Bøger af Frank G. Speck

In the 1930s and the 1940s Frank Speck observed the Midwinter Ceremony, the Cayuga thanksgiving for the blessings of life and health, performed in long houses on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

This study explores the traditional dances and ceremonies of the Eastern Cherokees. Many of the dances are no longer practised, so that the book provides a valuable record for researchers into the Cherokee tribal history and folklore.

Suitable for medicine societies that are prescribed herbs and used powerfully evocative masks in treating the underlying causes of sickness, this title investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American Revolution.

The Yuchis, one of the more resilient peoples of the southeastern United Sates, were forcibly relocated to Indian Territory along with their neighbors in the 1830s. This book portrays Yuchi life and describes numerous facets of Yuchi culture, including language, subsistence practices, decorative arts, domestic architecture, and clothing.