Exterior view of Big House, looking southwest
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56923
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
name: label: Creator
content: Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971
label: Names
content: Fouts, Julius ?
creator: label: Creator
content: Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Registered
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory. Those involved in the move became known as the Delaware (registered) or the Delaware (Cherokee). The others became known as the Delaware (absentee). "Registered" and "absentee" are not aboriginal terms.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1908-1910
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in Mark R. Harrington, Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape, New York, 1921, opposite page 82 (Plate V).
label: Bibliography
content: Published in American Anthropologist 15.218, figure 43 (1913).
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content: Photographs
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content: This was the second of the three Big Houses built in Oklahoma; it was taken down and a new one built in the fall of 1913, before the annual ceremony. The man pictured is most likely Julius Fouts, Harrington's informant and interpreter, but there is some disagreement on this (Ive Goddard, field notes, 1967-68); the large rack to the left is the main food rack (the "food platform" of Harrington's Plate VII, facing page 94, opposite citation). The smaller rack in the center of the picture is the food rack used by the leader of the ceremony, who always camped on the northeast corner of the Big House.