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Collector:

Rev. Heinrich R. Voth  Search this

Donor Name:

Rev. Heinrich R. Voth  Search this

Culture:

Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)  Search this

Object Type:

Tipi Model

Place:

United States, North America

Accession Date:

25 Dec 1893

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

026674

USNM Number:

E165943-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a9c4ed96-cf18-4049-b188-ca131484c9b9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8346545

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (disbound volume (65 pages) of 29 drawings and 34 pages of typescript.)

Culture:

Northern Tsitsistas (Northern Cheyenne)  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Scope and Contents:

29 drawings and 34 pages of typed explanatory text, formerly bound together, now disbound, plus an identifying title page handwritten by Albert Gatschet and one drawing on ruled paper. The explanatory text was transcribed from Gatschet's notebook, No. 2016-b, with corrections by Gatschet. T.p. inscribed: "Crayon Pictures of Cheyenne Ceremonial Customs and Implements. Drawn by Wuxpais or Daniel Littlechief, son of the present headchief of the Cheyenne Indians of South Dakota, at the Pine Ridge Agency. Explained by notes obtained from the same Indian by Albert S. Gatschet." The last drawing in the volume is signed "T.D. Little Chief," but cannot be identified as a drawing by Daniel Little Chief. Subjects include ceremonial items, name glyphs, painted tipis, and illustrations of Cheyenne customs. A nearly identical set of drawings by Daniel Little Chief is located at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Information provided by Candace Greene.

Biographical / Historical:

Daniel Little Chief, a.k.a. Wuxpais (?-1906), was a Northern Cheyenne warrior whose band of Cheyenne were sent south to the Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation in Indian Territory after their surrender, traveling there between 1878-1879. In 1881 this band moved north to the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota. In 1891 Daniel Littlechief inherited the role of head chief from his father and remained in South Dakota until his death in 1906. For more information see "American Indian Painters: A Biographical Dictionary" by Jeanne Snodgrass 1968, New York: Museum of the American Indian.

Albert S. Gatschet (1832-1907) was educated in his native Switzerland and in Germany (University of Bern [Ph.D., 1892]); University of Berlin. Early in his career, he pursued antiquarian research in European museums and wrote scientific articles. Among his interests was the etymology of Swiss place names. After coming to the United States in 1869, he worked on the American Indian vocabularies collected by Oscar Loew, of the United States Geological Survey West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler Survey). Eventually John Wesley Powell employed him as an ethnologist with the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Regions. When it was founded in 1879, he joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology and continued there until he retired in 1905. For the Powell Survey, Gatschet researched the ethnography of the Klamath in Oregon and the Modoc in Oklahoma. He also collected Native American material objects and investigated special problems for Powell's classification of the American Indian languages north of Mexico, working on languages of the Southeast, including groups forcibly settled in the southern Plains. He not only visited well known tribes but also searched out small groups, including the Biloxi and Tunica. He also worked with the Natchez, Tonkawa, Chitimacha, and Atakapa in the United States and Comecrudo and several other small groups in northern Mexico. Through library research, he studied the Timucua, Karankara, and the Beothuk. During the later part of his career, Gatschet was assigned comparative work on all the Algonquian languages. Although the project was never completed, he collected much about many of the languages, especially Peoria, Miami, and Shawnee. In addition, he worked with members of diverse tribes of the eastern United States. For more information, see NAA finding aid located at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/_g1.htm#jrg575

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Crayon pictures of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements / drawn by Wuxpais or Daniel Littlechief ... ; explained by notes from the same Indian by Albert S. Gatschet

Place:

United States South Dakota Pine Ridge Agency.

United States South Dakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Album Information:

MS 2016a 001

Topic:

Habitations -- Cheyenne  Search this

Sweatbaths -- Cheyenne  Search this

Music -- Cheyenne  Search this

Married people's tipi -- Cheyenne  Search this

Weapons -- Cheyenne  Search this

Pipe -- Cheyenne  Search this

Amulets and fetishes -- Cheyenne  Search this

Medicine -- Cheyenne  Search this

Mortuary customs -- Cheyenne  Search this

Names, Personal -- Cheyenne  Search this

Medicine tent -- Cheyenne  Search this

Sun Dance -- Cheyenne  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2016A

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw332099240-dc44-442c-9890-3771ef107586

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2016a

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

3 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08657200

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text: Cheyenne "medicine-tent"

Album Information:

MS 2016a 002

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31c24ba30-84e6-4034-b6af-880aa8a6b43b

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref1

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

3 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08658300

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 1: Sun dance medicine tent = Huxíhuyum, or, ho'hwéheyum ...

Local Note:

Graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper.

Album Information:

MS 2016a 013

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f3071264-6294-4385-b4b4-3e19c07cbad7

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref12

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

2 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08657300

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text: Maheyune-um tent

Album Information:

MS 2016a 003

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw385a9f562-b615-4162-bfaf-eb49683f4565

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref2

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

4 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08657600

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 1: Big medicine crazy tent = Massá-um, mas'há-um

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 2: Sweat lodge = Éma-um ...

Local Note:

Graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper.

Album Information:

MS 2016a 006

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw38c47fece-9999-4cd3-91c3-f255081c865c

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref5

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

2 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08657700

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text: Cap-medicine tent = Hu'htcha-éyum or hu'hka-éyum

Local Note:

Graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper.

Album Information:

MS 2016a 007

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw397ca5970-1f6d-4949-af30-b42dd213dcfc

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref6

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

3 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08657800

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 1: Crazy medicine tent = Hu'hnúka-um ...

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 2: Married people's tent = Hutáyu ...

Album Information:

MS 2016a 008

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e2301ec4-38e9-43b9-9516-ab73940442bf

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref7

Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Collection Creator:

Little Chief, Daniel, d. 1906.  Search this

Collection Annotator:

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Extent:

2 Leaves (graphite and colored pencil drawing, with ink and typescript on paper, 22 x 29 cm.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Leaves

Ledger drawings

Date:

1891 February

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 08658000

NAA MS 2016-a

Varying Form of Title:

Caption title from descriptive text, leaf 1: Arrow medicine tent = Mahéyum or mahé-um

Album Information:

MS 2016a 010

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2016-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2016-a Daniel Little Chief drawings of Cheyenne ceremonial customs and implements, with explanations by Albert Gatschet

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw391b8014d-c4c9-4311-ba1b-1f03b5f1539a

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2016a-ref9