Manuscript on the Omaha and Ponca
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban / 1.3: Dhegiha
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-1880
container: label: Container
content: Box 15, Item 184
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: "Chapt. VI, Customs around the sick, dying, and the dead", 12 pages; Dakotan myths and legends," 8 pages; "Chapt. XV, Mythology, Folk-lore, Astronomy, and Natural Phenomena," 11 pages; "Chapt. VII, "The practice of medicine," 65 pages; "Chapt. XIV, Religion," 9 pages; miscellaneous notes, 3 pages.