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Collector:

Lillian T. Samuelson  Search this

Donor Name:

Mrs. Lillian T. Samuelson  Search this

Length:

11 cm

Width:

11 cm

Height:

16 cm

Culture:

American  Search this

Chitimacha  Search this

Object Type:

Basket

Place:

Charenton, Louisiana, United States, North America

Accession Date:

4 Sep 2007

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

2037467

USNM Number:

E434595-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3ea829113-9816-4059-b720-6cd8d54c75cf

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_12545933

Collector:

Taylor, James E. (Artist)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Taylor, James E., 1839-1901 (artist and collector)  Search this

Extent:

1 Photographic print (003 in x 004 in mounted on 014 in x 018 in)

Container:

Volume 1, Page 39

Culture:

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Photographs

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

NAA INV.01601903

NAA MS.MS 4605

OPPS NEG.55518

Local Note:

Black and white Photoprint on Paper Mount in Album

Place:

Virginia -- Hampton

Collection Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Collection Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Sioux  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

MS 4605, James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West

James E. Taylor scrapbook of the American West / Page 39

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3345caa9f-2f7e-4b78-a28b-c0f062ae4a7a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4605-ref946

Culture/People:

Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Previous owner:

John Jay White, Non-Indian, 1860-1923  Search this

Lender:

John Jay White, Non-Indian, 1860-1923  Search this

Donor:

Grace Hoffman White (Virginia Grace Hoffman/Mrs. John Jay White), Non-Indian, 1862-1937  Search this

Object Name:

Parfleche saddle bag

Media/Materials:

Rawhide, pigment/pigments

Techniques:

Folded, stitched, painted, fringed

Dimensions:

34.5 x 32 cm

Object Type:

Bags/Pouches (and parts)

Place:

Lame Deer, Northern Cheyenne Reservation; Rosebud County; Montana; USA

Date created:

circa 1900

Catalog Number:

10/4392

Barcode:

104392.000

See related items:

Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)

Bags/Pouches (and parts)

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b739834c-023d-493a-8eb6-3fdaca280ee5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_111901

Author:

Minneapolis Institute of Arts  Search this

Lincoln, Louise  Search this

Subject:

Doneghy, Virginia Art collections Exhibitions  Search this

Minneapolis Institute of Arts  Search this

Physical description:

189 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm

Type:

Books

Exhibitions

Place:

Southwest, New

Date:

1982

C1982

Topic:

Navajo silverwork--Exhibitions  Search this

Silverwork--Exhibitions  Search this

Call number:

E99.N3 M63 1982X

E99.N3M63 1982X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_162566

Culture/People:

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Artist/Maker:

Tony Jojola, Isleta Pueblo, 1958-2022  Search this

Previous owner:

Priscilla M. King (Pam M. King/Priscilla Martin King), Non-Indian, 1926-2002  Search this

Donor:

Priscilla M. King (Pam M. King/Priscilla Martin King), Non-Indian, 1926-2002  Search this

Object Name:

Vessel

Media/Materials:

Glass

Techniques:

Handblown

Dimensions:

18 x 16.5 x 16.7 cm

Object Type:

Containers and Vessels

Place:

Isleta Pueblo, Isleta Reservation; Bernalillo County; New Mexico; USA

Date created:

1985-1995

Catalog Number:

25/4776

Barcode:

254776.000

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Isleta Pueblo

Containers and Vessels

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws66252639b-e545-443a-b8e9-2378ca318d43

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_270326

Culture/People:

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Artist/Maker:

Tony Jojola, Isleta Pueblo, 1958-2022  Search this

Previous owner:

Priscilla M. King (Pam M. King/Priscilla Martin King), Non-Indian, 1926-2002  Search this

Donor:

Priscilla M. King (Pam M. King/Priscilla Martin King), Non-Indian, 1926-2002  Search this

Title:

Lightning Strikes

Object Name:

Vessel

Media/Materials:

Glass

Techniques:

Handblown

Dimensions:

27.5 x 25 x 13 cm

Object Type:

Containers and Vessels

Place:

Isleta Pueblo, Isleta Reservation; Bernalillo County; New Mexico; USA

Date created:

1989

Catalog Number:

25/4780

Barcode:

254780.000

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Isleta Pueblo

Containers and Vessels

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws65962f5e9-1c53-4a7d-8932-a98cc9d9eeee

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_270330

Producer:

Spottswood, Richard K. (Richard Keith) (liner notes)  Search this

Performer:

Okimase, John  Search this

Platt, Moses  Search this

Johnson, Lonnie  Search this

Mendoza, Lydia  Search this

Jones, Jab  Search this

Rachell, Yank  Search this

Estes, Sleepy John, 1899-1977  Search this

Strothers, Jimmie  Search this

Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996  Search this

White, J.C.  Search this

Doyle, Little Buddy  Search this

Shade, Will, 1898-1966  Search this

Segura, Dewey  Search this

Hebert, Didier  Search this

Dunford, Uncle Eck, 1878-1953  Search this

Bolick, Bill  Search this

Bolick, Earl  Search this

Arthur, Emry, 1900-1966  Search this

Thenstead, Adolph  Search this

Manning, Sally  Search this

Ray, Lost John  Search this

Mainer, Wade, 1907-2011  Search this

Cuarteto Mendoza  Search this

Blue Grass Boys  Search this

Carter Family (Musical group)  Search this

Little Son Joe  Search this

Carolina Tar Heels  Search this

Blue Sky Boys  Search this

Mentor Boys  Search this

Mountaineers (Musical group)  Search this

Collection Creator:

Rinzler, Ralph  Search this

Extent:

1 Phonograph record (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, 12 in.)

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Americans  Search this

Menominee Indians  Search this

Hispanic Americans  Search this

Anglo-American  Search this

Cajuns  Search this

Afro-Caribbean  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Phonograph records

Place:

Wisconsin

United States

Keshena (Wis.)

Texas

Sugarland Prison (Tex.)

New York

New York (N.Y.)

San Antonio (Tex.)

