MS 3031 Dakota winter counts
Iron Dog (Dakota)
First print collates pictographs from nine winter counts depicting the meteor shower of 1833. MS (?) identifications on the back are by Hiatt. This print also reproduces a fanciful drawing entitled "The Sioux Historian." Second print is of Iron Dog's winter count, apparently owned by Hiatt, marked "Copyright 1923"; very badly faded.
Lakota Winter Count Web Exhibit Interviews
Lakota Winter count Web Exhibit 2003 video interviews. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive …
MS 2001-10 Anonymous Lakota winter count on muslin
Pictorial calendar drawn on muslin in spiral form beginning at the center, covering the years 1752-3 to 1886-87. There is no documentation regarding who created the winter count. It is believed to have been collected on the Rosebud Reservation by John Anderson.
Website Records
This accession consists of the online exhibition "Lakota Winter Counts" as it existed on June 5, 2012. The Lakota (Tetons) marked the passage of time by drawing memorable events on calendars known as winter counts. In addition to the core exhibition, it also includes a teacher's guide. The exhibition was organized by …
MS 2261 Oglala Sioux Names for Years from A.D. 1759 to A.D. 1919
MS 4444 Blackfoot picture writings translated by Richard Sanderville
Carter, John Galen, 1891-1941
Roman Nose, (Lakota chief)
Cloud Shield
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7 Photographs
Dictated by Sanderville; written down by John G. Carter. Contents: Sitting Bull's Autobiographies (Dakota Number 1929); Wind River petroglyphs (Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 10, Figure 97); Madison River grave writings (Negative Numbers 215-b, 1-26); Roman Nose drawings (Dakota, Number 31303); Cloud Shield and American Horse winter counts (Dakota, Number 3203); petroglyphs in Black Hills (photographs with …
Website Records
This accession consists of server files for the "Lakota Winter Counts" online exhibition. The exhibition was maintained by the National Anthropological Archives within the Department of Anthropology, but was discontinued shortly after these files were transferred. Materials are in electronic format.
Website Records
This accession consists of three websites maintained by the National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives (NAA) within the Department of Anthropology. The main NAA website, crawled April 21, 2014, provides general and collections information as well as online exhibitions. The "Lakota Winter Counts" exhibition, crawled April 23, 2014, is its own website …
MS 2002-28 Kiowa calendar on canvas
The calendar consists of 77 entries drawn on a piece of coarse cotton cloth with one selvedge edge and one edge machine hemmed. The entries begin near one end of the strip and move from left to right in a staggered linear sequence, stopping well short of the opposite end. Summer …
MS 2531 James Mooney notebooks principally regarding Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho shield and tipi designs
Murphy, Charles (Cheyenne)
Sweezy, Carl, 1881-1953
Notes and drawings by Native artists relating to heraldry, as Mooney termed tipi and shield designs. Also some myths and linguistic data from these and other Plains tribes. The manuscript is a compilation of materials created over a period of years, assembled under the current number by the BAE archivist …
