Object Details
sova.naa.ms4800_ref1785
- Local Numbers
- NAA INV.08724800 OPPS NEG.98-10213 NAA MS.4800: 190
- Funding note
- Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Local Note
- Originally referred to as "Old Oak's tipi" in title. Corrected 9/10/2012.
- Album Information
- MS 4800-190 002
- Creator
- Miller, George (Omaha)
- Collection Creator
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- Creator
- Miller, George (Omaha)
- Culture
- Omaha
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
- MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban / 1.3: Dhegiha / George Miller drawings of Omaha tents and robes
- 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.
- Extent
- 1 Drawings (visual works) (graphite, watercolor, and ink, 17 x 21 cm.)
- Date
- 1889
- 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
- Inscription reads "Old Big Elk's Tent. The steam-boats he saw when he went to Washington and saw the white people there for the first time. To show that the White people acknowledged him as a great chief."
- 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-1629288015215-1629288015683-1