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Pamphlets on the Seneca Indians

 Collection — manuscript box: 55 - folder 1
Identifier: 3148m

Scope and content

Pamphlet "The Indian bread root of the Senecas" (1890), describing various roots and how the Indians used them; "Rites of adoption by the Seneca Indians on the Cattaraugus Reservation" (June 15, 1885), with two pages of manuscript notes laid in; and "Dust from an old Indian trail" by Irving W. Coates (reprinted from the Ontario repository-messenger of March 15, 1894), describing a Seneca trail that ran from the Canandaigua Outlet at Littleville, New York to Phelps, New York, and commenting on the contrast in the landscape of the area before and after European settlement.

Dates

  • 1885-1894.

Language of Material

In English.

Extent

3 items. (3 items.)

Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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