Senaca Fiction, Legends, and Myths. [Thirty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology]
first edition
1918 · Washington
by Curtin, Jeremiah and J.N.B. Hewitt
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918 First edition. Thirty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Quarto. 819pp. Extensive notes, index. Green cloth, gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, rear hinge just starting, else a fine copy. Legends, etc. of the Seneca, a tribe of the Iroquois, who occupied a region in central New York. This scholarly and important work consists of two parts. The first part comprises the matter recorded in the field by Jeremiah Curtin in 1883, 1886, and 1887. This was the first serious attempt to record with satisfactory fullness the Seneca folklore. Part 2 also consists of Seneca legends and myths, which are translations made expressly for this work from native texts recorded by Mr. Hewitt in 1896.. (Inventory #: 7769)