National Anthropological Archives

MS 925 Notes on Dakota culture

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS925
Creators:
Riggs, Stephen Return, 1812-1883
Riggs, Thomas Lawrence, 1847-1940
Dates:
1880's
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
20 Items
slips
3 Items
newsclippings
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Contains Siouian tribal divisions and migrations, one slip by Thomas L. Riggs on Dakota linguistics (utilized by James Owen Dorsey in editing CNAE IX, S.R. Riggs' "Dakota Grammar, Texts, and Ethnography," Washington, D.C., 1893). Clippings: 1880 Pine Ridge Sun Dance (printed with revisions in CNAE IX, pages 229-232), myth of the dog, the old woman, and the pack (printed in BAE-AR 1, page 589), "Are the Indians wasting away?" (printed with revisions in CNAE IX, page 168.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 925, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 925

Local Note

Local Note
Autograph document

Other Title

Other Title
1880 Pine Ridge Sun Dance
Other Title
Myth of the dog, the old woman, and the pack
Other Title
Are the Indians wasting away?


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Sun Dance -- Dakota Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Dakota -- Sun Dance Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Newsclippings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sioux Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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