National Anthropological Archives

MS 830 The Life and Culture of the Ute

Summary
Collection ID:
NAA.MS830
Creators:
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Naches
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
160 Pages
Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Title supplied by J. N. B. Hewitt, and sections numbered and arranged by him. Unnumbered sections added later.
Scope and Contents
Sections entitled: (1) Games and amusements, 3 pages;
(2,3) [Paiute; transferred in 1959 to file Number 831-c, -d];
(4) Means of Subsistence, 52 pages;
(5) Migration, 8 pages;
(6) Home, 5 pages;
(7) Government, 10 pages;
(8) Fear of the insane, 2 pages;
(9) treatment of the sick, 27 pages;
(10) Treatment of the aged, 4 pages;
(11) Killing the doctor (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, May, 1873), 3 pages;
(12) The boundaries of the earth, 5 pages;
(13) Na-gun'-tu-wip, the home of the departed spirits, 8 pages;
(14) Methods of marrying, 7 pages;
(15) Selection of food (1873), 3 pages;
(16) The morning address, 2 pages;
(17) Some of their faculties;, 4 pages;
(18) Notes on the gentes (in shorthand), 2 pages; Mythology of the Numas, 10 pages; Pine nuts are brought from a distant country (legend, 1873), 4 pages; Burying customs (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, 1873), 1 page; Religion of the Utes (talk given by Powell ?), 29 pages.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 830, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 830
Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Games -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Migration -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Habitations -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Government -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Subsistence -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Religion -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pine nuts -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Folklore -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kinship -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Food -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Disease -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Geriatrics -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
geography -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Marriage -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Death -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Ute Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mental illness -- Ute Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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