This collection represents a large
portion of the academic research and writing career of cultural anthropologist
and American Indian ethnologist Fred W. Voget. Voget focused his research for
many years on the Crow tribe of Montana.
Repository:
Maureen and Mike Mansfield
Library Archives and Special Collections
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a
grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical Note
Frederick William Voget, cultural anthropologist and American Indian
ethnologist, was born in Salem, Oregon, on February 12, 1913. He was one of six
children of Friedrich A. Voget, who emigrated from Germany to Oregon when he
was 19, and Fay Isham, whose grandparents were Oregon pioneers. Voget was
educated in Portland public schools, attended Reed College, and graduated from
the University of Oregon. He attended graduate school at Yale University and
received a Ph.D. in Anthropology in 1947. Fred served in the 71st Division of
the U.S. Infantry from 1942 to 1947 and was honorably discharged as a Master
Sergeant. He married Mary Kay Mee in 1942 and they had three daughters,
Antoinette, Colleen, and Jane. Mrs. Voget worked as Dr. Voget's research
assistant throughout their many years together.
Dr. Voget's fieldwork and doctoral dissertation subjects were the Crow
Indians of Montana. His dissertation,
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, was published in 1984 in the
Civilization of the American Indians Series, University of Oklahoma Press, and
is the first full-length authoritative treatment of the Crow Sun Dance. Holt
Rinehart published
A History of Ethnology, an earlier book, in 1975. Recent
contributions to new books include the introduction to
Old Man Coyote and the foreword to
Yellowtail, Crow Indian Medicine Man. His most recent
book,
They Call Me Agnes, was a finalist for the Western Writers
of America Spur Award for the best non-fiction book of 1995.
They Call Me Agnes, the life story of Agnes Yellowtail
Deernose, a Crow Indian woman, was written with the assistance of his wife,
Mary Kay Mee.
Dr. Voget was the author of many articles, notable among them "The
Osage Indians, Osage Research Report" (New York, London, 1974) and "Crow Sacred
Numerology" published in the
Plains Anthropologist in 1996. His articles are also
published in the 1996 Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology sponsored by Yale
University.
Fred Voget taught at McGill University in Montreal, the University of
Arkansas, the University of Toronto, and Southern Illinois University. He was a
visiting professor at Northwestern University and Portland State University. In
1966 he won a Canada Council Research Grant to work with the Six Nations tribes
of Eastern Canada. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 1972 and returned
there in 1979 as a visiting professor at the University of Munich. After his
retirement as Professor Emeritus from Southern Illinois University, Fred
returned to Portland where he continued to write and lecture. He was an adjunct
professor at Portland State University and was a guest lecturer at the
University of Oregon and Linfield College.
Since 1939 Dr. Voget devoted his life and his research to recording
and preserving the culture and way of life of the Crow as it was and is. His
contribution to the study of ethnology was intended to improve the lives of
American Indians and to promote understanding and respect for the diversity of
cultures in the world. He was an adopted member of the Crow Tribe and spent
part of every summer with them in Montana. Fred W. Voget died on 8, 1997
Content Description
This collection represents a large portion of the academic research
and writing career of Fred W. Voget from his undergraduate years in the 1930s
to a few years before his death in 1997. While the bulk of his research was
focused on the Crow Tribe, the collection also includes secondary source
research on numerous other North American tribes and primary source research on
the Iroquois, Shoshoni, and Blackfeet Indians. Research specific to the Crow
Tribe includes bibliographies, annotated photocopies of papers, book chapters,
and articles, interviews spanning half of century from 1939 to 1993, and
photographs from 1939 to 1987
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of
Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and The
University of Montana--Missoula.
Restrictions on Use :
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and
any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to The University of
Montana.
Preferred Citation :
[Name of document or photograph number], Fred W. Voget Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of
Montana--Missoula.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection is divided into six series:
Series I: General Anthropology and Native American research, undated,
0.7 linear feet
Series II: Crow Indian research, 5.0 linear feet, 1936-1995
Series III: Field research notebooks, 1.0 linear feet, 1949-1993
Series IV: Crow language research, 1.0 linear feet, undated
Series V: Writings, 2.3 linear feet, 1935-1996
Series VI: Photographs, 2.5 linear feet, 1939-1989
Custodial History :
The materials in this collection were retained by the Voget Family
until donation to the K. Ross Toole Archives.
Acquisition Information :
Gift of Mary Kay Voget, 2001. Dissertation purchased in 2004.
