Ethnographic collections from the Assiniboine and Yanktonai Sioux in the Field Museum of Natural History
By: James W. VanStone.
Contributors: Field Museum of Natural History.
Series: Fieldiana -- new ser., no. 26; Publication -- 1476; Publication (Field Museum of Natural History) -- 1476.
Publisher: Field Museum of Natural History
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Dorsey, George Amos, 1868-1931 -- Ethnological collections -- Catalogs.; Field Museum of Natural History -- Catalogs.; Yanktonai Indians -- Material culture -- Catalogs and collections -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Material culture -- Catalogs and collections -- Illinois -- Chicago.; Assiniboine Indians -- Material culture -- Catalogs and collections -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Description: The ethnographic collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 163 objects collected among the Assiniboine and Yanktonai Sioux by George Dorsey in 1900. Small collections were made for the World's Columbian Exposition by E. F. Wilson and Edward Ayer. The artifacts in these collections are described and illustrated. For comparative purposes, information is included from previous studies of the Assiniboine, Yanktonai, and neighboring peoples on the northern Plains.