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Kwakiutl Potlatch

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Hastings, Oregon Columbus  Search this
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this
Extent:
1 Albumen print (006 in x 005 in mounted on 006 in x 005 in)
Container:
Box III:7, Folder 1-12
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Date:
Nov-Dec 1894
Scope and Contents:
Group of Men, All with Cedarbark Headgear, Some in Wool Blankets, Standing and Sitting Behind Blanket Pile; Wood Plank Houses and Totem Poles in Background
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.00060000

OPPS NEG SI.3944

OPPS NEG.73-9785
Local Note:
These photographs are listed in Boas accession file #29057. Additional information supplied by Bill Holm.
Black and white albumen print on cardboard mount
Place:
Canada -- British Columbia -- Fort Rupert Village
Topic:
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No ACC # Cat 175078 00060000, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects / Series 1: America north of Mexico / Northwest Coast / Kwakiutl
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30e348fb6-fb02-49ad-abcf-02362c312d19
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-24-ref4251

Kwakiutl Tsetsaeqa (Winter Ceremonial)

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Hastings, Oregon Columbus  Search this
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this
Extent:
1 Albumen print (006 in x 005 in mounted on 006 in x 005 in)
Container:
Box III:7, Folder 1-12
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Date:
Nov-Dec 1894
Scope and Contents:
Five Men Standing Behind Skin Drum?, Three with Face Paint, Button Blankets And Cedarbark Headdresses, One with Eagle Down; Seated Group Of People and Canoe in Background
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.00060100

OPPS NEG SI.3947
Local Note:
These photographs are listed in Boas accession file #29057. Additional information supplied by Bill Holm.
Black and white albumen print on cardboard mount
Place:
Canada -- British Columbia -- Fort Rupert Village
Topic:
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No ACC # Cat 175078 00060100, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects / Series 1: America north of Mexico / Northwest Coast / Kwakiutl
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3dcf43036-8bd1-4933-a5ac-76f7fa3f80b0
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-24-ref4252

Kwakiutl Woman (Front) in Wool Blanket; Head Deformation Shown

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this
Extent:
1 Albumen print (005 in x 006 in)
Container:
Box III:7, Folder 1-12
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Date:
1895
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.00066600

OPPS NEG.55,700
Local Note:
Note: ACC 29057 Rec'd, 1895, Lists Negs from Ft Rupert, BC; Possibly These (Cat Card) See 00063300 SPC, Same Woman
Black and white albumen print
Place:
Canada -- British Columbia/Vancouver Island -- Fort Rupert Village ?
Topic:
Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw)  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 24 SPC Nwc Kwakiutl NM No ACC # Cat 175469 #1-70 00066600, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects
Photographs of Native Americans and Other Subjects / Series 1: America north of Mexico / Northwest Coast / Kwakiutl
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3adc60242-6fa0-4e4a-81cc-6526d940bc71
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-photolot-24-ref4317

MS 2135 Franz Boas notebook concerning the Nisga'a

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Notebook (8 x 10.25 inches)
Container:
Box 2135
Culture:
Nisga'a (Niska)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Field notes
Drawings
Place:
North America
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of one (1) notebook containing Franz Boas' notes on the Nisqa'a. The notebook includes a vocabulary and several pages of sketches. There are also two loose pages of notes and pages 3-6 of the newsletter of The New York Society for Ethical Culture (circa 1909).

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 today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Franz Boas (1858-1942) was a German-American anthropologist and pioneer of modern anthropological practice. He studied physics and geography at the universities at Heidelberg and Bonn before completing a doctoral program in physical geography at Kiel in 1881. After graduation, he joined an expedition of Baffin Island (1883-1884), which influenced his decision to him to focus on cultural tradition rather than biological and physical influences. In 1885, Boas emigrated to the United States, where he took an editorial position with the journal Science and started what would become his most famous ethnographic project, working among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Indians, in 1886. Boas spent three years teaching at Clark University in Massachusetts, then took an appointment at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1892. Boas then moved to New York, where he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1895-1905) and began teaching at Columbia University in 1896. For 37 years, Boas established himself as an academic and mentored numerous future influential anthropologists, including Margaret Mead, Alfred Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Zora Neale Hurston. He also served as one of the founders of both the American Anthropological Association and the International Journal of American Linguistics.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2135
Variant Title:
Niska notes and sketches

