[Inventory of Cheyenne shields and tipis and related drawings and notes]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 2538 James Mooney notes and drawings on Cheyenne and Kiowa heraldry (part)

NAA INV 08932300-08933400
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
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content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 3: Kiowa and Southern Plains / 3.2: Heraldry / Notes and drawings organized by tribe / Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1903-1906
container: label: Container
content: Box 27, Folder 15
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Ten of the warrior drawings are on pages numbered 38-47 and the 1903 list of shields and drawing are on pages numbered 103-104.  These may have been removed from Mooney's notebooks, but there is not enough information to identify their original source.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) A list of "material" and "Shields from Museum," dated February-March 1903 with drawings of of several Arapaho and unidentified shields, most labeled with Field Museum or National Museum catalog numbers on the reverse.    

(2) A list of Cheyenne shields sent to the Field Museum, dated April 23, 1906.

(3) Eleven (11) drawings of Cheyenne warriors on horseback with shields, most identified by name.