MS 4699 The Story of the Origin of the Medicine Lodge
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4699
label: Local Note
content: Typescript document
name: label: Creator
content: Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
label: Translator
content: Lufkins, John (Chippewa)
label: Informant
content: Dodge, Day (Chippewa)
topic: label: Topic
content: Medicine Lodge -- Chippewa
label: Topic
content: Medicine scroll -- Chippewa
creator: label: Creator
content: Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
label: Translator
content: Lufkins, John (Chippewa)
label: Informant
content: Dodge, Day (Chippewa)
culture: label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Medicine scroll
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: According to the letter of transmittal from Warren K. Moorehead, (Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, April 6, 1910) to F.W. Hodge, the typescript is a copy of part of a translation by John Lufkins, a half-blood Ojibwa graduate of Carlisle School, of a birch-bark record given to Moorehead by Day Dodge, the only surviving medicine man of the Otter Tail band of Ojibwas. Moorehead expected to receive a further translation of "the real secrets" which he promised to send to Hodge and which were not to be published until after the death of Day Dodge, then aged 82.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4699
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The birch-bark roll referred to in this manuscript was was previously held by the Phillips Academy Museum. It was repatriated to the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe in 2016.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The typescript contains one page of explanation of a specific birch-bark scroll; the other pages are apparently a translation by Lufkins of an account by Day Dodge of the origin of the medicine lodge.