection

Botany

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NMNH - Botany Dept.

Record ID:

nmnhbotany_10324728

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Creator:

Carpenter, Charles H

Collector:

Tilton, Willis G

Subject:

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)

Physical description:

1 photographic negative

Culture:

Iroquois Seneca (identification uncertain)

Indians of North America Northeast

Seneca Indians

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1904

Local number:

OPPS NEG T15191

Notes:

Photograph probably taken at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis

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Photo Lot 89-8, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Tilton collection before 1912

Data Source:

National Anthropological Archives

Record ID:

siris_arc_93866

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Artist:

Louis Siegriest, born Oakland, CA 1899-Berkeley, CA 1990

Medium:

screenprint

Dimensions:

image: 34 x 23 1/4 in. (86.4 x 59.1 cm)

Type:

Graphic Arts-Print

Date:

1939

Topic:

Ethnic\Indian\Seneca

Dress\costume\mask

Ethnic\Indian\Chippewa

New Deal\Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project

Object\written matter\poster

Ethnic\Indian\Eastern Woodlands

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ralph H. Lewis

Object number:

1973.23.8

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

Record ID:

saam_1973.23.8

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