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 / 1.3: Dhegiha
- 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
- 1878-1879
- Container
- Box 15, Item 163
- 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
- Contents 2 -- Moccasins 3-5 -- "Origin of tribe, travels, etc." Joseph La Flesche, Fontanelle, Yellow Smoke, among those mentioned. 30 -- "Marks (Tattooing)." 51-52 -- "Pipe Dance" 53 -- Small conch dance 54 -- "Ga-k'e'ge dance of the Ponkas" 61-62 -- "Festivals" 75-77 -- "Hunting Customs" 89 -- "Superstitions, etc." 99 -- "Games" 107 -- "Behavior- Etiquette" 108 -- Two Crow cuts off ear of Baptiste Barnaby 109 -- Drawing and description of the back of an Omaha looking glass 110 -- Marriage 121-123 -- Text, "The raccoons and the crabs," told by Frank La Flesche. 124-126 -- Text, "A Yankton higan told in Omaha by Jno. Springer." 127-129 -- Text, "Oto higan told by Mary La Flesche" 129-130 -- Text, "How the Rabbit caught the sun in a trap" 130-134 -- Text, "Of the mikasi and the four buffaloes" 134-135 -- Text, "Si-kan hega's higan" 135-136, 157-159 -- Text, "Wa-jinska's higan" [Frank La Flesche] 137-138 -- Text, "The Monkey, the buzzard and the women" as "told by Mancu nanba, Sept. 26/78" 138-141 -- "Omaha story (told by Jos. La Flesche) Aug./78." In English. 141-142 -- Text, "How turkeys' eyes became red" 143 -- Notes in English on "The Snake and the Ring," "revised with Mary and Joe, Apl/79 and printed on T-W." 143-144 -- Notes in English on "The four brothers and their sister," "revised by Joes, May/79." 144 -- List of 10 stories 145-147 -- Text, "Wolf, Monkey and Colt" 147-150 -- Notes in English on the "Story of the gods with 7 heads and Hahuka." 157 -- Text, "How a rabbit killed a giant," Frank La Flesche, November 25 159-162 -- Text, "How the rabbit killed the winter" 162-168 -- Text, "Wahatisige and the God with 7 heads." 168-169 -- Text, Ponka ghost story told by Frank La Flesche, Jr. 168 -- List of fables, Numbers 11-17 9 unnumbered pages in back of notebook -- Lists of Omaha, Ponca, Oto, Iowa, etc. fables collected and manuscripts completed.
- Collection Restrictions
- The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
- Record ID
- ebl-1503512914364-1503512914424-1
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