Tennessee

Memphis (Tenn.)

Virginia

State Farm (Va.)

Illinois

Chicago (Ill.)

New Jersey

Camden (N.J.)

Arkansas

Fayetteville (Ark.)

Louisiana

New Orleans (La.)

Georgia

Atlanta (Ga.)

Galax (Va.)

Champagne (Ill.)

Grafton (Wis.)

North Carolina

Wilkesboro (N.C.)

Taylor (Tex.)

Brownsville (Tenn.)

Kentucky

Delcambre (La.)

Trinidad and Tobago

Date:

1976

Contents:

Love is a song (Lonnie Johnson)--That's all right, baby (Mose "Clear Rock" Platt)--Two Menominee flute songs (John Okimase)--Little Sarah (James Rachel, John Estes)-Going to Richmond (Jimmie Strothers)--Come back to me in my dreams (Bill Monroe)--Marira, Marira (Lydia Mendoza y Cuarteto Mendoza)--If one won't, another one will (Carter Family)--Joe Bowers (J. C. White)--Renewed love blues (Little Buddy Doyle)--Your small and sweet (Segura and Herbert)--You are a little too small (Carolina Tar Heels)--Lily Monroe (Uncle Alex Dunford)--Midnight on the stormy deep (Blue Sky Boys)--The married man (Emry Arthur)--Emily (Sam Manning)--Three nights in a bar room (Wade Mainer)

Track Information:

103 Two Menominee Flute Songs / John Okimase. Flute.

102 That's All Right / Moses Platt. English language.

101 Love Is a Song / Lonnie Johnson. Guitar. English language.

107 Maria, Maria / Cuarteto Mendoza, Lydia Mendoza. Guitar,Fiddle,Mandolin,Triangle (Musical instrument). Spanish language.

104 Little Sarah / Jab Jones, Yank Rachell, Sleepy John Estes. Guitar,Mandolin,Piano. English language.

105 Going to Richmond / Jimmie Strothers. Guitar. English language.

106 Come Back to Me in My Dreams / Blue Grass Boys, Bill Monroe. Guitar,Fiddle,Mandolin,Banjo,Bass. English language.

108 If One Won't, Another One Will / Carter Family. Guitar. English language.

109 Joe Bowers / J.C. White. English language.

201 Renewed Love Blues / Little Son Joe, Little Buddy Doyle, Will Shade. Guitar,Harmonica. English language.

202 Your Small and Sweet / Dewey Segura, Didier Hebert. Guitar,Accordion. Cajun French dialect.

203 You Are a Little Too Small / Carolina Tar Heels. Guitar,Banjo,Harmonica. English language.

204 Lily Monroe / Uncle Eck Dunford. Fiddle. English language.

205 Midnight on the Stormy Deep / Blue Sky Boys, Bill Bolick, Earl Bolick. Guitar,Mandolin. English language.

206 The Married Man / Emry Arthur. Guitar,Banjo. English language.

207 Emily / Mentor Boys, Adolph Thenstead, Sally Manning. Piano,Banjo,Saxophone,Clarinet. English language.

208 Three Nights in a Bar Room / Mountaineers (Musical group), Lost John Ray, Wade Mainer. Guitar,Fiddle,Banjo. English language.

Local Numbers:

FP-RINZ-LP-0921

Library of Congress.LBC2

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):

Washington, D.C. Library of Congress 1976

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

Recorded in: Wilkesboro (N.C.), North Carolina, Grafton (Wis.), Champagne (Ill.), Galax (Va.), Atlanta (Ga.), Georgia, New Orleans (La.), Louisiana, Fayetteville (Ark.), Arkansas, Camden (N.J.), New Jersey, Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, State Farm (Va.), Virginia, Memphis (Tenn.), Tennessee, San Antonio (Tex.), New York (N.Y.), New York, Sugarland Prison (Tex.), Texas, Keshena (Wis.), United States, Wisconsin.

General:

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Song"; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Program notes, including words of the songs, and bibliographical and discographical references (10 p. ill.) inserted in container. Edited by Richard K. Spottswood.

Restrictions:

Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

American Indian  Search this

Folk songs -- United States  Search this

Conjunto music  Search this

Tejano music  Search this

Bluegrass music  Search this

Cajun music  Search this

String band  Search this

Calypso (Music)  Search this

Old-time music  Search this

Flute  Search this

Guitar  Search this

Violin  Search this

Mandolin  Search this

Triangle (Musical instrument)  Search this

Piano  Search this

Banjo  Search this

Bass  Search this

Harmonica  Search this

Accordion  Search this

Saxophone  Search this

Clarinet  Search this

African Americans  Search this

Collection Citation:

Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.RINZ, Item FP-RINZ-LP-0921

See more items in:

Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings

Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings / Series 9: Audio / Commercial / LPs

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk531f649fa-40ef-4fbd-9874-2fde3a170c84

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-cfch-rinz-ref5905

Collector:

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

Correspondent:

Bogaskie, F.  Search this

Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925  Search this

Creator:

MacKinley, W. E. W., Captain  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology -- Bulletin 30  Search this

Society of American Indians  Search this

Brant, Joseph, 1742-1807  Search this

Old Smoke  Search this

Sayenqueraghta  Search this

Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934  Search this

Williams, Eleazer  Search this

Culture:

Eskimos  Search this

Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Chippewa  Search this

Adirondack  Search this

Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)  Search this

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this

Black Mincqua  Search this

Lenape (Delaware)  Search this

Pekwanoket  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Wendat (Huron)  Search this

Mohawk  Search this

Maya  Search this

Algonquin (Algonkin)  Search this

Potawatomi  Search this

Iroquois  Search this

Sauk  Search this

Onondaga  Search this

Tuscarora  Search this

Erie (archaeological)  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Susquehannock (archaeological)  Search this

