Papers, 1915-1933.

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Papers, 1915-1933.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155512133

Wilson's papers consist of his field notebooks detailing aspects of Hidatsa life on the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota as told to him by informants Good Bird, Buffalo-Bird-Woman, Wolf Chief, and others. Subsistence, clothing, tattooing, weapons, transportation, arts and industries, life cycle, social honors, games and amusements, and supernaturalism are described. Sketches, captioned drawings, vocabulary, and photographs appear in the notebooks as well. Also included in the collection are transcriptions of extracts from the notebooks edited for publication by Bella Weitzner (Bella Weitzner was on the staff of the Dept. of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History); a draft of Weitzner's edited manuscript; transcriptions of miscellaneous Hidatsa narratives extracted from the notebooks; and Wilson's unpublished manuscript "Myths and Legends of the Hidatsa."

3.8 cubic ft.

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Weitzner, Bella

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Wolf Chief.

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Good Bird.

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Buffalo-Bird-Woman.

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Wilson, Gilbert Livingstone, 1868-1930

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Presbyterian Minister, ethnologist. From the description of Papers, 1915-1916. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 18088900 Ethnologist. Wilson conducted field work among the Hidatsa Indians of North Dakota between 1908 and 1918. From the description of Papers, 1915-1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155512133 Gilbert Livingstone Wilson was born in October 1869 in Springfi...