Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1875-1878
Scope and Contents:
Two-page drawings showing Sun Dance lodge, dancers in ceremonial body paint, shields and other regalia on display, circle of drummers, many onlookers, and surrounding tipis of camp.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08511103
NAA MS 154064C
Album Information:
NAA MS 154064C 011
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 154064C, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1884-1897
Scope and Contents:
Drawing is inscribed by Hugh Scott, "scalp", "cedar", "breech cloth", "Med Keeper", "One of the 4 assts", "center pole", buffalo bull hide", "cedar incense", and "Time". Various objects have been lettered a-g. The inscriptions, excluding the letters, have been scratched out.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 09056900
OPPS NEG 92-11375
NAA MS 4252
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma. Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma Territory. Mount Scott.
United States Oklahoma. Mount Scott.
Album Information:
MS 4252 041
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4252, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1884-1897
Scope and Contents:
Inscriptions by Hugh Scott read "Sand heaped around bottom of pole", "wooden ears", wooden nose", "Tracks are the men around the ceremony", "Mud is [...] around sand". Specific features have been assigned letters.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 09062100
OPPS NEG 92-11288
NAA MS 4252
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma. Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma Territory. Mount Scott.
United States Oklahoma. Mount Scott.
Album Information:
MS 4252 133
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4252, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1884-1897
Scope and Contents:
Inscriptions read "Man with lighted brand called The man who drives The buffalo", "Asst to Time keeper The man who brings the buffalo", and "Time keeper". The inscriptions were subsequently scratched out and each of the figures assigned a letter.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 09062200
OPPS NEG 92-11322
NAA MS 4252
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma. Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma Territory. Mount Scott.
United States Oklahoma. Mount Scott.
Album Information:
MS 4252 134
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4252, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
ca. 1884-1897
Scope and Contents:
Inscriptions read "Time" and "Man who paints the others 4 of these assistants who act for 4 years are succeeded by 4 others chosen by Medicine keeper".
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 09062700
OPPS NEG 92-11368
NAA MS 4252
Place:
United States Oklahoma Territory Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma. Fort Sill.
United States Oklahoma Territory. Mount Scott.
United States Oklahoma. Mount Scott.
Album Information:
MS 4252 140
Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4252, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
RESTRICTED: Photograph depicting participants in the Sun Dance. The two dancers standing are from left to right Top of the Moccasin and Augustine Grey Bull. The sitting dancer on the right is Bull Weasel. Photograph shot by Fred E. Miller circa 1898-1910 on the Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Reservation in Montana.
Collection Restrictions:
Access is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment.
Series Rights:
This material is RESTRICTED due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Fred E. Miller photograph collection, NMAI.AC.108, Catalog #. National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Anonymous Cheyenne drawing of Sun Dance ceremony, with dancers in ritual regalia shown inside medicine lodge in center of tipi camp with spectators outside
Yellow Nose drawing of man dragging buffalo skulls by thongs pierced through his back, probably for a sacrifice undertaken in association with the Sun Dance
