Creator:

Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005  Search this

Artist:

Smith, Ernest, 1907-1975 (Seneca)  Search this

Depicted:

Long, Will West (Cherokee)  Search this

Culture:

Iroquois  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Paintings

Slides (photographs)

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Includes: 1. Correspondence and notes on the eagle dance. Ca. 1937-1951. 2. Plates 1-28, Bull. 156 and figures 1 and 2. 3. (In oversize file) Two original paintings by Ernest Smith, Seneca. Published in Bull. 156 (Copy Negatives 43,792 and 43,792-A) 4. First draft and author's final draft of manuscript. For disposal when Bull. 156 published. Date destroyed: November 9, 1953. 5. Negative of portrait of Will West Long, Cherokee. Sent to Photo Lab for filing Neg. Number 42612. Slides: "The Seneca Eagle Dance." From oil painting in Bureau of American Ethnology Archives by Ernest Smith, Seneca artist of Tonowanda, N.Y. (Reproduced in Fenton, "The Iroquois Eagle Dance," Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 156, 1953, Pl. 27.) "Dew Eagle dances on the deer." From water color by Ernest Smith, Seneca artist of Tonowanda, N. Y. (Reproduced in Fenton, "The Iroquois Eagle Dance," Bureau of American Ethnology Bull. 156, 1953, Pl. 1)

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4398 OPPS NEG 43,792 OPPS NEG 43,792-A OPPS NEG 42612

Topic:

Eagle dance -- Iroquois  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Paintings

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Manuscript 4398, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4398

See more items in:

MS 4398 Materials relating to The Iroquois Eagle Dance, an Offshoot of the Calumet Dance, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 156

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3dfdf0633-29ed-4d39-ac29-014016278f18

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4398