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George V. Allen photograph collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier

Collector:
Allen, George V.  Search this
Names:
Albuquerque Indian School  Search this
Castillo de San Marcos (Saint Augustine, Fla.)  Search this
Chilocco Indian Agricultural School  Search this
Geological Survey (U.S.)  Search this
Haskell Indian Nations University  Search this
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)  Search this
Yankton Mission (Yankton Indian Reservation, S.D.)  Search this
American Horse, 1840-1908  Search this
Big Bow Chief  Search this
Bogy, Lewis V. (Lewis Vital), 1813-1877  Search this
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923  Search this
Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this
Iron Bull (Crow Indian chief)  Search this
Kelly, Luther S. (Luther Sage), 1849-1928  Search this
Mató-Tópe, Mandan chief, d. 1837  Search this
Mix, Charles E.  Search this
Monroe, Mark, 1930-  Search this
Moran, John, 1831-1903  Search this
Ouray  Search this
Red Cloud, 1822-1909  Search this
Red Dog, Oglala chief  Search this
Red Shirt, 1845?-1925  Search this
Reilly, John James, 1838-1894  Search this
Reynolds, Joseph Jones, 1822-1899  Search this
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890  Search this
Spotted Tail, 1823-1881  Search this
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this
Two Guns White Calf, 1872-1934 (Piegan)  Search this
Photographer:
Alvord, Kellogg, & Campbell  Search this
Bailey & Whitesides  Search this
Bailey, Dix, & Mead  Search this
Bennett & Brown  Search this
Black Hills View Company  Search this
Brooks Photo  Search this
Brubaker and Whitesides  Search this
C. Duhem & Bro.  Search this
Calfee & Catlin  Search this
Caswell & Davy  Search this
Copelin & Son  Search this
Cosand & Mosser  Search this
Cunningham & Co. (1880-1889)  Search this
D.D. Merrill, Randall & Co.  Search this
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)  Search this
Eaton, of Ralston, Oklahoma  Search this
Griffith & Griffith  Search this
Gurnsey & Illingworth  Search this
Hamilton and Hoyt  Search this
Hamilton and Kodylek  Search this
Hansard & Carden  Search this
Henry L. Shepard & Co.  Search this
Ingersoll View Company (St. Paul, Minnesota)  Search this
J.J. Reilly & Co.  Search this
Judd and McLeish  Search this
Keystone View Company  Search this
Kilburn Brothers  Search this
Lawrence & Houseworth  Search this
Leonard & Martin  Search this
M.S. Mepham & Bro.  Search this
Martin's Gallery  Search this
Montgomery Ward  Search this
Ramsour & Pennel  Search this
Reed & McKenney  Search this
Rodocker & Blanchard  Search this
Savage & Ottinger  Search this
Thomas Houseworth & Co  Search this
Underwood & Underwood  Search this
Universal Photo Art Co  Search this
Whitney & Zimmerman  Search this
Wittick & Bliss  Search this
Wittick & Russell  Search this
Young & Chase  Search this
Barker, George, 1844-1894  Search this
Barry, D. F. (David Francis), 1854-1934  Search this
Batchelder, B. P. (Benjamin Pierce), 1826-1891  Search this
Bates, Edw. (Edward)  Search this
Beaman, Edward O.  Search this
Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893  Search this
Bell, William, 1830-1910  Search this
Benecke, Robert  Search this
Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908  Search this
Bierstadt, Charles, 1819-1903  Search this
Blessing, S. T.  Search this
Blosser, J. A.  Search this
Bonine, Elias A., 1843-1916  Search this
Brockham, William (of Morris, Minnesota)  Search this
Brown, William Henry, 1844-1886  Search this
Brubaker, C. B.  Search this
Buehman, Henry, 1851-1912  Search this
Calfee, H. B. (Henry Bird), 1848-1912  Search this
Carbutt, John, 1832-1905  Search this
Carter, C. W., 1832-1918  Search this
Chamberlain, W. G. (William Gunnison)  Search this
Chase, D. B. (Dana B.)  Search this
Childs, B. F. (Brainard F.), ca. 1841-1921  Search this
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902  Search this
Clark, George A. (George Alfred), 1936-  Search this
Climo, John Saunders  Search this
Cobb, William Henry, 1859-1909  Search this
Conklin, E (Enoch)  Search this
Cozzens, Samuel Woodworth, 1834-1878  Search this
Croft, Thomas  Search this
Cross, W. R. (William R.)  Search this
Currier, Frank, fl. 1890-1909  Search this
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952  Search this
Curtis, George E., 1830-1910  Search this
Cushing, W. H., fl. 1870-1889  Search this
Davis, S., fl. 1860-1880  Search this
Doremus, John P., 1827-1890  Search this
Eaton, E. L. (Edric L.), b. ca. 1836  Search this
Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877  Search this
Eisenmann, Charles, b. 1850  Search this
Flanders, Dudley P.  Search this
Forsyth, N. A. (Norman A.), 1869-1949  Search this
Fouch, John H., 1849-1933  Search this
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882  Search this
Godkin, William R.  Search this
Goodell, Abner Cheney, 1831-1914  Search this
Graves, C. H. (Carleton H.), -1943  Search this
Gurnsey, B. H. (Byron H.), 1833-1880  Search this
Hamilton, J. H. (James H.)  Search this
Hart, Alfred A., 1816-1908  Search this
Hawkins, B.A.  Search this
Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921  Search this
Hazeltine, M. M. (Martin Mason), 1827-1903  Search this
Heister, H. T., (Henry T.), -1895  Search this
Heller, Louis Herman, ca. 1839-1929  Search this
Heston, Wat  Search this
Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this
Hook, W. E. (William Edward), 1833-1908  Search this
Huffman, L. A. (Laton Alton), 1854-1931  Search this
Illingworth, W. H. (William H.), 1842-1893  Search this
Immke, Henry W.  Search this
Ingalls, George W., 1838-1920  Search this
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this
Jacoby, W. H. (William H.), 1841-1905  Search this
Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), b. 1850  Search this
Johnson, W.S.  Search this
Kirkland, Geo. W. (George W.)  Search this
Knight, J. Lee  Search this
Landon, S. C. (Seth C.), b. 1825  Search this
Line, A. A.  Search this
Little, H.N.  Search this
Marshall, William I. (William Isaac), 1840-1906  Search this
Martin, Alex (Alexander), 1841-1929  Search this
Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)  Search this
Maynard, Hannah, 1834-1918  Search this
Maynard, Richard, 1832-1907  Search this
McIntyre, A. C. (Alexander Carson)  Search this
Meddaugh, J. E.  Search this
Mellen, Geo. E. (George Egbert), b. 1854  Search this
Mepham, Michael S.  Search this
Mitchell, Daniel S.  Search this
Morrow, Stanley J.  Search this
Muybridge, Eadweard, 1830-1904  Search this
Newcomb, C. H.  Search this
Nims, F.A.  Search this
O'Sullivan, Timothy H., 1840-1882  Search this
Palmer, A. A.  Search this
Parker, Joseph C.  Search this
Pierron, Geo. (George), b. 1816  Search this
Pollock, Charles, 1832-1910  Search this
Powers, F. F.  Search this
Raitt, T.G.  Search this
Randall, A. Frank  Search this
Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920  Search this
Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)  Search this
Rodocker, D. (David)  Search this
Rothrock, George H.  Search this
Rudy, W. Ira  Search this
Russell, Andrew J.  Search this
Rutter, Thomas H., 1837-1925  Search this
Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909  Search this
Seaver, C. (Charles)  Search this
Sedgwick, S. J. (Stephen James)  Search this
Shipler, James William, 1849-1937  Search this
Soule, John P.  Search this
Stoddard, Seneca Ray, 1844-1917  Search this
Taber, I. W. (Isaiah West), 1830-1912  Search this
Thorne, G.W.  Search this
Thurlow, J., 1831-1878  Search this
Towne, Bertram C.  Search this
Trager, George E.  Search this
Upton, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)  Search this
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916  Search this
Weitfle, Charles, 1836-1921  Search this
Wendt, Julius M.  Search this
Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886  Search this
Williscraft, W.H.  Search this
Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903  Search this
Woodburn, J. R.  Search this
Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909  Search this
Publisher:
Beal's Gallery  Search this
Continent Stereoscopic Company  Search this
Florida Club (Cooperative)  Search this
Union View Company (Rochester, New York)  Search this
Webster & Albee (Rochester, N.Y.)  Search this
Smith, O. C.  Search this
Extent:
67 Lantern slides
26 Negatives (photographic) (glass)
10 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)
6 Autochromes (photographs)
50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
Culture:
Puyallup  Search this
Kumeyaay (Diegueño)  Search this
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this
Tohono O'odham (Papago)  Search this
Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles)  Search this
Indians of North America -- California  Search this
Taos Indians  Search this
Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka)  Search this
Kickapoo  Search this
Laguna Indians  Search this
Pueblo  Search this
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this
Havasupai (Coconino)  Search this
Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this
Isleta Pueblo  Search this
Mojave (Mohave)  Search this
Mewuk (Miwok)  Search this
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this
Arctic peoples  Search this
Akimel O'odham (Pima)  Search this
Piipaash (Maricopa)  Search this
Iroquois  Search this
Hopi Pueblo  Search this
Modoc  Search this
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this
Washo Indians  Search this
A'aninin (Gros Ventre)  Search this
Tonkawa  Search this
Diné (Navajo)  Search this
Yavapai  Search this
Ute  Search this
Sauk  Search this
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Bannock  Search this
Shoshone  Search this
Cochiti Pueblo  Search this
Omaha  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Choctaw  Search this
Sioux  Search this
Eskimos  Search this
Northwest Coast  Search this
Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this
Sahnish (Arikara)  Search this
Tlingit  Search this
Haida  Search this
Cree  Search this
Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)  Search this
Acoma Pueblo  Search this
Quapaw Indians  Search this
Osage  Search this
Apache  Search this
Kaw (Kansa)  Search this
Umatilla  Search this
Shawnee  Search this
Fox  Search this
Pomo  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Paiute  Search this
Seminole  Search this
Mi'kmaq (Micmac)  Search this
Niuam (Comanche)  Search this
Potawatomi  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Lantern slides
Negatives (photographic)
Autochromes (photographs)
Stereographs
Prints
Postcards
Place:
Custer Battlefield (Montana)
Date:
circa 1860-1935
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.

