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Extent:

1 Item (disbound volume of 21 drawings (23 leaves, graphite and colored pencil, 21 x 27 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Ledger drawings

Date:

1875 August

Scope and Contents:

Artist's sketchbook, now disbound, containing scenes of daily life, dances, hunting and a picture of birds. Individual leaves numbered 1 through 23. Cover of the drawing book inscribed in pencil "Drawn by Making Medicine, Cheyenne Prisoner, St. Augustine, Fla. Aug. 1875." Inscriptions on individual leaves by same hand, probably Lt. Richard Pratt.

Biographical / Historical:

Fort Marion, also known as Castillo de San Marco, is a stone fortress in St. Augustine, Florida. Between 1875 and 1878, seventy-two prisoners from the southern plains were incarcerated in the fort under supervision of Lt. Richard Pratt. The prisoners consisted of 27 Kiowas, 33 Cheyennes, 9 Comanches, 2 Arapahos, and a single Caddo. With the exception of one Cheyenne woman, all the prisoners were men. They had been accused of participating in the recent Red River War, earlier hostilities, or both. With the exception of the wife and daughter of one of the Comanche men, the prisoners families were not allowed to accompany them to Fort Marion. For further information on Fort Marion see Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 and Richard Pratt, Battlefield and Classroom, ed. by R. M. Utley, Yale University Press, 1964.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 39A

OPPS NEG 55,025 - 55,046

Local Note:

The original identification of the artist as Making Medicine based on the inscription is in error, based on comparison to other known examples of the artist's work, including Ms. 39B. Re-identified as anonymous Cheyenne artist by Candace Greene, 2002.

Place:

United States Florida Fort Marion.

Album Information:

MS 39A 000

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations  Search this

Dance -- Medicine Dance  Search this

Dance -- Sun Dance  Search this

Amusements -- Wrestling  Search this

Habitations -- Medicine Lodge  Search this

Marriage and family -- courting  Search this

Hunting -- Buffalo  Search this

Hunting -- antelope  Search this

Hunting -- elk  Search this

Hunting -- bear  Search this

Hunting -- Turkey  Search this

War -- warriors  Search this

Zoology -- wild horses  Search this

Zoology -- Buffalo  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 39A, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS39A

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MS 39-a Book of drawings by unidentified Cheyenne artist at Fort Marion, Florida

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3266715b7-2e7e-44a7-8203-5889d06bae7a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms39a

Artist:

Doanmoe, Etahdleuh, 1856-1888  Search this

Kobay, (Comanche chief)  Search this

Names:

Fort Marion artists  Search this

Kobay, (Comanche chief)  Search this

Onkoiday  Search this

Sepinta  Search this

White Horse  Search this

Zonekeuk ?  Search this

Zotom  Search this

Extent:

33 Drawings (graphite, colored pencil, crayon, ink, and watercolor, 12 x 18 cm.-20 x 55 cm.)

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Drawings

Pictographs

Ledger drawings

Date:

1875-1878

Scope and Contents:

The manuscript contains 28 drawings depicting warfare, courting, hunting, dances, a horse race, and an intertribal meeting. The drawings also include 5 pages with pictographs representing various words and the names of the prisoners. Included in the manuscript are rosters of the Ft. Marion prisoners listing the prisoners' names and tribal affiliations. Several drawings are inscribed with the name of Koba, some with the name Etahdleuh. Most were probably drawn by Koba.

Biographical / Historical:

Koba (Wild Horse) was born in 1848. During the Red River War he was a member of the Kiowa band that surrendered on February 18, 1875. Following his surrender, he was confined at Fort Sill, Indian Territory. He was accused of stealing horses and mules in Texas and participating in the August 22, 1874 skirmish at the Wichita Agency, one of the opening engagements of the Red River War. He was among the Kiowa prisoners who were incarcerated in Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida following the end of the conflict. He arrived at Fort Marion on May 21, 1875. After his release from Ft. Marion, Koba attended the Hampton Institute in Virginia. He arrived at Hampton on April 14, 1878. In June of 1879, he left Hampton to work on a farm in Lee, Massachusetts. He then enrolled in the Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania, where he studied to be a tinsmith. He arrived at Carlisle on October 7, 1879. On September 10, 1880, Koba left Carlisle on what was intended to be a brief trip to Indian Territory. Although his health was failing, he was deemed fit to travel. He died of consumption on September 24, 1880, only three days after arriving at his destination.

Etahdleuh (1856-1888) was also known as Etahdleeuh, Etadeleuh, Etahdleuh Doanmoe, Boy, and Boy Hunting. He was imprisoned at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida from 1875-1878. After his release from Fort Marion, he attended the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, arriving in April, 1878. In 1879, he travelled to the Indian Territory to recruit pupils to attend the Carlisle Institute in Pennsylvania, where he would study and work on and off from 1879 to 1887. He made two extended trips back to the reservation during this period and from February to May 1880, he worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He was trained as a Presbyterian missionary and returned to the reservation in January 1888 to serve in this capacity.