Wyandot  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood)  Search this

Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Calendars

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Contents: Adirondack tribe (St Lawrence River) Old Manuscript Number 3553. Adoption Old Manuscript Number 4007. Refers to Algonquian method of counting -only; see Haas note 2/18/72; Old Manuscript Number 3864. "Alligewi"; Animism Old Manuscript Number 3867 and 2842-c, box 6. Blood Indians, origin of name; Brant, Joseph Old Manuscript Number 3874. Chippewa, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3646. Chiefs, function and significance of Old Manuscript Number 2842-c, box 6. Delaware tribe, New Jersey area claimed by Old Manuscript Number 3866. Detroit River, tribes near; Ekaentoton Island-- see Ste. Marie Island Environment (Bulletin 30 draft by O. T. Mason) Old Manuscript Number 4007. Erie, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3646. Erie and Black Mincqua tribes Old Manuscript Number 3586. [Eskimo] Arctic tribes, leaving elderly and sick people to die Old Manuscript Number 3668. Family, Bulletin 30 draft and notes Old Manuscript Number 4011 and 2842-c, box 6. Grand River (Tinaatoua), name of; Hebrew calendar; Hewitt, list of Bulletin 30 articles by Old Manuscript Number 4066. Hoboken, origin of name; Iroquois, "On the Northern and Eastern Territorial Limits of the Iroquoian people, in the 16th Century," and Algonquian tribes, at Chaleur Bay. Iroquois at Gulf of St Lawrence and Bay of Gaspe Old Manuscript Number 3625.

Iroquois, location of Six Nations tribes reservations Old Manuscript Number 3763. Iroquois false face; Iroquois preparation of corn ("as food") Old Manuscript Number 4009. Iroquoian early dress Old Manuscript Number 3660. Iroquoian "Gachoi" tribe, identity of (Correspondence with F. Bogaskie.) Old Manuscript Number 3816. Iroquoian moon names and concept of time; Iroquoian social organization, and place name-name origins; "Man," Iroquoian term for Old Manuscript Number 3781. Iroquoian towns Old Manuscript Number 4006. Kentucky, meaning of the word; Kentucky, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3840. Lenni Lenape, meaning of the word; Logstown-- see Shenango Old Manuscript Number 3773. Lost Ten Tribes as American Indians Old Manuscript Number 3670. Mayan linguistic family and other Mayan linguistic notes including Quiche and Tepehuanan notes Old Manuscript Number 3473. Mexico: idols, sacrifices, etc. Old Manuscript Number 3807. Mexico: Indian languages. Letter from Captain W.E.W. MacKinley Old Manuscript Number 3778. Missouri, Indian village, location of Old Manuscript Number 3944. Mohawk land near Lake Champlain; Mohawk grammar; Montour family, notes for Bulletin 30 Old Manuscript Number 3812. Muskhogean social organization. Letter from J. J. Harrison. Old Manuscript Number 3891. New England tribes Old Manuscript Number 3513.

Niagara, origin of name; "Old Smoke"-- see Sayenqueraghta Old Manuscript Number 3949. Onondaga tribe, text of memorial inscription to, and correspondence Old Manuscript 4391 and 4271- box 1 (part.) Ontwaganha or Toaganha, origin and meaning of name Old Manuscript Number 3864. Owego, meaning of town's name; Pekwanoket tribe (Cape Cod); Pemaquid, Abnaki word and its origin Old Manuscript Number 89. Piasa bird- pictograph formerly near present Alton, Illinois. Article is similar to that by Cyrus Thomas, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30. Old Manuscript Number 3981. Potawatomi, notes on the name Old Manuscript Number 4034. Potawatomi Green Corn Dance; Roanoke, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3998. Sacagawea, spelling of; St Ignace, 3 settlements (Michigan); St Marie Island or Ekaentoton Island; Sauk, Bulletin 30 article and galley proof, notes Old Manuscript Number 3764. Sayenqueraghta or "Old Smoke" (correspondence with Alanson Skinner) Old Manuscript Number 3949. Scalping Old Manuscript Number 4025. Shenango and Logstown Old Manuscript Number 3773. Sioux, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3624. Society of American Indians, resolutions by thanking General Hugh L. Scott, Fr. Anselm Webber and others Old Manuscript Number 3868. Susquehanna, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3707. Tacoma, origin of name Old Manuscript Number 3470.

Thunderbird, notes on Old Manuscript Number 3552. Tinaatoa-- see Grand River; Toronto, origin of name; Tuscarora villages Old Manuscript Number 3998. Wampum Old Manuscript Number 3998. War club with inscription; West Virginia panhandle tribes Old Manuscript Number 3945. Williams, Eleazer Old Manuscript Number 3998. Women, status of Old Manuscript Number 3566. Wyandots (Huron) List of tribes of which Wyandots of today are constituted. Old Manuscript Number 3774.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 3941

Topic:

American Indian  Search this

Inheritance -- Adoption  Search this

Religion -- animism  Search this

Names, tribal -- Blood  Search this

Names, tribal -- Chippewa  Search this

Government and politics -- chiefs  Search this

Land tenure and claims -- Delaware  Search this

Names, tribal -- Erie  Search this

Death and mortuary customs -- abandoning elderly and sick  Search this

Marriage and family  Search this

Names, place -- Grand River  Search this

Jews  Search this

Iroquois Indians  Search this

Land tenure and claims  Search this

Masks -- False Face  Search this

Clothing and dress  Search this

Food preparation -- Corn  Search this

Time -- concepts  Search this

Social structure  Search this

Names, place  Search this

Towns, villages and other settlements  Search this

Names, place -- Kentucky  Search this

Names, tribal -- Leni Lenape  Search this

Muskogean Indians  Search this

Names, place -- Niagara  Search this

Names, place -- Owego  Search this

Abenaki Indians  Search this

Names, tribal -- Pemaquid  Search this

Pictographs -- Piasa bird  Search this

Potawatomi Indians  Search this

Dance -- Green Corn  Search this

Names, tribal -- Potawatomi  Search this

Names, place -- Roanoke  Search this

Towns, villages and other settlements -- St Ignace  Search this

Religion -- Mexico  Search this

Sacrifices -- Mexico  Search this

War -- Scalping  Search this

Indian interest groups -- Society of American Indians  Search this

Names, tribal -- Susquehanna  Search this

Names, tribal -- Tacoma  Search this

Folklore -- Thunderbird  Search this

Names, place -- Toronto  Search this

Tuscarora Indians  Search this

Trade, gifts and other exchanges -- Wampum  Search this

Weapons -- war club  Search this

Marriage and family -- women, status of  Search this

Names, place -- Hoboken  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Algonquin  Search this

