Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957.

At a council held at Edward [unreadable]

Collection — Huntington box 29 - folder 1

Identifier: 9124

Scope and content Photostat of a document purportedly by James Logan giving an account of a meeting. The document illustrates 34 wampum belts, presented by the Delaware Indian delegation, and gives their meanings. The place where the meeting was held appears to start with Edward or Edwards, but the remainder of the word is not decipherable. The council was presumably held somewhere near Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Other individuals attending the meeting included Edward Shippen, Richard Hill, and other members...

Dates: 1712 May 19.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / At a council held at Edward [unreadable]

George G. Heye autograph collection

Collection — Huntington box 1 - folder 2

Identifier: 9063

Abstract

Collection of autographs of individuals associated with George Gustav Heye, Frederick W. Hodge, and Indians of North America.

Dates: 1886-1928.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / George G. Heye autograph collection

Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan

Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1

Identifier: 9046

Scope and content Most letters are addressed to his wife and his son, George P. MacGowan, with some other correspondence as well. Other correspondents include Mrs. S. E. K. Ames, Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, and Mrs. George W. Hazel, who was MacGowan's sister-in-law. Letters from George P. MacGowan to George G. Heye, letter to George MacGowan from Paul D. Moody, President of Middlebury College, VT. Report of Operations by E. A. Carr at Fort Apache mentioning MacGowan's gallant acts. Telegram from E. A. Carr at Fort...

Dates: 1862-1887.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters of Captain Alexander B. MacGowan

Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1

Identifier: 9062

Scope and content

Includes letters from Lorenzo Chavez, Natusey, Tom Kawaya, Harry Shusta, Herman Fryling, Bessie C. Boomshe, and others. Typed diary of a visit to New York City by Lorenzo Chavez and Waihusiwa, who stayed with Mr. and Mrs. George Heye, January to February 1923, includes description of places visited, including the Mauretania. Newspaper clippings covering the visit and a treatment of Chavez's blindness. Correspondence from Zuni Mission Station Day School from Herman Fryling.

Dates: 1916-1930.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Letters to George and Thea Heye from Lorenzo Chavez and other Zuni Pueblo Indians

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

Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City

Collection — Huntington box 29

Identifier: 9117

Scope and content Collection includes notebook by Bolton titled "Notes on discoveries and index to aboriginal objects with location of discovery, collected by W. L. Calver, with some collected in 1907-7-8-9 by W.L.C. and R. P. Bolton." Field notebook by Alanson Skinner from 1918 titled "Field Notes" has "Notes on the great shellheap at Cold Spring, Inwood" as first entry, but the book goes on to describe other Indian excavation sites across New York State, including sites in Jefferson, Orange, and Cayuga...

Dates: 1900-1935.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Reginald Pelham Bolton collection: notes regarding Indians near Inwood Hill Park, New York City

Testimonial for giving Indians medals, engraved by Henry Dawkins

Collection — Huntington box 41 - folder 1

Identifier: 9100

Scope and content Reprint of a William Johnson Indian testimonial used for giving medals to Indians, printed from the original copper plate. The print is in a folder that states "On the occasion of the visit of the Walpole Society to the New York Historical Society on May 25, 1946 there were made from the original copperplate owned by the latter Society, fifty impressions of Sir William Johnson's Indian Testimonial, engraved by Henry Dawkins of Philadelphia in the month of April 1770 and originally designed...

Dates: 1946.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Testimonial for giving Indians medals, engraved by Henry Dawkins

Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

Collection — Mapcase folder 45

Identifier: 9091

Scope and content Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation entered into by their deputies before Sir William Johnson, baronet, His Majesty's sole agent and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Northern Department of North America...May 8 1765. With supplemental treaty, which was bound to the main treaty, titled The Delaware deputys [sic] sent from Ohio, to strengthen, ratify and confirm the annexed treaty subscribed by Killbuck...July 12, 1765. Treaty discusses the Indians being accepted by the English in...

Dates: 1765.

Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

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