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Language:English
Date:1796-1809
Contributor:Hunter, George, 1755-1823
Subject:Expeditions | Natural history | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Travel narratives
Extent:4 volumes
Description: I. Journal kept by George Hunter of a tour from Philadelphia to Kentucky and the Illinois country. July 14 - October 18, 1796 (38 pages). Journal from Philadelphia towards Lexington, Kentucky, by George Hunter, Senior and Junior, August 19 - September 8, 1802 (28 pages). Miscellaneous accounts (2 pages). II. Continuation of journal of trip to Lexington, September 13 - 0ctober 26, 1802 (33 pages). Journey to explore Louisiana, May 27, 1804 - January 28, 1805 (36 pages). III. Journal of an excursion from Natchez on the Mississippi, October 16 - December 31, 1804 (40 pages). Thermometrical observations, October 18 - December 6, 1804 (27 pages). IV. Continuation of journal of excursion from Natchez, January 1 - March 27, 1805 (17 pages). Volume I mentions Indians resorting at the Wabash, gives account of Indian woman who lost nose for infidelity; mentions theft of horses and Indians hired to recover them (Delaware); Indian Gillaway among these. Volumes II, III, and IV, in part based on letters to Hunter's wife, probably copied from these. Volume III mentions Captain Jacobs; Delaware Indians; Chickasaw and Choctaw. Volume IV mentions murder of some Cherokees by Little Osages; plundering of white men by Grand Osages who had visited Washington; Choctaw woman mourning child; memo noting omission of description of Indian mounds, present in copy #472.
Collection:George Hunter Journals (Mss.B.H912)
Culture:
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Osage includes: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν
Otoe includes: Oto, JiwΓ©re
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks
Quapaw includes: Arkansas, Ugahxpa
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu
Comanche includes: NΚmΚnΚΚ
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Language:English
Date:1973-1974
Contributor:Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936-
Subject:Dance | Music | Oklahoma--History | Powwows | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:36 audiocassettes (33 hr., 53 min.)
Description: Recordings of powwows, benefit dances, wedding dances, dance competitions, and other permonances at various grounds in Oklahoma and Missouri from 1973-1974 by Sue Roark-Calnek. Includes round dances, stomp dances, war dances, gourd dances, snake dances, buffalo dances, hand games, and others. Dancers, singers, and staff are Arapaho, Caddo, Cayuga, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Delaware, Fox, Hopi, Kiowa, Osage, Ottawa, Oto, Pawnee, Ponca, Quapaw, Seneca, Shawnee, and Yuchi. Includes Delaware and Quapaw Pow-Wow, Osage Inloska Society, Arapaho Starhawk Society, Nevada (Mo.) Bushwhacker Days Pow-Wow, and White Oak Shawnee Night Stomp Dance, Kihekah Steh Pow-Wow, and Seneca-Cayuga Green Corn Ceremonial and Stomp Dance. Some materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity and privacy concerns.
Collection:Indian performances in Oklahoma (Mss.Rec.107)
Culture:
Osage includes: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν
Language:English
Date:1861
Contributor:Ord, George, 1781-1866
Subject:Indian captivities | Captivity narratives | Expeditions | Social life and customs | Africa
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters to Charles Waterton. Mentions imposture of John D. Hunter [who claimed to have lived among the Kickapoos and Osages], Hunter's work on Indians, his claim to have preceded Lewis and Clark, and Ord's conversation with Sir John Franklin on the topic; Du Chaillu and his work on gorillas; Eleazar Williams and his claim to be the Lost Dauphin; Indian customs; Academy of Natural Sciences; fire in Philadelphia. Also quotes Lewis Cass on Hunter and Franklin.
Collection:George Ord Collection (Mss.B.Or2)
Culture:
Osage includes: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν
Language:English
Date:1973-1974, 1977, 1999
Contributor:DuVal, Karen | Kilroe, Patricia | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936-
Subject:Arkansas--History | Music | Oklahoma--History | Powwows | Social life and customs
Type:Moving Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Videotapes
Extent:33 pages
Description: The Osage materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under DuVal, Kilroe, and Roark-Calnek.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Date:1904-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Robinson, Roy H. | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Rolland, Ann | Allen, Ellen | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935 | Sexton, Charles Eli
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Peyote | Music | Dance | Social life and customs | Religion | Politics and government | Jewelry | Haskell Institute | Ethnomusicology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Reports | Musical scores
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Yuchi language, history, and culture. Includes three letters from Roy H. Robinson to Speck concerning persuading Yuchis to answer questions, Cayuga earrings, a Navajo beaded necklace, Osage buffalo hide shield, etc.; a 13-page report titled "Yuchi Ethnography" on political organization, diseases, mythology, etc., based on a 1904 field trip; a folder on Yuchi and Creek dances with sheet music for songs to accompany dance, choreography, and a few vocabulary items with a folder on Yuchi and Creek songs along with 12 vocabulary slips; and 17 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Yuchi notes and correspondence, including one page concerning Yalewi, a Yuchi Indian; one card concerning peyote among Yuchi; a one-page list of names of informants, 1941; a letter from Erich von Hornbostel to Speck, concerning Yuchi songs; a letter from Ellen Allen, a Yuchi Indian, recalling Speck's visit in 1904 and Boas' visit and effort to do a Yuchi grammar with her; a letter from Carl F. Voegelin concerning Yuchi linguistics; letters from Charles Eli Sexton to the University of Pennsylvania Museum concerning Speck's Yuchi ethnography, a Yuchi informant, and connection of Natchez and Hopewell to Yuchi; and letters from Ann Rolland (Haskell Institute) concerning Yuchi museum specimens and relics of the past.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)