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Title: The songs of hadiyen?gwa?ye:ni to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group II, songs 8-13
Identifier(s): audio:8174; APSdigrec_3547; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 01
Description: Original record 59, side A. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: Discussion of Hand-in-Hand Dance
Identifier(s): audio:8493; APSdigrec_2110; Series: 07; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 04
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Social life and customs; singing
Date: 1951-05-19

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: Discussion of Trotting Dance
Identifier(s): audio:8479; APSdigrec_2108; Series: 07; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 02
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Social life and customs; singing
Date: 1951-05-19

Title: Coldspring Longhouse Midwinter Festival: On the Husk Faces and their appearance on VIth night
Identifier(s): audio:8463; APSdigrec_2078; Series: 06; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: A report given by the researcher regarding events seen at and surrounding the Seneca Coldspring Longhouse Midwinter Festival.; Original recording contains a several minutes of silence. At time marker 3:45, three seconds of silence been inserted to represent 3:20 of silent tape that has been deleted. This is followed by 2:48 of tape with faintly audible speech. Fully audible speech recommences at time marker 6:36.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1950-01-29

Title: The songs of hadiyen?gwa?ye:ni to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group III, songs 7-12
Identifier(s): audio:8167; APSdigrec_3551; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 01
Description: Original record 61, side A. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: The songs of hadiyen?gwa?ye:ni to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group IV, songs 14-24
Identifier(s): audio:8165; APSdigrec_3554; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 02
Description: Original record 62, side B. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

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: The songs of hadiye'qwiyaneh to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group I, songs 17-24
Identifier(s): audio:8158; APSdigrec_3545; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: Original record 58, side A. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: The songs of hadiyen?gwa?ye:ni to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group II, songs 21-26
Identifier(s): audio:8160; APSdigrec_3549; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 01
Description: Original record 60, side A. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: Songs relating to the Iroquois Midwinter Festival
Identifier(s): audio:8425; local: APSdigrec_2061; local: 01; local: 01; local: 01
Description: Consists of songs and speeches selected from "Songs from the Iroquois longhouse," ed. William N. Fenton (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1942) interspersed with English translations and explanations by William N. Fenton.; Dream Song of Our Two Uncles the Big Heads (:57) -- English version of the Big Heads (3:53) -- Dawn Song -- White Dog Sacrifice (5:45) -- Great Feather Dance (12:40) -- Drum Dance (18:51) -- False Faces (27:05); This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information. "False Face" is a term for Haudenosaunee Medicine Masks that was applied by the original collector to this recording. The term is considered both inaccurate and offensive by many Haudenosaunee communities.
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--Religion; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1956-01-08; 1941

Title: Corn Dance and discussion
Identifier(s): audio:8464; APSdigrec_2076; Series: 06; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: Performance of the Seneca Corn Dance, followed by a discussion of its history and current use.
Source: Fenton, William N. Indian Language Field Recordings, 1948-1960. (Mss.Rec.138);
Subject: Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Social life and customs; Onondaga Indians--Music
Date: 1948-08-26

Title: The songs of hadiye'qwiyaneh to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group I, songs 9-16
Identifier(s): audio:8159; APSdigrec_3544; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 02
Description: Original record 57, side B. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: The songs of hadiye'qwiyaneh to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group I, songs 1-8
Identifier(s): audio:8182; APSdigrec_3543; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Description: Original record 57, side A. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: The songs of hadiyen?gwa?ye:ni to renew the Little Water Medicine, Group III, songs 1-6
Identifier(s): audio:8175; APSdigrec_3550; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 02
Description: Original record 60, side B. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: Fenton, William N. Iroquois Material, 1945. (Mss.Rec.150);
Subject: Iroquois Indians--Music; Iroquois Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Seneca Indians--Music
Date: 1941-02-17

Title: Seneca War Dance Cycle and discussion
Identifier(s): audio:8473; APSdigrec_2087; Series: 07; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: This recording has been identified as potentially 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 dance; Seneca Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Song cycles
Date: 1951-05-19

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 2) [Side B]
Identifier(s): audio:6428; local: APSdigrec_0260; local: 34; local: 02
Description: Woman Dance Series, singers led by Bill Shawnee -- Garfish Dance (Creek), antiphony led by Dutch White; Recorded at Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 13, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-13

Title: Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn: Ceremonial and Stomp Dance (tape 1) [Side A]
Identifier(s): audio:6426; local: APSdigrec_0253; local: 31; local: 01
Description: Ceremonial Woman Dances. Led by Ruby Diebold (women face male singers and sing with them, then file counter-clockwise around long house) -- Bean Dance (beginning) singers led by Bill Shawnee with horn rattle alternating concentric circles of men and women, counter-clockwise step; Recorded at Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Ground, Cowskin River, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, August 12, 1974. Hosts: Seneca-Cayuga Ceremonial Organization (Bob White, Chief and Speaker). Principal Singers: Bob White (Seneca-Cayuga); Dutch White (Seneca-Cayuga); Frank Thomas (Eastern Iriquois, tribe uncertain); Bill Shawnee (Shawnee/Delaware). Other Singers and Dancers: members of the host ground, other "Eight Tribes" of Ottawa County, Shawnees from White Oak Ground, visiting Eastern Seneca and Cayuga from Grand River and New York State Reservations. Instruments: water drum, claves, horn and gourd rattles, (ceremonial) snapping turtle rattle, (Lead Dance) can or turtle shell, leg shackles.; This recording has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive or private. Reproduction and remote access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Powwows--Oklahoma; Seneca dance; Seneca Indians--Music; Cayuga Indians--Music; Cayuga dance; Shawnee Indians--Music; Shawnee dance; Stomp dance
Date: 1974-08-12

Title: Seneca Conversation #3
Identifier(s): audio:6110; APSdigrec_0507; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 22
Description: Includes 8 social dance songs.; Original tapes in Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University.
Source: Hickerson, Harold, Glen D. Turner and Nancy P. Hickerson. Material on Iroquois dialects and languages, [1950]. (Mss.Rec.13);
Subject: Iroquoian languages--Dialects; Indians of North America--Languages--Mutual intelligibility; Typology (Linguistics); Seneca language; Seneca Indians; Seneca Indians--Music; typology
Date: 1950

Title: The Story of the Devil's Hole
Identifier(s): audio:4369; APSdigrec_0145; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 09
Description: Includes medicine song sung in Seneca. Devils Hole is a natural ravine or hole near the Niagara River."
Source: Wallace, Anthony F. C. Tuscarora material, [1948-1949]. (Mss.Rec.2);
Subject: Tuscarora language; Tuscarora Indians--Folklore; Landforms--New York (State); Seneca Indians--Music; Seneca Indians--History; Seneca Indians--Wars
Date: 1948-08-31