Object Details
- Creator
- La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
- Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
- Correspondent
- La Flesche family
- Aldrich, Charles F.
- Alexander, Hartley B.
- Allen, James T.
- Andrews, Gleorge L.
- Armstrong, S.C.
- Ashley, Robert H.
- Atkins, John D.C.
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
- Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921
- Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
- Brown, George LeRoy
- Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921
- Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946
- Names
- Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915
- Correspondent
- Copley, John T.
- Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
- Dawes, E.S.
- Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
- Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934
- Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
- Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
- Ellinwood, F.F.
- Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925
- Farley, Caryl E.
- Farley, Rosalie La Flesche
- Farwell, Arthur
- Fellowes, R.S.
- Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
- Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898
- Fillmore, L.H.
- Fillmore, Thomas Hill
- Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967
- Gay, E. Jane
- Griffith, Elmer C.
- Guthrie, William Norman
- Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
- Hall, C.C.
- Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940
- Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919
- Heth, H.
- Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946
- Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
- Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
- Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
- Hough, Walter, 1859-1935
- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
- Johnston, Catherine M.
- Kincaid, William
- La Flesche, Joseph
- Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
- MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947
- Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
- Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
- McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915
- McBeth, Sue L., -1893
- McCown, S.M.
- McGee, W J, 1853-1912
- McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916
- Mead, Frances K.
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
- Merrick, Fannie
- Merrick, Jessie
- Moon, Karl
- Moore, Homer
- Morgan, Caroline S.
- Morgan, John T.
- Murie, James R.
- Myers, John L.
- Nuttal, Maria Magdalena
- Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924
- Petter, W.H.
- Pettigrew, Frederick W., 1850-1901
- Picotte, Susan La Flesche
- Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924
- Price, Hiram
- Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923
- Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915
- Quinn, Daniel
- Names
- Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
- Correspondent
- Robertson, Alice M.
- Rogers, Emily F.
- Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
- Seymour, Thomas Day
- Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908
- St. Cyr, Julia
- Starr, Frederick
- Stuart, James
- Talbot, Emily
- Teller, W.J.
- Thaw, William
- Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954
- Wallaschek, Richard
- Westcott, Edith
- Wilkinson, G.W.
- Wilkinson, Hattie M.
- Willoughby, Charles Clark
- Appendix: Previous Organization of This Collection
- The following list is intended for researchers seeking items based upon the previous draft register. Noted are the old series numbers of the collection in order as correlated with new series numbers. New folder titles are included when the location of an item in the new organization is not immediately clear from the finding aid. OLD SERIES, TITLE -- NEW SERIES, LOCATION ALICE FLETCHER PAPERS 1. Letters received: -- subseries 1.1, box 1-2. 2. Outgoing correspondence: -- letter books relative to allotment have been placed in new subseries 1.3, boxes 3-5. 3. Fletcher to La Flesche: -- subseries 1.4, box 5. 4. La Flesche to Fletcher: -- subseries 1.4, box 5. 5. Omaha papers: -- subseries 1.3, box 3. 6. Winnebago papers: -- subseries 1.3, box 4. 7. Sacred Hide theft -- subseries 1.3, box 5. 8. California anthropology: -- subseries 1.3, box 5. 9. Letters neither to/from Fletcher: -- subseries 1.3, box 3 (included with Omaha correspondence. The two letters between Sheldon Jackson and William Thaw were filed with Alaska papers, box 18). 10. AIA official business: -- subseries 1.6, box 7-8. 11. Fletcher to Putnam and Bowditch: -- subseries 1.6, box 8, folder:School of American Archaeology, founding. 12. Fletcher and Hewett: -- subseries 1.6, box 7. 13. Colorado Cliff Dwellings: -- subseries 1.6, box 8. 14. Washington, AIA: -- subseries 1.6, box 7, folder: AIA official business. 15. Clippings, AIA: -- subseries 1.6, box 8. 16. Act to preserve antiquities: -- subseries 1.6, box 7. 17. Leo Tolstoy: -- subseries 1.10, box 13. 18. Clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13. 19. Bibliographic notes: -- subseries 1.10, box 12. 20. Clippings about work: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13. 21. Clippings, Harvard: -- subseries 1.10, box 12. 22. Indian music clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12. 22a. AAAS 1896 clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13. 23. Mementoes and souvenirs: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13. 24. Photos of family, friends: -- subseries 3.28, box 33. 25. Papers relative to death: -- subseries 1.10, box 13. 26. Diaries, etc. -- subseries 1.9, box 12; oversize box 1. 27. Address books, calling cards: -- subseries 1.9, box 12 and oversize box 1. 28. Reprints of publications: -- subseries 1.5, box 5-7. 29. Historical lectures: -- subseries 1.8, box 9-10. 30. Archaeological lectures: -- subseries 1.8, box 9-10. 31. Lectures on Indians: -- subseries 1.8, box 10. 