The Early Career of Robert Lowie

[Erik D Gooding]

M. Beckwith also published in 1930 a collection of Lakota and Yankton
materials which I refer to in my work all the time but, of course, now I
cannot remember the title. It's a series of "tales", ethnographic
sketches, as well as a Lakota winter count.

Erik

On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, John Boyle wrote:

> Martha Beckwith was a student of Boas' who worked on the Ft. Berthold
> Reservation among many other places.  She recorded a number of Mandan
> and Hidatsa stories.  Although they are published in English there is
> a chance that she might have had notes or original transcriptions in
> Mandan and Hidatsa.  I'm still working on this.
>
> >It might be interesting to know that Boas's "Notes on the Ponka Grammar"
> >in the Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists of 1906,
> >heavily reprised in Boas & Swanton 1911, is credited to a seminar led by
> >Boas and involving "Miss Martha W. Beckwith, Mr. Albert B. Lewis, and Mr.
> >R.A. Lowie."  I don't recognize Beckwith or Lewis.
>
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