"Me-Zeengk is the name of this God"- Information printed on plate.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.742592
Local Note:
"Obliterated legend at left reads: "A Muncey Idol/ Delivered up by Jos. Nicholas on his conversion to Christianity." The mask on the right was collected by M. R. Harrington and is now in the American Museum of Natural History (see Harrington, Vestiges of Material Culture among the Candian Delawares, American Anthropologist n. s. 10 (3); 408-418; 1908--417 and Plate 26a; Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape, Indian Notes and Monographs [volume 19], Museum of the American Indian, N. W., 1921, Plate 3b). --Information from W. C. Sturtevant
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Chief, standing with gun, Indian dress. Old woman and small boy seated on ground. Clapboard dwelling.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.44428 E
Local Note:
Information from Richard Pohrt, Flint, Michigan; friend of his gave Chief Shoppenagon his second gorget at time of an Indian celebration. Pohrt has postcard like this, postmarked 1910.
Tribal identification from Stewart Brand, 1965, who stated that Shoppenagon gave a name in Ottawa language to Brand's grandmother.
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Type:
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Photographs
Date:
ca 1887
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Drawing (10" x 13 3/4") by Silver Horn (Hogoon). "The old story -do you love me dusky maiden or not. - speak" -- information on page opposite drawing Number 5.
Consists of 23 drawings marked with numbers 1 - 23, two drawings marked Number 24, Numbers 25 - 26, two drawings marked Number 27, Numbers 28 - 30. "The battle scenes are intended to represent events that have actually occurred 15 or 20 years ago; the Ki a was at that time being at war, not only with the whites but also with other tribes of Indians. The other pictures merely represent scenes that happened in their everyday life" -- note by Horace P. Jones, U. S. Interpreter, opposite page 1 in notebook. Each sketch is identified in Mr Jones' handwriting (--information from letter of January 25, 1964, from Mrs Burkhalter to Mrs Snodgrass).
Biographical / Historical:
History of the Notebook: Acquired by Horace P. Jones, 1887. "Presented by General John L. Bullis to his friend, William Cassin - 1887" (note on inside cover page of notebook.) Notebook given to McNay Art Institute "by a descendant of General Bullis" (see letter of January 25, 1964, Burkhalter to Snodgrass. Now (1965) in Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas.
Date: July 13, 1887, Fort Sill (--written opposite page 1 in notebook.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.1464 A 5
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Retouched photo of same reproduced in U. S. Department of the Interior, "Report of Indians Taxed and Not Taxed in the United States (except Alaska) at the Eleventh Census: 1890," Miscellaneous Doc. Number 340., Part 15, Washington, D. C., 1894, opposite page 297 and dated 1890.
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Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number V23214 of an unidentified series. The number 70 is stamped on the front of the photograph.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09918500
Other Title:
"Indian pictographs. Undeciphered writing of antiquity, near Adamana, Arizona."
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The collection is open for research.
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Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Painting depicts the famous council at Tahlequah (Oklahoma) convened by John Ross, June 1843, to which seventeen tribes sent delegates.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.1063 W
Local Note:
According to Dr Helen Marie Redbird, a Cherokee (here 4/14/71) modern meeting are still held every September at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The meetings last for more than one week and are conducted in the Cherokee language. The meetings also serve a religious purpose.
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