102 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1963 



Regina M. Solzbaclier, and on a part-time basis by Miss Margaret 

 V. Lee. 



During the week of September 30-October 6, Mrs. Blaker attended 

 the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists in Roclies- 

 ter, N.Y., and searched for early photographs of American Indians in 

 the collections of George Eastman House, the Rochester Historical 

 Society, and the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. A con- 

 siderable number of fme stereoscopic views of the 1870's and 1880's 

 were located at Eastman House, and copies of them are currently 

 being made for the Bureau collections. At the University of Roches- 

 ter Library Mrs. Blaker examined the notebooks of Louis Henry 

 Morgan that deal with his visits to the Seneca Indians, and the cir- 

 culars containing the original information collected and used by 

 Morgan in preparing his Systems of Consanguinity^ published by 

 the Smithsonian in 1870. Microfilm duplicates of the circulars will 

 be made available to the Bureau through the library's special col- 

 lections division. 



On October 12-15 ]\Irs. Blaker attended the joint annual meeting 

 of the American Indian Etlinohistoric Conference and the Iroquois 

 Conference at Albany, N.Y., and examined photographic and other 

 pictorial resources on the American Indian in the New York State 

 Museum. On November 14-19 she attended the annual meeting of 

 the American Anthropological Association in Chicago and examined 

 pictorial resources in the Newberry Library and the Chicago Natural 

 History INIuseum. On May 20-21 she visited Carlisle, Pa., to see 

 photographs in the collections of the Army War College and the 

 Hamilton Library. Both of these institutions have albums of ex- 

 cellent photographs of the students who attended Carlisle Indian 

 school and of their parents, many of them distinguished chiefs, who 

 visited the school. Arrangements for borrowing the albums for copy- 

 ing are in progress. 



Ethnographic notes of the late Lyda Averill Taylor, on the Alabama, 

 Choctaw, and Koasati, collected in Polk County, Tex., in 1936-40, and 

 a partial draft of a manuscript on comparative southeastern ethnol- 

 ogjj were received from John M. Goggin, to whom they had been 

 given in 1960 by Walter W. Taylor. 



A ledger containing drawings of war scenes, apparently all drawn 

 by the same Indian artist, was acquired. The book is undated and 

 the artist unidentified, but he was probably a Cheyenne, since the short 

 w^ritten titles indicate that the winners of the contests depicted were 

 Cheyennes. Cheyenne warfare with a number of different tribes is 

 portrayed — Osage, Snake (Shoshoni), Pawnee, Ute, Crow, Shawnee, 

 Sac and Fox, Navaho, and Pueblo. There are also a number of 

 pictures of combat with the U.S. Army. Two pictures depict the 



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