John P. Harrington Papers 1907-1959

THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FIVE A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE OF THE PLAINS EDITED BY Elaine L. Mills and AnnJ Brickfield KRAUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS A' Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FIVE A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Plains I I Ie '''.'!:i~';i;:'':''} ~"'.:l' f' ...III Prepared in the National Anthropological Archives Department ofAnthropology National Museum ofNatural History Washington, D.C. THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FIVE A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Plains EDITED BY Elaine L. Mills and Ann J. Brickfield KRAUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited White Plains, N.Y. © Copyright The Smithsonian Institution 1987 All rights reserved. No part ofthis work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced o~ used in any form or by any means-graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or taping, information storage and retrieval systems-without written permission ofthe publisher. First Printing Printed in the United States of America Contents The paper in this publication meets the minimum INTRODUCTION V I requirements of American National Standard for Scope and Content of this PUblic~t~on V / V1/t Information Science- Permanence of Papers for V / vtn Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. History of the Papers and the Microfilm Edttwn Editorial Procedures V / x Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Acknowledgements V / xii Harrington, John Peabody. The papers ofJohn Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907 -1957. A guide to the xv field notes. NOTES TO RESEARCHERS V I Using the Guide V I xv "Prepared in the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of History, Using the Microfilm V I xvi Washington, D.C." Note on Terminology V I xvii Vols. 3,4,5 edited by Elaine L. Mills and Ann]. Brickfield. An official inventory for the microfilm edition of Harrington's papers in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. MAP V / XtX Includes bibliographies. ,{'F' Id rk in the Plains V I xxt Contents: v. 1. Native American history, language, and culture Tribal Territories and Sttes OJ te wo of Alaska/Northwest Coast-[etc.]- v. 5. Native American history, language, and culture of the Plains. 1. Harrington, John Peabody-Archives-Microform PHOTOGRAPHS V I catalogs. 2. Indians-Manuscripts-Microform catalogs. xxiv 3. Indians-Languages-Manuscripts-Microform catalogs. Laura Pedrick V I 4. National Anthropological Archives-Microform catalogs. Mr. and Mrs. Delos K. Lonewolf V I xxiv I. Mills, Elaine L. II. Brickfield, AnnJ. Z1209.H33 1981 [E58] 970.004'97 81-7290 ISBN 0-527-84243-5 (v. 1) ISBN 0-527-84345-8 (v. 5) _M V /vi Contents Painting ofEnoch Smoky V / xxv Painting ofPerry A. Keahtigh V / xxv Parker Paul McKenzie and Nettie Odlety V / xxvi Delos K. Lonewolfand Ah-kaun-do-nah V / xxvii Perry Keahtigh in Native Dress V / xxvii Newell F. Joyner at Devils Tower V / xxviii The Black Hills, Home ofthe Kiowa V / xxix Two Omaha Log Canoes V / xxix SERIES DESCRIPTIONS and REEL CONTENTS V / 1 Kiowa V / 1 Mandan/Hida~a/Crow V / 12 Caddo / Pawnee / Wichita / Comanche V / 16 Introduction Siouan V / 19 APPENDIX V / 25 SCOPE AND CONTENT Abbreviations and Special Uses ofTerms V / 25 OF THIS PUBLICATION " A Guide to the Field Notes: Native American History, Language, and Culture ofthe Plains," is the fifth volume ofa ten-volume official inven tory for the microfilm edition of The Papers ofJohn P. Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. This inventory supersedes any other published or unpublished finding aids describing the collection. Volume One covers the region Alaska/Northwest Coast. Volume Two covers Northern and Central California. Volume Three covers South ern California/Basin, and Volume Four covers the Southwest. Subse quent volumes of this inventory will be issued as each section of the microfilm edition becomes available, and will cover Harrington's field notes on the Northeast/Southeast and Mexico/Central America/ South America. There will also be a volume on Harrington's notes and writings on special linguistic studies and one on his correspondence and financial records. At the completion of the project all the volumes will be issued in a cumulated hardbound edition. The materials described herein represent the results ofJohn P. Harrington's study ofthe native languages and cultures ofthe Plains, V /vii ............ V /viii John Peabody Harrington Plains V fix a region where he worked brieR d . intermittently, in the 1930 194YO UrIng the period 1918-1921 and, . '. s, s, and 1950s Th d they had been created while her father was a federal employee. A sizable prImarIly on lInguistic data, althou h the .' e ocuments focus portion ofthese California-based papers was actually loaned on a long ethnographic and histor' l' £' g . y also Include small amounts of . lea Inlormatlon M . 1 term basis to the Departnlent ofLinguistics at the V niversity ofCalifor trIbe, which is located geogra h' ll' . atena on the Cheyenne nia, Berkeley, under the charge ofProfessor Mary R. Haas. Afterexten notes on related eastern gr p IC(Sa y In the Plains, has been filed with sive use there by several generations ofgraduate students in linguistics, Onl '. oups. ee Volume Six.) y OrIgInal documents created b . cultural anthropology, and archeology, they were shipped to the Smith workers, and field assistants or fi ld . Y HarrIngton, his co sonian during the period from 1976 to 1979. e notes gIven t h' b contaIned In this publication R 1 d . 0 1m y others are Work on organizing the Harrington Papers began almost as 11 ton such as printed matt' . e 1ate materIals co ected b y Harring er,Journa sand b k . soon as the first boxes of documents arrived at the archives. Early in stats, microfilm, and typed and h 'd . 00 s a~e not Included. Photo 1962, Catherine A. Callaghan, then a graduate student at V.C., Berke . an WrItten CopIes f bl' . manuscnpts which lack h" 0 pu Icatlons and IS annotatIons h l'k . ley, was hired on a temporary appointment to tackle the monumental Some additional field n t f ave I e~Ise been omitted. task of preparing a box list for several tons of notes. She spent several Plains may be housed am h' 0 es rom HarrIngton's work in the ong IS papersat th S B months identifying as many bundles as possible by tribe or language, at Natural History. The anth l' e anta arbara Museum of . ropo OgIStS on the t ff 1 . least down to the family level. mIcrofilm those documents £ d' . ~ a p an to Inventory and Refinement of this initial sorting was continued by the then of Harrington's papers ,unbIng permIttIng. Other smaller blocks . can e found t'd h . current archivist Margaret C. Blaker and later, in the early 1970s, by a InstItutIon - notably at th S h ou SI e t e SmIthsonian b' e out west Museum d h member ofher staff, jane M. Walsh. Throughout this period the papers rary, UnIversity of Californ' B klan t e Bancroft Li were available to researchers, some ofwhom were able to make sugges b la, er e ey and dd" su sequently come to light Th' . ~ a ltlonal items may tions for improving the identification ofsmall portions ofthe collection. majority of Harrington's o~tp tIS. puhblIcatlon presently represents the u In t e area. A new energy was infused into the work on the papers after the arrival in 1972 ofNational Anthropological Archives Director Her manj. Viola. He not only encouraged the application ofmodern archi HISTORY OF THE PAPERS val methods to avoid the piecemeal efforts of the past, but also actively AND THE MICROFILM EDITION sought ways to improve the accessibility of the material to a steadily Th '. e onglnal documents co .. growing number of researchers. Encouraged by the interest ofa num H . mpnslng The P P if arrzngton are housed in th S . h' a ers 0 John Peabody ber ofmicrofilm companies in publishing the papers on film, he decided h . e mit sonIan Inst"t (, . t ropologlcal Archives (N A A) h I U Ion s NatIonal An in 1975 to submit a proposal for funding such a project to the National Ii . were they w b h a tel' Harrington's death in 1961 S ere roug t together Historical Publications and Records Commission (N.H.P.R.C.). located on the Smithson' .. ~me of the papers were already Ian premIses In th h' A major consultant in developing the documentation for this American Ethnology (B A E) h' e arc Ives of the Bureau of . " aVlng been dep 't db h' proposal was Geoffrey L. Galnble, then a Smithsonian Fellow doing ual manuscripts while in th b' OSI e y 1m as individ . e ureau s employ a h work on Harrington's Yokuts field data. During his year at the archives, vanous warehouses in th W h' . tel'S were located at e as Ington D C he began integrating the Berkeley-based material with the material in The great bulk f h , .., area and elsewhere. t Washington and compiled the first systematic inventory of the entire Awona Harrington in a nuOmb e Pfapers was sorted by his daughter er 0 storage 1 ( • . collection. Through correspondence and attendance at meetings he sent to Washington DC.

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