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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
before 1885
Scope and Contents:
Four drawings on four leaves of ruled paper. Drawings depict scenes of warfare with Crow enemies. Two page letter of transmittal from Willard D. Johnson, April 13, 1885 included in manuscript.
Biographical / Historical:
According to the collector, Little Big Man was a sub chief under Red Cloud on the Rosebud Reservation.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Place:
United States -- South Dakota -- Rosebud Agency.
United States -- South Dakota -- Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Album Information:
MS 2372-11 LBM-000
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Sheets
Ledger drawings
Date:
1875
Scope and Contents:
Copy of scenes originally painted on a buffalo robe, now drawn in ink and watercolor on a series of 26 sheets of architect's linen.
Biographical / Historical:
Bloody Knife was an Arikara warrior who served as a scout for the US Army. He was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Philetus W. Norris was superintendent of Yellowstone National Park 1878-82. He was subsequently employed by the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology to assist with archeological field studies until his death in 1885.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372
Album Information:
MS 2372 BK-000
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Leaves
Ledger drawings
Date:
bulk 1880-1881
Scope and Contents:
Scenes of hunting, warfare, and camp life. Loose drawings on various types of paper, originally filed together in Mallery's papers under the heading Hidatsa. Several but not all are by Lean Wolf.
Biographical / Historical:
Lean Wolf, also known as Poor Wolf. Name transcribed as Tce-caq-a-daq-a-qic by Mallery, who identified him as a chief of the Hidatsa. He was reportedly born in 1820, and was part of a delegation photographed in Washington in 1880.
Walter J. Hoffman, 1846-1899, was a BAE employee who assisted Garrick Mallery with his study of sign language. He visited Fort Berthold, Dakota in 1881 to collect data.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Local Note:
These drawings were intermixed with other Hidatsa drawings, but appear to have been created on a different occasion.
Place:
United States -- Dakota Territory -- Fort Berthold Agency.
United States -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
United States -- District of Columbia -- Washington.
Album Information:
MS 2372-11 HDLW-000
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Genre/Form:
Ledger drawings
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1884
Scope and Contents:
Four drawings on cardboard with scenes of hunting, warfare, and mounted warriors, plus one leaf with partial copy of a drawing on each side, probably produced for publication (NAA INV 08746400).
One of the drawings was removed from a brittle substrate; see conservation files for more information.
NAA INV 08746400 is a copy of NAA INV 08742200 done by an anonymous copyist and is filed with a set of otherwise unidentified American Indian drawings also in MS 2372, Box 11. The identification of this drawing as a copy of a drawing by Takzi was made by Candace Greene.
Biographical / Historical:
Albert S. Gatschet was educated in his native Switzerland and in Germany (University of Bern; University of Berlin, Ph.D., 1892). Early in his career he pursued antiquarian research in European museums and wrote scientific articles. Among his projects was the study of the etymology of place names in Switzerland. After coming to the United States in 1869, he worked on the American Indian vocabularies collected by Oscar Loew of the United State Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler Survey); and eventually he was employed as an ethnologist with the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Regions (Powell Survey). He joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology when it was founded in 1879 and continued there until he retired in 1905.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Place:
United States -- Indian Territory -- Anadarko.
United States -- Oklahoma -- Anadarko.
Album Information:
MS 2372-11 Takzi-000
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Genre/Form:
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1881
Scope and Contents:
Scenes of hunting, warfare, and village life representing events in the life of the artist, as identified in captions on verso of many images. Drawn on blank backs of ruled, printed index cards.
Biographical / Historical:
Lean Wolf, also known as Poor Wolf. Name transcribed as Tce-caq-a-daq-a-qic by Mallery, who identified him as a chief of the Hidatsa. He was reportedly born in 1820, and was part of a delegation photographed in Washington in 1880.
Walter J. Hoffman, 1846-1899, was a BAE employee who assisted Garrick Mallery with his study of sign language. He visited Fort Berthold, Dakota in 1881 to collect data.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Local Note:
These drawings were intermixed with other Hidatsa drawings, but appear to have been created on a different occasion.
Place:
United States -- Dakota Territory -- Fort Berthold Agency.
United States -- North Dakota -- Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.
