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Peyote.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jim Steiner Ponca photographs

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1991-012-1
Scope and Contents

111 color photographs recording Ponca people and events.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

Jim Steiner-Tony Isaacs collection of sound recordings of Ponca and other Indian songs, 1961-1965

 Collection
Identifier: 1974-001
Scope and Contents Sound recordings of Ponca and other Native American songs collected by Tony Isaacs and Jim Steiner while making a documentary film about the Poncas. Includes recordings of peyote and other religious ceremonies. All of the recordings are on seven-inch tape reels, recorded monaural at 7 1/2 inches per second, on one or both sides. Nine of the reels record a June 1965 Grey Horse ceremony; six reels are of a Pawhuska meeting later the same month; six reels record Memorial Day dances in May of...
Dates: 1961 - 1965

Peyote Papers, 1918-1925

 Collection
Identifier: MC-1970-172
Scope and Contents Smithsonian ethnologist, James Mooney, wrote two letters pertaining to a bill before Congress to prohibit the use of Peyote in the Indian ceremonial dances. Most of the correspondence and printed material deal with this subject. A great many letters are between missionaries of the American Baptist Home Missionary Society and most of them felt that Mooney encouraged the continued use of Peyote. They blamed him for his attitude and urged the church people to work for the bill and teach the...
Dates: 1918 - 1925