Indian art -- North America.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Bonita Wa Wa Calachaw Nuñez papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438795]
Identifier: 9169
Scope and content
Photocopies of notes, diaries, poetry, and drawings, some of them published in Spirit Woman by Steiner. Also includes some original notes, clippings, and typed manuscripts by Nuñez. Titles include Inside the Indian wind, The hidden life, My trip to hell, and others. Correspondence to her, mostly from the 1920s, includes letters from Carlos Montezuma. Notes discuss mission schools, a speech by Major Pratt, laws governing Native Americans, information about growing up as an Indian, and...
Dates:
[ca. 1900-1972]
Constance Goddard DuBois papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438761]
Identifier: 9167
Abstract
The papers include her field notes from her summers in California, notes on her activities with the Connecticut Indian Association, and newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs, particularly those in California. Drafts of manuscripts for her publications on Luiseno religion, Diegueno mythology, and other subjects relating to the Mission Indians of California are included in the collection. Letters written to Du Bois from 1897 to 1909 comprise a significant part of the collection....
Dates:
1897-1909.
Letters to General William Tecumseh Sherman about drawings from Red Dog and Zotom
Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9017
Scope and content
Two letters from Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt and Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy. Letter from Pratt dated January 22, 1876 from St. Augustine, Florida. Mentions paying Zotom for a book of drawings. Discussion of having the government add a detachment of Indian soldiers. Letter from McGillycuddy dated December 11, 1884 from Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota, now South Dakota. Letter is informing Sherman of the death of Red Dog. It mentions that Red Dog was involved with the Treaty of 1868. The...
Dates:
1876-1884.