Processing Note :
Mary Kay Voget sorted and arranged significant portions of the
collection before transfer to the K. Ross Toole Archives. This collection was
processed at the K. Ross Toole Archives for the first time in 2001. When
received, the majority of research notes were organized in card files or file
folders. Where Voget had categorized materials by subject, the processor
maintained those divisions and separated remaining materials into "to be filed"
groups according to established categories. Additional photograph
identifications were obtained from members of the Crow tribe, including Fred
Voget Lefthand.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I: General Anthropology and Native
American research , undated
0.7 linear feet
This series includes notes and readings on anthropology theory and
practice, bibliographies of anthropology readings, and a small amount of
anthropology research notes. Additionally, the series has reading notes and
bibliographies on a number of Native American tribes. The arbitrary arrangement
begins with general anthropology and moves into broad Native American
topics.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
1/1
Anthropology theory notes
, undated
1/2
Anthropology and ethnology theory
notes , undated
1/3
General bibliography of
anthropology and archeology readings , undated
1/4
Bibliography regarding culture,
history, and evolution , undated
1/5
Card file of book release
notices, various authors , undated
1/6
General anthropology notes
regarding "constancy of problems" , undated
1/7
Anthropology graduate class
planning notes , undated
1/8
Research notes, culture typology
, undated
1/9
Shorthand practice notes
, undated
1/10
Pamphlet, "A Preliminary
Consideration of Areas of Africa" , 1924
1/11
Notes on Central Mexico cultures
, undated
1/12
Notes and bibliography, South
America , undated
1/13
Miscellaneous notes taken in
Southwest Museum , December 1937
1/14
Report and discussion on Dobu
Islanders, Apache Kinship, Australian Tribes, Primitive Behavior, and Iroquois
Women , undated
1/15
Excerpt regarding Shawnee and
Delaware Indians from unnamed report , undated
1/16
Pawnee, mimeographed information
, undated
1/17
Arapahoe reading notes
, undated
1/18
Kiowa reading notes , undated
1/19
Algonquin reading notes
, undated
1/20
Native Americans, reading notes
, undated
2/1
Brief news article on origin of
corn, undated
2/2
Native American population
according to 1910 census, undated
This series includes bibliographies, research notes on readings,
annotated and clean copies of materials, newspaper articles, contact
information, and interview notes. The bulk of the series is Crow Indian
research, but material such as interviews with Shoshoni tribe members have been
included to duplicate Voget's synthesis of this research in his book
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance. While the broad order of
this series is arbitrary, Voget's original card file order has been maintained.
Cards in "to be filed" groups were filed according to established categories
and notes not on cards have been inserted into separate folders according to
those same categories or topics. Groupings of interviews have been maintained
as much as possible.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
2/7
Notes on Frank Bird Linderman's
Red Mother, undated
2/8
Notes on 30, 1920 Report
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, undated
2/9
Notes on Crow Indian Shelters and
information on Fort Belnap Indian Arts and Crafts and the Blackfeet Indian
Reservation , undated
2/10
Miscellaneous Crow research notes
and memorabilia, undated
2/11
Crow names with abbreviations
(informants), undated
2/12
Indian education specialist
address & agency location note, undated
2/13
Crow Agency news articles
, 1973, 1993
2/14
Crow news articles including
reburial of Chief Black Foot, Donald Deernose obituary, and a Henrietta
Whiteman profile, 1978, 1979
2/15
Miscelleaneous news
articles, undated
2/16
References on Crow
art, undated
2/17
List of museums, undated
2/18
Bibliography notes , undated
2/19
Early research bibliography on
Crow, undated
2/20
Crow bibliography,
alphabetized, undated
2/21
Crow bibliographical sources, no
order, undated
2/22
Bibliography, Crow and other
North American tribes, undated
3/1
Bibliography, Crow and other
North American tribes, undated
3/2
Notes on "Phonetic Transcription
of Indian Language," Report of Committee of AAA, original 1916,
notes, undated
3/3
Pre-history notes and
bibliography, Crow, undated
3/4
Notes from
Blankets and Moccasins: Plenty Coups and his People, the
Crows, author Gwendolin Damon Wagner, published 1936, undated
3/5
Notes from
The Oregon Trail, author Francis Parkman,
published 1931, undated
3/6
Notes from Meldrum's account in
The Indian Journals, undated
3/7
Notes from Peter Nabakov's
Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrier, undated
3/8
List of some Crow clans
, undated
3/9
Typed copies of various
reservation agency reports , 1885-1894
3/10
Notes on Crow history
, undated
3/11
Miscellaneous short notes, Crow
, undated
3/12
Analysis of dating Crow-Hidatsa
separation , 1991
3/13
Copy of article, "Notes on
Crow-Hidatsa Schism" , 1977
3/14
Copy of chapters from
The Crow Tribe of Indians by Norman Plummer
, 1974
3/15
Copy of sections from
Early Western Travels, Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed.
