Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Ledger drawings
Date:
1904-1906
Scope and Contents:
Tablet containing 16 drawings including pictures of tipi designs, camp scenes, games, and Sun Dance ceremony. Inscribed, "Cheyenne Indian Sketches, Tipis No. 2" and "Drawn by Nakoimens = Bear Wings, alias Charles Murphy. Cheyenne, Cantonment, Okla"
Arrangement:
Subgroup
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2531 Vol. 10
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory Cantonment.
United States Oklahoma Canton.
Album Information:
MS 2531-10 000
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2531, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
One drawing on two leaves. Sun Dance ceremony, with dancers in ritual regalia shown inside the medicine lodge in center of a tipi camp with spectators outside. Inscriptions read: "Medicine lodge" "and dance."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 39A 018
NAA INV 08547019
NAA INV 08547020
OPPS NEG 55043
OPPS NEG 55043A
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Citation:
MS 39-a Book of drawings by an unidentified Cheyenne artist at Fort Marion, Florida, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution