Field notebooks
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
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content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 3: Kiowa and Southern Plains / 3.2: Heraldry
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1897-1906
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Most of the notebooks are large unlined ledgers with numbered pages.  These volumes were disbound and laminated by the Bureau of American Ethnology and an unknown date (circa 1960s).  They are all missing pages.  These pages were probably removed by Mooney in course of his research and in the manufacture of the shield and tipi models.  When possible, the Archivist identified the missing pages in other parts of the collection and placed them in their original notebooks.  Significant gaps remain in the notebooks.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of notebooks containing Mooney's field notes and drawings by Native artists relating to shields and tipis of Southern Plains tribes.  Some of the notebooks also include linguistic information, stories and myths.