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Collector:

Power, Susan K.  Search this

Photographer:

Fuller & Fansfer, Fort Yates, North Dakota  Search this

Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952  Search this

Miller, J. Q. (Aberdeen, South Dakota)  Search this

Names:

Two Bears (Dakota Indian)  Search this

Extent:

43 Copy prints

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Yanktonai Indians  Search this

Oglala Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy prints

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Copies of family photographs, including those of the Archambault and Gates families, collected by Susan K. Power. There are studio portraits, images of family members in regalia, and photographs of crafts and paintings; a beaded satchel can be seen in multiple images, including nineteenth and twentieth century photographs. Annotated electrostatic copies of the images and mounts with identifications of pictured individuals are included with the collection.

Identified photographers include Frank B. Fiske; Fuller and Fansfer of Fort Yates, North Dakota; and J. Q. Miller of Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Biographical/Historical note:

Susan K. Power is the great granddaughter of Two Bears, a chief of the Upper Yanktonais.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot R89-14

Reproduction Note:

Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional Fiske photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4602, Photo Lot R82-1, Photo Lot 9, Photo Lot 25, Photo Lot 24, and the BAE historical negatives.

Restrictions:

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Rights:

This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.

Topic:

Dwellings  Search this

Handicraft  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot R89-14, Susan K. Power photograph collection of Archambault and Gates families, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.R89-14

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-r89-14

Creator:

Feraca, Stephen E., 1934-  Search this

Extent:

85 Copy color slides

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Oglala Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy color slides

Photographs

Place:

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)

Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)

Date:

circa 1954-1961

Scope and Contents note:

Copies of photographs mostly depicting Sun Dances on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations. They depict Oglala, Dakota, and other Siouan Indians, encampments, wagons, tipis, and a powwow.

Biographical/Historical note:

Stephen E. Feraca was an employee of the Department of the Interior, based at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He earned a masters degree from Columbia University (ca. 1957); his thesis was titled "The contemporary Teton Sioux Sun Dance." He also authored the book Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Feraca retired from the Department of the Interior in 1985.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot R92-49

Reproduction Note:

Copy slides made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Correspondence from Feraca held in the National Anthropological Archives in the James Henri Howard Papers.

Provenance:

Originals loaned for copying by Stephen Feraca through Joallyn Archambault, 1989.

Restrictions:

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Rights:

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Topic:

Tipis  Search this

Wagons  Search this

Sun Dance  Search this

Camps  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot R92-49, Copies of Stephen E. Feraca photographs of Siouan Indians and Sun Dance, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.R92-49

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-r92-49

Collector:

Jacobsen, Jacques Noel  Search this

Names:

United States. Army. Indian Scouts  Search this

Extent:

9 Copy prints

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Apache Indians  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Pawnee Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1870-1898

Scope and Contents note:

Copies of photographs depicting American Indian scouts with various United States Army detachments. The collection includes group portraits of Indian scouts at Fort Grant in 1898; as well as images of Sioux scouts in 1870; Pawnee scouts; Apache scouts at San Carlos, circa 1893; Dakota followers of Sitting Bull at Standing Rock reservation in 1877; a squad of Indian police with Lieutenant Maury Nichols and an Indian agent; and a studio portrait of an Apache scout.

Biographical/Historical note:

Jacques Noel Jacobsen is a collector and dealer with a focus on US military antiquities and memorabilia.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot R86-39

Reproduction Note:

Copy prints made by Marc Teatum for Jacobsen, circa 1975.

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs of American Indian scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4423, MS 4536, MS 4659, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 89-8, Photo Lot 90-1, and the BAE historical negatives.

Drawings by scouts can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4653 and MS 7500.

Restrictions:

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Rights:

This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Cannot be reproduced without written permission of the donor.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot R86-39, Jacques Noel Jacobsen photograph collection of American Indian scouts, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.R86-39

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-r86-39

Creator:

Mealy, Cliff  Search this

Names:

American Indian Movement  Search this

Floating Foundation of Photography  Search this

Foolscrow, Frank  Search this

Means, Russell, 1939-  Search this

Two Moons, Austin Cheyenne  Search this

Extent:

20 Color slides

1 Mounted color print

Culture:

Oglala Indians  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Color slides

Mounted color prints

Photographs

Place:

Little Bighorn Battlefield (Mont.)

Date:

1976

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs made by Cliff Mealy during American Indian Movement ceremonies during the 100th Anniversity of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. They include images of Russell Means, Austin Two Moons, and Frank Foolscrow at the battlefield and at General George Armstrong Custer's gravesite.

Biographical/Historical note:

Cliff Mealy, a New York photographer, traveled to Montana with sponsorship from the Floating Foundation of Photography to document a large ceremony in honor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The National Park Service had planned a smaller event for June 24, the day before the anniversary, that many American Indians were going to boycott, but ultimately members of the American Indian Movement, led by Dakota Indian Russell Means, did participate. The following day's American Indian observance began with a sunrise ceremony led by Frank Foolscrow.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 77-72

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Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 77-72, Cliff Mealy photographs of American Indians observing 100th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.77-72

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-77-72

Photographer:

Cross, W. R. (William R.)  Search this

Dinwiddie, William, 1867-1934  Search this

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this

Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920  Search this

Mcbride, C. C.  Search this

Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917  Search this

Extent:

49 Prints (albumen and silver gelatin)

5 Copy prints

3 Prints (collotype)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Wanapum Indians  Search this

Tonkawa Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Salish Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Copy prints

Photographs

Place:

Deadwood (S.D.)

