MS 2932 Notes on sign language and miscellaneous ethnographic notes on Plains Indians
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2932
label: Local Note
content: manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
label: Addressee
content: Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
label: Creator
content: Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
label: Creator
content: He Dog
label: Creator
content: Red Feather
label: Creator
content: Whirling
label: Names
content: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
label: Names
content: Bruguiere, Johnnie, 1849-1898
label: Names
content: Petalesharo, 1797-1836
topic: label: Topic
content: Sign language
label: Topic
content: Marriage and family -- Berdache
label: Topic
content: Weapons -- bow
label: Topic
content: Dance -- calumet
label: Topic
content: American Indian
label: Topic
content: Rituals, formulas and ceremonies
label: Topic
content: Zoology -- Buffalo
label: Topic
content: Dance -- grass
label: Topic
content: War -- Battle of Little Bighorn
label: Topic
content: Medicine
label: Topic
content: Names, place
label: Topic
content: Dance -- Ghost dance
label: Topic
content: Religion -- soul, concept of
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Navaho
label: Topic
content: Shoshone
label: Topic
content: Ute
label: Topic
content: White River (Parusanuch and Yampa)
label: Topic
content: Lenape
label: Topic
content: Assiniboin
label: Topic
content: Sioux
label: Topic
content: Sarcee
label: Topic
content: Kootenai
label: Topic
content: Kutenai
label: Topic
content: Blackfeet
label: Topic
content: Enslaved persons
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
label: Addressee
content: Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
label: Creator
content: Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
label: Creator
content: He Dog
label: Creator
content: Red Feather
label: Creator
content: Whirling
culture: label: Culture
content: Dakota Indians
label: Culture
content: Plains Apache
label: Culture
content: Blackfoot
label: Culture
content: Chippewa
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Salish (Flathead)
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Kiowa
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
label: Culture
content: Minitari (Hidatsa)
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Bannock
label: Culture
content: Ute
label: Culture
content: Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)
label: Culture
content: Lenape (Delaware)
label: Culture
content: Denésoliné (Chipewyan)
label: Culture
content: Caddo
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Sarsi Indians
label: Culture
content: Plains Apache (Naisha/Kiowa Apache)
label: Culture
content: Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
label: Culture
content: Ponca
label: Culture
content: White River Ute (Yampa)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Kootenai (Kutenai)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Boxes
label: Extent
content: 2,736 Items (2,736 pages)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1934
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Bureau of American Ethnology received the material from Mrs Scott, November, 1934.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2932
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Much of this material is relevant to the Dakotas. Includes: miscellaneous notes on Dakota history, bands, and sign for "Dakota," Autograph Document. Approximately 100 pages. (Box 2); account of the Battle of Little Big Horn by He Dog, Red Feather, and Whirling, Autograph Document. 7 pages. (Box 3); "The Custer Battle with the Sioux, Autograph Document. 10 pages. (Box 3); notes on sign language in general, its history and distribution, Autograph and Typescript Document, 1 box (Box 4).