Honniasant  Search this

Lenape  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Susquehannock  Search this

Mexico  Search this

Genre/Form:

Calendars

Citation:

Manuscript 3941, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS3941

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw34e5d46f4-47a1-44d7-8e6d-d282280cd7f8

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3941

Creator:

Starr, Frederick, 1859-1933  Search this

Photographer:

Lang, Charles B.  Search this

Grabic, Louis  Search this

Extent:

152 Lantern slides

3344 Negatives (photographic)

Culture:

Zoque  Search this

San Felipe Pueblo  Search this

Mazatec [Huautla]  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Maya  Search this

Wampanoag  Search this

Salish (Flathead)  Search this

Mazahua  Search this

Ute  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this

Tzotzil Maya  Search this

Taos Pueblo  Search this

Tzeltal Maya  Search this

Sac and Fox (Sauk & Fox)  Search this

Laguna Pueblo  Search this

Triqui (Trique) [San Joan Copala]  Search this

Shuar  Search this

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this

Chol Maya  Search this

Totonac  Search this

Osage  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Tonkawa  Search this

Otomí (Otomi)  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Tlingit  Search this

Mixe  Search this

Chinantec  Search this

Mixtec  Search this

Potawatomi  Search this

Chibcha  Search this

Akimel O'odham (Pima)  Search this

Mehináku (Mehinacu)  Search this

Salish (Flathead)  Search this

Apache  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Ponca  Search this

Menominee (Menomini)  Search this

Cahuilla  Search this

Haida  Search this

Karajá (Caraja)  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Sahnish (Arikara)  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this

Cochiti Pueblo  Search this

Teotihuacán (archaeological culture)  Search this

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Purepecha (Tarasco)  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Iroquois  Search this

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Acoma Pueblo  Search this

Macushi (Macusi)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Negatives (photographic)

Negatives

Place:

Colombia

Washington

West Virginia

Kansas

Kentucky

New Mexico

Brazil

Ecuador

Missouri

Wisconsin

Oklahoma

Ohio

New York

Georgia

Mexico

Iowa

Arkansas

Illinois

Pennsylvania

Alaska

Date:

1894-1910

Summary:

The collection includes materials from cultures in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guiana: Acoma Pueblo, Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Caddo, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chibcha, Chinantec, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Choco, Chol, Chontal, Cochiti Pueblo, Crow, Cuicatec, Eskimo, Flathead, Haida, Hopi, Huastec, Huave, Iowa, Iroquois, Isleta, Karaja, Kwakiutl, Laguna Pueblo, Macusi, Mandan, Maya, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mehinaku, Menomini, Mixe, Mixtec, Navajo, Nez Perce, Osage, Otomi, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pima, Ponca, Potawatomi, Salish, San Blas, San Felipe Pueblo, Sauk & Fox, Shuar, Sioux, Taos Pueblo, Tarasco, Teotihuacan, Tepehua, Tlaxcala, Tlingit, Tonkawa, Totonac, Triqui, Tzental, Tzotzil, Ute, Wampanoag, Zapotec, Zoque, Zuni.

Arrangement note:

Collection arranged by item number.

Biographical/Historical note:

Frederick Starr was born in Auburn, New York, on September 2, 1858. He received a Ph.D. in biology in 1884 at Coe College, where he was later appointed professor of biology. Starr did postgraduate work in anthropology at Yale. In 1889 he was appointed head of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, and in 1892 he was chosen by William Harper to organize the Anthropology Department at the new University of Chicago. Starr remained at the University until his retirement in 1923. Besides his field studies with various Indian tribes in the United States, Starr traveled to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Guiana, Japan, the Philippines, and Africa. He died in Tokyo, Japan, on August 14, 1933. Starr was the author of several books and scholarly articles.

General note:

Starr hired professional photographers Charles B. Lang and Louis Grabic to accompany him on his field trips. One lantern slide of Moses Ladd (Menomini) was taken by William H. Jackson.

Provenance:

Dr. Frederick Starr, Purchased, circa 1929

Restrictions:

Access restricted. Researchers should contact the staff of the NMAI Archives for an appointment to access the collection.

Topic:

Indians of South America -- Brazil  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest  Search this

Indians of South America -- Colombia  Search this

Indians of North America -- Alaska  Search this

Indians of North America -- Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Indians of Central America -- Guatemala  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Midwest  Search this

Indians of South America -- Ecuador  Search this

Indians of South America -- Guiana  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Lantern slides

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.052

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv40602e9f6-8984-4da6-a139-bd97c27fa824

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-052

Creator:

Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894  Search this

Extent:

41.29 Linear feet (22 boxes, 29 folders, 3 mounted drawings, and 3 rolled items)

Note:

Some materials, especially in series 3, are stored in the NAA artwork collection.

Culture:

Arctic peoples  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pictographs

Place:

Oceania

Date:

1849-1902

bulk 1870-1895

Summary:

Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) was an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology who focused primarily on Native American sign language and pictography. This collection reflects Mallery's research interests and methods. Much of the collection is comprised of correspondence and notes relating to sign language and pictography and is organized chiefly by either the cultural or geographic region to which the material belongs. Bound volumes of several of his publications are included, along with annotated draft copies from collaborators. In the case of Mallery's work on pictography, the collection includes several oversize items including original works and reproductions.

