MS 3580 Iroquois Texts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3580
label: Other Title
content: Principles of the League
name: label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Informant
content: Davey, R.
label: Informant
content: Charles, Chief
label: Informant
content: Jacobs, John
label: Translator
content: Hill, Hilton M.
label: Names
content: Dekanawidah, 16th century?
label: Names
content: Hiawatha
topic: label: Topic
content: Government -- Iroquois
label: Topic
content: Kinship -- Mohawk clans
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: Davey, R.
label: Informant
content: Charles, Chief
label: Informant
content: Jacobs, John
label: Translator
content: Hill, Hilton M.
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Mohawk
label: Culture
content: Seneca
label: Culture
content: Oneida
label: Culture
content: Onondaga
label: Culture
content: Cayuga
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 133 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1925-26 -1917
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Texts."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3580
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: Notes on Dekanawida text; Hiawatha; notes on the League; notes to Seneca League traditions; translation by Hilton M. Hill, Seneca, official interpreter of the Six Nations Agency, Brantford; "down fended" explained; Mohawk Owachira and clans, 1932; Oneida titles (Jacob Hess, 1930); notes to texts, Charles, 1917 (1928); insert in the law of the woman chief, English; ascendancy of War Chiefs; Procedure by R. Davey, Cayuga chief, 1925-6. Also Principles of the League, text, typed, 19 pages.