Fort Cummings (N.M.)

White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.)

Florida

West Virginia

Salt Lake City (Utah)

New Mexico

Charleston (S.C.)

Utah

Washington (State)

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs of various subjects, including portraits of American Indians made from negatives by the Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum. Depicted individuals include Lamar Richards (also known as Ostin, Tonkawa) and Grant Richards (also known as Sentele, Tonkawa); Turning Hawk, Crow Dog, Spot Tail, Red Leaf, and White Thunder. There are also images of Shuswap Indians dressing hides; Smohalla and Sokulk followers at Priests Rapids, Washington; and American Indians around a campfire at Fort Marion, Florida.

Additionally, there are photographs of St. Columba's Church, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota; Otoe Industrial School; a chapel at the Cheyenne Mowerʹs place, with Mower's son; a sketch of Fort Cummings, New Mexico; buildings and a mound at Charleston, West Virginia; the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City; an American Indian camp with hides drying; American Indians dragging brush in preparation of a medicine lodge; and a wood engraving of a Dakota Ghost Dance, taken from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper.

Photographers include William Dinwiddie; De Lancey W. Gill; Sumner W. Matteson; Thomas William Smillie; Cross, of Hot Springs, South Dakota; and C. C. McBride.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 66F

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs by Dinwiddie can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 78, Photo Lot 89, Photo Lot 141A, Photo Lot 144, Photo Lot 80-18, the BAE historical negatives, and the Herbert William Krieger Papers.

Additional Gill photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 65, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 85, Photo Lot 79-4, Photo Lot 87-2P, and Photo Lot 90-1.

The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the Sumner W. Matteson collection of photographs, negatives and lantern slides.

Additional Smillie photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 79, and the BAE historical negatives. The Archives Center, National Museum of American History also holds the Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie Glass Plate Negatives.

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Topic:

Camps  Search this

Mounds  Search this

Buildings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 66F, Photographs relating to American Indians and buildings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.66F

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-66f

Creator:

Army Medical Museum (U.S.)  Search this

Collector:

Billings, John Shaw, 1838-1913  Search this

Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887  Search this

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this

Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911  Search this

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this

Rolleston, George, 1829-1881  Search this

Schumacher, Paul J. F.  Search this

Depicted:

Guiteau, Charles J. (Charles Julius), 1841-1882  Search this

Extent:

100 Negatives (circa, glass)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Ute Indians -- depicted  Search this

Chinook  Search this

Choptank Indians -- depicted  Search this

Dakota Indians -- depicted  Search this

Eskimos -- depicted  Search this

Tonkawa Indians -- depicted  Search this

Africans -- United States -- depicted  Search this

Potawatomi Indians -- depicted  Search this

Taiwan aborigines -- depicted  Search this

Pomo Indians -- depicted  Search this

Taiwanese -- depicted  Search this

Pueblo Indians -- depicted  Search this

Nisqually Indians -- depicted  Search this

Hawaiians -- depicted  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Photographs

Date:

probably 1870s-1880s

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs of skulls in the United States Army Medical Museum collection, which appear to have been collected for physical anthropological purposes. Included are archeological remains and remains of historical American Indian tribes and some other ethnic groups. Other than tribe or location, data for the specimens include Army Medical Museum specimen number, AMM negative number, and sex; for some, there is also collection data and information on physical or medical conditions. There are also notes identifying donors who included army officers, physicians, scientists, and explorers such as Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Edward Palmer, Frederic Ward Putnam, George Rolleston, Paul Schumacher, and many others. Some of the photographs may have been made as part of the Army Medical Museumʹs program of distributing images of its specimens.

Represented are Africans, Chinook, Choptank, Dakota, Eskimo of Greenland, Taiwanese peoples, Hawaiians, Hidatsa, Nisqually, Philippine peoples, Ponca, Potowatomi, Pueblo, Tonkawa, and Ute. Archeological specimens are from the Aleutian Islands, California, the Dakotas, England (Roman period), Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, Peru, Vancouver Island, and Vermont. For some, there is also information about the status or physical condition of the individual or observations of medical conditions shown in the specimens. Some additional photographs appear to show specimens at the American Museum of Natural History.

Biographical/Historical note:

The United States Army Medical Museum (AMM, renamed the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989) was established by US Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond in 1862. Its initial focus was on collecting specimens of unusual pathology, mostly taken from victims of the American Civil War. By 1867, the museum had expanded to include medical, microsopical, anatomical, comparative anatomics, and other sections. The anatomical collection grew in part as a result of Circular No. 2 of 1867, which authorized military medical officers to collect cranial specimens from deceased American Indians. Additionally, the AMM made an arrangement with the Smithsonian Institution, by which the Smithsonian transferred their collection of human remains in exchange for ethnological artifacts. AMM photographed and measured many of the specimens in its collection as part of the museum's anthropological research.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 73-26C, NAA Photo Lot 73-26D

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 73-26D have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 73-26C. These are also Army Medical Museum negatives of skulls and form part of this collection.