1904, 1966
3/16
Copies of articles on Plains
Indians by J.D. Keyser, 1979, 1993
3/17
Annotated copy of "The Crow
Migration Story,"
Archeology in Montana, 1979
3/18
Copy of "Ethnohistoric Problems
in the Crow-Hidatsa Separation,"
Archaeology in Montana, 1979
3/19
Copy of "The North American
Berdarche," from
Current Anthropology, 1983
3/20
Copy of pages from
The Missouri Indians, 1960
3/21
Annotated copy of portions of
The Indian Journal by Lewis Henry
Morgan, 1959
3/22
Copy of "Journal of Laroque" from
Canadian Archives, 1911
3/23
Copy of chapters from
Narratives of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, 1934
3/24
Abstracts of papers from Montana
Archeological Society Annual Meeting, 1978
3/25
Copy of "Plains Indian
Sun/Dance," by Spier, 1921
3/26
B.I.A. "programming for Indian
Social and Economic Improvement", 1956-04-12
3/27
Copy of M.A. Thesis
"Abaatassheek: The Oilers, Pentecostalism Among the Crow Indians" , 1993
4/1
Annotated copy of "Apsaakisshe: A
Description of the Crow Indian Sun Dance,", undated
John A. Grim
4/2
Annotated copies of portions of
Indians in the Fur Trade, 1974
Arthur J. Ray
4/3
Annotated copy of pages from
The Fur Trade in the Upper Missouri, 1840, 1865, 1965
John E. Sunder
4/4
Annotated copies of portions of
The Missouri Fur Trade, 1840, 1865, undated
4/5
Annotated copies of chapters from
Curtis's
The North American Indian, undated
4/6
Annotated copy of "The Sundance"
from Curtis's
The North American Indian, undated
4/7
Annotated copy of "War and Chase"
from Curtis's
The North American Indians, undated
4/8
Annotated copy of "Myth &
Legend" from Curtis's
The North American Indian, undated
4/9
Annotated copy of partial chapter
"The Apsaroke," from Curtis's
The North American Indian, undated
4/10
Annotated copy of "Religion and
Ceremonies" from Curtis's
The North American Indian, 1920
4/11
Copy of chapter on Crow peyotism,
author unknown , undated
4/12
Copy of
The Stars We Know: Crow Indian Ethnoastronomy, 1994
Timothy McCleary
4/13
Annotated copy of "The Sun Dance
of the Wind River Shoshoni and Ute", 1919
Robert Lowie
4/14
Annotated copy of
Social Life of the Crow Indians, 1912
Robert Lowie
4/15
Annotated copy of
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians, 1918
Robert Lowie
4/16
Copy of
Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa, and Mandan Indians, 1913
Robert Lowie
4/17
Annotated copy of "Crow Sun
Dance", 1915
Robert Lowie
4/18
Annotated copy of "Tobacco
Society of the Crow Indians" , 1919
4/19
Annotated copy of "The Material
Culture of the Crow Indians", 1922
Robert Lowie
5/1
Annotated copy of "Crow Indian
Art", 1922
Robert Lowie
5/2
Annotated copy of "Minor
Ceremonies of the Crow Indians", 1924
Robert Lowie
5/3
Annotated copy of "Towards a
"New" North American Legal History", 1986
Frederick Hoxie
5/4
Annotated copy of "A Culture
Which Has Been Inevitably Disintegrated", 1987
Frederick Hoxie
5/5
Annotated copy of "Building a
Future on the Past: Crow Indian Leadership in an Era of Division and
Reunion", 1984
Frederick Hoxie
5/6
New book information sheet on
Frederick Hoxie book release , 1988
5/7
Annotated book draft entitled
"From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 1,
Chapter I/IV , 1920, 1945-1974
Charles and Susanna Bradley
5/8
Annotated book draft entitled
"From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 1,
Chap. V/conclusion , 1920-1945, 1974
Charles and Susanna Bradley
5/9
Annotated book draft entitled
"From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 2
, 1920-1945, 1974
Charles and Susanna Bradley
5/10
Annotated book draft entitled
"From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 3
, 1920-1945, 1974
Charles and Susanna Bradley
5/11
Annotated book draft entitled
"From Individualism to Bureaucracy: Documents on the Crow Indians, Part 4
, 1920-1945, 1974
Charles and Susanna Bradley
5/12
Annotated copy of "An
Ethnohistorical Analysis of Crow Political Alliances", 1977
Katherine M. Weist
5/13
Copy of paper entitled "Crow
Peyotism", 1963
Robert C. Kiste
5/14
Copy of "The History of Peyotism
in Nevada", 1982
Omer C. Stewart
5/15
Copy of "Friend to the
Ute", 1982
Omer C. Stewart
6/1
Annotated copy of "An
Archeological Demonstration of Migration on the Northern Plains", 1978
William J. Byrne
6/2
Copy of "Crow
Rendezvous", 1981
Colin Taylor
6/3
Copy of "Early Nineteenth Century
Crow Warrior Costume", 1984
Colin Taylor
6/4
Copy of University of Montana
Vision magazine with "Indian Law Clinic" article
, 1990
6/5
Review of
Soldiers Falling into Camp, 1992
William W. Savage, Jr.
