MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers
name: label: Creator
content: La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
label: Creator
content: Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
label: Correspondent
content: La Flesche family
label: Correspondent
content: Aldrich, Charles F.
label: Correspondent
content: Alexander, Hartley B.
label: Correspondent
content: Allen, James T.
label: Correspondent
content: Andrews, Gleorge L.
label: Correspondent
content: Armstrong, S.C.
label: Correspondent
content: Ashley, Robert H.
label: Correspondent
content: Atkins, John D.C.
label: Correspondent
content: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
label: Correspondent
content: Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921
label: Correspondent
content: Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
label: Correspondent
content: Brown, George LeRoy
label: Correspondent
content: Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921
label: Correspondent
content: Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946
label: Names
content: Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915
label: Correspondent
content: Copley, John T.
label: Correspondent
content: Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
label: Correspondent
content: Dawes, E.S.
label: Correspondent
content: Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
label: Correspondent
content: Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934
label: Correspondent
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
label: Correspondent
content: Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
label: Correspondent
content: Ellinwood, F.F.
label: Correspondent
content: Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925
label: Correspondent
content: Farley, Caryl E.
label: Correspondent
content: Farley, Rosalie La Flesche
label: Correspondent
content: Farwell, Arthur
label: Correspondent
content: Fellowes, R.S.
label: Correspondent
content: Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
label: Correspondent
content: Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898
label: Correspondent
content: Fillmore, L.H.
label: Correspondent
content: Fillmore, Thomas Hill
label: Correspondent
content: Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967
label: Correspondent
content: Gay, E. Jane
label: Correspondent
content: Griffith, Elmer C.
label: Correspondent
content: Guthrie, William Norman
label: Correspondent
content: Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
label: Correspondent
content: Hall, C.C.
label: Correspondent
content: Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940
label: Correspondent
content: Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919
label: Correspondent
content: Heth, H.
label: Correspondent
content: Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
label: Correspondent
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
label: Correspondent
content: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935
label: Correspondent
content: Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
label: Correspondent
content: Johnston, Catherine M.
label: Correspondent
content: Kincaid, William
label: Correspondent
content: La Flesche, Joseph
label: Correspondent
content: Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928
label: Correspondent
content: MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947
label: Correspondent
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
label: Correspondent
content: Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905
label: Correspondent
content: McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915
label: Correspondent
content: McBeth, Sue L., -1893
label: Correspondent
content: McCown, S.M.
label: Correspondent
content: McGee, W J, 1853-1912
label: Correspondent
content: McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916
label: Correspondent
content: Mead, Frances K.
label: Correspondent
content: Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
label: Correspondent
content: Merrick, Fannie
label: Correspondent
content: Merrick, Jessie
label: Correspondent
content: Moon, Karl
label: Correspondent
content: Moore, Homer
label: Correspondent
content: Morgan, Caroline S.
label: Correspondent
content: Morgan, John T.
label: Correspondent
content: Murie, James R.
label: Correspondent
content: Myers, John L.
label: Correspondent
content: Nuttal, Maria Magdalena
label: Correspondent
content: Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924
label: Correspondent
content: Petter, W.H.
label: Correspondent
content: Pettigrew, Frederick W., 1850-1901
label: Correspondent
content: Picotte, Susan La Flesche
label: Correspondent
content: Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924
label: Correspondent
content: Price, Hiram
label: Correspondent
content: Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923
label: Correspondent
content: Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915
label: Correspondent
content: Quinn, Daniel
label: Names
content: Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
label: Correspondent
content: Robertson, Alice M.
label: Correspondent
content: Rogers, Emily F.
label: Correspondent
content: Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
label: Correspondent
content: Seymour, Thomas Day
label: Correspondent
content: Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908
label: Correspondent
content: St. Cyr, Julia
label: Correspondent
content: Starr, Frederick
label: Correspondent
content: Stuart, James
label: Correspondent
content: Talbot, Emily
label: Correspondent
content: Teller, W.J.
label: Correspondent
content: Thaw, William
label: Correspondent
content: Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954
label: Correspondent
content: Wallaschek, Richard
label: Correspondent
content: Westcott, Edith
label: Correspondent
content: Wilkinson, G.W.
label: Correspondent
content: Wilkinson, Hattie M.
label: Correspondent
content: Willoughby, Charles Clark
index: label: Appendix: Previous Organization of This Collection
content: The following list is intended for researchers seeking items based upon the previous draft register. Noted are the old series numbers of the collection in order as correlated with new series numbers. New folder titles are included when the location of an item in the new organization is not immediately clear from the finding aid.

