Based on ethnographic fieldwork conduced by Victor Barnouw, Joseph Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl and Robert Ritzenthaler among the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Chippewa, Wisconsin.
Arrangement:
Topically arranged. Individual authorship is indicated by initials on each index card.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2008-07
Other Archival Materials:
The Joseph B. Casagrande Papers at the University of Illinois Archives include additional Chippewa fieldnotes.
Vocabulary listed according to categories in Powellʼs printed outline with added information on culture, customs and religion.
Biographical / Historical:
Informants: Gunʹ -si Vigil, interpreter, educated at Santa Fe and Fort Lewis Indian schools; Juan Quintana, "authority for many names of plants and narrator of most of the animal tales and information regarding the sun;" and Reuben [Quintana], interpreter for Juan.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1302-a
Local Note:
Identified as Jicarilla Apache by comparison with manuscript numbers 115 and 116.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Maps
Date:
1856
Scope and Contents:
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.