6/6
Paper entitled "An Early Basket
and Plum-Stone Game of Chance Played by Cheyenne Women", 1990
Reno Charlette
6/7
J. E. Ransom's correspondence
regarding the Medicine Wheel , 1994
6/8
Small copy of 1855 map of Crow
Country from unnamed source , undated
6/9
Misc. research on Crow land use
and labor statistics , 1949, 1975, 1976
6/10
Copy of U.S. Dept. of Interior,
Bureau of Indian Affairs Land Use and Production Records , 1974
6/11
Bureau of Indian Affairs
statistics on Crow , 1983, 1987, undated
6/12
Copy of
Koittai Hilik, Crow newspaper , 1977
6/13
Copy of "Second Battle of the Big
Horn: Indian Voting Rights Suit," in
The Nation news magazine , 1986-10-25
Wilbur Wood
6/14
Copy of Supreme Court Case,
Montana et. al. v. United States et. al. regarding hunting and fishing rights
, 1981
6/15
Teacher's guide pamphlet titled
"Crow Social Studies" , 1986
6/16
Photocopied research labeled
"Absaroka - 1968" , 1968
6/17
Crow-related research and
correspondence , undated
6/18
Crow research notes , undated
6/19
Crow stories, research notes
, undated
6/20
Crow culture, research notes
, undated
7/1
Crow soul concepts, research
notes , undated
7/2
Crow medicine pipe and sweat
lodge, research notes , undated
7/3
Crow interview notes and other
research , 1994-1995
7/4
They Call Me Agnes research (including interview
notes) , 1993-1995
7/5
Notes from interview with Helen
(Pease) Wolf for
They Call Me Agnes, 1980
7/6
One card titled "Crow - Orphans
and the Sacred - Old Woman's Grandchild" , undated
7/7
Notes on Crow marriage, one
interview note , 1939-08-12, undated
7/8
Notes on Crow "Sex-Typing,"
interview notes , 1939, 1941, undated
7/9
Notes on Crow virtue , undated
7/10
Notes on Crow courtship,
interview notes , 1939, undated
7/11
Notes on Crow menstruation,
interview notes , 1939, undated
7/12
Note on Crow "Incense -
Purification" , undated
7/13
Notes on Crow pregnancy and
childbirth, interview notes , 1939, undated
7/14
Notes on Crow pregnancy and birth
practices, interview notes , 1939, undated
7/15
Note on Crow abortion
, undated
7/16
Notes on Crow childcare,
interview notes , 1939, undated
7/17
Notes on Crow ear piercing,
interview note , 1939, undated
Notes on Crow weaning, interview
notes , 1939, undated
7/20
Notes on Crow childhood training,
interview notes , 1939, undated
7/21
Notes on Crow childhood play,
interview notes , 1939, undated
7/22
Notes on Crow teaching practices
, undated
7/23
Notes on Crow names and naming
practices, interview notes , 1939, undated
7/24
Notes on Crow medical practices,
interview note , 1939, undated
7/25
Note on Crow "curing" or healing
practices , undated
7/26
Notes on Crow perspectives toward
diseases, sexual and other, interview note , 1939, and other undated
8/1
Notes on Crow warfare, interview
notes , 1939, undated
8/2
Notes on Crow treatment of
enemies , undated
8/3
Notes on Crow captives
, undated
8/4
Notes on Crow and other tribes'
war lodges and camp structures, interviews , 1941
and other undated
8/5
Notes on Crow warrior image and
character , undated
8/6
Note on Crow viewpoint toward
reputation and special skills , undated
8/7
Notes on Crow war party
leadership , undated
8/8
Notes on reception of returning
Crow war party , undated
8/9
Notes on Crow coup , undated
8/10
Notes on Crow "names - honor,"
interview , 1939, and other undated
8/11
Notes on Crow "healing -
military" , undated
8/12
Notes on Crow men's fraternities
, undated
8/13
Notes on Crow adults , undated
8/14
Note on Crow youth , undated
8/15
Notes on Crow religion
, undated
8/16
Notes on Crow creation myth
, undated
8/17
Notes on Crow deities or spirits
, undated
8/18
Notes on Crow "Little people or
dwarfs" , 1969-08-02
8/19
Notes on Crow medicines,
