MS 7089 Deer Skin Dance: the account by T. W. Power of the 1907 Deerskin Dance at Weitchpec
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7089
label: Local Note
content: Xerox copy of autograph document and typescript document
name: label: Compiler
content: Pilling, Arnold R.
label: Creator
content: Power, Thomas W., 1849-1921
label: Correspondent
content: Power, Emily
topic: label: Topic
content: Deerskin Dance -- Yurok
creator: label: Compiler
content: Pilling, Arnold R.
label: Creator
content: Power, Thomas W., 1849-1921
label: Correspondent
content: Power, Emily
culture: label: Culture
content: Yurok
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from Arnold Pilling, 1/8/73. NAA accession 73-11.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7089
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also contains related correspondence between Emily Power, Autograph letter signed and Arnold Pilling, Typescript letter; and of Pilling's notes, Autograph document, August 9, 1972. Includes description by a Weitchpec school teacher 1905-1911 of the Deerskin Dance in the village of Weitchpec in 1907; correspondence between Pilling and author's daughter Emily Power about her loan of the manuscript to Pilling; and related notes by the latter on the manuscript and Weitchpec School Record Books. Note that there is no specific mention of Yuroks in the manuscript.