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains Garrick Mallery's research and writings as a BAE ethnologist and is largely comprised of correspondence and preparatory materials for publications on Native American sign language and pictography. The geographic scope of the material is chiefly the present-day United States and Canada, though other areas of the world are represented less comprehensively. Correspondence and research notes include verbal descriptions of signs, sometimes with illustrations included. Bound volumes of Mallery's publications are included, along with annotations from collaborators. In addition, this collection includes notecards, drawings, illustrations, photographs, articles, and art objects. Art objects (mostly oversize) deal chiefly with Dakota winter counts and other artifacts.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into 3 series: 1) Research Notes, undated; 2) Materials on Sign Language, 1843-1849, 1873-1894; 3) Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs, 1849-1902, undated

Biographical Note:

Garrick Mallery (1831-1894) was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and practiced law in Philadelphia from 1853 until the outbreak of the American Civil War. While serving in the army, he became interested in Native American sign language and pictography, perhaps while performing his duties in frontier areas. After retiring from the military in 1879, Mallery was appointed to the newly created Bureau of American Ethnology as one of its first ethnologists. In his work with the Bureau, Mallery pioneered the study of sign language and pictographs, examining them as a universal human phenomenon with a direct link to spoken language.

In his work, Mallery collected and examined sign language vocabulary from Native American groups throughout the U.S. and Canada and regularly solicited contributions from collaborators. He also related his findings to examples from the wider world, comparing the formation of Native American signs to those in other areas by hearing individuals and by the deaf. Mallery completed several publications on the topic throughout the 1880s, notably Introduction to the Study of Sign language Among the North American Indians (1880), A Collection of Gesture- Signs and Signals of the North American Indians (1880), and "Sign-language among North American Indians Compared with that Among other People and Deaf-mutes," which appeared in the BAE 1st Annual Report (1881).

While most widely known for his work with sign language, Mallery also undertook extensive research into Native American pictography. Like his work with sign language, he both conducted original research and solicited assistance from collaborators. He was especially interested in the representational images in Dakota winter counts and petroglyphs in the United States and throughout the world.

Sources Consulted

Fletcher, Robert. "Garrick Mallery, President of the Philosophical Society of Washington, in 1888." In Brief Memoirs of Colonel Garrick Mallery, U.S.A., Who Died October 24, 1894, 3-8. Washington: Judd & Detweiler, 1895.

Fletcher, Robert. "Colonel Garrick Mallery, U.S.A." American Anthropologist 8, no. 2 (1895): 79-80.

Chronology

1831 -- Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on April 25

1850 -- Graduates Yale College

1853 -- Earns LL. B. from the University of Pennsylvania Admitted to the Pennsylvania bar

1853-1861 -- Practices law in Philadelphia

1861 -- Enters the volunteer army of the United States

1862 -- Severely wounded in the battle of Peach Orchard, Virginia Captured and held prisoner at Libby prison in Richmond, Virginia

1866 -- Completes service with volunteer army of the United States Accepts commission in regular army of the United States

1870 -- Marries Helen W. Wyckoff

1879 -- Retires from the United States army due to disability Appointed to the Bureau of American Ethnology

1880 -- Publishes Introduction to the Study of Sign-Language Among the North American Indians as Illustrating the Gesture-Speech of Mankind and A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians With Some Comparisons

1881 -- Publishes "Sign Language Among North American Indians, Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes"

1894 -- Dies after a short illness in Washington, D.C., on October 24

Related Materials:

See MS 2322 A collection of gesture-signs and signals of the North American Indians for more of Garrick Mallery's work on sign language.

Provenance:

MS 2372 was transferred from the Bureau of Ethnology Archives to the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives with the merger of the BAE and the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History in 1965. The Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives was renamed the National Anthropological Archives in 1968.

Restrictions:

Manuscript 2372 is open for research.

Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.

Rights:

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Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Sign language  Search this

Picture-writing  Search this

Ethnology  Search this

Anthropology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Pictographs

Citation:

Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2372

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MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw367638eb8-dce6-4d4e-bea5-2204e49134ef

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2372

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Festival of American Folklife (1969)  Search this

Artist:

Carroll, William, 1912-1989  Search this

Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978  Search this

Travis, Merle  Search this

Seminole Dancers  Search this

Performer:

Carroll, William, 1912-1989  Search this

Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978  Search this

Travis, Merle  Search this

Seminole Dancers  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound recording (7 inch reel, 1/4 inch tape)

sound-tape reel (analog, 7 in.)

Culture:

Americans  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Anglo-American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Place:

Appalachian Region, Southern -- Songs and music

United States

Washington (D.C.)

Virginia

Florida

Tennessee

Kentucky

Date:

1969 July 6

Contents:

William Carroll--Lean on Jesus--Down to the river--Something got a hold of me; Seminole Indians with Betty Mae Jumper; Maybelle Carter--Keep on the sunnyside--Sunshine in the shadow--Working on a building--Will the circle be unbroken; Merle Travis--That's all--I am a pilgrim--On my way to Canaan's Land (w/ Maybelle)(frag)

Track Information:

101 Gospel / William Carroll. English language.

102 Native American Dancers / Seminole Dancers.

103 Ballad Singer / Maybelle Carter. Guitar,Autoharp. English language.

104 Flatpicking Guitar / Merle Travis. Guitar. English language.

General note:

DPA number 69.101.68

Local Numbers:

FP-1969-7RR-0068

General:

CDR copy

69.101.68

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 6, 1969.

Restrictions:

Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

Gospel music  Search this

American Indian  Search this

Dance  Search this

Ballads  Search this

Folk songs -- United States  Search this

Guitar  Search this

Autoharp  Search this

Mines and mineral resources  Search this

Coal  Search this

African Americans  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.SFF.1969, Item FP-1969-7RR-0068

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife / 4.3: Audio

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5367db0d1-219a-49e4-8f22-b6d78ba7b68f

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-cfch-sff-1969-ref269

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Festival of American Folklife (1969)  Search this

Artist:

Carroll, William, 1912-1989  Search this

Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978  Search this

Travis, Merle  Search this

Performer:

Carroll, William, 1912-1989  Search this

Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978  Search this

Travis, Merle  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound recording (10 inch reel, 1/2 inch tape)

sound-tape reel (analog, 10 in.)

