W.C. Sturtevant’s scientific contributions

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SENECA INDIAN SINGING TOOLS AT COLD SPRING LONGHOUSE. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE MODERN IROQUOIS
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January 1953

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H.C. Conklin

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W.C. Sturtevant

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... Additionally, for the Creek, leg rattles were buried with the woman who owned the rattles (Swanton 1928a:396). However, shamans and leading men of the Iroquois, Seneca, and Shawnee use turtle shell rattles, although a young man or woman used rattles in the Seneca's Beggar Faces dance (Conklin and Sturtevant 1953;Voegelin 1942). In the archaeological record, rattles are recovered from burial contexts of both women and men, although more rattles are recovered from burials of young females in the Southeast (Brown 2011;Bruhns 2007). ...

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Creation to Rhythm: An Ethnographic and Archaeological Survey of Turtle Shell Rattles and Spirituality in the United States
SENECA INDIAN SINGING TOOLS AT COLD SPRING LONGHOUSE. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE MODERN IROQUOIS
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  • January 1953