Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4731
- Creators:
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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
- Dates:
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November, 1899-March, 1900
- Languages:
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- Physical Description:
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- Repository:
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Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
In his introduction, Fewkes states that the artists were Kutcahonauu, or White Bear, aged about 30; his uncle, Homovi; Winuta, apparently a contemporary of Homovi; and "a boy who had attended a government school in Lawrence, Kansas," whose drawings Fewkes states he did not reproduce.
Administration
Custodial History
Deposited by J. W. Fewkes; Volumes 1-3 transferred from BAE Library, ca. 1965; Volume 4 found in Anthropology library and transferred January, 1971.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4731, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Local Numbers
Local Note
Local Note
Three styles of drawings were noted by Anne Morgan of the National Anthropological Archives staff, 1970; brief descriptions of the styles and page index to the volumes is on file in National Anthropological Archives.
Local Note
water color, graphite and crayon drawings on construction paper
Bibliography
Bibliography
Reproduced in J. W. Fewkes, "Hopi Kachinas Drawn by Native Artists, Bureau of American Ethnology AR 21, Washington, D. C.., 1903 pls. II-LIII.
Keywords
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