Lizard Hawk and Hearty Bear pictographic signatures
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 395612

USNM Accession Number 211312
name: label: Artist
content: Lizard Hawk (Cheyenne)
label: Artist
content: Hearty Bear (Cheyenne)
label: Collector
content: Lindesmith, Eli Washington John, 1827-1922
place: label: Place
content: Fort Keogh (Mont.)
label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Artist
content: Lizard Hawk (Cheyenne)
label: Artist
content: Hearty Bear (Cheyenne)
label: Collector
content: Lindesmith, Eli Washington John, 1827-1922
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
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content: Lizard Hawk and Hearty Bear pictographic signatures
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Eli Washington John Lindesmith (1827-1922) was a Catholic priest who served  as a military chaplain at Fort Keogh, Montana from 1880 to 1891.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Drawings (visual works) (pencil)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880-1884
container: label: Container
content: Box 384176 / 395612, Folder 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The drawings in this collection were given to the United States National Museum (USNM) as part of a larger collection of ethnological objects, items of military history, and archeological, palentological and molluscan specimens which previously constituted the museum holdings of Catholic University.  The  collection was accessioned under 211312 as "The Monseignor John M. Cooper Collection of African, American, Oceanic, and Phillipine Ethnology, presented by The Catholic University of America." 

The drawings were transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives in August 1969.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS395612
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Pictographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection conists of two (2) pictographic signatures of Cheyenne men collected by the Rev. E.W.J. Lindesmith.  

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Department of Anthropology object collections holds artifacts donated to the USNM by Catholic University under Accession 211312.

The National Anthropological Archives holds the John Montgomery Cooper notes.

Special Collections of the University Libraries at The Catholic University of America holds The Reverend Eli Washington John Lindesmith Papers.