Nisqa Notes
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds additional material by Franz Boas concerning the Nisga'a in MS 348 Niska Manuscript and MS 1823 Nisqa (Niska) Dictionary.
Restrictions:
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Genre/Form:
Field notes
Drawings
Citation:
MS 2135 Franz Boas notebook concerning the Nisga'a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2135
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37f2ce19a-2c13-48e8-8e0f-e3a35f90df70
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2135
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Maps of parts of Baffin Island collected by Franz Boas

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
34 Items (graphite, ink, and photomechanical; laminated)
Container:
Folder 169270
Culture:
Baffinland Inuit (Baffinland Eskimo)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Maps
Place:
Baffin Island (Nunavut)
Arctic regions
North America
Date:
1883-1884
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of thirty-four (34) items, including thirty-two (32) maps of the Baffin Island coast drawn by unidentified Inuit informants and annotated by Franz Boas; and two (2) numbered lists of place names by Boas. Most of the maps are not identified as to the precise area they represent except by Inuit place names. Other notes on the maps include a short text in an Inuit language and some notes in German and English; most of these notes are illegible because Boas used a shorthand system of his own in writing many of them. Moreover, his handwriting is very difficult to read even when not abbreviated. Many of the maps consist of two or more sheets of paper that were glued together and contain notes and drawings on both sides.

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 today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The items in the collection were numbered 1-32 when cataloged by the United States National Museum (USNM). This order has been maintained when possible. Several numbers are now missing from the series, and a few items do not have numbers. Unnumbered items appear at the end of the collection.
Biographical Note:
Franz Boas (1858-1942) was a German-American anthropologist and pioneer of modern anthropological practice. He studied physics and geography at the universities at Heidelberg and Bonn before completing a doctoral program in physical geography at Kiel in 1881. After graduation, he joined an expedition of Baffin Island (1883-1884), which influenced his decision to focus on cultural tradition rather than biological and physical influences. In the summer of 1883 Boas traveled from Germany to Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, aboard the sailing vessel Germania whose main objective was to evacuate the personnel of the German station of the First International Polar Year from Kingua Fjord. Over the winter of 1883–1884 Boas confined himself to Cumberland Sound and in the spring and summer of 1884, he crossed the Cumberland Peninsula and visited numerous Inuit communities along the Davis Strait coast.

In 1885, Boas emigrated to the United States, where he took an editorial position with the journal Science and started what would become his most famous ethnographic project, working among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Indians, in 1886. Boas spent three years teaching at Clark University in Massachusetts, then took an appointment at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1892. Boas then moved to New York, where he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1895-1905) and began teaching at Columbia University in 1896. For 37 years, Boas established himself as an academic and mentored numerous future influential anthropologists, including Margaret Mead, Alfred Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Zora Neale Hurston. He also served as one of the founders of both the American Anthropological Association and the International Journal of American Linguistics.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270

USNM Accession 29060
Publication Note:
Some of the maps were reproduced in:

Boas, Franz. Baffin-Land: Geographische Ergebnisse einer in den Jahren 1883 und 1884 ausgeführten Forschungsreise. Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1885.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Drawings
Maps
Citation:
Maps of parts of Baffin Island collected by Franz Boas (MS 169270), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS169270
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Maps of parts of Baffin Island collected by Franz Boas
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3e495f089-0e98-40b6-84f9-9edf8599f15c
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ead_collection:sova-naa-ms169270
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Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs

Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
3 Drawings (visual works) (graphite and crayon)
Container:
Box 87819 / 87824, Folder 2
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Graphic Materials
Drawings (visual works)
Works of art
Drawings
Place:
North America
Date:
circa 1895
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of three (3) drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs made by Franz Boas for publication in his article "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians." "Dr. Franz Boas" is stamped on the back of one page.

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 today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical Note:
Franz Boas (1858-1942) was a German-American anthropologist and pioneer of modern anthropological practice. He studied physics and geography at the universities at Heidelberg and Bonn before completing a doctoral program in physical geography at Kiel in 1881. After graduation, he joined an expedition of Baffin Island (1883-1884), which influenced his decision to him to focus on cultural tradition rather than biological and physical influences. In 1885, Boas emigrated to the United States, where he took an editorial position with the journal Science and started what would become his most famous ethnographic project, working among the Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) Indians, in 1886. Boas spent three years teaching at Clark University in Massachusetts, then took an appointment at the Field Museum in Chicago in 1892. Boas then moved to New York, where he joined the American Museum of Natural History (1895-1905) and began teaching at Columbia University in 1896. For 37 years, Boas established himself as an academic and mentored numerous future influential anthropologists, including Margaret Mead, Alfred Kroeber, Edward Sapir, and Zora Neale Hurston. He also served as one of the founders of both the American Anthropological Association and the International Journal of American Linguistics.
Publication Note:
The drawings were reproduced in:

