James Owen Dorsey photographs of Quapaw people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 134E
name: label: Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
creator: label: Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Quapaw Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was an ethnologist and linguist employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE).  Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dorsey was ordained by the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1871 and began missionary work among the Ponca Tribe shortly thereafter.  Though he was quick to learn the Ponca language, illness forced him to abandon his work in 1873.  He returned to Baltimore and became a staff member of the BAE after its establishment in 1879.  With the BAE, he completed studies on the Omaha, Osage, Kansa, and Dakota Tribes, as well as on Athapascan, Kusan, Takilman, and Yakonan languages in Oregon.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21 Negatives (circa, nitrate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.134E
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Copy negatives are available.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Quapaw men, women, and children, in front of or near wood-sided buildings.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the James O. Dorsey papers (MS 4800) and James Owen Dorsey photograph collection (MS 4751).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Glass negatives and prints for these and other Dorsey photographs of Quapaw people are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives and Photo Lot 24.