MS 245 Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency; printed ration lists, with Indian and English names for Caddo, Tawakoni, Wichita, Kichai, and Waco Indians
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Kiowa Agency
MS 747 Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency; printed ration lists, with Indian and English names for Comanche Indians
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Kiowa Agency
Contains examples of Comanche names with "the English renderings frequently more translated ad sensum."
MS 521 Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency; printed ration lists, with Indian and English names for Kiowa Indians
Personal names.
MS 942 Fort Peck Agency; printed ration lists, with Indian and English names for Assiniboine Indians
Burrows, Millard
Tucker, Mae W.
Lists 635 heads of families. Collected by Millard Burrows [1880?]. Pencil annotations by Mae W. Tucker give negative numbers of photographs in the Bureau of American Ethnology. Library of Congress supposed by Miss Tucker to be the individuals named. In most cases these identifications are spurious.
MS 7370 Rosebud Agency Receipt book
Snow, Patrick
600 Items (ca. 600 pages)
Record of receipt of articles and packages of Indian goods and supplies.
MS 1999-24 Oglala Sioux census
Brennan, John R. (John Richard), 1848-1919
This collection is comprised of a census of the Oglala Sioux at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, taken on June 30, 1904 by Indian agent Major John R. Brennan. The census consists of 938 handwritten entries on 36 leaves. The covers of the ledger have been painted with geometric designs. The covers have …
John C. Casey letter books
The collection of John C. Casey journals includes three original letter books from Captain John Casey's time in Monterrey, Mexico during the Mexican-American War from 1847-1848 and as an emigration agent at the Seminole Agency in Florida from 1848 to 1856. This covers a period of time that includes the beginning of the third Seminole War. Additionally, one of the letter books also contains a journal of Casey's operations in the Indian Department in Florida from his arrival in August of 1848 until October of 1849.
Sidney S. Wilson and family photographs from Pima Indian Agency
1915
1933
11 Photographic prints
This collection includes negatives and photographic prints shot or collected at the Pima Indian Agency, now the Gila River Reservation, by Sidney S. Wilson and family members Florence Wilson and Roswell G. Wheeler. Sidney Wilson's sister Florence worked as a teacher at the Agency school during the winter of 1884-1885 while their uncle Roswell Wheeler served as the Indian Agent.
Canisius family photograph album
Canisius, Elizabeth, 1882-1977
The Canisius family photograph album was primarily compiled by Elizabeth Canisius (1882-1977) of Indianapolis, Indiana, and contains photographs made from about 1918 to 1929 by her and various members of her immediate and extended family. Evidently not arranged in chronological order, the photographs document a burgeoning German-American family and their various pursuits. Among …
Laura Thompson papers
The papers of Laura Thompson reflect the professional and personal life of an active and pioneering anthropologist. In the 1930s, Thompson began her work in applied anthropology, producing studies of Fiji, Guam and Hawaii intended to aid administrators of economic, educational and political development and pioneering approaches now known as "administrative" and "educational" anthropology. In the 1940s, Thompson applied her skills to the Indian Personality, Education and Administration Research Project, a study of eleven communities of five Native American tribes. From the 1950s until the end of her career, Thompson sought to formulate and demonstrate a theoretical anthropological synthesis of man and culture, while pursuing fieldwork in Iceland and Germany, teaching, and consulting for numerous institutions.
