MS 3992-a Seneca drawings collected by Jeremiah Curtin
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3992-A
label: Variant Title
content: A man bewitched within the house by a woman without... and The patient welcomes his physicians
label: Conservation Note
content: The drawings were laminated, possibly in the 1950s.  In the late 1970s, the drawings were delaminated.
name: label: Collector
content: Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
place: label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Jeremiah Curtin submitted three drawings to the Bureau of American Ethnology via John Wesley Powell on Febrary 20, 1884.  The third drawing has been lost.
creator: label: Collector
content: Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
culture: label: Culture
content: Seneca [Cattaraugus]
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content: MS 3992-a Seneca drawings collected by Jeremiah Curtin
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jeremiah Curtin (1835–1906) was an American ethnographer, folklorist, and translator.  From 1883 to 1891 he was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology as a field researcher documenting the customs and mythologies of various North American indigenous peoples.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Drawings (visual works) (watercolor and ink)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1840
container: label: Container
content: Folder 3992A
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3992A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of two (2) watercolor drawings collected by Curtin on the Cattaraugus Seneca Reservation in 1883.  The drawings are copies of drawings made around 1840 by an unidentified artist, possibly George Wilson, a resident of the Cattaraugus Reservation.  


Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Museum of the American Indian holds a version of one of the drawings.  See "Man On Sickbed With Spirits" Catalog Number 11/2912.

The National Anthropological Archives holds photographs of the drawings in Photo Lot 155 J.N.B. Hewitt photographs of Iroquois people on the Six Nations Reservation (Item II.85-86).