Additional Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 6A, Photo Lot 6B, Photo Lot 78-42, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 97.

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Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 73-26C, United States Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.73-26C

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73-26c

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Artist:

Newcomb, Josepha  Search this

Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962  Search this

Schumacher, Edward G.  Search this

Wright, Mary Irwin  Search this

Extent:

1 Watercolor

3 Prints (silver gelatin)

120 Items (circa 120 line drawings)

20 Graphite drawings

Culture:

Arctic peoples  Search this

Eskimos  Search this

Ojibwa Indians  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Yakama Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Pueblo Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Watercolor

Prints

Graphite drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Drawings

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Mostly images of artifacts, architecture, peoples, and some maps published in various Bureau of American Ethnology publications, particularly the Annual Reports. Most of the line drawings were made by Henry Hobart Nichols, while most of the graphite drawings were possibly created by Edward Schumacher.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 78-51

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional illustrations for various BAE publications can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 133 and in the records of the BAE.

Information on these illustrations and publications can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the BAE.

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Topic:

Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Watercolors

Drawings

Citation:

Photo lot 78-51, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.78-51

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-78-51

Collector:

Artsman, Gus, Colonel  Search this

Extent:

4 Copy negatives (35 mm)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Mescalero Indians  Search this

Navajo Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy negatives

Place:

Fort Sumner (N.M. : Fort)

Date:

circa 1865

Scope and Contents note:

Three portraits of American Indians of the Southwest, probably Navajo or Mescalero, and one image of two Dakota Indians. The portraits were likely taken at Fort Sumner and may have been made by Artsman. The image of Dakota Indians is likely a commercial photograph.

Biographical/Historical note:

Colonel Gus Artsman was an army officer who served at Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, around 1864-1866.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 78-5

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Citation:

Photo lot 78-5, Colonel Gus Artsman photograph collection from Fort Sumner, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.78-5

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-78-5

Creator:

M'Clees, Jas. E. (James E.) (studio owner and photographer)  Search this

Publisher:

Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England)  Search this

Photographer:

Cohner, Samuel A.  Search this

Vannerson, Julian, 1827-  Search this

Extent:

32 Mounted prints (albumen)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Ojibwa Indians  Search this

Ponca Indians  Search this

Cree  Search this

Potawatomi Indians  Search this

Pawnee Indians  Search this

Fox Indians  Search this

Sauk Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Wahpeton Indians  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Sisseton Indians  Search this

Yankton Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Mounted prints

Date:

circa 1850 to 1863

bulk 1857-1858

Scope and Contents note:

Studio portraits made by the James E. McClees Studio and published by the Blackmore Museum, depicting American Indian visitors to Washington, D.C. The series is identified by an 1863 broadside in the collection as "Photographs of some of the principal Chiefs of the North American Indians, made when they have visited Washington as deputations from their Tribes." Yankton, Sisseton, Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Pawnee, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox, Ponca, and Ojibwa Indians are represented. Three additional portraits depict men (possibly Cree) and were probably made by a different photographer.

Biographical/Historical note:

James Earl McClees (1821-1887) trained as a daguerreotypist in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before opening a studio in Washington, D.C. in 1857. He was an early user of paper photographic processes and was well-known for photographing delegations of American Indians. His Washington studio, known as the James E. McClees Studio, operated in 1857-1858 with Julian Vannerson (1827-?) and Samuel Cohner as its most established operators. The studio was taken over by Robert W. Addis in 1858. Among Addis's proprietors was Antonio Zeno Schindler, an artist who made copies of photographs for English philanthropist and collector William Blackmore (1827-1878). Blackmore purchased the McClees Studio's negatives from Shindler, later transferring them to the Smithsonian. The Bureau of American Ethnology absorbed the photographs upon its formation in 1878-1879.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 4286

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional McClees Studio and Vannerson photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives and Photo Lot 4420.

Glass negatives relating to William Henry Blackmore, including copies of photographs collected by Blackmore, held in the British Museum and in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 31 and the BAE historical negatives.

Artifacts collected by Blackmore held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 1846, 2371, and 1826.

Contained in:

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

See others in:

James E. McClees photographs of American Indian delegates, circa 1850 to 1863

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Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot 4286, James E. McClees Studio photographs of American Indian delegates, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.4286

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-4286

Creator:

Williamson, Thomas S. (Thomas Smith), 1800-1879  Search this

Addressee:

Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878  Search this

Extent:

34 Pages

Culture:

Dakota Indians  Search this

Omaha Indians  Search this

Siouan Indians  Search this

Winnebago Indians  Search this

Ponka  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Ponca Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

March 19, 1868

Scope and Contents:

With grammatical notes and letter of transmittal to Joseph Henry. Autograph letter signed. 2 pages.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 935

Local Note:

autograph document

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 935, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS935

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

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Creator:

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932  Search this

Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923  Search this

Correspondent:

La Flesche family  Search this

Aldrich, Charles F.  Search this

Alexander, Hartley B.  Search this

Allen, James T.  Search this

Andrews, Gleorge L.  Search this

Armstrong, S.C.  Search this

Ashley, Robert H.  Search this

Atkins, John D.C.  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921  Search this

