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Title Herman Haupt papers, 1897-1921

Creator Haupt, Herman

Date 1897-1921

Language English

Subjects Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Newberry Library, Ojibwa Indians, Smithsonian Institution

Description formerly known as Ayer MS 367. in box with title: North American Indians Haupt. Map cataloged separately.

Summary Manuscript copy of "North American Indians : ethnology of the Dakota,-Sioux,-and Ojibway,-Chippeway-Indians ... Phoenix Edition. 1897," a typewritten excerpt from it, and correspondence (1903, 1919-1921) with Edward E. Ayer, W.N.C. Carlton, and Clara Smith at the Newberry Library, regarding it. The manuscript (344 leaves) deals mainly with the Dakota Sioux and the Ojibwa of Wisconsin and Minnesota and is illustrated with 277 pen and ink drawings and one map. Covering history, dwellings, domestic habits, games, traditions and legends, dress and ornament, medicine, laws, religion, war and weapons, and death and burial practices, the work was written originally over a period of ten years, lost in a fire on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and painstakingly reconstructed as the "Phoenix Edition" by Haupt. Lacking funds to publish his manuscript, Haupt offered it to Ayer in 1903, and corresponded with the Newberry, 1919-1921, regarding efforts to have it published by the Smithsonian Bureau of American Ethnology.

Biographical/Historical Note Born in 1852 in Philadelphia; son of inventor and civil engineer Herman Haupt. Also author of The Yellowstone National Park : a complete guide ... New York : J.M. Stoddart, c1883.

Extent 0.2 linear feet (1 box and 1 envelope)

Format Correspondence, Drawings, Manuscripts, Pen and ink drawings, Records

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

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BibID 991404768805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Manifest

Filename 991404768805867_Ayer_MS_366_FL001

Unique Identifier NL11IGZ2

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