There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.

Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.

Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.
Biographical/Historical note:
George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 90-1
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Camps  Search this
Child care  Search this
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Totem poles  Search this
Cookery  Search this
Wild west shows  Search this
Fishing  Search this
Hunting  Search this
Transportation  Search this
Dwellings  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Funeral rites and ceremonies  Search this
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.90-1
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c6f12a20-b859-4219-a567-b2b3246a66be
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-90-1
Online Media:

MS 3300 31 Illustrations for Cushing's Zuni lecture

Collector:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Culture:
Zuni  Search this
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Iroquois  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Number 3300: Original (?) drawings "To accompany Cushing's Zuni Lecture." Used as illustrations in 4th AR, Bureau of American Ethnology. Number 1. Tipi, water jar beside entrance (not used in AR ?) See Figure 490 ? 2. Plan of pueblo structure of lava. Figure 492. 3. Plan of pueblo structure of lava. Figure 493. 4. A typical cliff dwelling. Figure 498. 5. Gourd vessel enclosed in wicker. Figure 500. 6. (out ?) 7. Zuni earthen ware roasting tray. Figure 502. 8. Havasupai boiling basket. Figure 503. 9. Sketches illustrating the manufacture of spirally coiled basketry. Figure 504-5. 10. Ditto. Figure 506. 11. Typical basket decorations. Figures 507-8-9. 12. Terraced lozenge decoration or "double-splint-stitch forms" Figures 510-511. 13. Double splint stitch. Figures 512-513. 14. Diagonal parallel-line decoration. Figure 514. 15. Splints at neck of unfinished basket. Figure 515. 16. Corrugated decorations to repeat bsketry forms preceding. Figure (?) 17. Cooking pot of corrugated ware, showing conical projections near rim. Figure 518. 18. Ditto, showing modified projections near rim. Figure 519. 19. Wicker water bottle showing double loops for suspension. Figure 520. 20. Water bottle of corrugated ware showing double handle. Figure 521. 21. Ditto, showing plain bottom. Figure 522. 22. Food trencher of wicker work. Figure 523. 23. Ditto, inverted as used in forming food bowls of earthen ware. Figure 524. 24 to 38 (out) 39. Example of pueblo painted ornamentation. Figure 542. 40. Amazonian basket decorations. Figures 543-544. 41 to 44 (out) 45. Double lobed or hunter canteen. Figure 550. 46. Painting of deer (Figure 551); painting of sea-serpent (Figure 552). 47. The fret of basket decoration (Figure 553); The fret of pottery decoration (Figure 554); Scroll as evolved from fret in pottery decoration (Figure 555). 48 to 51 (out) 52. Rectangular type of earthen vessel. Figure 561. 53. (out). 54. Iroquois bark vessel. Figure 563.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3300
Local Note:
Filed with maps- large rolls.
Topic:
Habitations and other structures  Search this
Basket making  Search this
Pottery  Search this
Basketry -- Brazil  Search this
Basketry -- bark vessel  Search this
Brazil  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Citation:
Manuscript 3300, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3300
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a765bd2a-24ac-4815-9b38-b4cb6f930ef9
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3300