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899  Search this

Brown, George LeRoy  Search this

Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921  Search this

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946  Search this

Copley, John T.  Search this

Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927  Search this

Dawes, E.S.  Search this

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934  Search this

Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this

Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914  Search this

Ellinwood, F.F.  Search this

Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925  Search this

Farley, Caryl E.  Search this

Farley, Rosalie La Flesche  Search this

Farwell, Arthur  Search this

Fellowes, R.S.  Search this

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930  Search this

Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898  Search this

Fillmore, L.H.  Search this

Fillmore, Thomas Hill  Search this

Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967  Search this

Gay, E. Jane  Search this

Griffith, Elmer C.  Search this

Guthrie, William Norman  Search this

Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896  Search this

Hall, C.C.  Search this

Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940  Search this

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919  Search this

Heth, H.  Search this

Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946  Search this

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this

Jackson, Sheldon  Search this

Johnston, Catherine M.  Search this

Kincaid, William  Search this

La Flesche, Joseph  Search this

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928  Search this

MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this

McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915  Search this

McBeth, Sue L., -1893  Search this

McCown, S.M.  Search this

McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this

McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916  Search this

Mead, Frances K.  Search this

Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942  Search this

Merrick, Fannie  Search this

Merrick, Jessie  Search this

Moon, Karl  Search this

Moore, Homer  Search this

Morgan, Caroline S.  Search this

Morgan, John T.  Search this

Murie, James R.  Search this

Myers, John L.  Search this

Nuttal, Maria Magdalena  Search this

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924  Search this

Petter, W.H.  Search this

Pettigrew, Frederick W., 1850-1901  Search this

Picotte, Susan La Flesche  Search this

Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924  Search this

Price, Hiram  Search this

Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923  Search this

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this

Quinn, Daniel  Search this

Robertson, Alice M.  Search this

Rogers, Emily F.  Search this

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917  Search this

Seymour, Thomas Day  Search this

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908  Search this

St. Cyr, Julia  Search this

Starr, Frederick  Search this

Stuart, James  Search this

Talbot, Emily  Search this

Teller, W.J.  Search this

Thaw, William  Search this

Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954  Search this

Wallaschek, Richard  Search this

Westcott, Edith  Search this

Wilkinson, G.W.  Search this

Wilkinson, Hattie M.  Search this

Willoughby, Charles Clark  Search this

Names:

Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915  Search this

Radin, Paul, 1883-1959  Search this

Extent:

19 Linear feet (50 boxes)

Culture:

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Ponca Indians  Search this

Quechua  Search this

Quapaw Indians  Search this

Winnebago Indians  Search this

Mexicans  Search this

Wichita Indians  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Apache Indians  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of North America -- California  Search this

Hitchiti  Search this

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Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

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Caddo  Search this

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Omaha  Search this

Omaha Indians  Search this

Osage Indians  Search this

Oto Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Juaneño Indians  Search this

Pawnee Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Alaska

Date:

1873-1939

Summary:

These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection.

Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939.

Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.

Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930.

Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.

Biographical / Historical:

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher

1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba

1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women

1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies

1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians

1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts

1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency

1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education

1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency

1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency

1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America

1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition

1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology

1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist

1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America

1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley

1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie

1904 -- Member, ethnology section, Louisiana Purchase Exposition

1905 -- President, American Folk-lore Society

1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche

1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C.

Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche

1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska

1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear

1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs

1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son

1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School

1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School

1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School

1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa

1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher

1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One

1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences

1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two

1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska

1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three

1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language

1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska

1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians

Related Materials:

Additional material related to the professional work of Fletcher and La Flesche in the National Anthropological Archives may be found among the correspondence of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and the records of the Anthropological Society of Washington.

Sound recordings made by Fletcher and La Flesche can be found at the Library of Congress. The National Archives Records Administration hold the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including those relating to allotments in severalty for the Nez Perce by Alice Fletcher. The Nebraska Historical Society has diaries, letters and clippings regarding the La Flesche family, including correspondence of Francis La Flesche and Fletcher. The Radcliffe College Archives holds a manuscript account of Alice Fletcher's four summers with the Nez Perce (1889-1892). Correspondence between Fletcher and F. W. Putnam is also located at the Peabody Museum Archives of Harvard University.

Separated Materials:

Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24.

Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).

Provenance:

The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.

Restrictions:

The Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers are open for research.

Access to the Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Pipes -- American Indian  Search this

Earth houses  Search this

Music -- American Indian  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4558

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MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4558

Creator:

Sciacchintano, Portia  Search this

Names:

Three Affiliated Tribes  Search this

United Tribes Educational Technical Center  Search this

Gipp, David M.  Search this

Plume, Randy (Dakota)  Search this

Spotted Bear, Alyce  Search this

Extent:

40 Pages

Culture:

Dakota Indians  Search this

Mandan Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1986

Scope and Contents:

Description of a powwow sponsored by the United Tribes Educational Technical Center and people at the powwow, including David Gipp, Mandan, president of the center; Randy Plume, a Pine Ridge Sioux, director of the powwow; and Alyce Spotted Bear, the chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes.

