Includes Gibbs' draft of the same, 3 pages. "Map of the Indian Tribes in the neighborhood of Fort Yuma, Cal.," document 1 page. "Notes on the Indians of the Colorado," by Lieutenant Sylvester Mowry, Third Artillery. Fort Yuma, Calif. March 23, 1856. Autograph document signed. 10 pages including note of transmittal on page 8. (21 pages, total)
Gibbs states that his paper is based on data received from Milhau and Mowry; the latter in turn obtained data from Olive Oatman, Apache captive, 1851-55.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1043
Local Note:
manuscript document
Other Title:
Notes on the Indians of the Colorado
Genre/Form:
Maps
Citation:
Manuscript 1043, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Title supplied by J. N. B. Hewitt, and sections numbered and arranged by him. Unnumbered sections added later.
Sections entitled:
(1) Games and amusements, 3 pages;
(2,3) [Paiute; transferred in 1959 to file Number 831-c, -d];
(4) Means of Subsistence, 52 pages;
(5) Migration, 8 pages;
(6) Home, 5 pages;
(7) Government, 10 pages;
(8) Fear of the insane, 2 pages;
(9) treatment of the sick, 27 pages;
(10) Treatment of the aged, 4 pages;
(11) Killing the doctor (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, May, 1873), 3 pages;
(12) The boundaries of the earth, 5 pages;
(13) Na-gun'-tu-wip, the home of the departed spirits, 8 pages;
(14) Methods of marrying, 7 pages;
(15) Selection of food (1873), 3 pages;
(16) The morning address, 2 pages;
(17) Some of their faculties;, 4 pages;
(18) Notes on the gentes (in shorthand), 2 pages; Mythology of the Numas, 10 pages; Pine nuts are brought from a distant country (legend, 1873), 4 pages; Burying customs (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, 1873), 1 page; Religion of the Utes (talk given by Powell ?), 29 pages.
Third volume of four notebooks on arctic explorers in preparation for Hall's 1st expedition.
Local Numbers:
AC0702-0000025
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Davis visited the Diegueno and Luiseno in southern California; the Pi-pi (Pais), Kil-e-wah (Cahuilla), and Waicuri of Lower California, Mexico; the Yuma, Cocopah, Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mojave, Hualapai (Walapai), Yaqui, and White Mountain Apache in Arizona; the Cora, Huichol, Opata, Mayo, and Yaqui of Mexico; the Seri of Tiburon Island; the Chemehuevi of Nevada and California; the Modoc and Klamath Lake Indians in Oregon; and the Paiute in Nevada. His collection contains photographs of Apache, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cochimi, Cochiti Pueblo, Cocopa, Cora, Guaicuruj, Huichol, Kawia, Kiliwa, Kumeyaay (Diegueno), Luiseno, Maricopa, Mayo, Mission, Mohave, Opata, Paipai, Papago (Tohono O'odham), Pima (Akimel O'odham), San Carlos Pueblo, San Manuel, Seri, Ute, Walapai (Hualapai), Yaqui, and Yuma.
Arrangement note:
Collection arranged by item number.
Biographical/Historical note:
Artist, photographer, and artefact collector, Edward Harvey Davis was born on June 18, 1862 in New York. He traveled to California in 1884 for health reasons (Bright's disease i.e. actue of chronic nephritis (a kidney disorder)), arriving in 1885, and settled on 320 acres in an area called Mesa Grande, east of San Diego. Later that year he returned to New York to marry, bringing his new bride, Anna May Wells back to California with him. They would eventually have four children. Shortly after settling in California, Davis became interested in the the Kumeyaay (Northern Diguenos), the Mesa Grande Indians indigenous to that area, and spent the remainder of his life collecting artifacts, studying and photographing them. He collected so many items that his ranch house ran out of room for them, necessitating the building of another structure (adobe) to house them. As a result of this interest and care of the Mesa Grande Indians in San Diego County, in 1907, Davis was named a ceremonial chief by the Indians themselves. Originally trained as an artist, Davis first worked as a drafter and architect. Upon his arrival in San Diego in 1885, he fortuitously invested in and profited from the booming real estate industry of the time. Davis became known to George Gustav Heye when Heye initially purchased a collection of Indian artifacts from him for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in 1915. With the money from the sale of his collection, Davis was able to open a resort lodge called the Powam that same year. His real estate investments and his lodge enabled Davis to finance his fieldwork, most of which he did on his own. In 1916 however, Davis also became an official field collector for the Museum of the American Indian in New York. Sporadically, from 1917 to 1930, Heye contracted Davis to conduct field trips to California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Mexico, and Tiburon Island, visiting over two dozen different Indian peoples in the course of his travels. Wherever he went, Davis continued to photograph the Native peoples, but did not consider these photographs to be part of his contract with Heye. Heye later purchased the bulk of Davis's photograph collection. Davis also had sketched objects and landscapes during his travels as a method of preserving what he saw. Davis died in San Bernardino on February 22, 1951. In addition to his photographs, Davis authored several scholarly articles.
Provenance:
Purchased;, Edward H. Davis;, 1917 and 1948.
Restrictions:
Access restricted. Researchers should contact the staff of the NMAI Archives for an appointment to access the collection.
-Richard Slobodin, "The Kutchin Indian concept of reincarnation," papers of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association meeting, York University, 1969 June 5
-J.G.E. Smith, "Notes on the wiitiko," paper prepared for the Algonkian Conference, 1975
-Helen Hornbeck Tanner, "The Glaize in 1792: a composite Indian community," paper prepared for the American Society for Ethnohistory meeting, Chicago, 1977 October 13-15
-Sol Tax, extract from The social organization of the Fox Indians, with notes annotations by Ruth Landes and Ruth Benedict
-Ben Reifel, extracts from an address to the Northern Montana Work Conference on Indian Education, "To be or to become? Cultural factors in social adjustment of Indians," published in Indian education, 1957 April 15
-"Treaty agreements between the Indian People and the sovereign in right of Canada" (chart)
-Indian and Northern affairs, Indian treaties, revised map, 1977 October
-Ruth Sawtell Wallis, "The changed status of twins among the Eastern Dakota," Anthropological quarterly, v. 28 (n.s. v. 5), 1955 July
-__________, "The overt fears of Dakota Indian children," Child development, v. 25, no. 3 (1954)
-__________ and Wilson D. Wallis, "The sins of the fathers: concept of disease among the Canadian Dakota," Southwestern journal of anthropology, v. 9, no. 4 (1953)
-Sylvia and Saul Williams, Weagamow notebook, 1978 (booklet)
-H. Clyde Wilson, "A new interpretation of the Wild Rice District of Wisconsin," American anthropologist, v. 58, no. 6 (1956)
Collection Restrictions:
The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.
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Collection Citation:
Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.
