Jaw (Ćehu′pa) or His Fight (Oki' cize-ta'wa) c.1850-1924

[cinye80]

As Californian already noted Teton Sioux Music  by Francis Densmore, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 61,Washington, Government Printing Office 1918.
Pages 387 to 392 are devoted to Jaw. His photo, 4 drawings, photo of the contents of his war medicine sack, and a list of his four medicines. and 3 songs. 
Thomas Vennum in June 1981 notes that only one of Jaw's songs remain in the LIbrary of Congress. Catalog Number 653, reel 10,578B. length 47 seconds.
This song 3 163 on page 392 "I am bringing Horses" (Sunawakan owale, ca awaku we (welo?).
I don't know if you can still purchase recordings (cassette tapes) of Densmore's songs, but the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Bismarck has a copy.

[Californian]

Hi Raymen85
this is indeed a great find and I cannot thank you enough for it. There is very little information about Leslie Smith, DeCost's brother. I wonder if there is more in that collection - would you have a website citation for it ?

I ought to get a high-resolution scan of this portrait to add to my Wikipedia article on Jaw - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaw_(%C4%86ehu%E2%80%B2pa)

Dec 22, 2020 9:24:40 GMT -5 raymen85 said:

Hi all, this is the Leslie Smith photograph taken of His Fight in 1884 when Leslie traveled with his brother DeCost Smith. It's in the De Cost Smith photograph collection at the National Museum of the American Indian (P14649).


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[Californian]

I searched the various website (Museum of the American Indian, National Anthropological Archives and the Smithsonian) outright, but could not locate the image that you provided. If you can furnish a website link would be greatly appreciated.

Dec 30, 2020 23:11:27 GMT -5 Californian said:

Hi Raymen85
this is indeed a great find and I cannot thank you enough for it. There is very little information about Leslie Smith, DeCost's brother. I wonder if there is more in that collection - would you have a website citation for it ?

I ought to get a high-resolution scan of this portrait to add to my Wikipedia article on Jaw - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaw_(%C4%86ehu%E2%80%B2pa)

Dec 22, 2020 9:24:40 GMT -5 raymen85 said:

Hi all, this is the Leslie Smith photograph taken of His Fight in 1884 when Leslie traveled with his brother DeCost Smith. It's in the De Cost Smith photograph collection at the National Museum of the American Indian (P14649).


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[Californian]

better resolution image (courtesy of the National Museum of the American Indian/NMAI)

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