Object Details
sova.naa.ms4800_ref123
- Collection Creator
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- See more items in
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban / 1.2: Dakota / Lakota texts by George Bushotter
- Sponsor
- Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund. Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
- Date
- 1887 - 1887
- Container
- Box 6A, Item 103
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Digital surrogates are available.
- Scope and Contents
- 1.) Sword Keeper and his brother. The latter meets Two Faces, a mythic giant. Includes 1 page partial translation. 2.) The Mythic Buffalo. 3.) Two Faces. Explains the origin of arrows, pipes, axes, knife-sharpeners, beads, etc. 4.) Three brothers who had a witch sister. (incomplete) 5.) Children, a bad old woman cannibal, and Spider (the Mythic Trickster).
- Collection Restrictions
- The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
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- Record ID
- ebl-1503512914364-1503512914405-2