Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (007 1/2 in x 009 1/2 in mounted on 009 3/4 in x 014 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09710500
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
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Function:
Exhibitions
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (007 3/4 in x 009 1/2 in mounted on 009 3/4 in x 014 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09710600
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Function:
Exhibitions
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (007 3/4 in x 009 3/4 in mounted on 009 1/2 in x 014 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09710800
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Function:
Exhibitions
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photo lot 4, Department of Anthropology photograph collection relating to anthropological exhibits, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection Citation:
Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art records, 1883-1962, bulk 1885-1940. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Brown Foundation. Funding for the digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Ledger drawings
Date:
1904
Scope and Contents:
Tablet containing 21 drawings including pictures of warriors carrying shields, of shield designs, and of the Omaha Dance. Two are indentified as drawn by Sampson Kelly, Cheyenne, and others are signed by Carl Sweezy, Arapaho. Cover inscribed "Cheyenne Shields No. 1" and "From Picture Book Captured at Mackenzie Fight 1876, Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, Drawn by Carl Sweezy, 1904"
Arrangement:
Subgroup
Biographical / Historical:
Carl Sweezy (ca.1879-1953), Arapaho. For biographical information, see The Arapaho Way, by Althea Bass, NY:Clarkson N. Potter, 1966. For information on his work with Mooney, see Carl Sweezy: Arapaho Artist, by Althea Bass, Chronicles of Oklahoma 34: 429-31, 1956.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2531 Vol. 13
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory.
United States Oklahoma.
Album Information:
MS 2531-13 000
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2531, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Ledger drawings
Date:
1904
Scope and Contents:
Tablet, now disbound, containing 20 drawings including pictures of warriors carrying shields and a few shield designs. Cover inscribed "Cheyenne Shields No. 2" and "From Book Captured at Mackenzie Fight 1876, Field Museum, Chicago." The artist and date for this book were established by reference to inscriptions in vol. 13 of the same manuscript.
Arrangement:
Subgroup
Biographical / Historical:
Carl Sweezy (ca. 1879-1953), Arapaho. For biographical information, see The Arapaho Way, by Althea Bass, NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1966. For information on his work with Mooney, see Carl Sweezy: Arapaho Artist, by Althea Bass, Chronicles of Oklahoma 34: 429-31, 1956.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2531 Vol. 14
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory.
United States Oklahoma.
Album Information:
MS 2531-14 000
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2531, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1904
Scope and Contents:
Drawings on large sheets of paper, now laminated. Seven are of Cheyenne battles and are evidently preliminary drawings made in planning production of a hide tipi liner now in the collection of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, cat. No. 96,808. Other drawings relating to the tipi liner are in Ms. 2538. One drawing of preparations for the Kiowa Medicine Lodge ceremony was evidently a preliminary sketch for the hide painting now in the artifact collection, cat. No. 229,894.
Biographical / Historical:
James Mooney (1861-1921) was a self-taught ethnologist. He was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1885 until his death. In this capacity, he worked extensively among the Cherokee, Kiowa and Cheyenne. Among the Kiowa and Cheyenne, his studies focused on pictorial calendars, the peyote religion, and heraldry, the term he used to refer to the designs on shields and painted tipis. In the course of his study of Kiowa and Cheyenne heraldry, he commissioned many illustrations by native artists. For additional biographic information on James Mooney see: Christopher Winters, General Editor, International Dictionary of Anthropologists, Garland Publishing, 1991; Neil M. Judd, The Bureau of American Ethnology - A Partial History, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967; L.G. Moses, The Indian Man - A Biography of James Mooney, University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
White Shield (nd) a.k.a. Young Black Bird White Shield, a Northern Cheyenne, was the son of Spotted Wolf and grandson of Whistling Elk. He fought side by side with his adopted brother Yellow Nose in the Rosebud fight. According to accounts of the battle, White Shield was fishing with his nephews when he heard the gunfire of Reno's attack on the south end of the village. He overtook Bobtail Horse and others who were the first to meet Custer in Custer fight. He was still living in 1908. Information obtained from "Cheyenne Participants in the Battle of Little Big Horn" http://www.montana.edu/wwwfpcc/tribes/cheyenne.html.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.233,124-130
Local Note:
Mooney's caption and Numbers appear on the originals. The significance of "Cheyenne Curtin" and "Elk River" prefaced to the Numbers is not yet determined. Notations on the originals that depict "Republican River" encounter refer to "Stone," probably source giving account of battle; not located. Possibly drawings were made later, from material that Mooney brought into the USNM in 1904. Or drawings possibly copied from Mooney's Cheyenne specimen collection at Field Columbian Museum, Chicago.
This series includes six notebooks comprising a slipnote catalogue of United States National Museum basketry specimens numbered from 455 to 209,512; one notebook of printed labels for basketry specimens; a large number of reprints and clipped published articles, all pertaining to American Indian basketry and /or the United States National Museum basketry collection, together with notes, annotations, and correspondence from the authors; additional correspondence from dealers, private collectors, and anthropologists; numerous typed and handwritten notes by Mason and others regarding baskets and basket-making techniques; and one folder full of photographs and drawings of baskets, including some from Mary Wright Gill, Captain D. D. Gaillard, Livingston Farrand (Salish Basketry design article), A. C. Vroman, and L. W. Jenkins (Peabody Academy of Science basketry exhibit). Extensive material on the J. W. Hudson collection, including a "Catalog of the Hudson Collection of Indian Products, 1899" with 368 entries, and the Fred Harvey collection, plus material on at least four other other Untied States National Museum basketry accessions. Anthropologists and other individuals among the correspondents include: C. P. Wilcomb of San Francisco's Memorial Museum (plant material, Santa Ynez Mission), Miss. Picher, H. E. Williams (Hat Creek), A. M. Lang (Oregon and Washington Tribes), Frank Russell (Pima), Mrs. Harriet and E. T. McArthur (Sasta, Rogue (?), Clapooya, and Modoc), Rust (Rust Collection, USNM acc. #37098, cat. #207, 576-207, 685), Chas. L. Owen of Field Columbian Museum (Apache), Mrs. E. B. Power (Digger), S. L. (Washoe), C. F. Lummis, Washington Matthews (Navajo), C. Hart Merriam (California), G. C. Simms of Field Columbian Museum, Mrs. I. Froham (Alaskan tribes), Mrs. A. Cohn (Washoe), A. L. Kroeber (concerning the Fred Harvey baskets and 37 other baskets), (Klickitat, Umatillas, USNM acc. #41579, cat. #221, 483-221, 499), Frank M. Covert, H. C. Brown, Mrs. Herrick, Mrs. Shakleford, F. V. Coville (botanical notes and list), Rev. M. Eels (Salishm USNM cat. #120, 435 and others), Lt. G. T. Emmons, and Franz Boaz (Alaskan basketry article by Emmons, Haida).
Arrangement:
Arranged by type of material.
Collection Restrictions:
The Otis Tufton Mason papers are open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Otis Tufton Mason papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
