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MS 4349 Stanley C. Fisher Papers

Creator:
Fisher, Stanley C.  Search this
Correspondent:
Nudahbeh Penobscot  Search this
Names:
Red Eagle, Henry Malecite  Search this
Culture:
Red Paint People  Search this
Abenaki (Abnaki)  Search this
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
American Indian -- Northeast -- Headdress -- Costume  Search this
Penobscot  Search this
Algonquin (Algonkin)  Search this
Maliseet (Malecite)  Search this
Seminole  Search this
Wawenock  Search this
Passamaquoddy  Search this
Red Paint culture  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
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Letters
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Notes
Sketches
Date:
1940
Scope and Contents:
Remarks: 10/18/40- Letter to National Geographic Society, referred to Dr. Stirling for reply. Inquiry re. Penobscot villages, and native dress of the pre-colonial period. 1/9/46 - Letter re. migrations of the Algonquians. 1/21/46 - Letter re. migrations of the Seminoles. Enclosed sketch of Indian figure wearing tunic. 2/18/46 - Letter re. Algonquian tribal divisions; dugout canoes, etc. 5/6/46 - Letter dated April 21, 1946, forwarded to Dr. F.G. Speck for reply.
3/26/50 - Sketch of native dress (from "Penobscot Man") and moccasin; notes; letter. 3/31/50 - North Eastern Indian costumes, Wawenock tribe (Abnaki?) in 1615 - who were they? 4/3/50 - Whitetail deer in Maine, its range, population etc. Sketch of Indian in native dress on snowshoes. 4/11/50 - Reply to above letters by Dr. Stirling in acknowledgement of information contained therein. 4/12/50 - Costumes of Maliset or Woolastook, and Passamaquoddy, including the kilt, etc., etc. enclosed sketches. 4/17/50 - Warfare between the Wabanaki and Iroquois; reference to Henry Red Eagle, A Wolastook, also known as Malacite; said to be a chief (?). 4/23/50 - Additional notes on the Malecite costume (kilt) (miscellaneous newsclippings included),
ate., etc. A typed and signed letter from F.G. Speck to Mr. Fisher was enclosed with the letter of April 17, 1950. 1950 (not itemized) 5/17/46 - Notes on "Red Paint People"; flint deposit at Mt. Kineo, Moosehead Lake; stone relics; collections of artifacts at State House, Maine, and U.S. National Museum. 9/19/49 - Data on early N.E. headdresses and costumes. Enclosed sketch of feather headdress. 2/ /50 - Notes on moccasins (sketches); notes on Saco or Sakoki tribe; linguistic notes. Enclosed letter to him written by Chief Nudahbeh (a Penobscot). 3/2/50 - Sketch of birch bark wigwam of Maine Indians, and notes in letter. 3/12/50 - Sketch of Indian moccasin; sketch (pen and ink) showing coon killing a copperhead.
Newsclipping on Cheyenne protest against mural in the Postoffice at Watonga, Oklahoma. 3/20/50 - Notes on scalping - taught to Indians by European soldiers (?). Sketch of Indian in native dress. Newsclipping of Maine bull moose. 3/22/50 - Drawings of Indians of Colonial period; birch bark wigwam; moccasins, headdress, costume decorations.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4349
Topic:
Migrations -- Algonquian  Search this
Migrations -- Seminole  Search this
Canoes  Search this
Wigwam  Search this
Scalping  Search this
Snowshoes and snowshoeing  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Algonquin  Search this
Abenaki  Search this
Eastern Abenaki  Search this
Maliseet-Passamaquoddy  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Genre/Form:
Letters
Clippings
Notes
Sketches
Citation:
Manuscript 4349, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4349
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d8b5a2ec-2a29-4531-9a2c-82f94b2e8ffa
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4349

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