OLD SERIES, TITLE -- NEW SERIES, LOCATION

ALICE FLETCHER PAPERS

1. Letters received: -- subseries 1.1, box 1-2.

2. Outgoing correspondence: -- letter books relative to allotment have been placed in new subseries 1.3, boxes 3-5.

3. Fletcher to La Flesche: -- subseries 1.4, box 5.

4. La Flesche to Fletcher: -- subseries 1.4, box 5.

5. Omaha papers: -- subseries 1.3, box 3.

6. Winnebago papers: -- subseries 1.3, box 4.

7. Sacred Hide theft -- subseries 1.3, box 5.

8. California anthropology: -- subseries 1.3, box 5.

9. Letters neither to/from Fletcher:  -- subseries 1.3, box 3 (included with Omaha correspondence. The two letters between Sheldon Jackson and William Thaw were filed with Alaska papers, box 18).

10. AIA official business: -- subseries 1.6, box 7-8.

11. Fletcher to Putnam and Bowditch:  -- subseries 1.6, box 8, folder:School of American Archaeology, founding.

12. Fletcher and Hewett: -- subseries 1.6, box 7.

13. Colorado Cliff Dwellings: -- subseries 1.6, box 8.

14. Washington, AIA:  -- subseries 1.6, box 7, folder: AIA official business.

15. Clippings, AIA: -- subseries 1.6, box 8.

16. Act to preserve antiquities:  -- subseries 1.6, box 7.

17. Leo Tolstoy: -- subseries 1.10, box 13.

18. Clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13.

19. Bibliographic notes: -- subseries 1.10, box 12.

20. Clippings about work: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13.

21. Clippings, Harvard: -- subseries 1.10, box 12.

22. Indian music clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12.

22a. AAAS 1896 clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13.

23. Mementoes and souvenirs: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13.

24. Photos of family, friends:  -- subseries 3.28, box 33.

25. Papers relative to death: -- subseries 1.10, box 13.

26. Diaries, etc. -- subseries 1.9, box 12; oversize box 1.

27. Address books, calling cards: -- subseries 1.9, box 12 and oversize box 1.

28. Reprints of publications: -- subseries 1.5, box 5-7.

29. Historical lectures: -- subseries 1.8, box 9-10.

30. Archaeological lectures: -- subseries 1.8, box 9-10.

31. Lectures on Indians: -- subseries 1.8, box 10.

32. Armenia materials: -- subseries 1.8, box 10.

33. Anthropological notes: -- subseries 1.7, box 8.

34. Misc. notes, clippings: -- subseries 1.10, box 12-13, except story, "Over the Border, in subseries 1.5, box 7.

FRANCIS LA FLESCHE PAPERS

35. General correspondence: -- subseries 2.11, box 14.

36. Government correspondence:  -- subseries 2.12, box 14 (employment).

37. Pettigrew correspondence: -- subseries 2.12, box 15.

38. The Middle Five: -- subseries 2.12, box 14.

39. La Flesche family: -- subseries 2.12, box 14.

40. Omaha tribal affairs: -- subseries 2.12, box 15.

41. Inquiries and responses: -- subseries 2.12, box 15.

42. Osage dictionary: -- subseries 2.12, box 15.

43. Misc. business letters: -- subseries 2.12, box 15.

44. Diaries -- subseries 2.15, box 16.

45. Clippings of reviews: -- subseries 2.16, box 17.

46. Membership certificates: -- subseries 2.16, box 17.

47. Clippings, life and work: -- subseries 2.16, box 17.

48: Short stories -- subseries 2.14, box 15-16.

