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Notes for The Father Lindesmith Collection: History, Anthropology, and Art by Joanne M. Mack
1. Father Lindesmith Collection, American Catholic History Research Center and University
Archives, Catholic University of America (hereafter cited as FLC/ACHRCUA): box 7, file 8,
Lindesmith to Professor Henry Hyvernat D.D., March 1911.
2. Father Lindesmith Collection, University of Notre Dame Archives (hereafter cited as FLC/
UNDA): Lindesmith to J. H. Edwards, August 10, 1899.
3. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 8, Lindesmith to Hyvernat, March 1911.
4. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 8, file 8, J. F. Edwards to Lindesmith, [n.d.] 1899.
5. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 28, file 1, one-page description of events and biographies of individuals
at the University of Notre Dame associated with the Grand Army of the Republic.
6. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 4, Lindesmith to J. F. Edwards, December 7, 1894.
7. FLC/UNDA: Lindesmith to the Rev. John Cavanaugh, July 19, 1905.
8. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 1, Cavanaugh to Lindesmith, October 17, 1919.
9. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 7, John I. Zahm, S. J., St. Ignatius College, Cleveland, to
Lindesmith, December 7, 1902; box 7, file 8, Lindesmith to Hyvernat, March 1911.
10. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 8, Lindesmith to Hyvernat, April 5, 1911.
11. Ibid. Lindesmith was given Custer’s field trunk by a soldier in Company D, Fifth Infantry, who
had participated in Battle of the Little Big Horn reburials.
12. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 20, folder 4, accounts; box 21, folder 5, account book 3; FLC/UNDA:
Lindesmith to J. H. Edwards, June 12, 1899.
13. FLC/UNDA: Lindesmith to J. H. Edwards, August 2, 1899; box 20, folder 4, accounts; box
21, folder 5, account book 3; FLC/UNDA: Lindesmith to J. H. Edwards, June 12, 1899; FLC/
ACHRCUA: box 7, file 8, Lindesmith to Hyvernat, March 1911; FLC/UNDA: Lindesmith to J.
H. Edwards, August 10, 1899.
14. Dick Conn, “Cheyenne-Style Beadwork,” American Indian Hobbyist 7, no. 2 (1961): 57–62;
Ronald P. Koch, Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
1997).
15. Conn, “Cheyenne-Style Beadwork.” The Lakota are one of three tribes sometimes called Sioux
by Father Lindesmith and others. The two other tribes are the Dakota and Nakota. Nearly all
bands inhabiting the northwestern Plains during the nineteenth century were Lakota.
16. Conn, “Cheyenne-Style Beadwork.”
17. Ibid.
18. For the central role of Bear Butte and Sweet Medicine’s Cave in Cheyenne religion, see John
P. Lukavic, “Southern Cheyenne Orthodoxy: A Study in Materiality,” PhD diss., Department
of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, 2012 (Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest LLC, 2012), 207;
Father John Peter Powell, People of the Sacred Mountain: A Story of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs
and Warrior Societies 1830–1879, vol. 1 (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979); and George
Bird Grinnell, The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Way of Life, 2 vols. (New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1923).
19. Mary Jane Schneider, “From Plains Indian Art,” in Margot Liberty and W. Raymond Wood,
eds., Anthropology on the Great Plains (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1980), 197–211.
20. FLC/UNDA: Lindesmith to J. H. Edwards, June 12, 1899; Liz Olveda, “Commercialized
Forms: The Difficulties of Identifying 19th-Century Splint Baskets,” Snite Museum of Art object
files, 2010.
21. FLC/UNDA: tag, August 2, 1899.
22. Jamie Allen, bead consultant, personal communication to author during meeting, October
2011.
23. FLC/ACHRCUA: tag 750.
24. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 8, tags 469 and 471.
25. FLC/ACHRCUA: box 7, file 8, Lindesmith to Hyvernat, March 1911.
26. FLC/UNDA: tags for tomahawk pipe and bow.
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