Culture:

Seminole Indians  Search this

Americans  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Anglo-American  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Place:

Appalachian Region, Southern -- Songs and music

United States

Washington (D.C.)

Virginia

Florida

Tennessee

Kentucky

Date:

1969 July 6

Contents:

William Carroll--Lean on Jesus--Down to the river--Something got a hold of me; Seminole Indians with Betty Mae Jumper; Maybelle Carter--Keep on the sunnyside--Sunshine in the shadow--Working on a building--Will the circle be unbroken; Merle Travis--That's all--I am a pilgrim--On my way to Canaan's Land (w/ Maybelle)(frag)

Track Information:

101 Gospel Music / William Carroll. English language.

102 Seminole Indians.

103 Appalachian Music / Maybelle Carter. Autoharp,Guitar. English language.

104 Flatpicking Guitar / Merle Travis. Guitar. English language.

General note:

DPA number 69.101.13

Local Numbers:

FP-1969-10RR-0013

General:

69.101.13

Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:

Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 6, 1969.

Restrictions:

Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

American Indian  Search this

Folk songs -- United States  Search this

Autoharp  Search this

Guitar  Search this

Religion  Search this

Christianity  Search this

Coal  Search this

Mines and mineral resources  Search this

African Americans  Search this

Collection Citation:

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.SFF.1969, Item FP-1969-10RR-0013

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife

Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1969 Festival of American Folklife / 4.3: Audio

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk562a5c829-33f2-46f4-8d22-ea5e42554547

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-cfch-sff-1969-ref99

Creator:

Montezuma, Carlos, 1866-1923  Search this

Names:

Phoenix Indian School  Search this

United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)  Search this

Photographer:

Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896  Search this

Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902  Search this

Gentile, Carlo, 1835-1893  Search this

Prando, Peter Paul Father  Search this

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896  Search this

Extent:

171 Lantern slides

Culture:

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Apache  Search this

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)  Search this

Piipaash (Maricopa)  Search this

Paiute  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Ute  Search this

Yavapai  Search this

Tohono O'odham (Papago)  Search this

Mojave (Mohave)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Lantern slides

Place:

Montezuma Castle National Monument (Ariz.)

Casa Grande (Ariz.)

Date:

circa 1871-1913

Scope and Contents note:

The collection includes hand-colored glass lantern slides collected by Dr. Carlos Montezuma and used for his lectures on Native American rights. Many of the photographs are portraits, some made at Ft. McDowell and Fort Apache. Other images show schools, reservations, dwellings, Charles Dickens (a Yavapai store owner), Montezuma's Castle, Casa Grande, and scenic views. A special series includes photographs made during a 1913 hunting and sightseeing trip that he organized, probably including photographs made by Montezuma's guests, John T. McCutcheon and Charles B. Gibson.

Some of the images were made by Charles (Carlos) Gentile, the photographer and benefactor of Montezuma in his early years. There are also several by Father Peter Paulus Prando and John N. Choate, and one portrait each by Napoleon Sarony and Matthew Brady. Otherwise, the photographers are unidentified.

Biographical/Historical note:

Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923, also called Wassaja) was an Native American activist and physician. He was Yavapai, though he often identified himself as Apache. He was captured by Pima Indians at a young age and sold in 1871 to Italian-immigrant and pioneer photographer Carlo (or Charles) Gentile, who adopted the child and took him to New York. Montezuma graduated from the University of Illinois (1884) and received his MD from the Chicago Medical College (1889). He developed a friendship with Richard Henry Pratt, head of the Carlisle Indian School, and took a post as reservation physician for the Bureau of Indian Services. During this time he developed an opposition to BIA policies and became an Native American advocate, speaking out against reservations. He gave numerous lectures on Native Americans at institutions around the United States, helped organize the Society of American Indians, and published a personal newsletter entitled Wassaja (1916-1922). In 1896, Montezuma established a medical practice in Chicago. He died in Arizona in 1923.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 73

Varying Form of Title:

Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides

General note:

The handwriting on the slides has been identified as that of Dr. Carlos Montezuma by John Larner, the editor of Montezumaʹs papers. Information in this catalog record has been taken from Cesare Marino, Solving the Mystery: The Carlos Montezuma-Doris Collester Collection of Lantern Slides in the NAA : Report of Background Research and Interview with Mrs. Doris Collester, Donor of the Carlos Montezuma Collection of Hand-tinted Lantern Slides to the Smithsonian Institution, conducted in Williamstown, West Virginia, August 2013.

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Correspondence from Montezuma is held in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Carlos Montezuma's papers are held in the Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections; Arizona State University Libraries, Charles Trumbull Hayden Library; and University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

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Topic:

Dwellings  Search this

Citation:

Photo lot 73, Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.73

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Carlos Montezuma lantern slide collection relating to Native Americans

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3833332fe-2d8c-480f-be32-a225784cc00d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73

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

Minitari (Hidatsa)  Search this

Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this

Biloxi Indians  Search this

Tutelo  Search this

Iowa  Search this

Chiwere  Search this

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this

Oto  Search this

Quapaw Indians  Search this

Osage  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)  Search this

Dhegiha Indians  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Ponca  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Tututni (Tutuni)  Search this

Kaw (Kansa)  Search this

Siletz  Search this

Coos (Kusan)  Search this

Yaquina (Yakwina)  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 (Rogue River Indians)  Search this

Klikitat  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:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

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

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MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3261ab492-5f9d-4be7-b1f4-c24d3f5da29b

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4800

Photographer:

Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Milner, James W.  Search this

Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-  Search this

Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948  Search this

Rennick, L. C. (Leverett C.), 1887-1953  Search this

Artist:

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931  Search this

Extent:

1 Engraving

1 Print (platinum)

18 Prints (silver gelatin)

38 Prints (albumen)

Culture:

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Tohono O'odham (Papago)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Engravings

Prints

Place:

Pennsylvania -- Antiquities

West Virginia -- Antiquities

Louisiana -- Antiquities

Alabama -- Antiquities

Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)

Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.)

