Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation

This is one of earliest ethnographic publications on the entirety of Iroquois, or more aptly Haudenosaunee, food ways such as cultivation, preparation and preservation, utensils and materials, recipes, and the social or ceremonial customs surrounding food and sustenance. The ‘author’ Frederick W. Waugh gathered substantial traditional knowledge from a number Haudenosaunee informants from the Six Nations Reserve in New York, and New York, and Canada. In addition to material culture, Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation contains valuable linguistic and medicinal information useful for language revitalization and recovery of traditional knowledge. Ironically, Waugh did not publish his research, but left a huge compilation of field notes, manuscripts, photographs and correspondence. He was an ethnologist in the Geological Survey of Canada, which published this ethnographic work.