Papers relating to the Native American History, Language and Culture of the Plains

Object Details

Collection Citation: John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.

Arrangement: Series is arranged into 4 subseries: (1) Kiowa; (2) Mandan/Hidatsa/Crow; (3) Caddo/Pawnee/Wichita/Comanche; (4) Siouan.

Existence and Location of Copies: Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See volume 5 reels and subseries catalog records

Scope and Contents note: The arrangement of material in this section forms the basis for Volume 5 of the microfilmed papers. The reel numbers of corresponding microfilm are listed where appropriate.
Scope and Contents: This series within the John Peabody Harrington papers represents the results of Harrington's study of the native languages and cultures of the Plains, a region where he worked briefly during the period 1918-1921 and, intermittently, in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. The documents focus primarily on linguistic data, although they also include small amounts of ethnographic and historical information. Material on the Cheyenne tribe, which is located geographically in the Plains, has been filed with notes on related eastern groups in his Northeast/Southeast files.