MS 3983 Full systematic list of the totemic gentes of the Zuni Indians, New Mexico, obtained from Frank H. Cushing

Collector:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this
Informant:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
11 Pages
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
January 25, 1895
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3983
Topic:
Kinship -- Zuni  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3983, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3983
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37bfedf0f-4d8c-4445-90e5-06f5fd36dae7
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3983

MS 4677 Clerkʹs copies of correspondence between S. F. Baird and Frank H. Cushing, and between S. F. Baird and J. W. Powell, concerning Bureau of American Ethnology administrative matters

Creator:
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887  Search this
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary  Search this
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (sheaf )
1 Item (letter-press copy book )
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
Ca. 1880-1883
Scope and Contents:
The copies on loose sheets apparently cover correspondence with Cushing only. Direct copies made from some of these same letters also appear in the copy book, which has, in addition, many copies of Baird-Powell correspondence about B.A.E. matters.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4677
Citation:
Manuscript 4677, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4677
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f60cbbbb-d3e8-412e-9975-4d5eb6493dec
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4677

MS 1151 Zuni vocabularies in Department of the Interior schedule

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Eaton, Joseph Horace  Search this
Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911  Search this
Whipple, Amiel Weeks, 1817?-1863  Search this
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
All copied from other Manuscripts in Bureau of American Ethnology, except for original notes in pencil in hand of Frank H. Cushing. 7 pages in Comparative Vocabulary form. Eaton vocabulary copied from Bureau of American Ethnology Number 1156-a (itself a copy); Whipple vocabulary copied from Bureau of American Ethnology Number 1153 (itself a copy); Palmer vocabulary copied from Bureau of American Ethnology Number 1155 (original).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1151
General:
Previously titled "Zuni vocabularies."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1151, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1151
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3be62347d-5d36-4d17-aa8b-8a76f327c0fd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1151

MS 1840 Newsclippings about Frank Cushing's work in Florida

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Florida -- Archaeology
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Newspaper clippings giving accounts of researches in Florida. Miscellaneous
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1840
Citation:
Manuscript 1840, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1840
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37c10a06d-2670-406f-85a3-43873f591aba
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1840

MS 1842 The Law of Origins

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
9 Pages
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Place:
Florida -- Archaeology
Date:
undated
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1842
Citation:
Manuscript 1842, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1842
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30bc202d4-569b-451b-bed2-32796e578bd5
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1842

MS 1844-a "Key Marco Types."

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
54 Pages
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Place:
Florida -- Archaeology
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Sections of a manuscript, with headings such as, "Snow Shoe," "Stellae," "Virgin Shells," "Shield," "Spider," etc.; intended order uncertain. The original handwritten drafts of nearly all of these have been located (7/67) in No. 2527, and the appropriate sections marked.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1844-a
Topic:
Key Marco (Florida)  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1844-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1844A
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3ce1cface-ca25-4d05-8f05-87cf53e382f5
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1844a

Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida

Collector:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Photographer:
Sawyer, Wells, 1863-1960  Search this
Extent:
300 Prints (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some copy prints))
1 Drawings (visual works)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Drawings (visual works)
Photographs
Place:
Marco Island (Fla. : Island)
Tarpon Springs (Fla.)
Florida -- Antiquities
Date:
1895-1896
Scope and Contents note:
The collection consists of photographs collected by Frank Hamilton Cushing that document archeological sites at Key Marco and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Photographs include views of scenery, sites, excavations, a few objects in situ, and other objects after excavation and cleaning. The photographs may have been made by Wells Moses Sawyer, photographer and artist for Cushing's expeditions in Florida.
Biographical/Historical note:
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was curator of the ethnological department of the United States National Museum and an ethnologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1876-circa 1886), best known for his work with at Zuni. In 1895 and 1896, he went to Florida due to ailing health and undertook archeological work on Florida's western coast with the joint sponsorship of the Bureau of American Ethnology and Dr. William Pepper of the University of Pennsylvania. He embarked on reconnaissance in May-June 1895 and conducted large-scale explorations in December 1895-April 1896.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The original negatives for the prints and some additional negatives not printed are in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14 subject and geographic file of negatives.
The artifacts depicted in these photographs were probably divided between the Department of Anthropology collections at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Pennsylvania's museum.
The National Anthropological Archives also holds Cushing's papers (MS 2009-06, MS 4780, and MS 1847), photographs (MS 1839), and manuscripts relating to Cushing's work in Florida (MS 2527, MS 2526, MS 1849-b, MS 1849-a, MS 1848, MS 1846, MS 1844-b, MS 1844-a, MS 1842, MS 1841, and MS 1840)
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University also holds some of the Frank Hamilton Cushing papers, 1876-1892.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Topic:
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 2, Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.2
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Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3577a8a5f-7e32-43b0-8489-cd6246ebfdba
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Pencil drawing of 2 pottery vessels

Collector:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Collection Collector:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
1 Drawings (visual works) (004 1/2 in x 008 3/4 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Drawings
Place:
Florida
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09689600
Local Note:
Black and white drawing on cardboard
Collection Restrictions:
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Topic:
Archeology -- Florida  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 2, Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Frank Hamilton Cushing photograph collection relating to excavations on the west coast of Florida
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National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw359062bf3-c5cf-4412-9de1-9f7ac311960c
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-2-ref898

MS 1760 Drawing of Zuni dancers wearing masks

Collector:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Annotator:
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this
Extent:
1 Drawings (visual works) (colored pencil, 12.25 x 9.75 inches)
Container:
Item 1760
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Graphic Materials
Drawings (visual works)
Works of art
Drawings
Place:
North America
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of one (1) drawing by an unidentified Zuni artist. The drawing was made on the inside cover of McNalley's System of Geography.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1760

NAA INV 08654900
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Works of art
Drawings
Citation:
MS 1760 Drawing of Zuni dancers wearing masks, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1760
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw307040684-355f-48c8-992a-24281cba1d98
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1760

MS 1846 Miscellaneous photographs, sketches, facsimiles and tracings, assembled for comparison between Key Marco artifacts and others from widely separated localities

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
124 Pages
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Drawings
Photographs
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Nearly all unlabeled. With one highly miscellaneous lot is a 4 - page list of captions, but there is nothing to indicate the connection, if any, between the captions and the illustrations that are present.
Photographs: 7 - 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. showing shells, pottery, etc, unmounted. 30 - plates showing pottery designs, etc . unmounted av. 9 x 6 1/2 in. Not here in 1956. 1 Landscape showing designs on rock. Not here in 1956. 3 photographs of Indian men, (unmounted), 8 1/2 x 6 in. and 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (names not given) Not here in 1956. Photos in envelope marked "Bird Eye": 2 - showing Idol, 5 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. mounted. 3 - plates showing stone figures & miscellaneous designs. 1 - 8 x 10 in. showing figures. Photos in envelope marked "Club and Club Face": 1 - showing row of stone figures, 1 - showing shell figures (small); 1 of Indian figure with club 6 1/2 x 9 in.
2 - showing miscellaneous stone figures 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. Not here in 1956. In envelope marked "War Club and Shield": 4 - miscellaneous drawings and sketches. In envelope marked "Pecking Bird": 2 drawings showing designs, etc. In envelope marked "Club god": 1 - design showing shell gorget 1 - design showing figured copper plate Miscellaneous small sketches of shell mask, etc. 4 - figures showing clubs, etc. 1 - showing pottery.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1846
Topic:
Key Marco (Florida) -- Florida -- Archeology  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Photographs
Citation:
Manuscript 1846, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1846
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw36a839b51-fd77-4827-ad06-332c9cf60043
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1846

