Huntington Free Library

Native American subject vertical file

Collection

Identifier: 9205

Abstract

This collection contains ephemera covering a broad variety of topics relating to Native Americans.

Dates: [ca.1850-2000.]

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Native American subject vertical file

Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska

Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1

Identifier: 9009

Scope and content One folder of non-sequential loose notes; some look to be hastily written on scrap paper. These contain descriptions of events; phonetic spelling of native words and their meanings; notes about sociology and class which may have been used as a basis for a publication. The second folder contains extensive notes removed from a notebook. Some pages appear to be missing. The notes are observations of the people covering many aspects. There is a list of common animal names and their translation....

Dates: [1890-1900]

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska

Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley

Collection — Huntington box 17

Identifier: 9088

Scope and content Notes written and collected by Marshall Howard Saville on the Mound builders of the Ohio Valley, including the Turner group of earthworks in Hamilton County, the Little Miami Valley sites, and the Moundon Bowman Farm site near South Milford, Clearmont County. Correspondence from individuals associated with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard University, including Alice E. Putnam and Charles P. Bowditch, with notes of Frederic Ward Putnam. Auction brochure titled...

Dates: 1915-1935.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley

Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9015

Scope and content This collection of letters and notes relates to Geronimo and other Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war. The letters were written at Mount Vernon Barracks and Fort Sill and include documents signed by Geronimo. There is some documentation of the Apache culture. Provenance note from Agnes K. Capron, wife of Allyn Capron, dated March 26, 1938, to George Gustav Heye. Notes by Capron, 7 pages and copies of notes about Apache culture, legends, religion, thoughts about white men. 5 leaves of notes...

Dates: 1884-1896.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron

Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1

Identifier: 9082

Scope and content

Handwritten notes by an unknown author. Notes mention Louis Hennepin, Robert Cavelier sieur de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, Claude Jean Allouez, and Father Claude Dablon. Mention of the Huron, Ottawa and Sioux Indians, Mascouten or Asistieron, and Nation of Fire, as well. Two maps are also included. The maps were published in Paris by Thevenot in "Marquette's Map." The notes describe exploration of the river in the late 1600s.

Dates: [ca. 1900].

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

Notes on Moravian missions

Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1

Identifier: 9080

Scope and content

Handwritten notebook. Gives a history of the Moravian Church and missions and their work with Indians. One section deals with the Moravian mission in Dutchess County, New York. There is mention of baptisms and giving Indians names. Works of George Loskiel, a Moravian historian, are used to write parts of the history. A laid in newspaper clipping about the ghost dance of the Cheyenne and Apache Indians is also included.

Dates: [18--?]

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on Moravian missions

Notes on physical measurements of Kutztown, Pennsylvania German population

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9061

Scope and content

Physical descriptions made using a standard form for residents of Kutztown, Pennsylvania who have German ancestry. Recorded in October 1896. Each page is for a different individual and describes name, sex, age, hair and eye color, physical dimensions including height, lengths of arms, and fingers, other physical descriptions. The back of the notebook has graphs of dimensional data of the individuals surveyed.

Dates: 1896.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on physical measurements of Kutztown, Pennsylvania German population

Notes on the Indians of North America

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9235

Scope and content

Typed notes by Eaton on the North American Indians with some handwritten notes, ca. 1900. Writings include, Indians of North America, 12 pages; Origins, Migration, Mounds, 27 pages; Kin-ship and Governments, 16 pages; Houses and Customs, 27 pages; Primitive Art, 19 pages; Mythology and Religion, 22 pages; Wampum, 9 pages.

Dates: undated.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Notes on the Indians of North America

Of Pilgrims and Indians : a musical play

Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]

Identifier: 9069

Scope and content

Mimeographed copy of a musical about Indians. Includes script, music and song lyrics. Musical tells the story of the pilgrims' arrival on the Mayflower and the first Thanksgiving.

Dates: 1968.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Of Pilgrims and Indians : a musical play

On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing

Collection — Huntington box 13 - folder 1

Identifier: 9084

Scope and content

Corrected draft of an address given "before this most illustrious assembly." Handwritten in pen with pencil corrections. Discusses the pictography and hieroglyphic writing of the Mexican and Central American Indian tribes. It also mentions several codices, such as the Codex Dresdensis Maya and the Codex Vaticanus Latinus 3773, authors, and the use of astronomy in the Mayan calendar.

Dates: 1902.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing

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Native American subject vertical file

Notes about the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska

Notes, correspondence and drawings on the Indian mounds of the Ohio Valley

Notes made or collected by Lieutenant Allyn Capron

Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River

Notes on Moravian missions

Notes on physical measurements of Kutztown, Pennsylvania German population

Notes on the Indians of North America

Of Pilgrims and Indians : a musical play

On the present state of our knowledge of the Mexican and Centro-American hieroglyphic writing

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