| Collection Descriptive Notes | Chief Sundown acts as “speaker” for the two dancers; i.e., the George brothers in recordings of Seneca Thanksgiving rituals, made in August 1959 at the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation in Western New York state by Wallace L. Chafe. The tapes form the basis of and illustrate the monograph, Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals, by Chafe (1961), Texts 1-6.1. |
| Collection Technical Notes | Masters were dubbed from the 3.75 ips, half-track copies sent from UC-Berkeley and lent to the LLA by Mary Druke; JJT, rec. eng., Feb. 1976. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s. |
| Contributor | Sundown, (Chief) Corbett; (Chief) Ellsworth George, and Delahanty George, consultants |
This collection has no playable audio.
| Title | Contributor | Medium |
|---|---|---|
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-1.1 | Sound | |
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-1.2 | Sound | |
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-2.1 | Sound | |
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-2.2 | Sound | |
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-3.1 | Sound | |
| see-chafe-thanksgiving-3.2 | Sound | |
| Seneca thanksgiving rituals | Chafe, Wallace L. (author) | Microform |
| Seneca thanksgiving rituals (Bulletin 183, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology) | Chafe, Wallace L. (author) | Text |
| Seneca thanksgiving rituals [1] | Chafe, Wallace L. (researcher); Sundown, Chief Corbett (speaker); George, Chief Ellsworth (singer); George, Delahanty (singer) | 1/4 inch audio tape |
| Seneca thanksgiving rituals [2] | Chafe, Wallace L. (researcher); Chafe, Wallace L. (recorder); George, Chief Ellsworth (singer); George, Delahanty (singer); Sundown, Chief Corbett (speaker) | 1/4 inch audio tape |
| Seneca thanksgiving rituals [3] | Chafe, Wallace L. (researcher); Sundown, Chief Corbett (speaker); Chafe, Wallace L. (recorder) | 1/4 inch audio tape |