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Date:
undated
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Contents: Catalog Number 4458: 1) Tribe: Shoshoni Description: Washakie Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 1664. 2) Shoshoni Washakie's grandson Baker & Johnston No date 42023-E. 3) Shoshoni Wickiup with meat drying, Fort Washakie, Wyoming Photographer unknown 1891. 4) Tribe: Arapaho Description: Boy Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 42017-E. 5) Tribe: Chilkat (Filed: Tlingit) Description: Indians in dancing costume Photographer: Winter & Pond Juneau Date: 1895 copyright See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 73-6821. 6) Tribe: Comanche Description: Quanah Parker, on horseback. Fort Sill, Oklahoma Photographer unknown Date: ca. 1897 See Bureau of American Ethnology Number 43,896-E. 7) Comanche (Duplicate of 4458:6.)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4458
Local Note:
Filed according to tribe in series of original photos.
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Date:
December 10, 1872
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Concerns Indians of the Agency of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, and Comanche who visited Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia in 1872 under the care of Henry E. Alvord. (Photographs of some of these delegates are in the Bureau of American Ethnology photographic files.)
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Date:
1933-1934
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs made by Edward Adamson Hoebel during a 1933 Laboratory of Anthropology field school session led by Ralph Linton. They consist of images of Comanche people, including a Comanche brush dance at Walters, Oklahoma, and images of Shoshoni people during a sun dance at Fort Hall, Idaho, in 1934.
Biographical/Historical note:
Edward Adamson Hoebel (1906-1993) was an anthropologist and educator who pioneered studies of the legal systems of pre-literate societies. He received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1934, publishing his dissertation, "The Political Organization and Law-ways of the Comanche Indians," after conducting field research on Comanche legal systems at the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology under the direction of Ralph Linton. Hoebel taught sociology and anthropology at New York University from 1929 until 1948 and later became a professor, head of the anthropology department, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Utah. Hoebel took visiting professorships at the universities of Harvard, Chicago, Nijmegen, Arizona, and Lehigh and served as president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association. He retired as Regents' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 91-9
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Reports and correspondence by Hoebel held in the National Anthropological Archives in the American Ethnological Society records, Bureau of American Ethnology Administrative File, Esther Schiff Goldfrank Papers, and Raoul Weston LaBarre Papers.
Additional photographs of Comanche Indians at Walters held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7505.
The American Philosophical Society holds the E. Adamson Hoebel Papers.
Photo Lot 91-9, Edward Adamson Hoebel photographs of Shoshoni and Comanche people and dances, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Date:
undated
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Two drafts (not duplicates) of an account of military activities against the Kiowas and Comanches around Fort Sill. One draft bears the title, "Der indianer Krieg 1874, and the other," Skizze" (first word illegible).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4019-b
Local Note:
Found with 4019-a.
Topic:
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A compilation by the author from several of his own notebooks. Appears to include the essentials of Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript Numbers 2498, 892, 896, 905, and 56. Contains: Shoshoni texts, collected Wind River Reservation, Wyoming 1901, pages 3-63. (Cf. Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript Numbers 896, 892 volumes 1-3, 2498 volumes 1-3.) "Shoshonean Dictionary." pages 74-266. Glossary with references to page and line in author's Shoshoni notebooks, 1901, his Comanche notebook, 1902, and certain specified published sources. (Cf. Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript Number 56.) Comanche texts, collected Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma, 1902. pages 271-340. (Cf. Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript Number 905.) Also includes Wasco text (Chinookan), collected Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, 1901. pages 64-72. (Cf. Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript Number 892, Volume 3.)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2048-a
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
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Date:
1968
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Image of LaDonna Harris with the "Outstanding American Indian Citizen" award, which she received in 1968.
Biographical/Historical note:
Joe Meyer, PhD, is a retired biochemist and amateur photographer.
LaDonna Harris (1931- ) is a Comanche social activist and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity. She received the Outstanding American Indian Citizen award with her husband, Oklahoma Senator Fred R. Harris.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 95-37
Location of Other Archival Materials:
An additional photograph of Harris held in National Anthropological Archives Photo lot 80-37.
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Date:
February 10, 1894
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Recorded in schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. Extensive vocabulary of Comanche dialect of Shoshoni, with additions.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 788
Local Note:
Autograph document
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 788, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution