Eskimos.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Catalogs and advertisements for Indian traders
Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9190
Scope and content
Collection of catalogs, auction listings, and brochures for Indian curios. Some of the catalogs list prices for items including jewelry, blankets, clothing, baskets, and pottery. Some of the shops appear to have specialized in excavated items, while others contracted with tribes and reservations to have items made for their shops. Auction catalogs list items from estates of Indian collectors. Collection has a focus on Navajo textiles, but includes information on other items from Alaska to...
Dates:
[ca.1900].
Catlin's North American Indian bills scrapbook
Collection — Huntington box 40
Identifier: 9109
Scope and content
Scrapbook of announcements and other ephemera advertising Catlin's Gallery of North American Indians and events pertaining to Indians. Includes some correspondence, tickets signed by Catlin, newspaper clippings, and information about his exhibitions in the Indian Museum at the Egyptian Hall, Picadilly. Also advertisements for events with Indians who were brought back to Europe, including archery competitions and am event held at Windsor Castle. The advertisements mention the various tribes...
Dates:
1840-1855.
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-ElzeĢar 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.