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Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

Earl Y. Henderson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9059
Abstract

Correspondence to and from Henderson, Indian reports written and collected by Henderson.

Dates: 1916-1931.

Edna Hillyer Ford Collection of Portraits of American Indians correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9260
Scope and content Includes a letter from Ford to F. W. Hodge discussing the oil paintings that she has of American Indians. The paintings are believed in part to be copies of ones owned by the Smithsonian. She includes photos of all eleven as well as a description of each. She has also annotated the back of some of the photos to include additional information about the original paintings and painters. She mentions their similarity to the McKinney and Hall lithographs and Lewis collection paintings as well....
Dates: 1909.

Edward A. Ellsworth correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 36 - folder 1
Identifier: 9203
Scope and content

Positive and negative Photostats of one letter from J. T. Irving to Edward A. Ellsworth dated November 14, 1833 from Fort Leavenworth and one letter from Edward A. Ellsworth to his brother Henry W. Ellsworth dated June 24, 1833 from New York. The Irving letter discusses the journey west and the Ellsworth letter describes conditions near the Platte River. Ellsworth mentions preparing documents for Congress, his father, Mormons, and purchasing a wild Indian horse.

Dates: 1833

Edwin L. McLeod collection of Kern basket photographs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9079
Scope and content 30 photographs of the basket collection of E. L. McLeod, assembled around 1892-1908. The baskets are chiefly from Kern County California. Some of the photos show the baskets at what looks to be McLeod's residence; others are shown in a studio. The photos are described on the back, possibly by E. L. McLeod. The descriptions identify the type of basket, and in some cases seem to tell where the basket was acquired or where it resides. Most of the baskets are labeled as being the bottle neck...
Dates: ca. 1910.

Eskimo syllabics and dictionary

 Collection — Huntington box 39b - folder 1
Identifier: 9076
Scope and content

Handwritten Hudson Bay Eskimo dictionary. Dictionary also has a note on it saying Baffin Island and Harrison Region, July 25, 1955. Manuscript shows the Eskimo alphabet symbols and then has a list of common words in the Eskimo language, Eskimo syllabics and their English translation.

Dates: undated.

Explanation of an Eskimo map

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9048
Scope and content

Manuscript describes an Eskimo map that was drawn on a leaf of ledger paper by Noo-kud-la for Captain Joseph-Elzéar Bernier. The original map, which was supposedly in the collections of the American Geographic Society, is included. The description explains the map which outlines the journey made by Noo-kud-la and Alfred Tremblay in 1923. Information on Eskimo population obtained from C. Vigneau, who was with Captain Bernier.



Dates: 1924.

Extracts from articles, news items, and advertisements relative to Indians, chiefly those of New England

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9007
Scope and content Extracts from articles, news items, and advertisements relative to Indians, chiefly those of New England, which appeared in the Boston Courant, Boston Gazette, and Boston News-letter. Folder one contains handwritten notes, giving excerpts, gleaned from newspaper clippings from the 1700s. Folder two contains a typewritten transcript. Organized by name of publication. Appears to include information from 1700 to 1750. Papers give title or brief summary of article, date, length of article in...
Dates: 1700-1750.

Fidelia A. H. Fielding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9000
Scope and content

Digitized versions of the original three diaries written in the Mohegan language: December 20, 1902-January 23, 1903; April 21 - June 24, 1904; and May 17 - June 21, 1904. Copy of the Lord's Prayer in Mohegan; and a certificate for the unveiling of a monument in memory of Fidelia Fielding at Fort Shantok Park (Norwich, CT) by the Degree of Pocohantas, May 24, 1936.

Dates: 1902-1904, 1936.

Four Arawak Indian songs

 Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9215
Scope and content

Five songs written out in English and Native language as told to Thomas E and Arthur P. Penard by an Arawak indian in Dutch Guiana or Suriname. Three songs are about love and drink; the fourth is about leaving for England. Two of the pages are notes regarding the songs, including information about Indians leaving for England.

Dates: [ca. 1911]

Fragments of sculpture brought from ruins of Copan

 Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9101
Scope and content

Painting of Mayan sculpture showing figures and heads of figures. Painting has provenance and publication notes written on it. The reverse describes the sculptures as being brought to the Peabody Museum at Harvard University from the Copan site in Honduras.

Dates: 1890 - 1899; 1910

Additional filters:

Subject
Indians of North America 135
Indians of Mexico 23
Indians of North America -- Government relations 21
Cherokee Indians. 19
Dakota Indians 17
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Indians of North America -- Education 16
Indians of North America -- Pictorial works 12
Mayas. 11
Zuni Indians. 11
Aztecs. 10
Indians of North America -- Folklore 10
Indians of North America -- Missions 10
Navajo Indians. 10
Seminole Indians. 10
Delaware Indians. 9
Indians of North America -- Languages 9
Mohawk Indians. 9
Hopi Indians. 8
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites 8
Indians of South America. 8
Seneca Indians. 8
Indians of North America -- Great Plains 7
Indians of North America -- Land tenure 7
Munsee Indians. 7
Nahuatl language. 7
Photographs 7
Shawnee Indians. 7
Cheyenne Indians. 6
Frontier and pioneer life. 6
Indians of North America -- California 6
Indians of North America -- Dictionaries 6
Indians of North America -- Religion 6
Manuscripts -- Mexico. 6
Oneida Indians. 6
Pueblo Indians. 6
Abenaki Indians. 5
American bison hunting. 5
Apache Indians. 5
Aztecs -- History. 5
Choctaw Indians. 5
Indians of Central America. 5
Indians of North America -- Antiquities 5
Indians of North America -- Arizona 5
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation 5
Indians of North America -- New Mexico 5
Indians of North America -- New York (State) 5
Indians of North America -- Politics and government 5
Indians of North America -- Treaties 5
Iroquois Indians. 5
Mohegan Indians. 5
Ojibwa Indians 5
Osage Indians. 5
Algonquian Indians. 4
Chickasaw Indians. 4
Comanche Indians. 4
Creek Indians. 4
Crow Indians. 4
Eskimos. 4
Indian captivities. 4
Indians of North America -- Alcohol use 4
Indians of North America -- Canada 4
Indians of North America -- Claims 4
Indians of North America -- Dwellings 4
Indians of North America -- Kansas 4
Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. 4
Indians of North America -- Rhode Island 4
Indians of North America -- West (U.S.) 4
Mexico City (Mexico). 4
Ranch life. 4
Wampanoag Indians. 4
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Pictorial works. 4
Algonquian languages 3
Aztec art. 3
Calumets. 3
Carib Indians. 3
Cliff-dwellers. 3
Cree Indians. 3
Drawings. 3
Excavations (Archaeology). 3
Indian art -- North America 3
Indian art -- North America. 3
Indian mythology -- North America. 3
Indians of North America -- Bibliography 3
Indians of North America -- Commerce 3
Indians of North America -- Games 3
Indians of North America -- History 3
Indians of North America -- Jewelry 3
Indians of North America -- Massachusetts 3
Indians of North America -- New England 3
Indians of North America -- Social conditions 3
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs 3
Indians of North America -- Songs and music 3
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New 3
Indians of North America -- Sports 3
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) 3
Indians of North America -- Wisconsin 3
Latter Day Saints 3
Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876. 3
Maya astronomy. 3
Mayan languages -- Writing. 3
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