MS 4590 Quapaw Indians Photograph Collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4590
name: label: Collector
content: Nieberding, Velma
label: Names
content: Griffin, Victor
label: Names
content: Redeagle, Mary Lane
label: Names
content: Romich, George Mrs
label: Names
content: Romich, Rhona
label: Names
content: Romich, Tamara
label: Names
content: Waz-hing-ka
label: Names
content: Whitebird, Robert A.
label: Names
content: Whitebird, Robert A., Mrs.
topic: label: Topic
content: Pipes -- Quapaw ?
label: Topic
content: Photographs
creator: label: Collector
content: Nieberding, Velma
culture: label: Culture
content: Quapaw Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Prints
label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Souvenir booklet )
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Velma Nieberding, Box 201, Miami, Oklahoma, November 16, 1960. Transmittal letter in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology files.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4590
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: Manuscript 4590 Quapaw: (1) Description: Victor Griffin, last Chief of the Quapaws, 1927-1959 Date: 1956. (2) Robert A. Whitebird. Full blood. Head of Quapaw Tribal Business Committee since 1956. On board of National Congress of American Indians. Family name, Waz-hing-ka. (3) "Ceremonial pipe... We do not know if it is of Quapaw origin. It is made of gray, rather heavy stone and a little over two feet tall." --Mrs Velma Nieberding. (4) Mary Lane Redeagle, Miami, Oklahoma. Full blood (half Pottawatomie, half Quapaw). (5) Mrs George Romich helps her two daughters, Tamara (right) and Rhona (left) into dancing costume, for the annual Quapaw pow-wow. (6) Mrs Robert A. Whitebird and the buckskin dress she made and beaded, The design is authentic woodland made from an old Quapaw dress.
label: Scope and Contents
content: A souvenir booklet of the Ottawa County, Oklahoma Semi-Centennial (1907-1957) Ottowa County Pageant, is also included.