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Type:
Archival materials
Ledger drawings
Date:
1904
Scope and Contents:
Tablet, now disbound, containing 20 drawings including pictures of warriors carrying shields and a few shield designs. Cover inscribed "Cheyenne Shields No. 2" and "From Book Captured at Mackenzie Fight 1876, Field Museum, Chicago." The artist and date for this book were established by reference to inscriptions in vol. 13 of the same manuscript.
Arrangement:
Subgroup
Biographical / Historical:
Carl Sweezy (ca. 1879-1953), Arapaho. For biographical information, see The Arapaho Way, by Althea Bass, NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1966. For information on his work with Mooney, see Carl Sweezy: Arapaho Artist, by Althea Bass, Chronicles of Oklahoma 34: 429-31, 1956.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2531 Vol. 14
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory.
United States Oklahoma.
Album Information:
MS 2531-14 000
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2531, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