interview , 1939, undated
8/20
Note on rock medicine
, undated
8/21
Notes on Crow fasting
, undated
8/22
Notes on Crow dreams and spirit
encounters, interview , 1939-08-12, undated
8/23
Interview with F. Lefthand on
"No-Fire Beings" , 1988-10-17
8/24
Notes on Crow medicine men,
interviews , 1939, undated
8/25
Notes on Crow church, interviews
, 1939, 1940, undated
8/26
Notes on Crow sacred tobacco
, undated
8/27
Notes on ritual diffusion of
tobacco , undated
8/28
Notes on Crow "tobacco, adoption
- worship" , undated
8/29
Notes on Crow Sun Dance
, undated
8/30
Notes from early manuscripts of
Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: an
autobiography, respectively, final version published and notes approx.
1984 , 1991
edited by Michael Oren Fitzgerald
9/1
Telephone interview with Tom
Yellowtail covering adoption, tobacco, Shoshoni Dance, and money tree
, 1990-06-17
9/2
Thank you note from Michael
Fitzgerald , undated
9/3
Magazine article about Thomas
Yellowtail , 1993
9/4
Thomas Yellowtail funeral program
and obituary , 1993-11-20, 1993-12-06
9/5
Notes labeled "informant
accounts" , 1984
9/6
Notes on Crow "paint"
, undated
9/7
Notes on Crow "respect,"
interview , 1980
9/8
Notes on Crow "give-away,"
interview , 1941, 1980
9/9
Interview with A.N. Thomas
, 1941-10-21
9/10
Notes on Crow use of and
attitudes toward peyote, interview , 1941-05-27, and other undated
9/11
Notes on Crow smoke - prayer,
interviews , 1939
and 1980, and other undated
9/12
Notes on Crow conflict and
fighting, interview , 1939, and other undated
9/13
Notes on Crow insult , undated
9/14
Notes on Crow attitudes toward
theft, interview , 1939, and other undated
9/15
Note on Crow perspective of good
and bad luck , undated
9/16
Interview note regarding
existence of Crow writing , undated
9/17
Note from interview with Ball on
Batsirupe , 1939-08-11
9/18
Notes on Crow council district,
interviews , 1939
9/19
Notes on modern Crow politics,
interviews 1980 & 1987, other undated
9/20
Notes on telephone interview with
Frank Voget Lefthand regarding political changes , 1994-01-04
9/21
General notes , undated
9/22
Notes generally titled "scattered
data on sundance," some interviews , undated
9/23
Interview notes from
reminiscences of "Ball" , 1939-08-08 - 1939-08-11
9/24
News clipping about Sun Dance
news rights , 1987
9/25
Pencil drawing of Sun Dance staff
, undated
9/26
Typed notes on Sun Dance,
participants and dates , undated
9/27
Interview letter with response
from Pete Lefthand on marriage, fasting, medicine doll, and Sun Dance
, 1947-04-08
9/28
Notes on Crow, legendary events
and history , undated
9/29
Notes on Hidatsa, cultural
background for Crow , undated
9/30
Notes on Crow-Hidatsa Relations
, undated
9/31
Notes comparing Mountain Crow and
River Crow , undated
9/32
Notes on treaties , undated
9/33
Notes on trade , undated
9/34
Notes on pre-reservation
, undated
9/35
Notes on reservation life,
interview , 1984, and other undated
9/36
Note on agent regulation of Crow
social style , undated
9/37
Notes on inter-tribal relations
and view of other tribes , undated
9/38
Various appellations applied to
the Crows , undated
10/1
Notes on Joseph Medicine-Crow,
interview , 1987-06-23, undated
10/2
Notes on gestures and sign
language , undated
10/3
Notes from readings on character
traits assigned to Crows , undated
10/4
Notes on Crow perspective of
territory , undated
10/5
Notes on Crow clans, interview
, 1988-09-01, undated
This series includes Voget's handwritten field research notebooks
on the Shoshoni, the Iroquois, the Blackfeet, and the Crow. Many parts of the
notebooks are written in shorthand. The Iroquois and Blackfeet notebooks were
transcribed in 2003 and 2004.
