Contains story and pictures of the cliff and maze (or labyrinth) pictograph discovered by Mr. Coxon, north of Winslow which is identical with one found on a wall of the Casa Grande National Monument. (See Pl. 40 and Figure 59, in 28th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology - Fewkes).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4338
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Clippings
Illustrations
Citation:
Manuscript 4338, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Lantern slides depicting the people and landscape of the American Southwest. Images include those of Puebloan people, dwellings, churches, dances and ceremonies, archaeological excavations (including Pueblo Bonito and Neil M. Judd with his excavation party), pictographs, and landscapes. Tribes represented include Acoma, White Mountain Apache, Hopi (Mishongnovi), Laguna, Navajo, Taos, and Santa Clara. The slides were largely commercially distributed by the George W. Bond, Chicago Slide Company, Chicago Transparency Company (for the Santa Fe Railroad), Detroit Slide Company, Edward H. Kemp, National Geographic Society, and United States Bureau of Reclamation. The collection was listed as the "Casey collection" by Father John Montgomery Cooper when it was brought to the museum.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 32, USNM ACC 211312
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Artifacts donated by the Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of America in accession 211312 held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History. Additional photographs donated by Catholic University of America can be found in Photo Lot 20 in the National Anthropological Archives.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Folklore
Vocabulary
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
In Schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages; includes grammatical material, notes on mescal, pictographs (?), songs, Kiowa myth, love songs, and Comanche names. The schedule is well filled.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 347
General:
Previously titled "Words, phrases, and sentences."
MS 3579 Extract from "The Life and Adventures of William Waters, the famous hunter and trapper of White Top Mountain; embracing early history of Southwestern Virginia, Sufferings of the Pioneers, etc., etc"
A description of Handkerchief Rock, Virginia (painted rocks near Maiden Spring, Tazewell County, Virginia) typed, with notes in Mr. Mooneyʹs handwriting.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3579
Topic:
Handkerchief Rock (Tazewell County, Virginia) -- Archeology -- Pictographs Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3579, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Refers to Jesse Chisholm, a Cherokee Indian trader, who had been among the wild tribes of the Prairies. Extract from A.W. Whipple with additional notes by Mooney.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3893
Restrictions:
This account is restricted due to cultural sensitivity. These folders cannot be reproduced or published without permission of the tribe. This collection contains content that may be culturally sensitive.
Citation:
Manuscript 3893, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
42 Drawings (visual works) (graphite, colored pencil, and ink, 61 x 92 cm.)
Culture:
Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux) Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Maps
Pictographs
Ledger drawings
Date:
1881
Scope and Contents:
Sheets are numbered 0-41 (Number 27 missing). 1 page Manuscript in Charles E. McChesney's hand summarizing subjects as follows: Sheets 1-5, Soldiers approaching village; 6-10, Indian village; 11-15, Indians charging soldiers; 16-20, Custer's column fighting; 21-25, Dead cavalry horses--Custer's; 26-30, Dead Sioux killed by Custer's column; 31-35, Dead Cavalry--Custer's column; 36-41, Indians leaving the battle ground.
Biographical / Historical:
Red Horse was a chief of the Miniconjou division of the Teton.
Dr. Charles E. McChesney was an Army physician based at Fort Bennet, Dakota Territory in 1881.
