Big House fire drill
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.56936
label: Local Note
content: See also Negatives 56937-56939.
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Registered
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: In 1867 the Delaware moved from Kansas to the Cherokee Reservation, Indian Territory. Those involved in the move became known as the Delaware (registered) or the Delaware (Cherokee). The others became known as the Delaware (absentee). "Registered" and "absentee" are not aboriginal terms.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: Sep 30 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One of a series of prints of sacred paraphernalia which [i.e., the paraphernalia] belonged to Sally Elkhair Fallleaf (the second Mrs John Fallleaf). The Big House equipment belonged to her father, Charley Elkhair. This equipment was all purchased by the photographer and is now, for the most part, in the Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa. The fire drill is incorrectly arranged in the photograph (not surprisingly, since women were not allowed to be present when the fire was made); the cross-piece should be reversed on the shaft, the string should be through the notch in what is pictured as the lower end, and the point shown pointing upwards should point down.