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Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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.

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.

Edward H. Davis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9166
Abstract

Field notebooks, sketchbooks, manuscripts, and correspondence, pertaining primarily to Indians of California and into Mexico. Includes index. Includes information about reservations, artifacts, ruins, ceremonies, descriptions of wildlife, landscapes, languages, and archeological notes. Tribes mentioned include, Pima, Seri, Mayo, Yaqui, Nayarit (Cora), Yuma, Opata, Modoc, Paiute, Diegueño, Cahuilla, and Soboba Indians.

Dates: 1910-1944.