MS 3924-b Research related to facsimiles of Navajo sand paintings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3924-b
label: Local Note
content: The sand painting facsimiles referred to are USNM Catalog Numbers 377,450-377,476 (Accession Number 138,501). The Bureau of American Ethnology negative Numbers are 2457-B-1--27.
label: Local Note
content: typescript document
name: label: Creator
content: Newcomb, Franc Johnson
label: Artist
content: Klah-Tso
label: Informant
content: Ah dith don hie
label: Informant
content: Begay, Segony
label: Informant
content: Nez, Hatile
label: Informant
content: Tsas, Hosteen
label: Informant
content: Kai-tsosie
label: Informant
content: Klee-ni-kodie
label: Informant
content: Toh-d-chini Navaho
label: Informant
content: Bitsees-tsoi, Nahtanie
label: Informant
content: Yellowhair
label: Addressee
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
label: Names
content: Klee-ni-kodie Navaho
label: Names
content: Toh-d-chini Navaho
topic: label: Topic
content: Sand paintings -- Navaho
label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Navaho
label: Topic
content: Ceremonies -- Navaho
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Navaho
creator: label: Creator
content: Newcomb, Franc Johnson
label: Artist
content: Klah-Tso
label: Informant
content: Ah dith don hie
label: Informant
content: Begay, Segony
label: Informant
content: Nez, Hatile
label: Informant
content: Tsas, Hosteen
label: Informant
content: Kai-tsosie
label: Informant
content: Klee-ni-kodie
label: Informant
content: Toh-d-chini Navaho
label: Informant
content: Bitsees-tsoi, Nahtanie
label: Informant
content: Yellowhair
label: Addressee
content: Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
culture: label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 122 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (pencil sketches )
label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works)
label: Extent
content: 6 Photographs
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1938
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The sand paintings referred to are a series of 28 facsimiles drawn in 1905-1912 by Klah-tso or Hostin Claw and donated to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1935 by Mrs Charles D. Walcott; these are referred to in the notes by Bureau of American Ethnology negative Number. Received from Franc J. Newcomb (Mrs A. J. Newcomb), Newcomb, New Mexico, July-October, 1938. (Transmittal correspondence filed with Manuscript Number 4867.)
label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Navaho Ethnographic notes."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3924B
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Autobiographies
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm on file.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Autobiographies
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains several kinds of information from 8 named informants, including informants, including interpretations of sand paintings, stories and legends, accounts of ceremonies, and autobiographical sketches of informants. (See also Manuscript Number 4435 which contains more of the same collected in January-June, 1939.)
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder contents: Manuscript 3924-b Folder 1 Copy of letter of Franc J. Newcomb to M. W. Stirling, September 8, 1938. Newcomb, New Mexico. (Original not found in Bureau of American Ethnology files.) Folder 2 Informant- Ah dith don hie Autobiography of Ah dith don hie; "Female Red Ant Ceremony"; "The Red Ant Story"; photo of informant. Folder 3 Informant- Ad dith don hie List of "Medicines for the Red Ant Ceremony", "Myth belonging to the Red Ant Ceremony", Part II; pencil and crayon drawing of "Red Ant Kewthawns"; photo of informant. Folder 4 Segony Begay At "White Cone" trading-post; "Bay-e-coitsa Eka" (sand painting); "Clo-holth-nai Eka" (sand painting); "Legend of the Feather Chant"; photo of informant. Folder 5 Informant- Hatie Nez "Shaking Hand Rite", August 1938; "Star Gazing Rite"; "The Smoke Rite"; "Cactus Painting from the Navajo Wind Chant"; The Listening Ceremony"; photo of informant. Folder 6 Informant Hosteen Tsas Sand painting negative number 2457-b-28, no name, part of Night Chant; "Dancers" (sand painting), part of Yeibachi ceremony; and "Dy-ah-kahgie-Eka" (sand painting). Folder 7 Informant- Kai-tsosie "Big Star Painting". Folder 8 Informants- Klee-ni-kodie and Toh-d-chini "The Na'atoe (Nahtoie)"; short biographies of the informants; "Cleet-tso-Eka" (sand painting); "Snake People Painting"; description of 13 other sand paintings and their interpretation; photo of the informants.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Folder 9 Informant- Nahtanie Bitsees-tsoi (Yellowhair) Short biography of Yellowhair; "Legend of the Na'atoie", July 11, 1938; "The Twins" (legend and related sand painting); ten descriptions of other sand paintings; photo of the informant. Folder 10 Informant unknown "Navajo Wind Chant", explanations for sand paintings including pencil sketches of two paintings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Photos with the following OPPS Negative numbers 748029-748034 are in this manuscript but have not been inventoried.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: For the facsimiles of the sand paintings by Klah-tso, please see Manuscript 138501.