Cheyenne Indian sketches, tipis-No.2
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2531 Vol. 10 Charles Murphy drawings of Cheyenne tipi designs and social customs

MS 2531-10 000

NAA INV 08901300-08902800
label: Conservation
content: The notebook was disbound, laminated, and rebound by the BAE at an unknown date (circa 1960s). The binding was removed at an unknown date (circa 1990s).
name: label: Artist
content: Murphy, Charles (Cheyenne)
label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
creator: label: Artist
content: Murphy, Charles (Cheyenne)
setName: label: See more items in
content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 3: Kiowa and Southern Plains / 3.2: Heraldry / Notes and drawings organized by tribe / Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) / Cheyenne models for Field Museum
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1906
container: label: Container
content: Box 27, Folder 4-6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A drawing tablet, now disbound, containing 16 drawings by Murphy including pictures of tipi designs, camp scenes, games, and Sun Dance ceremony. The notebook is insribed "Drawn by Nakoimens = Bear Wings, alias Charles Murphy. Cheyenne, Cantonment, Okla." 

A typed label in the book explains the purpose of the first drawing: "Design for a full size group, for the Field Museum, where the tipi and other equipments are now deposited. Tipi, travois, costumes, tipi furnishings, etc. made by Cheyenne Indians. Drawing also by a Cheyenne Indian from suggestion and dictation of owner of original tipi. James Mooney."