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Type:

Archival materials

Date:

Jan. 3, 1871–May 9, 1873

Collection Restrictions:

Freedmen's Bureau Digital Collection, 1865–1872, is a product of and owned by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution. Copyright for digital images is retained by the donor, FamilySearch International; permission for commercial use of the digital images may be requested from FamilySearch International, Intellectual Property Office, at: cor-intellectualproperty@ldschurch.org.

Collection Citation:

Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Identifier:

NMAAHC.FB.M752, File 1.16.2

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Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 1: Indexes and Registers of Letters Received / 1.16: Register 18

Archival Repository:

National Museum of African American History and Culture

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/io361a3f2bb-3a76-4418-95de-fb72b7c5b8ef

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-nmaahc-fb-m752-ref67

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:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Artist:

Murphy, Charles (Cheyenne)  Search this

Sweezy, Carl, 1881-1953  Search this

Names:

Wolf Face (Cheyenne)  Search this

Extent:

15 Volumes (autograph documents, photographs, and graphite, ink, colored pencil, crayon, and watercolor drawings.)

Culture:

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Kiowa  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Ledger drawings

Date:

bulk ca. 1903-1904

Scope and Contents:

Notes and drawings by Native artists relating to heraldry, as Mooney termed tipi and shield designs. Also some myths and linguistic data from these and other Plains tribes. The manuscript is a compilation of materials created over a period of years, assembled under the current number by the BAE archivist. Bound volumes (since disbound for lamination) were placed under this manuscript number; loose notes and drawings on the same topics were primarily assembled under manuscript number 2538.

Biographical / Historical:

James Mooney (1861-1921) was a self-taught ethnologist. He was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1885 until his death. In this capacity, he worked extensively among the Cherokee and Kiowa. Among the Kiowa his studies focused on pictorial calendars, the peyote religion, and heraldry, the term he used to refer to the designs on shields and painted tipis. In the course of his study of Kiowa and Cheyenne heraldry, he commissioned illustrations of shield and tipi designs, as well as miniature shields and tipis. For additional biographic information on James Mooney see: Christopher Winters, General Editor, International Dictionary of Anthropologists, Garland Publishing, 1991. Neil M. Judd, The Bureau of American Ethnology - A Partial History, University of Oklahoma Press, 1967. L.G. Moses, The Indian Man - A Biography of James Mooney, University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2531

OPPS NEG 57,508-A---521-A

OPPS NEG 71-3046-A

OPPS NEG 71-3046

OPPS NEG 72-1801 CN-1818 CN

Local Note:

The John M. Seger Referred to in Vol VIII (and also in Mooney's peyote files) was a teacher of agricultural methods. Walter Campbell edited his autobiography, "Early Days among the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians," Univ. of Okla. press. Genevieve Seger, his daughter, lives at Geary, Okla.; she may be a trustee of the Okla. Historical Soc. --Information from Althea Bass, here May 1959.

Mrs. J. H. Bass (Althea Bass) here May 6, 1959, thinks that the "Paul" referred to occasionally in Vols. III, IV, and V may be Paul Boynton, an interpreter who spoke both Cheyenne and Arapaho. His family still lives at El Reno. His father had something to do with the Agency. Paul Boynton is mentioned in one of the letters in Mooney corresponence for 1902-06 (Smithsonian Institution - Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence files.)

Date written on several pages by Mooney; almost certainly drawings done by same artist at same time and place as Ms. 2531, Vol. 10, identified by Mooney as "Drawn by Nakoim' eno = Bear Wings/alias Charles Murphy, Cheyenne Cantonment, Okla."

Album Information:

MS 2531

Topic:

War -- Cheyenne  Search this

Winter counts -- Kiowa  Search this

Cradles -- Kiowa  Search this

Clothing -- Kiowa  Search this

Names, Personal -- Kiowa  Search this

Shields -- Cheyenne  Search this

Camps -- Cheyenne  Search this

Sun Dance -- Cheyenne  Search this

Games -- Cheyenne  Search this

Hide preparation -- Cheyenne  Search this

Folklore -- Kiowa  Search this

Horse trappings -- Cheyenne  Search this

Music -- Kiowa  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Ledger drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 2531, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2531

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MS 2531 James Mooney notebooks principally regarding Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho shield and tipi designs

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw38a7004b3-148e-4a15-a445-5406d8e34621

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2531