32. Armenia materials: -- subseries 1.8, box 10. 33. Anthropological notes: -- subseries 1.7, box 8. 34. Misc. notes, clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13, except story, "Over the Border, in subseries 1.5, box 7. FRANCIS LA FLESCHE PAPERS 35. General correspondence: -- subseries 2.11, box 14. 36. Government correspondence: -- subseries 2.12, box 14 (employment). 37. Pettigrew correspondence: -- subseries 2.12, box 15. 38. The Middle Five: -- subseries 2.12, box 14. 39. La Flesche family: -- subseries 2.12, box 14. 40. Omaha tribal affairs: -- subseries 2.12, box 15. 41. Inquiries and responses: -- subseries 2.12, box 15. 42. Osage dictionary: -- subseries 2.12, box 15. 43. Misc. business letters: -- subseries 2.12, box 15. 44. Diaries -- subseries 2.15, box 16. 45. Clippings of reviews: -- subseries 2.16, box 17. 46. Membership certificates: -- subseries 2.16, box 17. 47. Clippings, life and work: -- subseries 2.16, box 17. 48: Short stories -- subseries 2.14, box 15-16. 49. Reprints by La Flesche: -- subseries 2.13, box 15. ETHNOGRAPHIC PAPERS 50. ALASKA -- subseries 3.17, box 18. 51. EARTH LODGES -- subseries 3.18, box 18. MUSIC 52. Music lectures: -- subseries 3.19, box 18. 53. Field notes: -- subseries 3.19, box 18-19 and oversize box 2. Buffalo ceremony notes, subseries 3.23, oversize box 2. 54. Transcriptions by others: -- subseries 3.19, box 19; oversize box 2. 55. Music derivative of Indian music -- subseries 3.19, oversize box 2. 56. Misc. and clippings: -- subseries 3.19, box 19. NEZ PERCE 57. "Ethnologic Gleanings" -- subseries 3.20, box 20. 58. Billy Williams map materials: -- subseries 3.20, box 20. 59. Manuscript of map materials: -- subseries 3.20, box 20. 60. Nez Perce vocabulary: -- subseries 3.20, box 20. 61. Photos -- NAA Photo Lot 24. 62. Notebook, Nez Perce -- subseries 3.20, box 19. 63. Misc. ethnography: -- subseries 3.20, box 19-20. OMAHA 64. Maps -- subseries 3.21, box 22. 65. Ethnography, general life: -- subseries 3.21, box 21-22 (general papers); "Life Among the Omahas," moved to subseries 1.5, box 7. 66. Social practices: -- subseries 3.21, box 21-2 (general papers). 67. Myth: -- subseries 3.21, box 21. 68. Field notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 20-21. 69. Informants notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 20-21. 70. Reading notes, history: -- subseries 3.21, box 22. 71. Misc. notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 22. 72. Allotments -- subseries 1.3, box 3. 73. Language: -- subseries 3.21, box 21; index file 1. 74. Photographs: -- NAA Photo Lot 24. OSAGE 75. Maps -- subseries 3.22, box 28. 76. Social practices: -- subseries 3.22, box 22; "Marriage Customs," box 23. 77. Hunting: -- subseries 3.22, box 22. 78. Myth: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 79. 36 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 23-4. 80. 39 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 24. 81. 45 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 25-6. 82. 43 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 25. 83. War and Peace: -- subseries 3.22, box 27-8. 84. War bundles: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 85. Tattooing rite: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 86. Peyote rite: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 87. General ritual: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 88. General notes: -- subseries 3.22, box 22 (field notes); box 28 (reading notes). 89. Language: -- subseries 3.22, box 23; manuscript, box 27; index cards, index card boxes 3-6. Personal and gentile names identified as Child Naming; see index card files. 90. Letter extracts: -- subseries 3.22, box 22 (general ethnography). 91. Osage Magazine articles: -- subseries 3.22, box 28. 92. Osage-U.S. relations: -- subseries 3.22, box 23 (general papers). PAWNEE 93. General ethnography: -- subseries 3.23, box 29. 94. Ha-ko Ceremony: -- subseries 3.23, box 29. 95. Star of the West: -- subseries 3.23, box 29. 96. Buffalo ceremony: -- subseries 3.23, box 29. 97. General notes: -- subseries 3.23, box 29 (general papers, reading notes). 98. PIPES: -- subseries 3.24, box 29. DAKOTA 99. Archaeology: -- subseries 3.25, box 30 (Pettigrew mound survey). 100. Ethnology: -- subseries 3.25, box 30. 101. TRIP: OMAHA TO SOUTH DAKOTA 1. "Fletcher's Scientific Work:" -- subseries 2.13, box 15. subseries2-3. Original notebooks and drawings: -- subseries 1.9, box 11. 4-5. Transcripts of notebooks: -- subseries 1.9, box 11-12. 6. "Life Among the Indians:" -- subseries 1.5, box 7. WINNEBAGO 102. Ethnology: -- subseries 3.26, box 31. 103. Allotments: -- subseries 1.3, box 4. OTHER TRIBES 104. Apache: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 105. Arapaho: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 106. Biloxi: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 107. Caddoan: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 108. Cherokee -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 109. Cheyenne: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 110. Creek: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 111. Mexican notes: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 112. Hopi: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 113. Oto: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 114. Ponca: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 115. Quapaw: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 116. Wichita: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. 117. Zuni: -- subseries 3.26, box 30. REPRINTS AND MAPS 118. Maps: -- subseries 3.27, box 33. 119. Foster's Indian Record: -- subseries 3.27, box 31 ("F"). 120. Reprints: -- subseries 3.27, box 31-32.
- Place
- Alaska
- Topic
- Pipes -- American Indian
- Earth houses
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Music -- American Indian
- Provenance
- The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.
- Creator
- La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
- Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