49. Reprints by La Flesche: -- subseries 2.13, box 15.

ETHNOGRAPHIC PAPERS

50. ALASKA -- subseries 3.17, box 18.

51. EARTH LODGES -- subseries 3.18, box 18.

MUSIC

52. Music lectures: -- subseries 3.19, box 18.

53. Field notes: -- subseries 3.19, box 18-19 and oversize box 2. Buffalo ceremony notes, subseries 3.23, oversize box 2.

54. Transcriptions by others: -- subseries 3.19, box 19; oversize box 2.

55. Music derivative of Indian music -- subseries 3.19, oversize box 2.

56. Misc. and clippings: -- subseries 3.19, box 19.

NEZ PERCE

57. "Ethnologic Gleanings"  -- subseries 3.20, box 20.

58. Billy Williams map materials:  -- subseries 3.20, box 20.

59. Manuscript of map materials:  -- subseries 3.20, box 20.

60. Nez Perce vocabulary: -- subseries 3.20, box 20.

61. Photos -- NAA Photo Lot 24.

62. Notebook, Nez Perce -- subseries 3.20, box 19.

63. Misc. ethnography: -- subseries 3.20, box 19-20.

OMAHA

64. Maps -- subseries 3.21, box 22.

65. Ethnography, general life: -- subseries 3.21, box 21-22 (general papers); "Life Among the Omahas," moved to subseries 1.5, box 7. 

66. Social practices: -- subseries 3.21, box 21-2 (general papers).

67. Myth: -- subseries 3.21, box 21.

68. Field notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 20-21.

69. Informants notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 20-21.

70. Reading notes, history:  -- subseries 3.21, box 22.

71. Misc. notes: -- subseries 3.21, box 22.

72. Allotments -- subseries 1.3, box 3.

73. Language: -- subseries 3.21, box 21; index file 1.

74. Photographs: -- NAA Photo Lot 24.

OSAGE

75. Maps -- subseries 3.22, box 28.

76. Social practices: -- subseries 3.22, box 22; "Marriage Customs," box 23.

77. Hunting: -- subseries 3.22, box 22. 

78. Myth: -- subseries 3.22, box 23.

79. 36 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 23-4.

80. 39 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 24.

81. 45 Annual Report: -- subseries 3.22, box 25-6.

82. 43 Annual Report:  -- subseries 3.22, box 25.

83. War and Peace: -- subseries 3.22, box 27-8.

84. War bundles: -- subseries 3.22, box 23.

85. Tattooing rite: -- subseries 3.22, box 23.

86. Peyote rite: -- subseries 3.22, box 23.

87. General ritual: -- subseries 3.22, box 23. 

88. General notes: -- subseries 3.22, box 22 (field notes); box 28 (reading notes).

89. Language: -- subseries 3.22, box 23; manuscript, box 27; index cards, index card boxes 3-6. Personal and gentile names identified as Child Naming; see index card files.

90. Letter extracts: -- subseries 3.22, box 22 (general ethnography).

91. Osage Magazine articles: -- subseries 3.22, box 28.

92. Osage-U.S. relations: -- subseries 3.22, box 23 (general papers).

PAWNEE

93. General ethnography: -- subseries 3.23, box 29.

94. Ha-ko Ceremony: -- subseries 3.23, box 29.

95. Star of the West: -- subseries 3.23, box 29.

96. Buffalo ceremony: -- subseries 3.23, box 29.

97. General notes: -- subseries 3.23, box 29 (general papers, reading notes).

98. PIPES: -- subseries 3.24, box 29.

DAKOTA

99. Archaeology: -- subseries 3.25, box 30 (Pettigrew mound survey).

100. Ethnology: -- subseries 3.25, box 30.

101. TRIP: OMAHA TO SOUTH DAKOTA 

1. "Fletcher's Scientific Work:" -- subseries 2.13, box 15.

subseries2-3. Original notebooks and drawings: -- subseries 1.9, box 11.