Boas, Franz. "The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians," Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Instituion 1895. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1897. Figure 12 and Plate 40.
Provenance:
The drawings were found in the USNM collection; no catalog or accession numbers have been identified. The drawing was transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in 1969.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Works of art
Drawings
Citation:
Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs (MS 87824), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS87824
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Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw301ffc57d-f3c9-4dbe-b3e4-533132b13805
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms87824
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The sī'siul

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Drawings (visual works) (10 x 6.5 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Scope and Contents:
Depicts a design from one side of a drum carved in a sī'siul (double-headed snake) motif. Drawing is labeled: "Redrawn / one side of drum-- / Fig. 13 Se sa yukl." The caption on the published version of the design states that is "From a painting by a Kwakiutl Indian."
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08533600
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Collection Citation:
Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs (MS 87824), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32c030c62-7ac1-4637-a7f2-bcc301d2c5f4
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-ms87824-ref1

Initiation Into Tlokosla

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Drawings (visual works) (4.75 x 6.25 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Drawings (visual works)
Scope and Contents:
Drawings from sides of a bedroom are identified as specimens belonging to the Royal Ethnological Museum in Berlin, collected by A. Jacobsen. Presumably then the drawings were copied by Boas from original artifacts (in Germany or elsewhere) for use as illustrations.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08533701
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Collection Citation:
Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs (MS 87824), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw354aba5ca-e706-4e52-a40b-3327ec09ff86
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-ms87824-ref2
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Hawina-Witl

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (4 x 5 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Drawings from sides of a bedroom are identified as specimens belonging to the Royal Ethnological Museum in Berlin, collected by A. Jacobsen. Presumably then the drawings were copied by Boas from original artifacts (in Germany or elsewhere) for use as illustrations.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV 08533702
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs (MS 87824), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Franz Boas drawings of Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) designs
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31b2d3e16-5d11-497c-be3b-3f0a8953f09d
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-naa-ms87824-ref3

MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers

Creator:
La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932  Search this
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923  Search this
Correspondent:
La Flesche family  Search this
Aldrich, Charles F.  Search this
Alexander, Hartley B.  Search this
Allen, James T.  Search this
Andrews, Gleorge L.  Search this
Armstrong, S.C.  Search this
Ashley, Robert H.  Search this
Atkins, John D.C.  Search this
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921  Search this
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899  Search this
Brown, George LeRoy  Search this
Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921  Search this
Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946  Search this
Copley, John T.  Search this
Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927  Search this
Dawes, E.S.  Search this
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this
Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934  Search this
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this
Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914  Search this
Ellinwood, F.F.  Search this
Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925  Search this
Farley, Caryl E.  Search this
Farley, Rosalie La Flesche  Search this
Farwell, Arthur  Search this
Fellowes, R.S.  Search this
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930  Search this
Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898  Search this
Fillmore, L.H.  Search this
Fillmore, Thomas Hill  Search this
Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967  Search this
Gay, E. Jane  Search this
Griffith, Elmer C.  Search this
Guthrie, William Norman  Search this
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896  Search this
Hall, C.C.  Search this
Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940  Search this
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919  Search this
Heth, H.  Search this
Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946  Search this
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this
Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909  Search this
Johnston, Catherine M.  Search this
Kincaid, William  Search this
La Flesche, Joseph  Search this
Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928  Search this
MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947  Search this
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908  Search this
Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this
McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915  Search this
McBeth, Sue L., -1893  Search this
McCown, S.M.  Search this
McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this
McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916  Search this
Mead, Frances K.  Search this
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942  Search this
Merrick, Fannie  Search this
Merrick, Jessie  Search this
Moon, Karl  Search this
Moore, Homer  Search this
Morgan, Caroline S.  Search this
Morgan, John T.  Search this
Murie, James R.  Search this
Myers, John L.  Search this
Nuttal, Maria Magdalena  Search this
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924  Search this
Petter, W.H.  Search this
Pettigrew, Frederick W., 1850-1901  Search this
Picotte, Susan La Flesche  Search this
Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924  Search this
Price, Hiram  Search this
Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923  Search this
Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this
Quinn, Daniel  Search this
Robertson, Alice M.  Search this
Rogers, Emily F.  Search this
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917  Search this
Seymour, Thomas Day  Search this
Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908  Search this
St. Cyr, Julia  Search this
Starr, Frederick  Search this
Stuart, James  Search this
Talbot, Emily  Search this
Teller, W.J.  Search this
Thaw, William  Search this
Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954  Search this
Wallaschek, Richard  Search this
Westcott, Edith  Search this
Wilkinson, G.W.  Search this
Wilkinson, Hattie M.  Search this
Willoughby, Charles Clark  Search this
Names:
Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915  Search this
Radin, Paul, 1883-1959  Search this
Extent:
19 Linear feet (50 boxes)
Culture:
Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this
Sioux  Search this
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Ponca  Search this
Quechua  Search this
Quapaw Indians  Search this
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this
Mexicans  Search this
Wichita  Search this
Zapotec  Search this
Muskogee (Creek)  Search this
Apache  Search this
Cherokee  Search this
Hopi Pueblo  Search this
Indians of North America -- California  Search this
Hitchiti Seminole  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
Caddo  Search this
Biloxi Indians  Search this
Omaha  Search this
Osage  Search this
Oto  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Ajachemem (San Juan de Capistrano Luiseño)  Search this
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Alaska
Date:
1873-1939
Summary:
These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.
Scope and Contents:
These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection.

Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.
Arrangement:
The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939.

Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.

Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930.

Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.
Biographical / Historical:
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher

1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba

1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women

1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies

1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians

1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts

1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency

1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education

1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency

1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency

1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America

1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition

1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology

1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist

1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America

1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley

1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie

1904 -- Member, ethnology section, Louisiana Purchase Exposition

1905 -- President, American Folk-lore Society

1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche

1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C.

Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche

1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska

1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear

1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs

1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son

1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School

1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School

1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School

1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa

1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher

1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One

1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences

1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two

1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska

1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three

1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language

1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska

1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians
Related Materials:
Additional material related to the professional work of Fletcher and La Flesche in the National Anthropological Archives may be found among the correspondence of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and the records of the Anthropological Society of Washington.

Sound recordings made by Fletcher and La Flesche can be found at the Library of Congress. The National Archives Records Administration hold the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including those relating to allotments in severalty for the Nez Perce by Alice Fletcher. The Nebraska Historical Society has diaries, letters and clippings regarding the La Flesche family, including correspondence of Francis La Flesche and Fletcher. The Radcliffe College Archives holds a manuscript account of Alice Fletcher's four summers with the Nez Perce (1889-1892). Correspondence between Fletcher and F. W. Putnam is also located at the Peabody Museum Archives of Harvard University.
Separated Materials:
Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24.

Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).
Provenance:
The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.
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Pipes -- American Indian  Search this
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Citation:
Manuscript 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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[Route from Amakdjuak to Sessikdjuak]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
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NAA MS 169270 (001)

NAA INV 08595800
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[Page of notes associated with Baffin Island maps]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (11 x 13 inches)
Type:
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Scope and Contents:
Notes may refer to one of the other maps in the collection.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (010)

NAA INV 08596500
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Way von Frobisher Strait nah Amakdjuang

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
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Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (011)

NAA INV 08596601

NAA INV 08596602
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with annotated place names and notes]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
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Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (013)

NAA INV 08596700
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with short Inuit text on the reverse]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (8 x 13 inches)
Type:
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Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (014)

NAA INV 08596800
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with annotated place names and notes]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
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Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (015)

NAA INV 08596900
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with mathematical equations on the reverse]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
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Type:
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Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (016)

NAA INV 08597000
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with annotated place names and notes]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (17 x 13 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Map is composed of at least two sheets of paper glued together.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (017)

NAA INV 08597100
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[Unidentified map of part of the Baffin Island coastline with annotated place names and notes]

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (13 x 17 inches)
Type:
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Scope and Contents:
Notes are not legible, but do include the word "Tinera' kdjuak" which could be Tinikdjuarbing or Cumberland Sound. Map on front and reverse of page.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (019)

NAA INV 08597201

NAA INV 08597202
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Hudson Strasse und Frobisher Bay von Nijuipa

Collection Creator:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this
Extent:
1 Item (9 x 9 inches)
Type:
Archival materials
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 169270 (002)

NAA INV 08595900
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