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Title: Dark Dance (Part II) Joking [2 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:8452; APSdigrec_2073; Series: 05; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1948-08-17

Title: Wenothowi'sas: Women's Rite
Identifier(s): audio:8461; APSdigrec_2081; Series: 06; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Description: A performance of the Wenothowi'sas Women's Rite, followed by a report by the researcher on its content and origin story.; There is a 6-second silent gap on the original recording, beginning at 19:09, which has been retained.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Folklore; Seneca women--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1948-08

Title: Dark Dance at Coldspring [3 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:8454; APSdigrec_2074; Series: 05; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: "This canto announces the arrival of the Little People who come from 10 nights away from the rocky places, through meadows, over swamps and streams." Program concludes with an account by the researcher in English of the origin of the Dark Dance.; This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Folklore
Date: 1948-08-17

Title: Dark Dance, a medicine society, at Coldspring [1 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:8453; APSdigrec_2072; Series: 05; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: Opening speech is described on the original tape box as a tobacco invocation to the Little People.; This recording contains significant periods of inaudible or minimally audible conversation. Opening invocation spans from :10 - 4:00. Music starts at 9:35 - 20:08, and again at 21:10 - 24:13. This recording has been identified as culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1948-08-17