Local Note:

Typescript manuscript

Topic:

Powwows  Search this

Dances  Search this

United Tribes International Powwow, Bismarck, North Dakota, 1986  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 7504, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7504

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7504

Creator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Informant:

Tyler, Leonard  Search this

Making Medicine, 1844?-1931  Search this

Taylor, Rubin  Search this

Indian N.E. of Agency  Search this

Indian names at Darlington  Search this

Petter, Rodolphe Charles, 1865-1947  Search this

Block, Philip, Darlington, Oklahoma  Search this

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883  Search this

Hawkins, Kish  Search this

Making Medicine, 1844?-1931  Search this

Magpie  Search this

Wolf Face (Cheyenne)  Search this

Bent, James  Search this

Bent, George, 1843-1918  Search this

Extent:

53 Pages

Culture:

Southern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Yankton Indians  Search this

Teton Indians  Search this

Kiowa Indians  Search this

Navajo Indians  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Wichita Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1893

Scope and Contents:

From Leonard Tyler - text with interlinear translation, (Muihas or the Magpie) - 3 pages (No. 5-7). From David Pendleton (Making Medicine) - words - 4 1/2 pages. (No. 13-17). From Rubin Taylor - words and sentences - 3 pages. (No. 17-20). From Indian N.E. of Agency - words, 1/2 page. (No. 21). Names of Indians at Darlington - 6 names (page No. 21). Rudolph Petter - Collection of words - 2 pages (No. 22-23). Philip Block - Notes on different Indians by tribes - 1 page (No. 24). James Mooney - tribal names for the Cheyenne by the Yankton, Kiowa, Teton, Navajo and Arapaho. - 1/2 page. (No. 51)

Stephen R. Riggs - Dakota Grammar - extracts from. Approx. 20 pages. (Contributions Vol. IX (1893) ). Kish Hawkins - sentences - 3 pages. (No. 8-10). grammatical notes - 25 pages. (25-50). grammatical notes - 18 pages. (72-90). James Bent - Comparative Vocabulary of the Caddo, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Wichita - 1 page. (No. 90). Ditto - Arapaho and Cheyenne - 6 pages. (No. 91-96). Wolf Face - Notes on Cheyenne - 3 1/4 pages. (No. 97-100). Natural Philosophy - 3 pages. (No. 101-103). George Bent - list of personal names - 1 1/4 pages. (No.106-7).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 61

Place:

Darlington Oklahoma Territory

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Cheyenne language  Search this

Yankton dialect  Search this

Kiowa language  Search this

Navajo language  Search this

Arapaho language  Search this

Caddo language  Search this

Wichita language  Search this

Lakota dialect  Search this

Dakota language  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Arrapahoe  Search this

Navaho  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 61, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS61

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms61

Creator:

ANONYMOUS  Search this

Depicted:

Kill Bear, Cheyenne  Search this

Making Medicine, 1844?-1931  Search this

Tall Bull, circa 1853-  Search this

Extent:

21 Negatives (19 prints)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Kiowa Indians  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Navajo Indians  Search this

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)  Search this

Shoshoni Indians  Search this

Ute Indians  Search this

Pawnee Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Photographs

Drawings

Date:

1969

Scope and Contents:

Titles include: 1.Tall Bull, Cheyenne, escaping from the Utes. 2.Common occurrence in Running Buffalo. 3.Tall Bull, a Cheyenne Brave, Killing Two Pawnees. 4.Crow and Cheyenne Warriors. 5.Kill Bear. 6.Tall Bull, Cheyenne, Killing a Navaho. 7.Cheyenne Brave Killing a Crow. 8.Fight between Soldiers and Cheyennes. 9.Cheyenne Killing a Pawnee. 10.Cheyenne Killing a Ute. 11.Cheyenne Killing two Kiowa women. 12.Kiowa Brave. 13.Making Medicine. 14.Dance of the Cheyenne Soldiers. 15.Untitled (dance with chiefs and musicians). 16.Sioux Indian hunting deer. 17.Sioux Woman and Cheyenne man. 18.Cheyenne to the Rescue. 19.Cheyenne Chiefs Reviewing their young men. 20.Sho-sho-nees in pursuit of Cheyennes. 21.Grand War Dance in Costume of the Cheyennes.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4959

Local Note:

photographs

Restrictions:

Restricted

Rights:

Negatives made 11/26/1969. For reference purposes only. Requests for prints should be directed to the Fort Leavenworth Museum.

