Takzi drawings

Object Details

Local Numbers: NAA MS.2372, Box 11
Place: United States -- Indian Territory -- Anadarko.; United States -- Oklahoma -- Anadarko.
Album Information: MS 2372-11 Takzi-000

See more items in: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography; MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.3: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by Native American tribe or subject / Unidentified Drawing and Picture Writing / 5 Drawings

Biographical / Historical: Albert S. Gatschet was educated in his native Switzerland and in Germany (University of Bern; University of Berlin, Ph.D., 1892). Early in his career he pursued antiquarian research in European museums and wrote scientific articles. Among his projects was the study of the etymology of place names in Switzerland. After coming to the United States in 1869, he worked on the American Indian vocabularies collected by Oscar Loew of the United State Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler Survey); and eventually he was employed as an ethnologist with the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Regions (Powell Survey). He joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology when it was founded in 1879 and continued there until he retired in 1905.

Extent: 5 Drawings (visual works) (graphite, crayon, and ink on cardboard and paper, 11 x 29 cm.-27 x 36 cm.)

Collection Citation: Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Bibliography: Illustrated Pl. LIII and mentioned p. 740, "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1888-89, Washington DC 1893.

Scope and Contents: Four drawings on cardboard with scenes of hunting, warfare, and mounted warriors, plus one leaf with partial copy of a drawing on each side, probably produced for publication (NAA INV 08746400). One of the drawings was removed from a brittle substrate; see conservation files for more information. NAA INV 08746400 is a copy of NAA INV 08742200 done by an anonymous copyist and is filed with a set of otherwise unidentified American Indian drawings also in MS 2372, Box 11. The identification of this drawing as a copy of a drawing by Takzi was made by Candace Greene.

Collection Restrictions: Manuscript 2372 is open for research. Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.