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Interior of Tobacco Dance tipi, showing tom-toms

Natural History Museum

Object Details

Names

Ak' icdu'kaxe
Aro'tsiac
Awa ku'an dax pitse'c
Ba tse' kawic
Bad Man
Big Sheep
Black Tail
Daxpitse' hat's kac
Frolics
Grandmother Knife
I sax pu'ata tseisa'c
I tsi barax'cic
In Middle Ground Bear
Isa k'anbitsic
Isa'x tsi se'a huc
Iset Awasu' c.
Isic' cipitac
Long Bear
Plenty Hawks
Scratches His Face
Stops
Wolf House

Scope and Contents

The following identification was furnished by Mr Carpenter, a Crow Indian who visited the Bureau of American Ethnology. Left to right: 1- In Middle Ground Bear (Awa ku'an daxpitsec), 2- Black Tail (Isic' cipitac), 3- Stops (Aro'tsiac), 6- Daxpitse' hat's kac (Long Bear), 7- Wolf House (Iset Awasu'c), 8- Scratches His Face (Ak' icdu'kaxe), 9- Bad Man (Ba tse' kawic), 10- Big Sheep (I sax pu' ata tseisa'c), 11- Frolics (I tsi barax'cic), 12- Grandmother Knife (Isa k'anbitsic), 13- Plenty Hawks (Isa'x tsi se'a huc). Numbers 4 and 5 he could not identify.
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GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3ee82d738-ed79-4137-9257-792a97201798

Local Numbers

OPPS NEG.3434 E 4

Local Note

Black and white copy negative

Place

Montana -- Crow Agency

Culture

Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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Extent

1 Photograph (8x10 in)

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Type

Archival materials
Photographs

Bibliography

Published by Lowie, Robert H., The Crow Indians, (New York, 1935), opposite page 274, with caption: "Interior of Tobacco Society Imitation [Initiation ?] Lodge, showing musicians with hand-drums, and the 'altar' in front of them.

Genre/Form

Photographs
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Large EAD
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Record ID

ebl-1628267668517-1628267670604-1

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