Talk:Henry Voth

ledger art, James Mooney, Smithsonian Institution
Voth collected the Cheyenne' s Yellow Nose ledger (now at the SI, with a webpage), which perhaps should be later integrated. --Radh (talk) 09:12, 6 June 2009 (UTC) A James Mooney letter to Aby Warburg speaks of Voth as a dear friend of ours (Smithsonian Institution). --11:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC). mafos journal no. 1, document xxiii--Radh (talk) 11:54, 7 June 2009 (UTC) "...you will find Rev. HR Voth, who is in communication with us (the Smithsonian Institute). He is a good friend of mine and enthusiastic student of Indian languages and costumes", from a James Mooney letter to Aby Warburg, March 30, 1896.--Radh (talk) 06:13, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

literature
There really is not that much on Voth, Eggan was for a long time the only ethnologist (outside Hopi studies), who tried to evaluate his contributions. I have not seen Cathy Trotta' s diss., but it should be a basic reference.--Radh (talk) 09:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Newton
His family leaves Russia for America in 1974, they settle in Newton, Kansas. Voth is interpreting for the family (learned some English in Russia). Voth traines to be a missionary with the G. C. Mennonites. 1.) Wadsworth School, Ohio (the Christian Educational Institute of the Mennonite Community in Ohio). 2.) Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Synod of North America, located at Marthasville, Missouri. 3.) a short (but useful with the Hopi?) medical course at St. Louis, Medical College. The Mission Board of the G. C. Mennonite Church organizes its Native American work as Heidenmissionen (Converting the heathens). Voth is sent first to Darlington, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Arapaho (not Cheyenne) mission: Voth there from June, 1882 to Jan, 1893 (all ref. for Darlington: Barbara Thiesen). 1884 made superintendent. 1884 married Barbara Baer from the mission. Daughter: Frieda. Barbara Voth dies in 1889. Voth marries Martha Moser (of Dalton, Ohio)in August, 1892. She had also been at Darlington. They are sent to northern Arizona, to convert the Hopi. They move to Oraibi, 3rd mesa, (just outside the village). They move to "New Oraibi", but shortly afterwards Martha Voth dies (1901). Voth leaves the Hopi in 1903. Leaves also the mission field, die "Heidenmission". Works for the church. Marries Katie Hershler (of Perry, Oklahoma). Voth dies in Newton, Kansas--Radh (talk) 21:03, 6 June 2009 (UTC)