MS 895 Notes on Zuni clans

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Annotator:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this
Informant:
We'wha, 1849-1896  Search this
Extent:
24 Pages
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Also a list of clans obtained by A.S. Gatschet from Wewa, June 20, 1886; 2 pages typed transcript from Gatschet's Zuni notebook (Bureau of American Ethnology Number 1550), with added notations in hand of Gatschet and Cushing.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 895
Local Note:
Of the 24 pages of notes on clans, 8 are in Cushing's hand, and the rest are in the same handwriting as Bureau of American Ethnology Numbers 1013 and 3917, presumably that of a clerk.
Topic:
Kinship -- Zuni  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 895, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS895
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b853ebef-b2a9-49a5-bf85-0c3d815e0324
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms895

MS 900 "Rough notes on the Aguazul Indians," with notes thereon by F.H. Cushing

Creator:
Coues, Elliott  Search this
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this
L.F.W.  Search this
Annotator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
40 Pages
Culture:
Hualapai (Walapai)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Also with the file, added at Bureau of American Ethnology are an abstract of Dr. Coues' article and Cushing's remarks by J. Owen Dorsey. no date. 1 page and a copy (made 9/63) from a deteriorating original) of a note by "L.F.W.," October 8, 1881, 1 page commenting on the name, "Aguazul."
Biographical / Historical:
"The Aguazul or Blue Water Indians are a small out-lying band of the Hualapai or "Wood" Indians who occupy the surrounding country to the west and south."--Coues Manuscript page 11.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 900
Local Note:
Manuscript document, clerk's copy, including transmittal correspondence
General:
Previously titled: "Rough notes on the Aguazul Indians, with notes thereon by F.H. Cushing dated Whipple Barracks, Prescott, Arizona Territory, August 23, 1881"
Citation:
Manuscript 900, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS900
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32dc238cc-e6c2-40e7-b98c-42bf052bbbac
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ead_collection:sova-naa-ms900

MS 4734 Annual reports to the Director from staff members of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Dinwiddie, William, 1867-1934  Search this
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this
Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933  Search this
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930  Search this
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this
Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899  Search this
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this
Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894  Search this
Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this
Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-  Search this
Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948  Search this
Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895  Search this
Stevenson, James, 1840-1888  Search this
Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this
Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (box )
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1887, 1891 - 1896
Scope and Contents:
Records for 1895 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894 only
Records for 1892-1893 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894 only
Records for 1892-1893 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1893 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894 only
Records for 1893-1894 only
Records for 1892-1894 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894 only
Records for 1887 only
Records for 1893-1894 only
Records for 1887 only
Records for 1892-1894, 1896 only
Records for 1892-1894 only
Records for 1892-1894 only
Records for 1887 only
Records for 1892-1893 only
Records for 1887, 1892-1894
Arrangement:
Arranged by staff member and year.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4734
Citation:
Manuscript 4734, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4734
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e1a787ff-009f-4e01-9d0d-1604f1e3338c
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4734

MS 1849-a Map of Florida, with location of mounds in St. Johns county marked in ink and photographs of pottery and conch shell hoes from "St. Augustine collection."

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Photographer:
Brown, George, St. Augustine  Search this
Extent:
7 Photographs
1 Map
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Maps
Date:
undated
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1849-a
Topic:
St. Johns -- Florida -- Archeology  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1849-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1849A
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw397bb19fb-744f-46fc-b025-39a3a5dbfb22
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1849a

MS 2044 Tempera drawings of kachinas and animal figures

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
6 Drawings (visual works)
Container:
Box 2044
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Graphic Materials
Drawings (visual works)
Works of art
Drawings
Place:
North America
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of six (6) drawings created or collected by Frank Hamilton Cushing. Four of the drawings are cut-outs depicting animals and a kachina. Two of the drawings are on lined paper and depict the Saiyatasha kachina.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Frank Hamilton Cushing (1857-1900) was curator of the ethnological department of the United States National Museum and an ethnologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology (1876-circa 1886), best known for his work at Zuni.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2044
Variant Title:
Drawings of human and animal figures
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Works of art
Drawings
Citation:
MS 2044 Drawings of kachinas and animal figures, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2044
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw358a951fa-345f-4191-8440-9b9eabdcaa8f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2044

