Includes George Miller's version of the Orphan myth; Frank LaFlesche's manuscript, "Story of the young man who acted the ghost"; and phrases and words recorded on slips for the Dhegiha-English dictionary.
Letters printed in "The Cegiha Language," Contributions to North American Ethnology VI, Washington, D. C., 1890 and "Omaha and Ponka Letters," Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 11, Washington, D. C., 1891.
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund.
Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
