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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days For the Seneca Iroquois Indians, song is a crucial means of renewing both medicine and heritage. Two or three times a year, the Little Water Medicine Society of western New York meets to renew the potency of its medicine bundles through singing. These bundles have been inherited from eighteenth century Iroquois war parties, handed down from generation to generation. In this long-awaited book, William N. Fenton describes the remarkable ceremonies of one of the least recorded but most significant medicine societies of the Iroquois Indians. Most of the Senecas who were members of the Little Water Society, or Society of Shamans, have passed away, and their knowledge of ceremonial healing and spiritual renewal is fading. Fenton has written this book to preserve knowledge of the ceremonies and songs for the Iroquois people and as a contribution to anthropology, folklore, ethnomusicology, and American Indian studies. In The Little Water Medicine Society of the Senecas, he presents his original 1933 fieldwork, along with details from the published and unpublished works of other researchers, to describe rituals, poetry, and songs drawn from his more than six decades of research among the Six Nations. Features Summary For the Seneca Iroquois Indians, song is a crucial means of renewing both medicine and heritage. Two or three times a year, the Little Water Medicine Society of western New York meets to renew the potency of its medicine bundles through singing... Author William N. Fenton Publisher University of Oklahoma Press Release date 20021001 Pages 256 ISBN 0-8061-3447-X ISBN 13 978-0-8061-3447-5

About the product Facsimile of the 1860 first edition published in Boston by the American Tract Society; The Black Heritage Library Collection. 8vo; original black cloth; spine silver gilt; no dustwrapper; pp. (ii) + 102. Some spotting to endpapers. Very good condition. A treatise on the history of the slave trade and its abolition, the original publication of which coincided with the increasing tension between the states of the Union on the eve of the American Civil War. Clark argues against any revival of the trade, and expresses America's guilt at the continuation of an internal trade in the human species by several states.

About the product First American edition: The British first edition was published by John Murray in the preceding year. 8vo; original brown pebbled cloth, ornately blocked in blind to boards, and lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 426 + publisher's catalogue; folding frontis.; folding map; numerous plates and illustrations in text. Cover very worn and bumped; binding shaken; bottom fore-corner torn from front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout; trace of damp-stain to gutters, becoming more extensive in the rear endpaper, appendix and final leaves. (Tenri Africana 2045; Mendelssohn I, p. 518) Pioneering account of all aspects of life in Madagascar at the time, detailing particularly the efforts of Ellis to establish a mission on behalf of the London Missionary Society. The ethnographical and natural history plates are a special feature, and the author's love of gardening is evident in the attention paid to the island's botany. William Ellis: Three Visits to Madagascar, during the Years 1853-1854-1856. Including A Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People