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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of J. W. "Duke" Wellington
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Inventory of the J. W. "Duke" Wellington Slide Collection, ca. 1950-1975
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Wellington, J. W. |
| Title | J. W. "Duke" Wellington Slide Collection |
| Dates | ca. 1950-1975 |
| Extent | .5 cubic ft. (1 box) |
| Abstract | Copies of color 35 mm. slide sets, slide captions, and commentaries documenting Assiniboine and Gros Ventre ceremonies performed at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, Montana, ca. 1950-1952, prepared by J. W. "Duke" Wellington, who was Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at the reservation, 1947-1954. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Ayer Modern MS Wellington |
| Collection Stack Location | 3 60 14 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
J. W. "Duke" Wellington Slide Collection, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of J. W. Wellington, 1982.
Processed by
Martha Briggs, 2002.
Access
The J. W. "Duke" Wellington Slide Collection is open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The J. W. "Duke" Wellington Slide Collection is the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of J. W. "Duke" Wellington
Montana native and Bureau of Indian Affairs official, 1940-1972.
Born in Harlotown, Montana, J. W. "Duke" Wellington received a degree in agricultural education from Montana State University in 1929. For ten years he was a vocational education teacher and coach in Montana public high schools. In 1932 Wellington went to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an agricultural instructor at the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada, and later became BIA supervisor of livestock and farming for seventeen western states. In 1947, Wellington was appointed superintendent of the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy reservations, where he remained until 1954. He then served as superintendent at the Standing Rock Reservation at Fort Yates, North Dakota until 1956 when he suffered a heart attack. Afterwards Wellington was superintendent of the Indian school at Wahpeton, North Dakota, a position from which he retired in 1972.
Wellington married Mabel Morton in 1932 and they had one child, Barbara.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Copies of Wellington's collection of color 35 mm. slides, and accompanying narratives, essays, and slide captions, documenting Assiniboine and Gros Ventres (Atsina) dances and ceremonies at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, where he served as BIA superintendent, 1947-1954. Ceremonies photographed include the Assiniboine Fool Dance (July 1952) and Sun Dance (1952), the Assiniboine and Gros Ventres Social Dances (ca. 1950), the Gros Ventres Feathered Pipe and Bundle Opening (Summer 1952), and the Sacred Flat Pipe Bundle (1952). There are numerous photographs of and extensive commentary by Al First Sound (Fool Dance), Frank Wheeler (Sun Dance), His Right Thumb, Iron Man II, and Jessie Blue Sky (Feathered Pipe Bundle Opening), and The Boy (Sacred Flat Pipe). There also are slides Wellington took of the Gros Ventres warrior Red Whip's war bundle and an essay he wrote regarding the same. Some of Wellington's essays were written as late as 1975.
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Arrangement
Organized by ceremony, with commentaries and captions preceding slides.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Blue Sky, Jessie
- First Sound, Al
- Fort Belknap Indian Reservation (Mont.)
- His Right Thumb
- Iron Man II
- Red Whip
- The Boy
- Wellington, J. W.
- Wheeler, Frank, Assiniboine Indian
Subjects
- Assiniboine Indians-Photographs
- Assiniboine Indians-Religion
- Atsina Indians-Photographs
- Atsina Indians-Religion
- Indian dances-Montana
- Indian mythology-Montana
- Indians of North America-Montana-Religion
- Slides (Photography)
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Assiniboine Fool Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation; Narrative and Slide Captions, July 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Assiniboine Fool Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation; Slides, July 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Assiniboine Sun Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation; Narrative and Slide Captions, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Assiniboine Sun Dance, Fort Belknap Reservation; Slides, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Assiniboine and Gros Ventres Social Dances (Grass, Owl), Fort Belknap Reservation; Narrative and Slide, ca. 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Assiniboine and Gros Ventres Social Dances (Grass, Owl), Fort Belknap Reservation; Slides, ca. 1950 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Gros Ventres Feathered Pipe Bundle Opening, Fort Belknap Reservation; Narrative and Slide Captions, Summer 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Gros Ventres Feathered Pipe Bundle Opening, Fort Belknap Reservation; Slides, Summer 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Gros Ventres Feathered Pipe Bundle Opening, Fort Belknap Reservation; Slides, Summer 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Gros Ventres Sacred Flat Pipe Bundle, Fort Belknap Reservation; Narrative and Slide Captions, 1952 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Gros Ventres Warrior, Red Whip; Narrative and Slide Captions | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Gros Ventres Warrior, Red Whip; Slides | |||||||||