4-5. Transcripts of notebooks: -- subseries 1.9, box 11-12.

6. "Life Among the Indians:" -- subseries 1.5, box 7.

WINNEBAGO

102. Ethnology: -- subseries 3.26, box 31.

103. Allotments: -- subseries 1.3, box 4.

OTHER TRIBES

104. Apache: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

105. Arapaho: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

106. Biloxi: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

107. Caddoan: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

108. Cherokee -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

109. Cheyenne: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

110. Creek: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

111. Mexican notes: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

112. Hopi: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

113. Oto: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

114. Ponca: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

115. Quapaw: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

116. Wichita: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

117. Zuni: -- subseries 3.26, box 30.

REPRINTS AND MAPS

118. Maps: -- subseries 3.27, box 33.

119. Foster's Indian Record: -- subseries 3.27, box 31 ("F").

120. Reprints: -- subseries 3.27, box 31-32.
place: label: Place
content: Alaska
topic: label: Topic
content: Pipes -- American Indian
label: Topic
content: Earth houses
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Music -- American Indian
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.
creator: label: Creator
content: La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
label: Creator
content: Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
culture: label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
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content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Ponca
label: Culture
content: Quechua
label: Culture
content: Quapaw Indians
label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Mexicans
label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Zapotec
label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Cherokee
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
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content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Hitchiti Seminole
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southeast
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Caddo
label: Culture
content: Biloxi Indians
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Oto
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Ajachemem (San Juan de Capistrano Luiseño)
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
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content: MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher

1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba

1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women

1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies

1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians

1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts

1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency

1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education

1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency

1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency

1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America

1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition

1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology

1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist

1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America

1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley

1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie

1904 -- Member, ethnology section, Louisiana Purchase Exposition

1905 -- President, American Folk-lore Society

1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche

1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C.

Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche

1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska

1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear

1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs

1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son

1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School

1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School

1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School

1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa

1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher

1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One

1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences

1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two

1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska

1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three

1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language

1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska

1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Linear feet (50 boxes)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1873-1939
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939.

Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.

Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930.

Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: In encoding the finding aid for upload into the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA) in 2017, the archivist re-assigned series and subseries numbers to the categories in this collection. The three "collection" hierarchies assigned by the original archivist were re-labeled series (Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers; Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers; Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche). Nested series under those divisions were re-labeled as subseries, though retaining the original numbering system (i.e., series 23 became subseries 3.23).

Also in 2017, index file boxes and oversize boxes were re-numbered consecutively to other boxes in the collection. Index Files #1-7 became boxes 34-40. Oversize boxes 1 and 2 became boxes 41 and 42.

Collection processed by Joy Elizabeth Rhode, 2000. Finding aid updated by Loraine Wang, 2013 July. Finding aid updated and encoded by Katherine Madison, 2017 August.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Portions of the collection have been microfilmed, including the entirety of Fletcher's incoming correspondence.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection.

Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Additional material related to the professional work of Fletcher and La Flesche in the National Anthropological Archives may be found among the correspondence of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and the records of the Anthropological Society of Washington.

Sound recordings made by Fletcher and La Flesche can be found at the Library of Congress. The National Archives Records Administration hold the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including those relating to allotments in severalty for the Nez Perce by Alice Fletcher. The Nebraska Historical Society has diaries, letters and clippings regarding the La Flesche family, including correspondence of Francis La Flesche and Fletcher. The Radcliffe College Archives holds a manuscript account of Alice Fletcher's four summers with the Nez Perce (1889-1892). Correspondence between Fletcher and F. W. Putnam is also located at the Peabody Museum Archives of Harvard University.
separatedmaterial: label: Separated Materials
content: Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24.

Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).