The series is arranged in chronological order.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
12/22
Field research notebook,
Shoshoni, some shorthand , 1948
12/23
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand , 1949-08-16, undated
28/1
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/1
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand , 1949-08-16, undated
28/2
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/2
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand , 1949
28/3
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/3
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand , 1950
28/4
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/4
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, much shorthand , 1950
28/5
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/5
Field research notebook, Iroquois
at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada, some shorthand , 1950
28/6
Transcription of field research
notebook, Iroquois at Caughnawauga, Ontario, Canada
13/6
Field research notebook,
Blackfeet, mostly shorthand , 1956
2/7
Transcription of field research
notebook, Blackfeet
13/7
Field interview notebook, Crow
, 1939-07-08 - 1939-07-20
13/8
Field interview notebook, Crow
, 1939-08-12 - 1939-08-17
13/9
Field research notebook, Crow, no
shorthand , 1986
13/10
Field research notebook, Crow, no
shorthand , 1987
14/1
Field research notebook
supplement, Crow, no shorthand , 1987
This series includes a small amount of language research notes
from secondary sources, but the bulk of the series consists of handwritten and
typed cards with a word or phrase in English and the corresponding Crow word or
phrase with pronunciation markings.
This series is arranged alphabetically by the English word or the
significant word in a phrase.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
14/3
Crow language research notes
, undated
14/4
Language cards with multiple
words and phrases , undated
This series includes some of Voget's undergraduate papers, working
drafts of articles and book chapters, and copies of published articles. The
drafts preceded published works and probably a planned history of the Crow
Indians that was not published at the time of processing.
This series is arranged in rough chronological order within the
categories of term papers, drafts, and published works.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
16/7
Three copies of term paper for
History of Social Thought class , 1935
16/8
Copy of term paper for History of
Social Thought class , 1935
17/1
Paper for Main Currents of
European Thought class , 1936
17/2
Analysis of social theorists for
Contemporary Social Theories class , 1937
17/3
Notes for lecture or article on
perspective and focus in anthropology , undated
27/1
Dissertation,
The Diffusion of the Wind River Shoshone Sundance to the
Crow Indians of Montana, 1948
17/4
Broad Crow article outline
, undated
17/5
Drafts of article or chapter on
Crow Arrow Throw , 1946
17/6
Retyped or revised draft of
"Social Life of the Crow Arrow Throwing Game" , undated
17/7
Draft of article, "William Big
Day: A Crow Innovator" , 1946
17/8
Draft of article "Anthropological
Theory and Iroquois Ethnology , undated
17/9
Draft of article or lecture
entitled "The Status of American Indian Women: A Comparison of Crow and
Iroquois Women" , undated
17/10
Draft of Voget introduction to
later printing of
Blankets and Moccasins, originally published in
1933 , undated
17/11
Notes for lecture or article on
Crow Indians and Sun Dance , undated
17/12
Draft of table of contents,
notes, and bibliography for
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, undated
17/13
Early chapter outline for
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, undated
17/14
Notes and partial draft of
Chapter 6 of
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, undated
17/15
Some chapter drafts for
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, undated
17/16
Index for
The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance, A-N , undated
17/17
Index for
The Shoshon-Crow Sun Dance, O-Z , undated
18/1
Organizing notes for
They Call Me Agnes, undated
18/2
Handwritten article or chapter,
"Crow Mythology and the Creator" , undated
18/3
Letter from
Enciclopedia Italiana, 1986
18/4
Draft of "Anthropology and
Ethnology" for
Enciclopedia Italiana, 1988
18/5
Article on Crow for publication
in
Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 13
, 1987
18/6
Notebook, possible organizing
notes for manuscript , undated
18/7
Drafts of chapters on Crow
