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Photographs of R. O. Sweeny Drawings of Dakota Indians

Creator:
Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902  Search this
Extent:
16 Prints
Culture:
Dakota Indians  Search this
Sioux  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Consists of 20 photos of drawings by Robert Ormsby Sweeny, made in Minnesota in 1852.
Contents: 4489: Artist's titles: [1.] Interior Dakota Bark house. [2.] Dakota or Sioux women Tanning and dressing skins. [3.] Dakotas telling stories and preparing for a hunting party. [4.] Bark hunting lodge of Dakotas or Sioux Indians. [5.] "Fire hunting" of the Sioux. [6.] Sioux spearing fish. [7.] Shakapes and Le petite Corbeaus bands playing ball at Shakapes village. [8.] Dakota Doctor or Sorcerer preparing charms for the sick. [9.] Dakota Doctor exorcising the evil spirit from the sick. [10.] Dakota medicine men showing their secret charms to each other. [11.] Dance Worship of Oank-tay-hee Taku-wakan- The supernatural giant. [12.] Dakota Indians dancing the Sun Dance. [13.] Bark Houses or Summer Lodges of Dakotas. [14.] Return Dance of a successful War party of Dakotas. [15.] Begging Dance of the Dakotas or Sioux. [16.] Dakota or Sioux squaws gathering Wild Rice for Winter food. [17.] Dog Dance of the M'de wakan ton Sioux or Dakotas. [18.] Dakota or Sioux Indians racing ponies. [19.] M'de Wakanton wan Dakota burial place, "Black Dogs Village" Minnesota. [20.] Wa-pa-ton Sioux or Dakota Ceremonies of the Thunder Bird "Travers des Sioux."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4489
Local Note:
Filed: Dakota original prints (no negatives). Mounted in album.
Restrictions:
Purchased 1956 from the British Museum for reference only. Publication permission as well as additional prints sould be obtained directly from the British Museum, which owns the originals.
Topic:
Photographs  Search this
Toys and games -- playing ball  Search this
Medicine -- medicine men  Search this
Dance  Search this
Habitations and other structures  Search this
Hide preparation  Search this
Fishing  Search this
Death and mortuary customs  Search this
Rituals, formulas and ceremonies  Search this
Sioux  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4489, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4489
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw387cc57b1-5d13-4d16-8b07-b2053af69752
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4489

Photographs taken at Standing Rock Reservation, 1927 and 1932 and one Mandan photograph

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:
Sioux  Search this
Numakiki (Mandan)  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
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
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3ce56c14e-4bcf-4310-8693-8b902bedceaa
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4722

MS 4304 Lakota vocabularies, legend of Thunder, and description of Teton lodges

Creator:
Smith, DeCost, 1864-1939  Search this
Extent:
22 Pages
Culture:
Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
1880s
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4304
Local Note:
See Smith's Indian Experiences, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1943, pages 309-311 for reference to the Legend of Thunder.
Photostat copy
Topic:
Habitations and other structures -- Dakota  Search this
Folklore -- Dakota  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4304, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4304
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32d5fba0e-a47e-498d-b63b-1325570f121c
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4304

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