Topic:

War -- Cheyenne  Search this

War -- Crow  Search this

War -- Pawnee  Search this

War -- Navaho  Search this

War -- Ute  Search this

War -- Kiowa  Search this

War -- Shoshoni  Search this

Grand War Dance -- Cheyenne  Search this

Hunting -- Cheyenne  Search this

Music -- Cheyenne  Search this

Navaho  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 4959, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4959

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4959

Creator:

Pettrich, Ferdinand, 1798-1872  Search this

Extent:

6 Lithographs

Culture:

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Mohegan Indians -- (identification uncertain)  Search this

Fox Indians  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Winnebago Indians  Search this

Sac  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Sauk Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lithographs

Date:

1842

Scope and Contents:

Printed by Ed. Weber & Co., Baltimore, 1842. Inscribed, "Drawn on stone by Ferdinand Pettrich," and numbered Plates I-V with brief captions for the individual portraits and scenes illustrated. The tribes represented are "Sious of the Mississippi," Winnebago, Creek, Yankton Sious," Sac, Fox, and "Mohcogonuck" (Mohegan?).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4886

Topic:

Sauk & Fox  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this

Sauk & Fox  Search this

Genre/Form:

Lithographs

Citation:

Manuscript 4886, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4886

See more items in:

MS 4886 Lithographs of American Indians

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4886

Photographer:

Fisher, Clyde  Search this

Names:

Black Horse  Search this

Crow Man  Search this

Fisher, Clyde  Search this

Floating Cloud  Search this

Frosted, Tom  Search this

Gray Dog  Search this

Grey Whirlwind  Search this

Little Soldier  Search this

Long Chase Mrs.  Search this

Mossman, E. D. Supt  Search this

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946  Search this

White Bear (Hopi)  Search this

White Bear (Hopi)  Search this

Zahn, Frank  Search this

Culture:

Dakota Indians  Search this

Mandan Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Catalog Number 4722: Dakota "Supt. E. D. Mossman at Standing Rock" Agency building Photographer: Clyde Fisher Date: 1927. Clyde Fisher and Frank Zahn examining concretions along Cannon-ball River" Clyde Fisher 1927. "Sitting Bull's Grave, Fort Yates, N. D." Clyde Fisher 1927. "Ernest Thompson Seton at Sitting Bull's grave, Fort Yates, N. D." Clyde Fisher 1927. "Grey Whirlwind Taking to Ernest Thompson Seton by sign-language. Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1927 BAE Copy Negative Number 43,196. "Sioux Women Dancing, Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1927. "William Zahn and his woman, Floating Cloud, Solen, N. D." Clyde Fisher 1927. "White Bear (Tom Frosted) at Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1927. "Clyde Fisher and Frank Zahn at Sitting Bull's grave, Fort Yates, N. D." Clyde Fisher 1932. "Little Soldier, Sioux, survivor of the Custer Battle, Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1932 BAE Copy Negative Number 45,877. "Sioux Woman and child at Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1932. "Mrs Long Chase, daughter of Afraid-of-Bear, Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1932. "The daughters of Clyde Fisher at The Standing Rock" Clyde Fisher 1932. Left to right: Black Horse, White Bear, Crow Man, Gray Dog. Standing Rock Reservation, Fort Yates, North Dakota Clyde Fisher 1932. "Replica of Mandan Earthlodge on Capitol-grounds, Bismark, N. D" Clyde Fisher.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4722

Local Note:

Filed: original prints, by tribe.

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Mandan Indians  Search this

Habitations and other structures -- earthlodge  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4722, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4722

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4722

Photographer:

Mitchell, Daniel S.  Search this

Howard  Search this

Names:

6 Feather  Search this

American Horse, 1840-1908  Search this

Black Bear, Dakota  Search this

Chief Black Coal (Arapaho)  Search this

Feather Head  Search this

Friday (Arapaho Indian)  Search this

He Dog  Search this

Little Big Man.  Search this

Little Wolf  Search this

Little Wound  Search this

Long Bull  Search this

Money  Search this

Pawnee Killer  Search this

Red Cloud, DakotaOglala  Search this

Red Dog (Oglala chief)  Search this

Red Shirt, Dakota  Search this

Rockey Bear  Search this

Sharp Nose  Search this

Slow Bull, Dakota  Search this

Stands First  Search this

The one that Sleeps  Search this

Three Bears  Search this

Walking Cane  Search this

Washington Enlisted Man  Search this

White Bird, Dakota  Search this

White Horse  Search this

Yellow Bear  Search this

Young Man Afraid Of His Horses, Dakota  Search this

Extent:

31 Prints

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Dakota Indians -- (identification uncertain)  Search this

Dakota -- Oglala  Search this

Shoshoni Indians  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Oglala Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Date:

ca. 1860's

Scope and Contents:

Relate to Arapaho(s), Dakota (some Oglala) and probably Dakota Indians (25), most on mount of D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming, others on unprinted mounts; and 1 Shoshoni photograph on mount of Howard, Fort San[ders ?], Wyoming Territory. All on carte de visite style mounts.

Catalog Number 4754: (1) Tribe: Arapaho Description: "Sharp Nose" Photographer: D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,703. (2) Arapaho "White Horse" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 132-c. (3) Arapaho "Friday" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,704. (4) Arapaho "Black Coal" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,705. (5) Cheyenne "Little Wolf" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 54,855-B. (6) Dakota (Oglala) "Red Cloud" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3237-d. (7) Dakota (Oglala) "American Horse" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3214-c. (8) Dakota (Oglala) "Little Big Man" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3215-b. (9) Dakota (Oglala) "Three Bears" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3207-b. (10) Dakota (Oglala) "He Dog" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3229-b. (11) Dakota (Oglala) Red Dog D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3208-b. (12) Dakota (Oglala) "Little Wound" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3219-b. (13) Dakota (Oglala) "Slow Bull" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,717. (14) Dakota (Oglala) Young Man Afraid of His Horses D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne , Wyoming Negative Number 55,718. (15) Dakota (Oglala) "Red Shirt" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,719.

