Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.R92-49
- Creators:
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Feraca, Stephen E., 1934-
- Dates:
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circa 1954-1961
- Languages:
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- Physical Description:
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- Repository:
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Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Copies of photographs mostly depicting Sun Dances on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations. They depict Oglala, Dakota, and other Siouan Indians, encampments, wagons, tipis, and a powwow.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Stephen E. Feraca was an employee of the Department of the Interior, based at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He earned a masters degree from Columbia University (ca. 1957); his thesis was titled "The contemporary Teton Sioux Sun Dance." He also authored the book Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century, University of Nebraska Press, 1998. Feraca retired from the Department of the Interior in 1985.
Administration
Custodial History note
Originals loaned for copying by Stephen Feraca through Joallyn Archambault, 1989.
Local Call Number(s)
Reproduction Note
Reproduction Note
Copy slides made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.
Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot R92-49, Copies of Stephen E. Feraca photographs of Siouan Indians and Sun Dance, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Feraca held in the National Anthropological Archives in the James Henri Howard Papers.
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
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