Comanche Ethnography: Field Notes of E. Adamson Hoebel, Waldo R. Wedel, Gustav G. Carlson, and Robert H. Lowie

APPENDIX A: Sources of Ethnographic Information in Hoebel (1940)

1. Mirsky visited the Comanches around 1935. Her primary consultant was a Comanche named Talker, who is otherwise unidentified. Extensive search has failed to turn up any of Mirsky’s notes. 493 APPENDIX A Sources of Ethnographic Information in Hoebel (1940) In Appendix A, I have attempted to link specific ethnographic statements in Hoebel’s Political Organization and Law-Ways of the Comanche Indians to specific entries in the Field Notes. This analysis revealed a number of possible relationships: • Ethnographic statements whose cited sources can be confirmed in the notes; in these cases, no further comment other than the reference is made • Ethnographic statements with cited sources, but which are attributed to a different consultant in the notes; in these cases, the cited consultant is listed in plain text, the proper consultant in braces, and the date given is the correct date • Ethnographic statements with cited sources, but whose source cannot be identified in the notes; these are noted as “Not Found” • Ethnographic statements without cited sources, but whose sources can be confirmed in the notes; no further comment is made • Ethnographic statements without cited sources whose sources are provisionally identified; these are noted as “?” • Ethnographic statements without cited sources and which cannot be confirmed in the notes; these are cited as “Unattested” • Ethnographic statements based upon the notes of Dr. Jeannette Mirsky1 ; these are cited as “Mirsky” HOEBEL (1940) CONCORDANCE PAGE SUBJECT SOURCE DATE 6 “Horned Toad’s Wife” Unattested 11 Esananaka Quassyah July 5 12 Life Cycle: Marriage Herman Asenap June 30 494 Appendix A PAGE SUBJECT SOURCE DATE 13 Band Lists Quassyah July 5 Howard White Wolf July 31 Tahsuda Undated Teneverka Undated 15 Size of Piarûpsima’s Horse Herd Teneverka Undated 16 “ . . . to get an even start . . . ” Niyah July 6? 18 “I hardly know . . . ” Tahsuda Undated “ . . . paraibo . . . water white man Unattested “ . . . camp moving . . .” Post Oak Jim July 18–19 “He was father . . . ” Frank Chekovi Undated III 19 tekwoniwop Passim, See Index “Most likely . . . ” Unattested “Under no circumstances . . . ” Quasssyah July 5? “ . . . stop a war party . . . ” Howard White Wolf July 31 Red Sleeve/Two Mountains/Cold Tahsuda Undated 20 Peace chiefs go to war George Koweno? July 21 “ . . . sons of chiefs . . . ” Quassyah July 5 21 Scalps Niyah July 6 22 Two coups on one victim George Koweno July 21 24 “. . . lope through camp . . .” Niyah July 6 “. . . last horse carried two men . . .” Post Oak Jim July 12 25 Division of Loot Herman Asenap June 30 Quassyah July 5 Post Oak Jim July 13 26–28 Case 1: Making of A War Chief Tahsuda Undated 29 Headdress Post Oak Jim July 29 War Honors: Transfer Tahsuda Undated Buffalo Scalp Headdress Teneverka Undated 30 Headdress: Shaming Post Oak Jim July 24 31–33 Case 2: Crow Tassel Wearers Mirsky (Talker) 33 Pukutsi Nemaruibetisi {Chekovi} Undated II 34 Headdress Obligations Passim; See Index 35 “ . . . elder sister . . . ” Frank Chekovi Undated II 36 Case 3: Peacemaking Tahsuda Undated 39 Men’s Societies as Regiments Howard White Wolf July 31 40 Medicine Societies (12 members) Post Oak Jim July 14 Medicine Societies (6 members) George Koweno July 21 40–44 Smoke Lodge Post Oak Jim July 18 Tahsuda Undated 50 Case 4: Adultery: Husband Slays Pony Tahsuda Undated 52, n.4 Case 5: Nanûwokû Nemaruibetsi July 31 52, n.5 Case 6: Adultery: Homicide Post Oak Jim July 24 53, n.6 Case 7: Wife Absconding Rhoda Asanap July 12 Sources of Ethnographic Information in Hoebel (1940) 495 1. Kwasi is otherwise unidentified; perhaps Quassyah. PAGE SUBJECT SOURCE DATE 55 Case 8: Land Dispute Quassyah July 5 56 Case 9: Levirate Claim Frank Chekovi Undated 58 Case 10: Buffalo Robe vs Cliff Tahsuda {Herkeyah} Undated 58 Case 11: Whipping Waived Post Oak Jim July 24 60, n.12 “. . . fighting with rifles . . .” Post Oak Jim Not Found 62 Case 12: Wife Absconding Nemaruibetsi July 31 66 Case 13: Murder Mirsky (Talker) 68 Case 14: Horse Slaying/Murder Tahsuda Undated Mirsky (Talker) 69 Case 15: Horse Slaying/Murder Tahsuda Undated 71 Case 16: Brown Robe vs. Crazy Bear Tahsuda Undated Nemaruibetsi July 31 Story of Ta¿si¿woo¿ Nemaruibetsi July 31 “His feeling for his son . . . ” Mirsky (Kwasi1 ) 72 Murder: Patricide Tahsuda Not Found 73 Wife Desertion/Murder Rhoda Asenap Not Found Murder Nemaruibetsi Not Found 74 Case 17: Murder Post Oak Jim {Howard August 2 White Wolf} 75 Case 18: Wife Destroys Husband Mirsky (Talker) 76 Case 19: Accidental Homicide Howard White...