Copies of Stephen E. Feraca photographs of Siouan Indians and Sun Dance
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot R92-49
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy slides made by Smithsonian Institution, 1989.
name: label: Creator
content: Feraca, Stephen E., 1934-
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
label: Place
content: Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Tipis
label: Topic
content: Wagons
label: Topic
content: Sun Dance
label: Topic
content: Camps
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Originals loaned for copying by Stephen Feraca through Joallyn Archambault, 1989.
creator: label: Creator
content: Feraca, Stephen E., 1934-
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Stephen E. Feraca was an employee of the Department of the Interior, based at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.  He earned a masters degree from Columbia University (ca. 1957); his thesis was titled "The contemporary Teton Sioux Sun Dance."  He also authored the book Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.  Feraca retired from the Department of the Interior in 1985.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 85 Copy color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1954-1961
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.R92-49
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Copies of photographs mostly depicting Sun Dances on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations. They depict Oglala, Dakota, and other Siouan Indians, encampments, wagons, tipis, and a powwow.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Feraca held in the National Anthropological Archives in the James Henri Howard Papers.