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Indians of North America -- Clothing

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Album unique

 Collection — Portfolio 49
Identifier: 9110
Scope and content Eleven original watercolors with holographic descriptions by the artist. Includes a letter to Catlin as well. Descriptions include specifics as to the individuals who are pictured and their place in the tribe they are from. Names of Indians are given in the native language as well as the English version, including: The Surrounder, Red Thunder, The Jumper, Double Walker, Big Elk, Black Dog, Big Crow, Little Soldier, Black Rock, and The Very Brave Chief. Information about Indian culture is...
Dates: 1863.

Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders

 Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates: [ca.1900].

De Cost Smith Collection

 Collection — Huntington box 59
Identifier: 9174
Abstract Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, notebooks, brochures, manuscripts, maps, paintings, and sketches. Focus areas of the notes for articles, speeches, and books cover a wide variety of topics including the Onondaga Indians and their reservation, festivals and culture, Sitting Bull using a telephone, Tendoi The climber, articles by Elizabeth Custer, Moravian missions, history of Amenia, N.Y., Fort Buford, manuscript regarding Indian attitudes towards African Americans,...
Dates: 1880-1943.