origins for history of Crow manuscript , 1991
18/8
Draft of chapters of Crow
worldview for history of Crow manuscript , undated
18/9
Drafts of chapter on Crow
religion for manuscript on history of Crow , undated
18/10
Drafts of chapter, "Religion in
Crow Indian Culture and Culture History" , 1989, 1990, 1994, undated
19/1
Rough draft of chapter, "Crow
Culture History" , undated
19/2
Draft of chapter, "Crow Origins"
, 1991
and undated
19/3
Draft of chapter, "Sacred Design
of Hidatsa Society and Culture" , 1991
and undated
19/4
"Work copies" of chapter, "Crow
Culture" , undated
19/5
Draft of chapter, "Historic Crow
Culture" , undated
19/6
Draft of chapter, "Reservation
Culture" , undated
19/7
Drafts and correspondence in
regard to Voget's introduction to reprint of
Old Man Coyote by Frank Bird Linderman
, 1995
19/8
Abstract, "Were the Crow Indians
Conservationists?" , undated
19/9
Article or chapter on Arapahoe
culture , undated
19/10
Bibliography for unnamed
manuscript , undated
19/11
One page note on paper about Crow
ceremonial rights , undated
20/1
Bibliography of published
articles by Voget , undated
20/2
Article titled "The Folk Society
- An Anthropological Application" , 1954
20/3
Article titled "Forgotten
Forerunners of Anthropology" , undated
20/4
Article titled "Anthropology and
Sociology" , undated
20/5
Article titled "Man and Culture:
An Essay in Changing Anthropological Interpretations" , 1960
20/6
Article titled "American Indian
Reformations and Acculturation" , 1960
20/7
Article titled "Reform und
Akkomadation: Unter Amerikanischen Indianern" , undated
20/8
Article titled "Comment on Robert
K. Thomas' "The Redbird Smith Movement" , 1961
20/9
Article, "Progress, Science,
History, and Evolution in 18th and 19th Century Anthropology" , 1967
20/10
Article titled "Anthropology in
the Age of Enlightenment: Progress and Utopian Functionalism" , 1968
20/11
Article titled, "A Six Nations'
Diary, 1891-1894" , 1969
20/12
Article titled, "The History of
Cultural Anthropology" , 1974
20/13
Article titled "Reflections on
Acculturation Processes and Stages: A Reply to Deward E. Walker, Jr."
, 1976
20/14
Academic Encyclopedia articles , undated
20/15
Entry on Franz Boas in
Dictionary of Scientific Biography, undated
20/16
Article titled "Cultural Change
and the American Indian" , undated
20/17
Article titled "Sacred Numerology
and Management of the Universe by the Crow Indians" , undated
20/18
Article titled "Warfare and the
Integration of Crow Indian Culture" , undated
20/19
Article titled "The Reservation
Community as an Interactional System" , undated
20/20
Review titled "Ethnoscience
Versus the Survey: Steps for Gathering Data" , 1980
20/21
Article titled "The Crow Indian
Give-Away" , 1987
20/22
Article titled "Religion in Crow
Indian Culture and Culture History" , 1996
20/23
"Before the Indian Claims
Commission: Docket Nos. 106 and 107: Osage Research Report," (missing title
page, page 1, and bibliographic reference pages 357-371) , 1946, 1966
This series includes Voget's photos, slides, and some negatives
taken throughout his research. The bulk of the photos chronicle Crow activities
such as the sun dance and arrow throw, feasts, and giveaways. A smaller number
of photos are of specific individuals significant to Crow history and/or
Voget's research. Another small group of photos pertain to Native American
artifacts, the Shoshoni sun dance, and to Mohawk and other Six Nations groups.
Most of the photos are very usable with the exception of photos 25/75 through
25/89, which are out of focus. Original photo captions and photo groupings were
maintained where they existed. Otherwise, the photos in this series are
arranged in rough thematic and chronological order. The slides are grouped at
the end of this series.
Container(s)
Description
Box/Folder
20/24
Photocopies of Crow photos from
various publications , undated
20/25
Negatives of pictures and maps
from various publications , undated
20/26
Color copies and photocopies of
photos used in
They Call Me Agnes, undated
20/27
Negative strips relevant to
They Call Me Agnes, 1980s
20/28
Negative strips from photos used
in
They Call Me Agnes, 1980s
20/29
Negative strips relevant to
They Call Me Agnes , undated
20/30
318(VI)1: Joy, daughter of Robert
Yellowtail and Agnes , undated
20/31
318(VI)2: Danny and dance troupe
, undated
20/32
318(VI)3: Agnes used in
They Call Me Agnes, undated
20/33
318(VI)4: Yellowtail family , around 1930
20/34
318(VI)5: Agnes's father, Hawk with Yellow
Tail , undated
20/35
318(VI)6: Amy, Agnes's sister , undated
20/36
318(VI)7: Agnes and her Baptist mission
schoolmates , ca.
