Life and Culture of the Ute

Consists of a portions of a manuscript which may have been intended to published as "Report on Indians of the Numa Stock" Contributions to North American Ethnology Vol 4. This report was never published. Twenty-two (22) sections were compiled by Hewitt and subsequent BAE staff. Sections 2 and 3 were removed to a different manuscript collection in the 1950s; Section 22 is a related lecture and was removed at the time of processing in 2025. The remaining sections are: (1) Games and amusements; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (2,3) [Paiute Songs and Chants; transferred in 1959 to MS 831-c and MS 831-d; now Series 1: Research--Southern Paiute--Songs of the Pai-Utes]; (4) Means of Subsistence; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (5) Migration; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (6) Home; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (7) Government; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (8) Fear of the insane; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy (9) Treatment of the sick; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (10) Treatment of the aged; in Powell's hand (11) Killing the doctor (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, May, 1873); in Powell's hand with a typescript copy (12) The boundaries of the earth; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (13) Na-gun'-tu-wip, the home of the departed spirits; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (14) Methods of marrying; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (15) Selection of food; in the hand of a scribe (16) The morning address; in the hand of a scribe with a typescript copy (17) Some of their faculties; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy (18) Notes on the gentes; in shorthand (19) Mythology of the Numas; in Powell's hand with a typescript copy (20) Pine nuts are brought from a distant country; in the hand of a scribe (21) Burying customs (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, 1873); in Powell's hand with a typescript copy (22) [Religion of the Utes; now Series 3: Reports and Writing--Lectures--Life and Culture of the Utes] An additional document in Powell's hand titled "Spirits &c" refers to the chapters "Treatment of the sick" and "Treatment of aged" and was most likely intended to be included in the published report.