Scope and Contents
The Papers consist of photographs writings, clippings, and other material related to Wildschut's study of North American Indians. Series I, Photographs , includes 64 photographs, most of them portraits of Native Americans, primarily Crow Indians, including Plenty Coups and Two Leggings. Other photographs are of encampments, ceremonies, medicine bundles and other objects, the grave of Two Leggings, cavalrymen at the monument at Little Bighorn, and Wildschut handing Marshal Ferdinand Foch a portrait of Plenty Coups. Series II, Writings , includes eleven short typescript essays and a set of manuscript notes on Native American customs. Series III, Other Papers , contains four letters vouching for Two Belly (Crow Indian chief) while hunting, signed by four different Indian agents (one of them Nelson Appleton Miles), and clippings. Oversize , box 2, contains material from Series I, and is organized in box order.
Dates
- 1878-1927
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Box 3: Restricted fragile material. Reference surrogates have been substituted in the main files. For further information consult the appropriate curator.
Conditions Governing Use
The William Wildschut Papers is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from William P. Wreden on the William Robertson Coe Fund, 1976.
Extent
1.93 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Photographs, writings, clippings, and other material related to Wildschut's study of North American Indians. Includes 64 photographs, most of them portraits of Native Americans, primarily Crow Indians, including Plenty Coups and Two Leggings. Other photographs are of encampments, ceremonies, medicine bundles and other objects, the grave of Two Leggings, cavalrymen at the monument at Little Bighorn, and Wildschut handing Marshal Ferdinand Foch a portrait of Plenty Coups. There are eleven short typescript essays and a set of manuscript notes on Native American customs, and four letters vouching for Two Belly (Crow Indian chief) while hunting, signed by four different Indian agents, one of them Nelson Appleton Miles.
WILLIAM WILDSCHUT
William Wildschut, an ethnologist and field researcher for the Museum of the American Indian, was born in the Netherlands. He was the author of Crow Indian Beadwork (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1959), and Crow Indian Medicine Bundles (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation: 1960). His biography of Two Leggings, a Crow Indian chief, was published in 1967, twelve years after Wildschut's death.
- Crow Indians -- Pictorial works
- Crow Indians -- Social life and customs
- Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 -- Monuments -- Pictorial works
- Miles, Nelson Appleton, 1839-1925
- Photographic prints
- Plenty Coups, Chief of the Crows, 1848-1932
- Two Leggings, approximately 1847-1923
- Wildschut, William, 1883-1955
- Title
- Guide to the William Wildschut Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- by Diana Smith
- Date
- December 2000
- Description rules
- Beinecke Manuscript Unit Archival Processing Manual
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
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New Haven, CT 06511
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