1920
20/37
318(VI)8: Agnes's mother at age 100
, undated
20/38
318(VI)9: Two rows of Crow women in
traditional dress , undated
318(VI)310: Distant view of Shoshoni sun
dance lodge, Washakie, WY , 1948
24/54
318(VI)311: Shoshoni dancers, Washakie, WY
, 1948
24/55
318(VI)312: Unidentified man, Washakie, WY
, 1948
24/56
318(VI)313: Lynn St. Clair, Washakie, WY
, 1948
24/57
318(VI)314: Tony Lajeunesse, Washakie, WY
, 1948
24/58
318(VI)315: Two unidentified men, Washakie,
WY , 1948
24/59
318(VI)316: Al Childs, Crow , undated
24/60
318(VI)317: Paternal clansmen praying for
dancers at end of sun dance, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1975
24/61
318(VI)318: James Bear Below (r) and Ira
Lefthand (l) at snack bar at sun dance, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1975
24/62
318(VI)319: William Yellow Robe, Assiniboine,
first recipient of Peter Lefthand Award , 1986
24/63
318(VI)320: Feasting at sun dance giveaway,
Melvin Lefthand, wife Gladys, and daughter , 1987
24/64
318(VI)321: Sun dance giveaway , 1987
24/65
318(VI)322: Hugh Little Owl, Ira and Melvin
Left Hand, Clifford Whiteman, and Calvin Jefferson at giveaway following sun
dance near Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/66
318(VI)323: Robert Yellowtail (L) and Tom
Yellowtail (R) at sun dance giveaway , 1987
24/67
318(VI)324: Heather and Fredrica Lefthand
, 1987
24/68
318(VI)325: Heather, Frederick, and Fredrica
Lefthand , 1987
24/69
318(VI)326: Fredrica at age 16, junior in
high school , undated
24/70
318(VI)327: Fredrica Lefthand being crowned
1991-1992 Montana State University PowWow Princess , 1991
24/71
318(VI)328: Tshirgi cattle driven down
through Frederick's place , 1986
24/72
38(VI)329: Feast for clan uncle by Agnes,
wife of Anthony Lefthand , 1987
24/73
318(VI)330: Feast for clan uncle by Agnes,
wife of Anthony Lefthand , 1987
24/74
318(VI)331: Crowd at feast for clan uncle by
Agnes, wife of Anthony Lefthand , 1987
24/75
318(VI)332: Returning to clan uncle feast
after putting out fire set by young boys with firecreackers, Lodge Grass,
Montana , 1987
24/76
318(VI)333: Unidentified group eating, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/77
318(VI)334: Grandchildren of Annie Bear Below
, undated
24/78
318(VI)335: Modern Crow cradleboard, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/79
318(VI)336: Waiting for a turn at the
giveaway, Frederick and Ira Lefthand in the middle , 1987
24/80
318(VI)337: Frederick seated with a picture
of his father above , 1987
24/81
318(VI)338: Dexter Falls, Down and his wife
, 1986
24/82
318(VI)339: Dexter Falls, Down Family, Crow
, 1986
24/83
318(VI)340: Anthony, Agnes, and family at the
district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/84
318(VI)341: District championship arrow
throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/85
318(VI)342: Action at district arrow throw,
Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/86
318(VI)343: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/87
318(VI)344: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/88
318(VI)345: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/89
318(VI)346: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/90
318(VI)347: View of arrows thrown at district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/91
318(VI)348: View of arrows thrown at district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/92
318(VI)349: Boy holding arrows at district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/93
318(VI)350: Frederick Lefthand and Ralph Good
Luck with drumstick , 1987
24/94
318(VI)351: A future arrow thrower at junior
arrow throw competition, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/95
318(VI)352: Spectators at district arrow
throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/96
318(VI)353: Group photo at district arrow
throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/97
318(VI)354: District team tents at district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/98
318(VI)355: Setting up goal for district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/99
318(VI)356: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/100
318(VI)357: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/101
318(VI)358: Contestants getting ready at
district arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/102
318(VI)359: District arrow throw, Lodge
Grass, Montana , 1987
24/103
318(VI)360: Pryor district tent at district
arrow throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/104
318(VI)361: Frederick Lefthand at district
arrow throw , 1987
24/105
318(VI)362: Judge's stand at district arrow
throw, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/106
318(VI)363: Seeing who won at district arrow
toss, Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/107
318(VI)364: Cottonwood trees along Little Big
Horn near Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/108
318(VI)365: Location where peyotists get sand
for altar, north of Lodge Grass, Montana , 1987
24/109
318(VI)366: Jim Old Crow and others at Lodge
Grass camp , undated
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
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