Ethnologic gleanings among the Nez Perces
Scope and Contents
1 volume study on the culture of the Nez Perce peoples by Alice Cunningham Fletcher from 1890 to 1899.
Dates
- Creation: 1890-1899
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Consult Head of Special Collections and Archives on permissions for use.
Biographical / Historical
Alice Cunningham Fletcher was the first anthropologist to work among the Nez Perce Tribe in Idaho. She was sent as a Special Agent of the U.S. government to facilitate the allotment of the Nez Perce Reservation in north-central Idaho. Her work with the Nez Perce was between 1889 and 1892. She was a public lecturer in the earl 1880s and began informal studies under Professor Frederic W. Putnam of Harvard University and the Peabody Museum. Fletcher was born 15 March 1838 in Havana, Cuba. She died 6 April 1923. She was the president of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1903 and in 1905 she became the first female president of the American Folklore Society.
Extent
1 item : Lacks title page, typescript (photocopy).
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Study on the the culture of the Nez Perce people in the 1890s.
Topical
Uniform Title
- Title
- Guide to Ethnologic gleanings among the Nez Perces
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Kelley Moulton.
- Date
- 2024
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository