Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
Rhode Island field notebook
Collection — Huntington box 9 - folder 1
Identifier: 9178
Dates:
[undated]
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.