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Nicolini Calyo watercolors

Collection Collector:
Bushnell, David I., Jr. (David Ives), 1875-1941  Search this
Collection Artist:
Webber, John, 1751-1793  Search this
Krieghoff, Cornelius, 1815-1872  Search this
Batz, Alexandre de  Search this
Calyo, Nicolino, 1799-1884  Search this
Extent:
2 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor, 10.5 x 14 inches)
Container:
Box 1, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Graphic Materials
Drawings (visual works)
Date:
circa 1840
Scope and Contents:
Two watercolor drawings. Inscribed: "Portrait of Mah-to-toh-pa / The Chief of the Mandans Indians Tribe upper Missouri" and "Portrait of Kee-o-kuh / the running fox / Chief of the Sacs and Foxes Indian Tribes"
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Collection Citation:
MS 4109 David Ives Bushnell, Jr. collection of drawings and illustrations, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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MS 4109 David Ives Bushnell, Jr. collection of drawings and illustrations
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3141355a7-a2b1-4b8d-8618-fa1139817e46
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-ms4109-ref2

Mat

Culture/People:
Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this
Previous owner:
Liza Martin, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this
Collector:
Mark Raymond Harrington (M. R. Harrington/MRH), Non-Indian, 1882-1971  Search this
Chief William M. Skye (Bill Skye), Peoria, 1868-1923  Search this
Leo Walker, Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this
Object Name:
Mat
Media/Materials:
Rush/rushes, cordage
Techniques:
Perforated, stitched
Dimensions:
142 x 475 cm
Object Type:
Furnishings (Home)
Native Term:
ha nak gun
Place:
Oklahoma; USA
Catalog Number:
2/6564
Barcode:
026564.000
See related items:
Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)
Furnishings (Home)
Data Source:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67fc4d4a5-8438-4c61-89de-db9540289973
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:NMAI_28208
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Múk-a-tah-mish-o-káh-kaik, Black Hawk, Prominent Sac Chief

Artist:
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872  Search this
Sitter:
Black Hawk  Search this
Black Hawk  Search this
Medium:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
29 x 24 in. (73.7 x 60.9 cm)
Type:
Painting
Date:
1832
Topic:
Dress\Indian dress  Search this
Indian\Sauk and Fox  Search this
Portrait male  Search this
Portrait male\bust  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Object number:
1985.66.2
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
Department:
Painting and Sculpture
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7193e09b6-c7e0-419a-a1d6-32d351914e10
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_1985.66.2

MS 3203 Notes on Fox ethnography and linguistics

Collector:
Jones, William, 1871-1909  Search this
Extent:
3 Boxes
Culture:
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
Shawnee  Search this
Fox  Search this
Cree  Search this
Seminole  Search this
Menominee (Menomini)  Search this
Kickapoo  Search this
Massachusett  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
With a few pages of notes relating to each of the following: Cheyenne, Cree, Kickapoo, "Massachusetts Indians," Menominee, Seminole, and Shawnee; and a small amount of Jones' correspondence, 1907-1909, and correspondence about Jones after his death, 1909-1911.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3203
Topic:
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3203, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3203
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f61dcce2-9832-4496-832b-3efb79bd664a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3203

Portrait derived from woodcut of "Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior or King of the Siminoles"

Extent:
1 Photograph (8x10 in)
Culture:
Seminole  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
Portrait derived from woodcut in Bartram's Travels, 1791, and erroneously captioned "Black Hawk in his War Dress."
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45126 A
Local Note:
Copy by Library of Congress from "An Account of the Indian Chief Black Hawk and his Tribes, the Sac and Fox Indians, with the Affecting Narrative of a Lady who was Taken Prisoner by the Indians...," Philadelphia, 1834. [No author. In Rare Book Room, Library of Congress.]
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
See more items in:
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d18e7cc8-64bd-4af6-9d99-2093079e866d
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-176-ref11646

