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Algonquian Indians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Alfred Tamarin papers

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9070
Scope and content Correspondence, notes, photography permissions, and documents accumulated during research for the publication of his book We Have Not Vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Folder one contains copy of a draft of the publication titled "American Indians Today on the Atlantic Seaboard." Has the original photos that were to be used for the publication taped or laid into the pages. Folder two, list of George Catlin slides. Folder three, edits, revisions, additions, other historical...
Dates: 1968-1975.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alfred Tamarin papers

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

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

William Wallace Tooker papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9187
Abstract

Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers, concerning Indian place names on Long Island, N.Y., Coastal Algonquian ethnology, ethnohistory, and linguistics. Notes investigate name origins and discuss how they derive from native languages. Other notes include analysis of early American texts in native languages. Extracts made from Indian land deeds and notes discussing land boundaries also included. Index cards for all the items included.

Dates: [18--]-1917.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / William Wallace Tooker papers

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