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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Bibliografia de las lenguas quechua y aymara: proof-sheets

 Collection — Huntington box 7
Identifier: 9149
Scope and content

Proof-sheets for the publication issued as "Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian," volume 7, number 7. Manuscript contains pasted and typed text, in Spanish, giving information and the titles and authors of works associated with the Aymara and Quechua Indian languages. Also included is a note to a Mrs. Davis regarding the manuscript.

Dates: 1930.

Bibliographic citations on index cards from the Museum of the American Indian

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438936]
Identifier: 9176
Scope and content

Index card citations of works regarding Indians. Ordered in part alphabetically by author, by title, and by subject. Some boxes show only partial and incomplete ordering.

Dates: undated.

Clarence Bloomfield Moore collection

 Collection
Identifier: 9181
Abstract

Collection contains 45 field notebooks from Moore's southeastern archaeological investigations.

Dates: 1891-1918.

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.

Indian vocabulary, places, and people: bibliographic references

 Collection — Huntington box 65
Identifier: 9177
Scope and content

Index cards arranged alphabetically with encyclopedic entries on each card. Cards have articles or newspaper clippings attached to them in addition to typed text. The entries all regard Indians and include places, people, such as chiefs and anthropologists, artifacts such as Folsom points, events, such as Indian conferences, and other associated terms, some in Indian languages. Some cards also give references to other terms and bibliographic information.

Dates: [ca. 1942].

Out of the mists : Northwest coast Indian art

 Collection — Huntington box 13 - folder 1
Identifier: 9085
Scope and content

Material concerning an exhibition from the collections of the Museum of the American Indian, October 10 through December 29, 1984 at the IBM Gallery of Science and Art. Folder includes the copy for all the labels of the exhibit, lists of the items in the exhibit, and a brochure from the exhibit. The exhibit was curated by Mary Jane Lenz. One bound copy, one unbound of the labels, letter of provenance.

Dates: 1984.

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

Star gods of the ancient Americas

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9058
Scope and content Photocopy mock up, with publishing annotations and edits, of a catalog for the Star Gods of the Ancient Americas exhibit which appeared at the American Museum of Natural History and the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, 1982-1984. The exhibit was produced by the Museum of the American Indian. The catalog includes the label copy that was in the exhibit, illustrations and photographs. Includes information about culture and artifacts from Indians of North, Central, and South America,...
Dates: [1982].

Stockbridge Indian papers

 Collection
Identifier: 9185
Abstract Collection includes correspondence, government publications, bills and acts related to the Stockbridge Indians. Includes copies of treaties; petitions to New York State and the federal governments; tribal rolls; lists of payments to Stockbridge and Munsee individuals; powers of attorney from Stockbridge leaders to particular individuals; government documents; and annuity claims. The documents range from correspondence about relocating to sites in Indiana and Wisconsin to receipts for small...
Dates: 1739-1915.