Album Information:
MS 2372-11 LW-000
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Nine drawings, two unfinished, depict scenes of warfare and men on horseback and include identifying captions in an unknown hand. Five drawings include a name glyph for Red Dog; one has a glyph for Black Crow; another is identified in an inscription as Two Strikes. The drawings are by multiple artists. Bound volume with board covers and pencil loop containing 8 leaves of unruled paper. Drawings on verso of seven leaves and inside covers. Inside front cover stamped with name and address of an art supply dealer in Washington, DC. All completed images include captions written by an unidentified source. Note: The drawings had separated from the binding when inventory numbers were assigned and have been rebound in a different order believed to represent the original location (see records in conservation files.)
Biographical / Historical:
Red Dog (Shun-ka Lu-ta) was an Oglala chief from the Red Cloud Agency.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Local Note:
The drawings are by two or three artists. NAA INV 08742601 is identified by Mallery as Two Strikes; 08742609 and part of 08742603 are assumed to be by Red Dog; the third artist is unidentified, and is assumed to have drawn the rest of 08742603.
Place:
United States -- Nebraska -- Red Cloud Agency.
United States -- Nebraska -- Red Cloud.
Album Information:
MS 2372-11 LRD-000
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Ten drawings on nine leaves. Illustrations of figures and materials relating to the Sun Dance, Ghost Lodge, and Heyoka.
Biographical / Historical:
George Bushotter (1864-1892), or Oteri, was a Teton Lakota born in Dakota Territory to a Yankton man and his wife Grey Whirlwind, a Minneconjou Lakota. Raised to be a warrior, Bushotter nevertheless left to study at the Hampton Institute in Virginia from 1878-1881. He entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1885 to become a minister, but his inadequate knowledge of English made the study of Latin and Greek incredibly difficult for him. At the advice of the faculty, Bushotter left the seminary in 1887. While at Hampton, he met Rev. James Owen Dorsey and recognized the potential in working with him to complete ethnographic studies, and worked with the BAE for approximately ten months in 1887. His primary contributions were in the comparative linguistics of Teton Lakota, writing myths and other texts in Lakota, and assisting Dorsey in creating the synonomy of Lakota tribal names that formed a major part of what was to become the Handbook of North American Indians North of Mexico. For more information on George Bushotter, see American Indian Intellectuals, ed. Margot Liberty, 1978.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS.4800: (3.1.1.3) [105]
Funding note:
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Local Note:
Old number 932 (part), changed to 1466
Album Information:
MS 4800-105 000
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Genre/Form:
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Drawing depicts the tipi of the father of Little Chief, or Jin-Ga' Ga-Hi-Ge, who made the tipi. The tipi is decorated with stripes that represent roads.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08724700
NAA MS.4800: 190
Funding note:
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 001
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Inscription reads "Old Big Elk's Tent. The steam-boats he saw when he went to Washington and saw the white people there for the first time. To show that the White people acknowledged him as a great chief."
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08724800
OPPS NEG.98-10213
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Local Note:
Originally referred to as "Old Oak's tipi" in title. Corrected 9/10/2012.
Album Information:
MS 4800-190 002
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Tipi painted with rust-colored circle at top, zigzag lines, bear's pawprints on blue background, and gray at bottom.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08724900
NAA MS.4800: 190
Funding note:
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 003
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Tipi painted with rainbow and dots at the top.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725000
NAA MS.4800: 190
Funding note:
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 004
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Owner alternately identified as Pejequta. Inscribed on verso "Rev. J. Owen Dorsey"
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725100
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 005
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Tipi painted with blue on bottom, human representation in red circular design on top.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725200
NAA MS.4800: 190
Funding note:
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 006
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Tipi painted with two sacred pipes on each side.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725300
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 007
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725400
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 008
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Depicts ornamented blanket with orange border and four circles with zigzag lines coming from bottom. Inscription reads "George Miller's personal mystery decoration, furnished by himself." Signed "George Miller."
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725500
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 009
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Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Depicts blanket with blue border and four orange circles with zigzag lines coming from bottom. Inscription reads "Decoration of white blanket of Geo. Miller of Ictasanda gens of Omaha tribe. Drawn in Washington."
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725600
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 010
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings
Ledger drawings
Date:
1889
Scope and Contents:
Depicts blanket with blue border on top, two orange circles with zigzag lines coming from bottom, black line on either side. Inscription reads "George Miller's personal mystery decoration, a variant furnished by himself."
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.08725700
NAA MS.4800: 190
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Album Information:
MS 4800-190 011
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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