MS 559 Poisoned Weapons
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 559
label: Local Note
content: Autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
topic: label: Topic
content: Achumawi
label: Topic
content: Shoshone
label: Topic
content: Sioux
label: Topic
content: Pima (Akimel O'odham)
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Achomawi (Pit River)
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Carib
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Akimel O'odham (Pima)
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Aztec (archaeological culture)
label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Mískito (Mosquito)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Author identified from the Dorsey-Hewitt catalog. Bureau of American Ethnology number 1524.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS559
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Extracts from various published sources concerning the use of poisoned weapons among the American Indians. The first 6 pages include information on the Dakota from non-published sources. Other tribes mentioned in the MS. are the Mandan, Chippewa, Shoshoni, Paiutes, Pitt River Indians, Oregon and Alaska tribes, Apache and other (unnamed) Southwestern groups, California tribes, Pima, Central American tribes, Mosquito Indians, Aztecs, Utes, and Caribs.