Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence Bloomfield Moore collection
Collection
Identifier: 9181
Abstract
Collection contains 45 field notebooks from Moore's southeastern archaeological investigations.
Dates:
1891-1918.
Constance Goddard DuBois papers
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438761]
Identifier: 9167
Abstract
The papers include her field notes from her summers in California, notes on her activities with the Connecticut Indian Association, and newspaper clippings relating to Indian affairs, particularly those in California. Drafts of manuscripts for her publications on Luiseno religion, Diegueno mythology, and other subjects relating to the Mission Indians of California are included in the collection. Letters written to Du Bois from 1897 to 1909 comprise a significant part of the collection....
Dates:
1897-1909.
Edward H. Davis papers
Collection
Identifier: 9166
Abstract
Field notebooks, sketchbooks, manuscripts, and correspondence, pertaining primarily to Indians of California and into Mexico. Includes index. Includes information about reservations, artifacts, ruins, ceremonies, descriptions of wildlife, landscapes, languages, and archeological notes. Tribes mentioned include, Pima, Seri, Mayo, Yaqui, Nayarit (Cora), Yuma, Opata, Modoc, Paiute, Diegueño, Cahuilla, and Soboba Indians.
Dates:
1910-1944.
Joseph Jones collection of papers relating to Indians of Tennessee
Collection
Identifier: 9152
Abstract
Collection focus is mainly on the Indians of Tennessee and Jones' work Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee or Antiquities in Tennessee. Covers Indian burial practices, archaeological digs, items found, and other information about Indian antiquities. Includes Mounted pages from Jones' book on notebook sheets with handwritten notes, probably a proof. A handwritten manuscript for the book, bound in a notebook with the hand written title "Explorations of the antiquities of...
Dates:
1846 - 1889; Majority of material found within 1867 - 1868
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.
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.
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.
The Huffman pictures
Collection — Huntington box 20
Identifier: 9089
Scope and content
Album of photographs dated between 1870 and 1910. Some illustrations from magazines. Includes invoice for purchase by The Heye Foundation. Some of the photos are colored. The photos show various aspects of frontier and Indian life in Montana and Missouri. There is a typed note inside the cover from Huffman written at Miles Creek, Montana and a signed picture of Huffman. Included are photos of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, cowboys, and ranchers, the battle field of Little Bighorn with the grave...
Dates:
1870-1910.
Wampanoag Indian research and field notes
Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9057
Scope and content
Research relating to the Burr's Hill Wampanoag Indian burial site in Warren, Rhode Island. Field notebook has daily account of the excavation from 1913, information about the artifacts recovered, maps of the site, some related correspondence, inscriptions in the runic alphabet found on artifacts. Second folder contains typed notes from various sources that Carr used in preparation for a monograph on the Wampanoag burial site. The notes are a combination of a transcript of the item Carr was...
Dates:
1913.