MS 2427-a Annual report on field work for the year ending June 30, 1883

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Names:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
Extent:
79 Pages
Culture:
Hopi Pueblo  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Describes work with the Seneca at Tonawanda Reservation, New York, with the Zuni and Oraibi pueblos, and the discovery of two ruins near Kinikel and "Houcks Tank," New Mexico. Zuni, New Mexico October 9, 1883.
The annual report is presented in 2 parts: (1) a general review of work done during the year, including copies of orders for the Oraibi expedition, 18 pages, and (2) "Report on Oraibi," 52 pages plus a catalogue of collections made at Oraibi for the National Museum, 10 pages. Cushing's letter of transmittal also mentions an "Introduction to a Catalogue of the Ancient Series, Moqui Collections, made in 1883," which was not ready to be submitted at the time the other parts were sent to J.W. Powell; this manuscript is not with the 1882-1883 annnual report and is apparently not in National Anthropological Archives.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2427-a
Local Note:
Manuscript document signed
5 pen and ink drawings
1 watercolor drawing
Topic:
Archeology -- United States -- New Mexico  Search this
New Mexico  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2427-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2427A
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw336ef5a07-8f32-4319-b467-f4474d2016bd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2427a

MS 4780 Frank Hamilton Cushing papers

Creator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
American Indian -- Alaska  Search this
Tlingit  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Includes draft of manuscript "Manual Concepts..."; water color and tempera drawings of Zuni dancers; ground plans of Zuni; copies of publications by Cushing, including poems entitled "Tenatsali's Leaves;" 2 photographic portraits of Cushing; and miscellaneous photographs of Alaskan Indians.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4780
Local Note:
Casts were referred to Anthropology Processing Lab. Among them was a face mask of the Zuni priest of the Macaw clan, Lai-iu-ah-tsai-lun-k'ai, Cushing's adoptive father.
water color and tempera drawings
Other Title:
Manual Concepts...
Tenatsali's Leaves
Topic:
Dance -- Zuni  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Citation:
Manuscript 4780, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4780
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MS 4780 Frank Hamilton Cushing papers
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3c4969c25-9cad-4dfa-a7b3-d220b3adc967
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4780

MS 1550 Notes mainly concerning the Zuni language, including brief texts received or annotated by F. H. Cushing

Collector:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Annotator:
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this
Extent:
78 Items (pages and cards )
Culture:
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Newsclippings
Date:
ca. 1882-1886
Scope and Contents:
Unbound parts: Folder Number 1 "A Zuni Prayer from F.H. Cushing." Text with interlinear translation, 4 pages. English "Paraphrastic Version," 1 page (Another draft of this is pasted to back cover of the notebook.) Notes on words in the text, 9 cards. Folder Number 2 Transcript by F.H. Cushing of a letter dictated to him by the Zuni governor, with interlinear translation and other comments by Cushing. No date. 3 pages. Working copy of same by Gatschet, with additional notes in handwriting of Gatschet and Cushing. No date. 4 pages. Folder Number 3 Zuni text of the Lord's Prayer in hand of F.H. Cushing. No date. 2 pages. Working copy, transcription and interlinear translation of same in hand of A.S. Gatschet. No date. 2 pages. Folder Number 4 Dance song. Text and interlinear translation in Gatschet's hand, 1 page. Folder Number 5 Miscellaneous notes, possibly relating to one of the above items. 3 pages. Folder Number 6 Newsclipping, "Zuni Superstition Regarding Portraits," reprinted from article by "Sylvester Baxter, in Harper's Magazine for June," 1 column.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1550
Other Title:
Zuni Superstition Regarding Portraits
Topic:
Music -- Zuni  Search this
Religion -- prayer -- Zuni  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Genre/Form:
Newsclippings
Citation:
Manuscript 1550, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1550
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39260a80a-5366-4560-b8a8-1854a7be3113
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1550

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