Object Details
- 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
- 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.
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS4800, Subseries 1.3
- 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.
- Scope and Contents
- This subseries contains Dorsey's Dhegiha research, covering Ponca, Omaha, Kansa, Quapaw, and Osage. Materials such as translations of sermons and hymnals in Dhegiha document his missionary work among the Ponca. The subseries also contains linguistic and ethnological notes; manuscripts; correspondence with Francis LaFlesche regarding Dhegiha language and customs; Dhegiha epistles; Omaha and Oto stories; drawings of Omaha robes and tents by George Miller; drawings by Stephen Stubbs and Pahaule-gagli of battle scenes between the Kansas and Cheyennes and a drawing by Stubbs of painted tipis and buffalo robes.
- Collection Restrictions
- The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512914364-1503512914415-5