Wyoming -- Antiquities

Date:

circa 1880s-1920s

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs relating to archeology, most of which were made by Bureau of American Ethnology photographers and ethnologists. Much of the collection consists of photographs by Cosmos and Victor Mindeleff of Southwest pueblos. Images depict mounds and excavations (including Grant Mound in Pennsylvania and additional mounds in West Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana, and elsewhere); Hopi Sipaulovi village; petroglyphs in Wind River, Wyoming; ancient artifacts; Standing Rock; Tohono O'odham Indians; Canyon de Chelly; and Clear Creek. Photographers represented include John K. Hillers; C. H. Bryan of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky; the Mindeleff brothers; Henry Bascom Collins; L. C. Rennick; J. W. Milner; Hattons Studio in Lansing, Michigan; and a drawing by W. A. Rogers.

Collection may contain images of human remains.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 28

Location of Other Archival Materials:

William Dinwiddie photographs documenting Papago Indians, previously filed in Photo Lot 28, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 89.

Additional Mindeleff photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 4362, Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 78, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Hillers photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Collins photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 82-23, Photo Lot 86-42, Photo Lot 86-43, and Photo Lot 86-59.

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Photograph collection relating to archeology, burial mounds, and the Southwest, 1880s-1920s

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

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Topic:

Mounds  Search this

Pueblos  Search this

Petroglyphs  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot 28, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to archeology and burial mounds, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.28

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Photograph collection relating to archeology, burial mounds, and the Southwest

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw38f9b918d-c94d-405c-9868-c1d09a537eba

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-28

Creator:

South Dakota State Historical Society  Search this

Extent:

2 Albums

Culture:

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albums

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Prints relate primarily to Dakota (Sioux) Indians, copied from original prints in the collection of the South Dakota State Historical Society. Pierre, South Dakota. [Copies made August, 1958.] List of 435 captions, prepared by James Tubbesing, accompanies prints; only the numbers circled in red are contained in the albums for Bureau of American Ethnology reference.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4543

Local Note:

Copies made from microfilm lent by James Tubbesing, 197 W. Whitlock Avenue, Winchester, Virginia, August 1958. (Correspondence and Tubbesing's original list of captions in Bureau of American Ethnology-A Accession files.

Important note: The South Dakota Historical Society does not have its own facilities for photographic work and would find it difficult to supply prints of these photographs, but they have no objection to our copying and distributing prints from those prints in these albums that are clear enough for that purpose. (See letter of Will G. Robinson, South Dakota Historical Society, December 2, 1960, in Bureau of American Ethnology-A Accession Files.)

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4543, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4543

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw36aae24a0-91fd-454c-81da-d99ef37f2757

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4543

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

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Wanapum Indians  Search this

Tonkawa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Northwest Coast  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 Native Americans 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 people dressing hides; Smohalla and Sokulk followers at Priests Rapids, Washington; and Native Americans 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; Native Americans 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.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

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Topic:

Camps  Search this

Mounds  Search this

Buildings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 66F, Photographs relating to Native Americans and buildings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.66F

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw314c14b04-fa8e-4e4c-a237-269bcec77f4a

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-66f

Names:

Hampton Institute.  Search this

Extent:

2 Prints (albumen)

Culture:

Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this

Sahnish (Arikara)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)  Search this

Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

A'aninin (Gros Ventre)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Studio portraits

Date:

circa 1879-1880

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs depicting students on arrival at Hampton Institute and again eighteen months later. Identifications of individuals are printed on verso.

Biographical/Historical note:

The Hampton Institute was founded in the 1860s as the Hampton Normal School, a trade and industrial school initially for African Americans. The first Native American students arrived at the school in 1878 and the American Indian education program continued until 1923.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 73-9

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs, manuscripts and artwork relating to the Hampton Institute and its students can be found in other collections within the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4751, Photo Lot 4605, MS 7500, and the BAE historical negatives.

Hampton University (formerly Institute) in Hampton, Virginia, holds institutional records and photographs in the campus library.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

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Topic:

Schools -- American Indian  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Studio portraits

Citation:

Photo lot 73-9, Photographs of students at Hampton Institute, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.73-9

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Photographs of students at Hampton Institute

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw335658ace-f368-40fe-9c12-c6cc6c4c4bb4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73-9

Photographer:

Putnam, Clara  Search this

Putnam, T. N., Mrs  Search this

Names:

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)  Search this

Extent:

28 Prints

Culture:

Dakota Indians  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Date:

ca. 1898-1900

Scope and Contents:

Catalog Number 4792: (1)-(11) Tribe: Dakota Description: Dances and games at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Photographer: Clara Putnam Date: ca. 1898-1900. (12)-(15) Dakota Indians camped at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Photographer: Clara Putnam Date: ca. 1898-1900. (16) Non-Indian Group of white men, women, and children picnicking at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota ca. 1898-1900. (17)-(20) Dakota Camp scene at Devils Lake (?), near Fort Totten, North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (21)-(23) Dakota Group at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (24) Non-Indian Two White men, and a woman aboard a boat on Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (25) Non-Indian Group of White men at Devils Lake, near Fort Totten, North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (26) Dakota Two women at Clara Putnam's house in Carrington, North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (27) Dakota Three women and a girl at Clara Putnam's house (?) in Carrington, North Dakota Clara Putnam ca. 1898-1900. (28) Non-Indian Scene at World's Columbian Exposition (?) in Chicago in 1893 Clara Putnam 1893.

Biographical / Historical:

Mr F. L. Putnam stated that when he was a boy his family camped every year at the opposite end of Devils Lake N. W. of Fort Totten, and that the Indians came from the reservation at Fort Totten and from Fort Berthold and held games and dances at the "other" end of the lake. The pictures were taken by his mother, Clara Putnam, who developed the plates herself. Mrs Clara Putnam was the wife of T. N. Putnam, who owned a lumber company in Carrington. Mr F. L. Putnam stated that other photos in the Putnam collection show buildings and scenes in Carrington, and some views taken in California in 1893 and at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4792

Local Note:

Prints made 5/67 from 4" x 5" glass negatives lent by F. L. Putnam, 402 Fontaine Street, Alexandria, Virginia, the son of the photographer. Glass negatives returned 7/3/67.)

