Nacoista drawing of man and woman playing shinny ball game
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 166,931

 NAA INV 08511700

 OPPS NEG 80-20920
name: label: Creator
content: Nacoista, 1851-1882
label: Collector
content: Daniel, Z. T.
place: label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ball games
creator: label: Creator
content: Nacoista, 1851-1882
label: Collector
content: Daniel, Z. T.
culture: label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Dr. Z.T. Daniel was a career physician in the Indian Service. At the time of this donation he was the agency physician at Pine Ridge Reservation. He also served at the Cheyenne River Reservation and the Blackfoot Reservation, and made many donations to the Smithsonian over a period of years, most accompanied with detailed information regarding the origins of the objects. His name is frequently misspelled in museum records as Daniels.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (graphite and watercolor on cardboard, 4.75 x 3.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1881
container: label: Container
content: Box 166930 / 166931 / 168515, Folder 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated to USNM by Dr. Z.T. Daniel in 1893 (no accession record found) and originally cataloged as Sioux, based on place of origin. Transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives at an unknown date.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS166931
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
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Originally cataloged as Dakota based on location of collector. Changed to Cheyenne by C. Greene 2004 based on recognition of name as Cheyenne.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of one (1) drawing by Nacoista, or James Bear's Heart, depicting a man and woman playing shinny ball.  It is inscribed on the verso "A man and a young lady play with ball, Na-co-is-ta, Pine Ridge, Daniel."  Pine Ridge was established as a reservation for the Lakota but a group of Northern Cheyenne were also resident there from 1881 to October 1891. 

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds additional material collected by Z.T. Daniel in MS 166930, MS 168515, and MS 4795.