- Culture
- Inunaina (Arapaho)
- Sioux
- A:shiwi (Zuni)
- Ponca
- Quechua
- Quapaw Indians
- Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
- Mexicans
- Wichita
- Zapotec
- Muscogee (Creek)
- Apache
- Cherokee
- Hopi Pueblo
- Indians of North America -- California
- Hitchiti Seminole
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- Indians of North America -- Southeast
- Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
- Caddo
- Biloxi Indians
- Omaha
- Osage
- Oto
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
- Ajachemem (San Juan de Capistrano Luiseño)
- Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
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- Summary
- These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.
- Biographical / Historical
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher 1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba 1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women 1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University 1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies 1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University 1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians 1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts 1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency 1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education 1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency 1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency 1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America 1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University 1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition 1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology 1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist 1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America 1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley 1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington 1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie 1904 -- Member, ethnology section, Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1905 -- President, American Folk-lore Society 1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology 1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science 1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche 1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology 1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports 1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C. Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche 1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska 1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear 1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs 1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs 1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son 1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School 1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School 1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School 1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa 1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology 1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher 1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One 1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences 1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington 1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two 1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska 1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three 1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language 1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska 1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians
- Extent
- 19 Linear feet (50 boxes)
- Date
- 1873-1939
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS4558
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Citation
- Manuscript 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Arrangement
- The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939. Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925. Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930. Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.
- Processing Information
- In encoding the finding aid for upload into the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA) in 2017, the archivist re-assigned series and subseries numbers to the categories in this collection. The three "collection" hierarchies assigned by the original archivist were re-labeled series (Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers; Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers; Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche). Nested series under those divisions were re-labeled as subseries, though retaining the original numbering system (i.e., series 23 became subseries 3.23). Also in 2017, index file boxes and oversize boxes were re-numbered consecutively to other boxes in the collection. Index Files #1-7 became boxes 34-40. Oversize boxes 1 and 2 became boxes 41 and 42. Collection processed by Joy Elizabeth Rhode, 2000. Finding aid updated by Loraine Wang, 2013 July. Finding aid updated and encoded by Katherine Madison, 2017 August.
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Portions of the collection have been microfilmed, including the entirety of Fletcher's incoming correspondence.
- Scope and Contents
- These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs. The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection. Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.
- Restrictions
- The Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers are open for research. Access to the Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers requires an appointment.
- Separated Materials
- Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24. Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).
- Record ID
- ebl-1562718027608-1562718027627-0
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