Catalog Number 4754: Tribe: (16) Dakota Description: "Rockey Bear" Photographer: D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 3711-o-1. (17) Dakota "The one that Sleeps Negative Number 3711-p. (18) Dakota "Long Bull" Negative Number 3656-c. (19) Dakota "Washington Enlisted Man" See (20), below Negative Number 3655-d. (29) Dakota "Stands First" Same individual as (19), above. Bureau of American Ethnology file print gives name as Stands First Negative Number 55,708. (20) Dakota "Pawnee Killer" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,707. (21) [Dakota ?] Man wearing three-cornered hat, holding pipe D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,709. (22) [Dakota ?] "6 Feather" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,710. (25) [Dakota ?] "Little Wolf" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,713. (23) [Dakota ?] "Black Bear" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negaive Number 55,711. (24) [Dakota ?] "White Bird" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,712. (26) [Dakota ?] "Walking Cane" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,714. (27) [Dakota ?] "Money" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,715. (19) ? [Dakota ?] "Yellow Bear" D. S. Mitchell, Eddy Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming Negative Number 55,706. (28) [Dakota ?] "Feather Head Negative Number 55,716. Shoshoni "Shoshone Squaw" Photographer: Howard, Fort San[ders ?], Wyoming Territory Negative Number 55,720.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4754

Local Note:

Copy negatives are on file for all (Negatives 54,855-B and 55,703-55,720 made 2/66; others were previously on file.)

Filed: Original prints, by tribe.

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4754, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4754

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4754

Creator:

Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Bushotter, George, 1864-1892  Search this

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883  Search this

Extent:

30 Linear feet (70 boxes, 1 oversized box, 20 manuscript envelopes, 4 rolled maps, and 23 map folders)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Athapascan Indians  Search this

Hidatsa Indians  Search this

Mandan Indians  Search this

Biloxi Indians  Search this

Tutelo Indians  Search this

Iowa Indians  Search this

Chiwere  Search this

Winnebago Indians  Search this

Oto Indians  Search this

Quapaw Indians  Search this

Osage Indians  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Siouan Indians  Search this

Teton Indians  Search this

Dhegiha Indians  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Ponca Indians  Search this

Omaha Indians  Search this

Tututni Indians  Search this

Kansa Indians  Search this

Siletz Indians  Search this

Kusan  Search this

Coos (Kusan)  Search this

Yakonan Indians  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Takelma Indians  Search this

Klikitat Indians  Search this

Chasta Costa (Chastacosta)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Field notes

Drawings

Vocabulary

Folklore

Sermons

Manuscripts

Obituaries

Correspondence

Newspaper clippings

Place:

Siletz Indian Reservation (Or.)

Date:

circa 1870-1956

bulk 1870-1895

Summary:

Reverend James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was a missionary and Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist who conducted extensive research on Siouan tribes and languages.The papers of James Owen Dorsey comprise mostly ethnographic and linguistic materials on various tribes of the Siouan language family as well as tribes from Siletz Reservation in Oregon. These materials include texts and letters with interlineal translations; grammar notes; dictionaries; drawings; and his manuscripts. In addition, the collection contains Dorsey's correspondence, newspaper clippings, his obituaries, and reprints.

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains James O. Dorsey's research and writings as a BAE ethnologist, as well as his earlier work as a missionary among the Ponca. The vast majority of the collection pertains to his research on Siouan-Catawban languages, including the Dakota and Dhegiha languages, Chiwere, Winnebago, Mandan, Hidatsa, Tutelo, Biloxi, and Catawba. His research on Athapascan, Kusan, Takilman, and Yakonan languages from his field work at Siletz Reservation are also present, as well as some notes on the Caddoan languages. Dorsey's research files include linguistic and ethnological field notes, reading notes, stories and myths, vocabularies, drawings, and unpublished and published manuscripts. The collection also contains Omaha, Ponca, Quapaw, and Biloxi dictionaries that he compiled and materials relating to his work editing Steven Riggs' Dakota-English Dictionary. Additional noteworthy materials in the collection are Teton texts and drawings from George Bushotter and drawings by Stephen Stubbs (Kansa), Pahaule-gagli (Kansa), and George Miller (Omaha). The collection also contains Dorsey's correspondence, newspaper clippings, obituaries, and his collection of reprints.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized into 6 series: 1) Siouan; 2) Siletz Reservation; 3) Caddoan; 4) General Correspondence; 5) Personal Papers; 6) Miscellaneous & Reprints.

Biographical Note:

Reverend James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was a missionary and Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist who conducted extensive research on Siouan tribes and languages.

Dorsey was born on October 31, 1848 in Baltimore, Maryland. He exhibited a talent for languages at an early age. At age 6 he learned the Hebrew alphabet and was able to read the language at age 10. In 1867 Dorsey attended the Theological Seminary of Virginia and was ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1871. In May of that year, Dorsey traveled to the Dakota Territory to serve as a missionary among the Ponca. Plagued by ill health, Dorsey was forced to end his missionary work in August 1873. By that time, however, he had learned the Ponca language well enough to converse with members of the tribe without an interpreter.