Filed: Original Prints, Dakota.

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Dance  Search this

Toys and games  Search this

Camps  Search this

Sioux  Search this

North Dakota  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4792, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4792

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw315636f74-7676-434f-90e5-21248ab55361

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4792

Collector:

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Creator:

Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895  Search this

Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872  Search this

Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949  Search this

Béranger, Jean  Search this

González Barcia, Andrés  Search this

Serrano y Sanz, Manuel, 1868-1932  Search this

Ruidíaz y Caravia, Eugenio, 1849-1896  Search this

Capers, William, 1790-1855  Search this

Hall, Basil, 1788-1844  Search this

Lincecum, Gideon, 1793-1874  Search this

Régis du Roullet, Louis Joseph Guillaume de  Search this

Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816  Search this

Ribaut, Jean, approximately 1520-1565  Search this

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588  Search this

Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Gonzalo, 1478-1557  Search this

Laudonnière, René Goulaine de  Search this

Le Page du Pratz, -1775  Search this

Margry, Pierre, 1818-1894  Search this

Kerlérec, Louis Billouart, chevalier de, 1704-1770  Search this

Pope, John, 1749-1802  Search this

Du Ru, Paul, 1666-1741  Search this

Smith, John, 1580-1631  Search this

Escalante Fontaneda, Hernando d'  Search this

Extent:

371 Pages

23 Items (slips )

Culture:

Cherokee  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Catawba  Search this

Choctaw  Search this

Dakota (Eastern Sioux)  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Natchez  Search this

Sioux  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:

1. Myths and customs of the Cherokee, Catawba, and Choctaw, from "Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British Provinces," by Charles Lanman, 2 volumes, Philadelphia, 1856- 60 pages.

2. Legends of Caddo Paintings by J. M. Stanley, from "Portraits of North American Indians, with sketches of scenery, etc., Washington, 1852. 1 page".

3. Corrections of McNutt's translations of the section on Chicora in Peter Martyr's "De Orbe Novo," by Dr John M. Cooper. 1 page and letter.

4. Memoirs of Berenger, La Harpe's captain on his exploration of the Texas coast. Copied from manuscript in Newberry Library, Chicago. (Linguistic sections omitted but published by Du Terrage and Rivet in Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 34 pages.

5. Excerpts from Barcia's "Ensayo Cronologico a la Historia de la Florida." 23 pages.

6. Excerpts from Serrano y Sanz, "Documentos Historicos de la Florida y la Luisiana." 14 pages with additional slips.

7. Excerpts from Eugenio y Caravia, "La Florida." 2 volumes, 12 pages.

8. Extract from the Journal of the Reverend William Capers, printed in the Methodist Magazine for June, 1822, pages 232-236. 4 pages.

9. Extract from Captain Basil Hall's "Travels in North America in the years 1827 and 1828, Philadelphia, 1929. 18 pages (in duplicate.)

10. Notes from Dr Gideon Lincecum's manuscript entitled "Traditional History of the Chahta Nation", owned by the University of Texas, and never published in its entirety though the Choctaw migration legend was primted by the Mississippi Historical Commission. 21 pages.

11. Three pages of Manuscript material from the library of Col. William Preston, in Virginia State Library. 3 pages. Re Cherokee ca. 1780. Cf.Manuscript # 1912, transcript by Mooney, Same ?

12. Notes from Library of Congress copy of French documents by Regis de Roullet; printed also in Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris. 6 pages.

13. Notes on sewan (Wampum) from "Original Narratives of New Netherlands". 2 pages.

14. Notes on Creek Indians from Manuscripts afterward printed by Grant Foreman in "A Traveler in Indian Territory." 23 pages.

15. Excerpts from a Memoir printed at Luxemberg, a copy of which is in the Library of Congress. 5 pages.

16. Excerpts from the "Letters" of Benjamin Hawkins, printed by the Georgia Historical Society. 23 pages.

17. Excerpts from the Narrative of Jean de Ribault from French's Historical Collections of Louisiana, 1875, 159-190. 4 pages.

18. Excerpts from Narrative of Jacques le Moyne translated and printed in Boston, 1875. 3 pages.

19. Excerpt from Oviedo, "Historia General y Natural," volume 3, 630-631. 3 pages.

20. Excerpt from Relation of Penicaut in Margry, V, page 457. 5 pages.

21. Miscellaneous extracts from Barcia's Ensayo (see Number 5). 44 pages and additional slips.

22. Extracts from Rene Gourlaine de Laudonniere, Paris, 1853, "L'Histoire Notable de la Florida." 44 pages.

23. A page on the Natchez language from Le Page du Pratz, "La Louisiane," Paris, 1758; and lists of Natchez and Taensa villages from Margry. 1 page.

24. Relation of Captain Penalosa's voyage to Florida, from Ruidiaz, "La Florida," volume II, pages 473-476. 4 pages.

25. Excerpt from Iberville's Journal in Margry, volume IV, pages 512-514. 2 pages.

26. Excerpt from de Kerelec's Report in Compte Rendu du Congres Internacional des Americanistes, Quebec, 1907. 1 page.

27. Excerpts from Pope's "Tour". 1 page.

28. Excerpt from Journal of Pere du Ru in Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris (N.S.), Volume XVII, pages 119-135. 6 pages.

29. John Smith's version of the "Huskanaw" ceremony, Tyler ed., pages 112-113. 2 pages.

30. Corrections of translations of Fontaneda by an unknown writer and of doubtful value. 23 slips.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4146

Topic:

Folklore -- Cherokee  Search this

Folklore -- Catawba  Search this

Folklore -- Choctaw  Search this

Expeditions -- La Harpe  Search this

Wampum  Search this

"Huskanaw"  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4146, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4146

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31fb0d1e9-cc2b-4694-9012-a13b5f49ca71

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4146