During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the
study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the
religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois
confederation that occupied upstate New York until the American
Revolution. 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. Collaborating with Alexander General
(Deskaheh), the noted Cayuga chief, Speck describes vividly the
rites and dances giving thanks to all spiritual entities. Of
special interest are the medicine societies that not only
prescribed herbs but used powerfully evocative masks in treating
the underlying causes of sickness.
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