Marji Roane (Ke-toh-tha/Marjorie Ama Black Roane/Mrs. Samuel Roane), Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox), 1939-2013 and Sac and Fox Designs: Contemporary Native American Fashions Search this
Donor:
June Madsen Burd (Mrs. L. Paul Burd), Non-Indian, 1925-2014 Search this
Previous owner:
June Madsen Burd (Mrs. L. Paul Burd), Non-Indian, 1925-2014 Search this
Previous seller:
Sac and Fox Designs: Contemporary Native American Fashions Search this
Marji Roane (Ke-toh-tha/Marjorie Ama Black Roane/Mrs. Samuel Roane), Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox), 1939-2013 and Sac and Fox Designs: Contemporary Native American Fashions Search this
Donor:
June Madsen Burd (Mrs. L. Paul Burd), Non-Indian, 1925-2014 Search this
Previous owner:
June Madsen Burd (Mrs. L. Paul Burd), Non-Indian, 1925-2014 Search this
Previous seller:
Sac and Fox Designs: Contemporary Native American Fashions Search this
Two notebooks containing an autobiography of Lucy Lasley, handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabary by Lasley and Joe Peters with an English translation by Ida Powesheik.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2997
Local Note:
This manuscript is not the same autobiography published in the 40th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Includes: kinship terms; adoption feasts; gens festivals; Snail Dance; Victory Dance; Fox names of places, early Indian traders, and interpreters, moccasin game, Indian name of Antoine Le Claire's mother; notes on the Mide, Sisakayeweni, Wabanowiwen, Nanakawinatawinoni; lists of various rituals and dances belonging to different gentes; notes on those named after the White Deer (See Number 2239); notes on Squaw Dance, and so-called Worshipping Dance.
Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by Oliver Lincoln of a conversation between two speakers marked "he" and "she." No translation present. The English words "love" and "engage" appear once each at the top of pages 1 and 15.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2678
Local Note:
Title updated from "Fox Indian conversation" 4/7/2014.
Text in Meskwaki (Fox) handwritten in a notebook by Alfred Kiyana on the one who made the eagle sacred bundle. A second notebook contains an English translation by Thomas Brown.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1835
Local Note:
Title changed from "Eagle gens, and The one who made the Eagle Sacred Pack Legend and ethnology" 3/14/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See Manuscript 1850 for additional texts and translations by Kiyana and Brown, most likely from the same period.
Non-Indian; used by the Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox) Search this
Subject:
President James Madison, Non-Indian, 1751-1836 Search this
Previous owner:
Ulyses/Ulysses S. Grant (Mechilega/Mesh-she-pach-quaw/Mesh-she-perk-quaw/Mecabewka/Micabekwa/Mecabekwa), Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox), ca. 1857-ca. 1915 Search this
Bessie Grant Morris, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox), 1899-1977 Search this
David T. Vernon (David Thomas Vernon/David C. Vernon), Non-Indian, 1900-1973 Search this
Jackson Hole Preserve, Inc. (Jackson Hole Preserve, Incorporated), 1940- Search this
Previous seller:
Bessie Grant Morris, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox), 1899-1977 Search this
Object Name:
James Madison peace medal (dated 1809)
Media/Materials:
Silver medal
Techniques:
Struck/minted
Dimensions:
7.58 cm
Object Type:
Adornment/Jewelry
Place:
Philadelphia; Philadelphia County; Pennsylvania; USA (inferred)