Letters
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 1897-a Correspondence regarding Indian shields

MS 1897-g Notes concerning the shield belonging to Hump, a Dakota warrior

MS 1897-g  Story of Cankakue Shield; Told by George Sword

MS 2538 James Mooney notes and drawings on Cheyenne and Kiowa heraldry (part)

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label: Conservation
content: The Frederick Weygoner drawings [(18)] have been laminated.
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: 1902-1914
container: label: Container
content: Box 29, Folder 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of primarily of letters received by Mooney in connection with his investigation of "the oldtime shields of the confederated Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahos." The investigation is described in Mooney's letter to the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, February 26, 1903 (enclosed with Rivers' letter to Mooney).

Letters to Mooney include:

(1) Brittin, Louis H. Englewood, New Jersey. September 23, 1903. 

(2) Culin, Stewart. Philadelphia. February 2, 1903. 

(3) Foster, Robert J. Lipan Hood County, Texas. April 3, 1903. 

(4) Grinnell, George Bird. New York. March 25, 1903 and June 3, 1903. 

(5) Harvey, Fred. Kansas City, Missouri. June 20, 1904 and August 3, 1904.

(6) Hayden, Horace Edwin. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1902. (enclosure: drawing of a shield).

(7) Henning, John. Emporia, Kansas. March 3, 1903.

(8) Huckel, J. Kansas City, Missouri. February 15, 1904 and August 29, 1904. 

(9) Johnson, A. Dodge City, Kansas. July 18, 1903, February 12, 1904, and December 30, 1903.  (enclosure: shield identication tag).

(10) Kroeber, A. L. Berkeley, California. February 4, 1903 and February 11, 1903. 

(11) Merrill, Frederick J. H. Albany, New York. May 14, 1903.

(12) Miles, John D. Lawrence, Kansas. January 16, 1902, March 1, 1903 and January 7, 1904.  

(13) Moore, Q. Calude, Texas. April 21, 1903. 

(14) Rivers, W. C. West Point, New York. March 26, 1903. (enclosure: Mooney's letter to U. S. Military Academy, West Point regarding Indian shields. Mount Scott, Oklahoma. February 26, 1903) and April 11, 1903. 

(15) Saville, M. H. New York. May 11, 1903. 

(16) Sunderdale, J. V. Brooklyn, New York. June 4, 1903. (enclosure: color drawing of a shield, with notes by Mooney).

(17) Thornburgh, Vern. Lincoln, Nebraska. June 15, 1911, August 8, 1911. (enclosure: "Story of my shield [...] by John Blunt Horn and Thomas Crow" and "Story of Cankahus Shield--Told by George Sword") and February 7, 1914 (enclosure: "Story of Cankahus Shield--Told by George Sword").  

(18) Weygold, Frederick. Louisville, Kentucky. September 16, 1902. (enclosure: three (3) drawings and one (1) photograph of shields in the Grassi Museum, Leipzig).

(19) Willoughby, Charles C. Cambridge, Massachusetts. June 3, 1905. (enclosure: photograph of two shields).

(20) Wright, R. M. Dodge City, Kansas. May 21, 1903. (with notes by Mooney).

Other letters include: 

(21) Harrington, C. T. to J. W. Ried. Thorp Springs, Texas. December 14, 1902.  (with notes by Mooney). 

(22) Mead, J. R. to George W. Martin. Wichita, Kansas. May 18, 1903. (with unsigned notes).