For further biographical information on Koba or Etahdleuh see Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.

Fort Marion, also known as Castillo de San Marco, is a stone fortress in St. Augustine, Florida. Between 1875 and 1878, seventy-two prisoners from the southern plains were incarcerated in the fort. Captain Richard Pratt supervised the prisoners during their incarceration at Fort Marion. The prisoners consisted of 27 Kiowas, 33 Cheyennes, 9 Comanches, 2 Arapahos, and a single Caddo. With the exception of one Cheyenne woman, all the prisoners were men. They had been accused of participating in the recent Red River War, earlier hostilities, or both. With the exception of the wife and daughter of one of the Comanche men, the prisoners families were not allowed to accompany them to Fort Marion. For further information on Fort Marion see Karen Daniels Petersen, Plains Indian Art from Fort Marion, University of Oklahoma Press, 1971 and Richard Pratt, Battlefield and Classroom, ed. by R. M. Utley, Yale University Press, 1964.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 39C

Album Information:

MS 39C 000

Provenance:

Reynolds, Mary B.

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations -- Kiowa  Search this

Marriage and family -- Courtship -- Kiowa  Search this

War -- Apache  Search this

War -- Navaho  Search this

War -- Comanche  Search this

Genre/Form:

Pictographs -- Kiowa

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 39C, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS39C

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MS 39-c Kiowa drawings by Koba, Etahdleuh, and others

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a02dfcd2-f48e-456d-99e8-f97aa096cefe

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms39c

Creator:

Richards, Jonathan A.  Search this

Extent:

13 Pages

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Kiowa  Search this

Niuam (Comanche)  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

December 10, 1872

Scope and Contents:

Concerns Indians of the Agency of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche who visited Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia in 1872 under the care of Henry E. Alvord. (Photographs of some of these delegates are in the Bureau of American Ethnology photographic files.)

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4666

Topic:

Delegations -- Cheyenne  Search this

Delegations -- Arapaho  Search this

Delegations -- Kiowa  Search this

Delegations -- Comanche  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Cheyenne  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Arapaho  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Kiowa  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Comanche  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4666, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4666

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39d005b43-5f5d-473c-b715-d3cc3f118642

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4666

Collector:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Annotator:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Author:

Kimball, Harry  Search this

Extent:

4 Pages

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Apache  Search this

Niuam (Comanche)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

circa 1872

Scope and Contents:

Report dates between June 16, 1872 and July 22, 1872. See text of document.

"By Harry Kimball, Paymaster Clerk, Ft. Sill."--Note in Mooney's hand.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1911

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations -- Comanche  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Kiowa  Search this

Federal-Indian relations -- Apache  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 1911, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1911

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35c6dad0a-8fc4-4ad8-823f-1717ae7deb87

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1911

Creator:

Rupprecht, Fred. von  Search this

Extent:

15 Pages

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Niuam (Comanche)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Two drafts (not duplicates) of an account of military activities against the Kiowas and Comanches around Fort Sill. One draft bears the title, "Der indianer Krieg 1874, and the other," Skizze" (first word illegible).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4019-b

Local Note:

Found with 4019-a.

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations -- Kiowa and Comanche war of 1874  Search this

War -- Kiowa and Comanche war of 1874  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4019-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4019B

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b8896b27-b14c-4444-be91-4a5c63704061

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4019b

Creator:

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Kiowa Agency  Search this

Extent:

6 Pages

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Personal names.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 521

General:

Previously titled "Indian Agency Property Return list (Kiowa and Comanche)."

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations -- Kiowa  Search this

Names, Personal -- Kiowa  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 521, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS521

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw346b1d73d-56ad-4909-9847-830294e435af

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms521

Creator:

Howell, Myra Lake  Search this

Names:

Big Tree, circa 1850-1929  Search this

Kicking Bird, -1875  Search this

Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911  Search this

Satanta, Kiowa Chief, approximately 1815-1878  Search this

Culture:

Kiowa  Search this

Niuam (Comanche)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Contains three typescripts: (a) "The Comanche Centaurs and Quanah Parker," 234 pages; (b) "Kicking Bird, Prince of the Kiowas," 74 pages; (c) "The Jacksboro Trials of Satanta and Big Tree," 48 pages.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4587

Local Note:

Carbon typescripts

Other Title:

The Prairie Centaurs

The Comanche Centaurs and Quanah Parker

Kicking Bird, Prince of the Kiowas

The Jacksboro Trials of Satanta and Big Tree

Topic:

Federal-Indian relations -- Jacksboro Trials  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4587, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4587

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw307a02b4c-d3a8-46ea-9a4b-e0dacc58b68a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4587