Notes on the Omaha and Ponca, with some Dhegiha texts
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
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content: 1878-1879
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content: Box 15, Item 163
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Contents

2 -- Moccasins

3-5 -- "Origin of tribe, travels, etc." Joseph La Flesche, Fontanelle, Yellow Smoke, among those mentioned.

30 --  "Marks (Tattooing)." 

51-52 -- "Pipe Dance" 

53 -- Small conch dance

54 -- "Ga-k'e'ge dance of the Ponkas" 

61-62 -- "Festivals"

75-77 -- "Hunting Customs" 

89 -- "Superstitions, etc." 

99 --  "Games" 

107 -- "Behavior- Etiquette" 

108 -- Two Crow cuts off ear of Baptiste Barnaby

109 -- Drawing and description of the back of an Omaha looking glass

110 -- Marriage

121-123 -- Text, "The raccoons and the crabs," told by Frank La Flesche.

124-126 -- Text, "A Yankton higan told in Omaha by Jno. Springer."

127-129 -- Text, "Oto higan told by Mary La Flesche"

129-130 -- Text, "How the Rabbit caught the sun in a trap" 

130-134 -- Text, "Of the mikasi and the four buffaloes"

134-135 -- Text, "Si-kan hega's higan"

135-136, 157-159 -- Text, "Wa-jinska's higan" [Frank La Flesche]

137-138 -- Text, "The Monkey, the buzzard and the women" as "told by Mancu nanba, Sept. 26/78" 

138-141 -- "Omaha story (told by Jos. La Flesche) Aug./78." In English.

141-142 -- Text, "How turkeys' eyes became red"

143 -- Notes in English on "The Snake and the Ring," "revised with Mary and Joe, Apl/79 and printed on T-W." 

143-144 -- Notes in English on "The four brothers and their sister," "revised by Joes, May/79." 

144 -- List of 10 stories

145-147 -- Text, "Wolf, Monkey and Colt"

147-150 -- Notes in English on the "Story of the gods with 7 heads and Hahuka." 

157 -- Text, "How a rabbit killed a giant," Frank La Flesche, November 25

159-162 -- Text, "How the rabbit killed the winter"

162-168 -- Text, "Wahatisige and the God with 7 heads." 

168-169 -- Text, Ponka ghost story told by Frank La Flesche, Jr.

168 -- List of fables, Numbers 11-17

9 unnumbered pages in back of notebook -- Lists of Omaha, Ponca, Oto, Iowa, etc. fables collected and manuscripts completed.