Mrs. J. R. Falconer photograph collection relating to Sac and Fox Reservation

Collector:
Falconer, J.R., Mrs.  Search this
Extent:
5 Albumen prints (mounted)
Culture:
Sauk  Search this
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Place:
Sac and Fox Reservation (Iowa)
Date:
circa 1910-1920
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs depicting Sauk and Fox encampments on the Sac and Fox reservation near Tama, Iowa. They include images of dwellings, people, wagons, and horses.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 73-32
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Rights:
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Topic:
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Fox Indians -- Dwellings  Search this
Camps  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 73-32, Mrs. J. R. Falconer photograph collection relating to Sac and Fox Reservation, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.73-32
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3773446f0-1a04-429f-b14e-ccc3a3cf79fd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73-32

MS 2997 Autobiography of Lucy Lasley, a Fox Indian woman, collected by Truman Michelson

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Lasley, Lucy  Search this
Peters, Joe  Search this
Translator:
Poweshiek, Ida  Search this
Extent:
400 Items (ca. 400 pages)
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Autobiographies
Manuscripts
Date:
1927 June
Scope and Contents:
Two notebooks containing an autobiography of Lucy Lasley, handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabary by Lasley and Joe Peters with an English translation by Ida Powesheik.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2997
Local Note:
This manuscript is not the same autobiography published in the 40th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Topic:
Fox language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Autobiographies
Manuscripts
Citation:
Manuscript 2997, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2997
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw34d103601-6bf2-404d-8223-a81e762e4bc8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2997
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Photographs

Extent:
28 Items (glossy prints )
1 Album
Culture:
Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this
Fox  Search this
Potawatomi  Search this
Sauk  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albums
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Photos are of Potawatomi (Prairie Band) and a few Sauk and Fox Indians, taken at various dates from the 1880's to 1957. Feder's captions, transcribed from negative jackets, are with prints in album. Most of the persons in the photographs are identified by name. Feder evidently secured some of the identification from persons living on the Potawatomi Reservation. See letter of Feder to M. C. Blaker, June 5, 1963. Letter filed Bureau of American Ethnology Accession files, MCB, 11/69.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4664
Local Note:
Filed: Original Prints, by tribe.
Topic:
Photographs  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4664, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4664
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32b8b5365-d362-41bf-a350-54589690e30b
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4664

MS 2819 Some comments upon the White Buffalo dance; war gens, Fox Indians

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918  Search this
Extent:
84 Pages
Culture:
Fox -- White Buffalo Dance  Search this
Fox -- War gens  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2819
Topic:
Dance -- Fox  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk and Fox  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2819, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2819
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d51bdf36-169d-477d-8ef9-477e9e233ffc
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2819

MS 2011 Fox syllabic text by George Black Cloud on sacred pack of the Bear Clan

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Informant:
Black Cloud, George  Search this
Translator:
Poweshiek, Horace  Search this
Extent:
312 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Folklore
Narratives
Date:
1925
Scope and Contents:
Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by George Black Cloud on Sakimagewa (Saùkimaùhkweùwa) sacred pack of the Bear Gens. An English translation was provided by Horace Poweshiek. Truman Michelson added grammatical notes throughout the texts.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2011
Topic:
Fox language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Medicine bundles  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Folklore
Narratives
Citation:
Manuscript 2011, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2011
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32c5f9e00-56cb-47ac-8bc4-a01796a34304
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2011
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MS 1196 List of nations known to Fox Indians

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
2 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1196
Topic:
Names, tribal -- Fox  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1196, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1196
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31216c3d7-1996-4dbd-847b-85241bd2667a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1196

MS 2679 Miscellaneous ethnographic notes

Creator:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Names:
Le Claire, Antoine  Search this
Extent:
39 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Place:
Tama (Iowa)
Date:
1915 and undated
Scope and Contents:
Includes: kinship terms; adoption feasts; gens festivals; Snail Dance; Victory Dance; Fox names of places, early Indian traders, and interpreters, moccasin game, Indian name of Antoine Le Claire's mother; notes on the Mide, Sisakayeweni, Wabanowiwen, Nanakawinatawinoni; lists of various rituals and dances belonging to different gentes; notes on those named after the White Deer (See Number 2239); notes on Squaw Dance, and so-called Worshipping Dance.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2679
Topic:
Kinship -- Fox  Search this
Names, Personal -- Fox  Search this
Adoption -- Fox  Search this
Place names -- Fox  Search this
Indian traders  Search this
Indian interpreters  Search this
Games -- Fox  Search this
Fox language  Search this
Midéwiwin -- Fox Indians  Search this
Dance -- Fox  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2679, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2679
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f9c62cd3-437b-4613-84d1-c906a3048a6f
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2679
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MS 2715 Owl Sacred Pack of the Fox Indians

