Dhegiha
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4800, Subseries 1.3
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content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.