MS 4349 Stanley C. Fisher Papers
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content: NAA MS 4349
name: label: Creator
content: Fisher, Stanley C.
label: Correspondent
content: Nudahbeh Penobscot
label: Names
content: Red Eagle, Henry Malecite
topic: label: Topic
content: Migrations -- Algonquian
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content: Migrations -- Seminole
label: Topic
content: Canoes
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content: Wigwam
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content: Scalping
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content: Snowshoes and snowshoeing
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Algonquin
label: Topic
content: Abenaki
label: Topic
content: Eastern Abenaki
label: Topic
content: Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Fisher, Stanley C.
label: Correspondent
content: Nudahbeh Penobscot
culture: label: Culture
content: Red Paint People
label: Culture
content: Abenaki (Abnaki)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Northeast -- Headdress -- Costume
label: Culture
content: Penobscot
label: Culture
content: Algonquin (Algonkin)
label: Culture
content: Maliseet (Malecite)
label: Culture
content: Seminole
label: Culture
content: Wawenock
label: Culture
content: Passamaquoddy
label: Culture
content: Red Paint culture
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4349
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Letters
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content: Clippings
label: Type
content: Notes
label: Type
content: Sketches
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Letters
label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
label: Genre/Form
content: Notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Sketches
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Remarks: 10/18/40- Letter to National Geographic Society, referred to Dr. Stirling for reply. Inquiry re. Penobscot villages, and native dress of the pre-colonial period. 1/9/46 - Letter re. migrations of the Algonquians. 1/21/46 - Letter re. migrations of the Seminoles. Enclosed sketch of Indian figure wearing tunic. 2/18/46 - Letter re. Algonquian tribal divisions; dugout canoes, etc. 5/6/46 - Letter dated April 21, 1946, forwarded to Dr. F.G. Speck for reply.
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content: 3/26/50 - Sketch of native dress (from "Penobscot Man") and moccasin; notes; letter. 3/31/50 - North Eastern Indian costumes, Wawenock tribe (Abnaki?) in 1615 - who were they? 4/3/50 - Whitetail deer in Maine, its range, population etc. Sketch of Indian in native dress on snowshoes. 4/11/50 - Reply to above letters by Dr. Stirling in acknowledgement of information contained therein. 4/12/50 - Costumes of Maliset or Woolastook, and Passamaquoddy, including the kilt, etc., etc. enclosed sketches. 4/17/50 - Warfare between the Wabanaki and Iroquois; reference to Henry Red Eagle, A Wolastook, also known as Malacite; said to be a chief (?). 4/23/50 - Additional notes on the Malecite costume (kilt) (miscellaneous newsclippings included),
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content: ate., etc. A typed and signed letter from F.G. Speck to Mr. Fisher was enclosed with the letter of April 17, 1950. 1950 (not itemized) 5/17/46 - Notes on "Red Paint People"; flint deposit at Mt. Kineo, Moosehead Lake; stone relics; collections of artifacts at State House, Maine, and U.S. National Museum. 9/19/49 - Data on early N.E. headdresses and costumes. Enclosed sketch of feather headdress. 2/ /50 - Notes on moccasins (sketches); notes on Saco or Sakoki tribe; linguistic notes. Enclosed letter to him written by Chief Nudahbeh (a Penobscot). 3/2/50 - Sketch of birch bark wigwam of Maine Indians, and notes in letter. 3/12/50 - Sketch of Indian moccasin; sketch (pen and ink) showing coon killing a copperhead.
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content: Newsclipping on Cheyenne protest against mural in the Postoffice at Watonga, Oklahoma. 3/20/50 - Notes on scalping - taught to Indians by European soldiers (?). Sketch of Indian in native dress. Newsclipping of Maine bull moose. 3/22/50 - Drawings of Indians of Colonial period; birch bark wigwam; moccasins, headdress, costume decorations.