Files containing Sturtevant's students' grades have been restricted, as have his students' and colleagues' grant and fellowships applications. Restricted files were separated and placed at the end of their respective series in boxes 87, 264, 322, 389-394, 435-436, 448, 468, and 483. For preservation reasons, his computer files are also restricted. Seminole sound recordings are restricted. Access to the William C. Sturtevant Papers requires an apointment.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
William C. Sturtevant papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The papers of William C. Sturtevant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Dr. Ives Goddard. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Photographs used to illustrate John Reed Swanton's "The Indians of the Southeastern United States" depicting American Indians of the Southeast and their dwellings, food preparation, and ceremonies.
Biographical note:
John Reed Swanton (1873-1958) was an ethnologist and ethnohistorian with the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) from 1900 until his retirement in 1944. Swanton spent his first few years at the BAE studying the Haida and Tlingit groups of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and published a number of significant articles on the language, ethnography, and folklore of Northwest Coast Indians. His focus then shifted to the American Indians of the Southeastern United States, where his interest remained for the rest of his career. In addition to conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Southeast, Swanton studied extensively the history of the area in order to better understand its indigenous cultures and is considered a pioneer in the field of ethnohistory. During his career Swanton published numerous articles and several major works on Southeastern American Indians, including the reference work The Indians of the Southeastern United States (1946), a Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin (No. 137).
Local Numbers:
NAA Photo Lot R87-2Q
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs published in BAE Bulletin 137 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 80-39.
Photographs made by Swanton can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 76 and the BAE historical negatives.
The National Anthropological Archives hold more than 200 manuscripts created or collected by Swanton, in the Numbered Manuscripts.
Objects collected by Swanton, including potsherds from various sites in Southeastern United States can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accessions 111748, 113252, 122679, 129788, 165802, and 062577.
Contained in:
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collections, undated
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Copy prints in this collection that represent photographs not held by the National Anthropological Archives are for reference only.
Photo Lot R87-2Q, John Reed Swanton photograph collection of illustrations for "The Indians of the Southeastern United States", National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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Container:
Box 3
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
258 cyanotypes. Most are portraits of North American Indians that are also included in NAA's file print collection. There are also a goodly number of Catlin paintings and one McKenney & Hall litho.
Collection Restrictions:
Some materials are restricted.
Access to the Department of Anthropology records requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Department of Anthropology Records, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Biographical / Historical:
Pushmataha born 1764, Noxubee County, Mississippi; died 1824, Washington, D.C. Buried in Congressional Cemetery. For contemporary obituary see clipping from the National Journal, January 4, 1825, mounted in Volume II of Indian Miscellany, Rare Book Room, Bureau of American Ethnology Library. See also biographical sketch in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30.
Same subject in Volume I, 1838 Edition. Mc Kenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Cat. Number 574) has caption, Push-Ma-Ta-Ha / Chactan Warrior, and, written around the base of the bust is: On stone by J. W. Gearfrom a Painting by C. B. King. Printed by C. Hallmandel.
Same subject in Volume 2, 1842 edition McKenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Catalog Number 575) carries same legend as this. Same as negative 1046-a-b.
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
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Copy of Lithograph based on painting of unknown date by unidentified artist. (Hodge ed., Mc K. & H., Volume 1, page 341.) Catlin painted a portrait of Tah-chee, which was different from this. See Donaldson, U.S.N.M. Report, 1885, Pt. 2 illustrations. (this Catlin not in U.S.N.M. collections.) Copy from lithograph, Mc Kenney & Hall, Volume 1, 1838 (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Catalog Number 574.)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
Hodge, in Hodge edition of McKenney & Hall gives their names as follows: Kihegashugah or Kishagashugah or Little Chief. Mohongo or Myhangah, wife of Little Chief. Gretomih, cousin of Little Chief. Washingsabba, or Washingaasbha or Black Spirit. Marcharthitahtoongah or The Orator. Minkchatahooh.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.4165 D
Local Note:
Indians and their trip described by Grant Foreman in "Our American Ambassadors to Europe," Missouri Hist. Coll. Volume 5, Number 2, 1928. See also Carolyn Thomas Foreman, "Indians Abroad," page 132 ff. and Hodge edition of McKenney and Hall, Volume 1, pages 44-9.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Scope and Contents:
Lithograph from a painting by St Memin (?). Notation on front of print: "Sha-ha-ka--a Mandan Chief. Published by D. Rice and A. N. Hart, Philada. Lith. Printed & Cold. by J. T. Bowen."Lithograph from painting (possibly by St Memin--see artist file) originally in American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (nformation from McKenney & Hall, volume 2, 1858, page 197).
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.7715130
Local Note:
See also: slide collection--McKenney & Hall negative 3439.
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Biographical / Historical:
Pushmataha born 1764, Noxubee County, Mississippi; died 1824, Washington, D.C. Buried in Congressional Cemetery. For contemporary obituary see clipping from the National Journal, January 4, 1825, mounted in Volume II of Indian Miscellany, Rare Book Room, Bureau of American Ethnology Library. See also biographical sketch in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30.
Same subject in Volume I, 1838 Edition. Mc Kenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Library Cat. Number 574) has caption, Push-Ma-Ta-Ha / Chactan Warrior, and, written around the base of the bust is: On stone by J. W. Gearfrom a Painting by C. B. King. Printed by C. Hallmandel.
Indians of North America -- Southern States Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.45111 E
Local Note:
Same subject in Volume 3, 1844 ed. McKenney & Hall (Bureau of American Ethnology Cat. No. 576) carries same legend as this plus:/Drawn, Printed & Coloured at the Lithographic & Print Colouring Establishment, 94 Walnut St. Phila./Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1843, by James G. Clark, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsya.
Negative copy made 6/58 from lithograph in Mc Kenney folio no date, Bureau of American Ethnology Library Cat. No. 30271. (See citation under Mc Kenney & Hall).
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
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