MS 3709 A statement of several interesting matters connected with the history of the Six Nations Indians
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content: NAA MS 3709
label: Local Note
content: This communion set was exhibited for the first time by the Buffalo Historical Society in May, 1938, together with Bible which was presented with the set. (The presentation was made by Queen Anne in 1712) See newsclipping in file Number 3709.
name: label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Informant
content: Johnson, Smoke, 1792-1886
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Informant
content: Johnson, Smoke, 1792-1886
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Mohawk
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: See also First Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, page 327, which gives a brief sketch of John Smoke Johnson. States also that he recalled the use of the sign language among the Six Nations. (Iroquois).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1885
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3709
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: As related from memory by the aged Chief John Smoke Johnson (age 93) at a meeting of his Mohawk friends, convened on Monday March 16th, 1885. Refers to a silver plate communion set presented to the Indians by Queen Anne in recognition of their acceptance of Christianity.