Photographs of Usher L. Burdick collection of Native American artifacts
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 77-32
name: label: Collector
content: Burdick, Usher L. (Usher Lloyd), 1879-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
label: Topic
content: Painting
creator: label: Collector
content: Burdick, Usher L. (Usher Lloyd), 1879-1960
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Usher L. Burdick (1879-1960) was a lawyer, North Dakota Lieutenant Governor (1911-1913), and United States Representative (1935-1945).  Growing up near the Fort Totten Sioux Indian reservation, he learned to speak the tribe's dialect fluently as well as some other Native American languages.  He also wrote a number of books, including The Last Battle of the Sioux Nation (1929) and Tragedy in the Great Sioux Camp (1936).
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1976
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Jennifer Burdick Stevens to the Center for the Study of Man, 1976. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1977.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.77-32
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting a Plains Indian painting, beaded moccasins and leggings, possibly Sioux. The artifacts pictured were given by Usher L. Burdick to his daughter, Jennifer Stevens.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Burdick can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at the University of North Dakota hold the papers of Usher L. Burdick.