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New Online Exhibit from the National Anthropological Archives



"Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher" is now available from the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian  Institution. The online edition of Alice Fletcher's 1881 diary includes a transcript of her ethnographic field notes, reproductions of her sketches of Native American life, and photographs of Nebraska and South Dakota from a variety of Smithsonian collections.

Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) was the first American woman anthropologist. The online exhibit documents her earliest period of fieldwork, an eight-week excursion through Omaha, Ponca and Sioux Indian territory with traveling companions Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian, and Thomas Henry Tibbles, a journalist. The diary provides a rare glimpse of the trials early ethnographers faced and chronicles Fletcher's burgeoning understanding of fieldwork methodology. The final diary entries recount Fletcher's interview with Sitting Bull, who was then imprisoned at Fort Randall.

Also included in the online edition is a complete bibliography of works by Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, her protégé and adopted son, as well as links to Fletcher papers in other archives.

The online exhibit can be found at: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/fletcher.htm 

Please direct questions to naa@nmnh.si.edu 

Robert Leopold
National Anthropological Archives
Smithsonian Institution

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