Life and Culture of the Ute
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content: MS 830 The Life and Culture of the Ute

MS 794-a Ute and Paiute legends (No. 44)
name: label: Annotator
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Collection Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
creator: label: Annotator
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
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content: John Wesley Powell papers
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content: John Wesley Powell papers / Reports and Writing / Drafts and unpublished works
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content: Box 10, Folder 4-5
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Consists of a portions of a manuscript which may have been intended to published as "Report on Indians of the Numa Stock" Contributions to North American Ethnology Vol 4.  This report was never published.  Twenty-two (22) sections were compiled by Hewitt and subsequent BAE staff.  Sections 2 and 3 were removed to a different manuscript collection in the 1950s; Section 22 is a related lecture and was removed at the time of processing in 2025.  The remaining sections are:

(1) Games and amusements; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(2,3) [Paiute Songs and Chants; transferred in 1959 to MS 831-c and MS 831-d; now Series 1: Research--Southern Paiute--Songs of the Pai-Utes]; 

(4) Means of Subsistence; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(5) Migration; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(6) Home; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(7) Government; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(8) Fear of the insane; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy

(9) Treatment of the sick; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(10) Treatment of the aged; in Powell's hand

(11) Killing the doctor (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, May, 1873); in Powell's hand with a typescript copy 

(12) The boundaries of the earth; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(13) Na-gun'-tu-wip, the home of the departed spirits; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(14) Methods of marrying; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(15) Selection of food; in the hand of a scribe

(16) The morning address; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy

(17) Some of their faculties; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy

(18) Notes on the gentes; in shorthand

(19) Mythology of the Numas; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy

(20) Pine nuts are brought from a distant country; in the hand of a scribe

(21) Burying customs (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, 1873); in Powell's hand with a typescript copy

(22) [Religion of the Utes; now Series 3: Reports and Writing--Lectures--Life and Culture of the Utes]

An additional document in Powell's hand titled "Spirits &c" refers to the chapters "Treatment of the sick" and "Treatment of aged" and was most likely intended to be included in the published report.