Dorsey returned to Maryland and engaged in parish work while continuing his studies of Siouan languages. His linguistic talents and knowledge of these languages attracted the attention of Major John Wesley Powell. Powell arranged for Dorsey to work among the Omaha in Nebraska from 1878 to 1880 to collect linguistic and ethnological notes. When the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) was established in 1879, Powell recruited Dorsey to join the staff.

As an ethnologist for the BAE, Dorsey continued his research on Siouan tribes. His studies focused on languages but also included Siouan personal names, folklore, social organization, religion, beliefs, and customs. He conducted fieldwork among the Tutelo at Six Nations on Grand River in Upper Canada (1882); the Kansa, Osage, and Quapaw in Indian Territory (1883-1884); the Biloxi at Lecompte, Rapides Parish, Louisiana (1892); and again with the Quapaw at the Quapaw Mission (1894). He also worked with Native Americans that visited DC, including George Bushotter (Teton), Philip Longtail (Winnebago), Samuel Fremont (Omaha), and Little Standing Buffalo (Ponca). He also spent time at Siletz Reservation in 1884 to collect linguistic notes on the Athapascan, Kusan, Takilman, and Yakonan stocks.

In addition to his research, Dorsey helped found the American Folklore Society and served as the first vice-president of the association. He also served as vice-president of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

At the age of 47, Dorsey died of typhoid fever on February 4, 1895.

Sources Consulted

1st-16th Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. 1881-1897.

Hewitt, J.N.B. 1895. "James Owen Dorsey" American Anthropologist A8, 180-183.

McGee, W.J. 1895. "In Memoriam." Journal of American Folklore 8(28): 79-80.

1848 -- Born on October 31 in Baltimore, Maryland.

1871 -- Ordained a deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

1871-1873 -- Served as a missionary among the Ponca in Dakota Territory.

1878-1880 -- Conducted fieldwork among the Omaha in Nebraska.

1879 -- Joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

1882 -- Conducted fieldwork among the Tutelo at Six Nations on Grand River in Upper Canada.

1883-1884 -- Conducted fieldwork among the Kansa, Osage, and Quapaw in Indian Territory.

1887 -- Worked with George Bushotter to record information regarding the language and culture of the Dakota.

1884 -- Conducted fieldwork at Siletz Reservation.

1892 -- Conducted fieldwork among the Biloxi at Lecompte, Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

1894 -- Conducted fieldwork among the Quapaw at the Quapaw Mission in Indian Territory.

1895 -- Died of typhoid fever on February 4th at the age of 47.

Restrictions:

The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment

Rights:

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Topic:

Catawba Indians  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Ethnology  Search this

Social structure  Search this

Kinship  Search this

Manners and customs  Search this

Shahaptian languages  Search this

Yakonan languages  Search this

Athapascan languages  Search this

Kusan languages  Search this

Linguistics  Search this

Siouan languages  Search this

Dhegiha language  Search this

Siuslaw Indians  Search this

Hidatsa language  Search this

Omaha language  Search this

Dakota language  Search this

Catawba language  Search this

Biloxi language  Search this

Caddoan languages  Search this

Osage language  Search this

Alsea language  Search this

Kansa language  Search this

Mandan language  Search this

Chastacosta language  Search this

Coquille language  Search this

Tutelo language  Search this

Winnebago language  Search this

Siuslaw language  Search this

Takelma language  Search this

Genre/Form:

Field notes

Drawings

Vocabulary

Folklore

Sermons

Manuscripts

Obituaries

Correspondence

Newspaper clippings

Citation:

Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

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.

Identifier:

NAA.MS4800

See more items in:

MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4800

Creator:

Tooker, William Wallace  Search this

Addressee:

McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this

Names:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Collection Collector:

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Place:

Trenton -- New Jersey -- Archeology -- Early man

Date:

September 18, 1897

Scope and Contents:

Regarding Paleolithic man at Trenton, New Jersey, and James Mooneyʹs study of the Dakota Indians.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4372(16)

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 4372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 4372 Miscellaneous material relating to the history of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the history of anthropology, and anthropological controversies

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4372-ref16

Creator:

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Extent:

3 Pages

8 Items (slips )

Culture:

Ofo  Search this

Dakota Indians  Search this

Osage Indians  Search this

Mandan Indians  Search this

Hidatsa Indians  Search this

Quapaw Indians  Search this

Tutelo Indians  Search this

Biloxi Indians  Search this

Siouan Indians  Search this

Winnebago Indians  Search this

Woccon  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Contents: Comparative vocabulary, 117 items, in English, Hidatsa, Ofo, Mandan, Dakota, Biloxi, Tutelo, Osage and (a few) Winnebago. 3 pages. Comparison of 24 words: English, Catawba, Ofo, Tutelo, Dakota and Quapaw. 1 slip. Synonyms for the name "Ofo". 1 slip. Summary of history of classification of Tutelo, Catawba, and Woccon as Siouan. 1 slip.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4234

Local Note:

typescript document

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Catawba Indians  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4234, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4234

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4234