Guide to MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, 1873-1939

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Guide to MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, 1873-1939

1873-1939

https://sova.si.edu/record/NAA.MS4558

These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

19 Linear feet, 50 boxes

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National Anthropological Archives

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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Native American culture. She credited Frederic Ward Putnam for stimulating her interest in Native American culture. From 1881, Fletcher was involved with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, an Indian boarding school with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In 1881, Fletcher traveled to live with and ...

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932

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Francis La Flesche was born on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska and was of Omaha, Ponca, and French descent. He was the son of Omaha chief Joseph LaFlesche (also known as Iron Eye) and his second wife Ta-in-ne (Omaha). He attended the Presbyterian Mission School on the Omaha Reservation from 1865 until 1869. He later earned undergraduate and master's degrees at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC. In the late 1870s, he acted as interpreter and informant for ethnologi...

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957

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Frances Theresa Densmore was born on May 21, 1867 in Red Wing, Minnesota. She studied at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music from 1884 to 1887. Her professional interest in the music of Native Americans dates from the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1905, she made her first visit to the Minnesota tribes and in 1907 began to record Indian music under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. During her fifty years with the Bureau, she recorded near...