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Manners & Customs of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the Year 1800

MLA citation style
Jackson, H. Manners & Customs Of The Seneca Nation Of Indians In The Year 1800. no date. 1800.
APA citation style
Jackson, H. (1800). Manners & Customs of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the Year 1800. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A320653
Chicago citation style
Jackson, Halliday. “Manners & Customs Of The Seneca Nation Of Indians In The Year 1800”, Chester County History Center - Halliday Jackson Collection, 1800. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A320653.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

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Title

Manners & Customs of the Seneca Nation of Indians in the Year 1800

Subject

America--New York (State)
Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Seneca Indians

Description

This handwritten manuscript, which is also present as a typescript, contains Halliday Jackson’s observations in a wide variety of areas relating to Seneca Native Americans who lived on the Allegany and Cattaragus reservations, including their clothing, the work of men and women, parenting, crops cultivated, the construction and appearance of houses, religious observances, funerary customs, marriage traditions, and food preparation. In addition, Jackson records what the Senecas looked like, their colorful face paint, and how they fashioned their hair.

Creator

Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835

Date

ca 1800

Location Covered

New York

Type

Text

Digital Format

application/pdf

Identifier

MSColl161_001_002

Language

eng

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contributing Institution

Chester County History Center

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.