Object Details
sova.naa.ms4800_ref1780
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS.4800: (3.1.1.3) [105]
- Funding note
- Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Local Note
- Old number 932 (part), changed to 1466
- Album Information
- MS 4800-105 000
- Creator
- Bushotter, George, 1864-1892
- Collector
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- Collection Creator
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- Topic
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Creator
- Bushotter, George, 1864-1892
- Collector
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- Culture
- Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
- See more items in
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban / 1.2: Dakota
- 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.
- Biographical / Historical
- George Bushotter (1864-1892), or Oteri, was a Teton Lakota born in Dakota Territory to a Yankton man and his wife Grey Whirlwind, a Minneconjou Lakota. Raised to be a warrior, Bushotter nevertheless left to study at the Hampton Institute in Virginia from 1878-1881. He entered the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1885 to become a minister, but his inadequate knowledge of English made the study of Latin and Greek incredibly difficult for him. At the advice of the faculty, Bushotter left the seminary in 1887. While at Hampton, he met Rev. James Owen Dorsey and recognized the potential in working with him to complete ethnographic studies, and worked with the BAE for approximately ten months in 1887. His primary contributions were in the comparative linguistics of Teton Lakota, writing myths and other texts in Lakota, and assisting Dorsey in creating the synonomy of Lakota tribal names that formed a major part of what was to become the Handbook of North American Indians North of Mexico. For more information on George Bushotter, see American Indian Intellectuals, ed. Margot Liberty, 1978.
- Extent
- 10 Drawings (visual works) ((9 leaves), graphite and colored pencil, 21 x 22 cm.-29 x 46 cm.)
- Date
- 1887
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Drawings (visual works)
- Ledger drawings
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Genre/Form
- Ledger drawings
- Scope and Contents
- Ten drawings on nine leaves. Illustrations of figures and materials relating to the Sun Dance, Ghost Lodge, and Heyoka.
- 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-1629288015215-1629288015630-1