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Names:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology -- Bulletin 72  Search this
Extent:
120 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Typewritten manuscript of Bulletin 72 (except vocabulary).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2715
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2715, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2715
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3080bdd31-7ca4-4c84-813f-cb634192e0a3
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2715

MS 2678 Fox text by Oliver Lincoln of conversation

Creator:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Informant:
Lincoln, Oliver  Search this
Extent:
30 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by Oliver Lincoln of a conversation between two speakers marked "he" and "she." No translation present. The English words "love" and "engage" appear once each at the top of pages 1 and 15.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2678
Local Note:
Title updated from "Fox Indian conversation" 4/7/2014.
Topic:
Fox language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2678, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2678
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw380fb7a2f-4f69-4282-a4b2-568944d1a7bd
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2678
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MS 4369 Labels from Sacred Bundles

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
8 Sheets
Culture:
Fox Indians -- (identification uncertain)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sheets
Date:
1916 ?
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4369
Local Note:
Note attached, from the Heye Museum, refers to the sheets as "Indian texts which accompanied your shipment of material."
Topic:
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4369, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4369
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3cfa851da-6445-4881-b32f-caae7f765072
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4369

MS 1835 Fox text by Alfred Kiyana on the one who made the eagle sacred bundle

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918  Search this
Translator:
Brown, Thomas, circa 1891-  Search this
Extent:
2 Notebooks (136 pages)
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Date:
circa 1915
Scope and Contents:
Text in Meskwaki (Fox) handwritten in a notebook by Alfred Kiyana on the one who made the eagle sacred bundle. A second notebook contains an English translation by Thomas Brown.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1835
Local Note:
Title changed from "Eagle gens, and The one who made the Eagle Sacred Pack Legend and ethnology" 3/14/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See Manuscript 1850 for additional texts and translations by Kiyana and Brown, most likely from the same period.
Topic:
Fox Indians -- Kinship  Search this
Fox language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Medicine bundles  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Citation:
Manuscript 1835, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1835
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f1e15d60-05ea-43aa-a4e3-b8c1544fcae7
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1835
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MS 2680 When the Fox Indians were first wiped out

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
8 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Story- semi-historical.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2680
Local Note:
"This must be completely retranslated."--T.M. 1912.
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2680, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2680
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30f31e6ac-64b7-47ff-91fc-c3461907fb6b
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2680

MS 1222 List of tribes known to Fox Indians

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
2 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1222
Topic:
Names, tribal -- Fox  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1222, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1222
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw387cabfa8-a333-4c78-85d0-a2eb82c0b708
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1222

MS 1309 English translation by Truman Michelson of text on Fox gens festivals

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
4 Pages
Culture:
Fox  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Narratives
Manuscripts
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
English translation by Truman Michelson of a text on Meskwaki (Fox) gens festival. The whereabouts of the original Meskwaki text is unknown.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1309
Topic:
Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Fox Indians -- Kinship  Search this
Meskwaki; Sauk and Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Narratives
Manuscripts
Citation:
Manuscript 1309, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1309
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31fd62bbb-3d6b-4b2e-a7ab-f59b61baf7e5
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1309

Material critical of Truman Michelsonʹs work

Collector:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this
Names:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925  Search this
Collection Collector:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this
Culture:
Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this
Fox  Search this
Sauk  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Including copy of letter. Hewitt to Jesse Walter Fewkes, criticizing "The Ritualistic Origin Myth of the White Buffalo Dance of the Fox Indians", April 19, 1913; a draft of a letter to Alanson Skinner regarding Michelsonʹs review of his Observations on the Ethnology of the Sauk Indiana"; and some notes.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1647(6)
Topic:
Meskwaki; Sauk and Fox  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 1647, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
See more items in:
MS 1647 Miscellaneous materials by Hewitt and others
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw355156aa2-8a0f-4043-9484-7bd9c7a38e59
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-ms1647-ref6

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