Women's Association (Indians)

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The Women's Federation is a medicine covenant of the Iroquois - Indians .

The ceremony of the women's union serves to preserve the happiness and health of women. The singers are all men. While they sing, the women dance. Horn rattles and water drums are used.

literature

  • Arthur C. Parker: Secret Medicine Societies of the Seneca . In: American Anthropologist, Col. 11, 1909, pp. 161-185. (Reprinted by Kraus Reprint Corporation, New York 1962)