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MS 2932 Notes on sign language and miscellaneous ethnographic notes on Plains Indians

Creators:: Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
He Dog
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Dates:: 1934
Size:: 4 Boxes
2,736 Items (2,736 pages)
Collection ID:: NAA.MS2932
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Much of this material is relevant to the Dakotas. Includes: miscellaneous notes on Dakota history, bands, and sign for "Dakota," Autograph Document. Approximately 100 pages. (Box 2); account of the Battle of Little Big Horn by He Dog, Red Feather, and Whirling, Autograph Document. 7 pages. (Box 3); "The Custer Battle with the Sioux, Autograph Docum...

MS 1929-b Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography

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Creators:: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890
Dates:: 1882
Size:: 22 Drawings (graphite, colored pencil, and ink, 21 x 34 cm.)
Collection ID:: NAA.MS1929B
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Pictures of Sitting Bull's war deeds, drawn by himself, with accompanying explanations. Each sheet autographed in cursive hand by Sitting Bull. The scenes are not in chronological order. The pictures were originally drawn on the front leaves of a bound volume of ruled paper and were removed by the archives for lamination. The remaining volume has 8...

MS 1909 Letters received by James Mooney

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Creators:: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Barry, J. Neilson (John Neilson), 1870-1961
Bowers, George M.
Clark, Benjamin H., 1842-1914
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Dates:: 1890-1919
Size:: 1 Portfolio
Collection ID:: NAA.MS1909
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Contents: Barry, J. Nelson. St Stephen's Parish, Baker City, Oregon. February 22, 1910. 2 pages. Refers to "Wesorts" of southern Maryland. Bowers, George M. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D.C. September 20, 1899. 2 pages. Concerning the identity of a "stone-piling fish" in the headwaters of the Tennessee River. Clark, B...

Septima V. Koehler collection

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Creators:: Koehler, Septima, 1848-1918
Dates:: 1890-1905
Size:: 39 Photographic prints
0.4 Linear feet (1 Document Box)
Collection ID:: NMAI.AC.319
Repository:: National Museum of the American Indian

The Septima Koehler collection includes photographic prints, correspondence and student papers that document Septima's work as a mission teacher for the Episcopal Church in South Dakota from around 1895 to 1905. Koehler taught Sicangu Lakota students at St. Mary's Mission School on the Rosebud Reservation and Hunkpapa Lakota students at St. Elizatbeth's Mission School on the Standing Rock Reservation.

William Ockleford Oldman Archive research materials

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Creators:: Oldman, W. O. (William Ockleford), 1879-1949
Dates:: 1902-1916
Size:: 1,789 Digital images (7 digitized ledgers)
Collection ID:: NMAI.RM.001
Repository:: National Museum of the American Indian

The William Ockleford Oldman Archive research materials are comprised of digital surrogates of the business records of Oldman held by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. William Ockleford Oldman (1879 – 1949) was a British collector and dealer of ethnographic art and European arms and armour. His business W.O. Oldman, Ethnographical Specimens, London was active between the late 1890s and 1913. These records include detailed information about his purchases and sales of objects including names of original sources for objects he acquired and sold. Oldman dealt extensively with the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, the predecessor institution to the National Museum of the American Indian between 1909 and 1937. This provenance information is critically important to documentation of NMAI's collections and related research.

Frederick Johnson photograph collection

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Creators:: Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Dates:: 1924-1931
Size:: 1.5 Linear feet
450 negatives (photographic) (black and white)
Collection ID:: NMAI.AC.001.038
Repository:: National Museum of the American Indian

The Frederick Johnson collection consists of original negatives made from 1924 to 1931 by Johnson primary among the Mi'kmaq, Innu, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Montagnais, Abenaki, Anishinaabe, and Mistassini Cree peoples of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec, Canada. Frederick Johnson began his anthropological studies as a teenager, accompanying anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1951) on trips to Native communities in Eastern Canada. Between 1923 and 1929, Johnson studied at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted several research trips in Canada, some of which were sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

MS 4153 Koasati linguistic material; and ethnographic notes and census data on the Koasati and Alibamu

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Creators:: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Langley, Jackson
Dates:: 1906-1930
Size:: 105 Pages
Collection ID:: NAA.MS4153
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Contents: "Population of Koasati village." Manuscript document with A. title by Swanton. 2 pages. Kinship terms. Autograph document 4 pages. Koasati words and phrases. 14 pages. Koasati texts with interlinear English "collected Jul. 23-Aug. 1, 1930, from Jackson Langley." [Kinder, Louisiana (Cf. Number 4154)] Autograph document. 36 pages. Koasati s...