Photographs of R. O. Sweeny Drawings of Dakota Indians
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4489
label: Local Note
content: Filed: Dakota original prints (no negatives). Mounted in album.
name: label: Creator
content: Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
label: Topic
content: Toys and games -- playing ball
label: Topic
content: Medicine -- medicine men
label: Topic
content: Dance
label: Topic
content: Habitations and other structures
label: Topic
content: Hide preparation
label: Topic
content: Fishing
label: Topic
content: Death and mortuary customs
label: Topic
content: Rituals, formulas and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Sioux
creator: label: Creator
content: Sweeny, Robert Ormsby, 1831-1902
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota Indians
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4489
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of 20 photos of drawings by Robert Ormsby Sweeny, made in Minnesota in 1852.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: 4489: Artist's titles: [1.] Interior Dakota Bark house. [2.] Dakota or Sioux women Tanning and dressing skins. [3.] Dakotas telling stories and preparing for a hunting party. [4.] Bark hunting lodge of Dakotas or Sioux Indians. [5.] "Fire hunting" of the Sioux. [6.] Sioux spearing fish. [7.] Shakapes and Le petite Corbeaus bands playing ball at Shakapes village. [8.] Dakota Doctor or Sorcerer preparing charms for the sick. [9.] Dakota Doctor exorcising the evil spirit from the sick. [10.] Dakota medicine men showing their secret charms to each other. [11.] Dance Worship of Oank-tay-hee Taku-wakan- The supernatural giant. [12.] Dakota Indians dancing the Sun Dance. [13.] Bark Houses or Summer Lodges of Dakotas. [14.] Return Dance of a successful War party of Dakotas. [15.] Begging Dance of the Dakotas or Sioux. [16.] Dakota or Sioux squaws gathering Wild Rice for Winter food. [17.] Dog Dance of the M'de wakan ton Sioux or Dakotas. [18.] Dakota or Sioux Indians racing ponies. [19.] M'de Wakanton wan Dakota burial place, "Black Dogs Village" Minnesota. [20.] Wa-pa-ton Sioux or Dakota Ceremonies of the Thunder Bird "Travers des Sioux."