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National Anthropological Archives
MS 830 The Life and Culture of the Ute
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS830
- Creators:
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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902Naches
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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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
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 830
Keywords
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