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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4590 Quapaw Indians Photograph Collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4590
- Creators:
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Nieberding, Velma
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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6 Prints1 ItemSouvenir booklet
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Contents: Manuscript 4590 Quapaw: (1) Description: Victor Griffin, last Chief of the Quapaws, 1927-1959 Date: 1956. (2) Robert A. Whitebird. Full blood. Head of Quapaw Tribal Business Committee since 1956. On board of National Congress of American Indians. Family name, Waz-hing-ka. (3) "Ceremonial pipe... We do not know if it is of Quapaw origin. It is made of gray, rather heavy stone and a little over two feet tall." --Mrs Velma Nieberding. (4) Mary Lane Redeagle, Miami, Oklahoma. Full blood (half Pottawatomie, half Quapaw). (5) Mrs George Romich helps her two daughters, Tamara (right) and Rhona (left) into dancing costume, for the annual Quapaw pow-wow. (6) Mrs Robert A. Whitebird and the buckskin dress she made and beaded, The design is authentic woodland made from an old Quapaw dress.
Scope and Contents
A souvenir booklet of the Ottawa County, Oklahoma Semi-Centennial (1907-1957) Ottowa County Pageant, is also included.
Administration
Custodial History
Gift of Velma Nieberding, Box 201, Miami, Oklahoma, November 16, 1960. Transmittal letter in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology files.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4590, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4590
Keywords
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