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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

Penobscot texts

 Collection — Huntington box 8 - folder 1
Identifier: 9049
Scope and content Note included with manuscripts by E. K. Burnett says these texts were probably used by Speck for his Penobscot Transformer Tales, published in the International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 1, number 3, page 187-192, 1918. The texts are written in the Penobscot language, but have English subtitles. The pages are annotated with information on how they should be published. They include narratives and what appear to be interviews as well as lists of translations, and stories from the...
Dates: 1908-1914.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Penobscot texts

Pete Hest North American Indian collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6507
Abstract

Promotional and educational published material, pamphlets, brochures, photographs, posters, scrapbooks and other material collected by Pete Hest, relating to the history and culture of Native Americans in the United States and Canada.

Dates: 1930-2002.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pete Hest North American Indian collection

Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924112438738]
Identifier: 9168
Abstract Papers concerning Maya chronology, hieroglyphs, slabs, and languages, with comparisons to archeological sites in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Collection includes holographic manuscripts, bound and loose, hand copied portions of books, extensive notes in notebooks, large collections of tracings of hieroglyphs, pencil and colored drawings of landscapes, people and artifacts, correspondence, several unpublished papers, drafts and manuscripts for Valentini's Deciphering the Palenque Slabs, Temple...
Dates: 1870-1899.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Philipp Johann Josef Valentini papers

Photographs from State of Guerrero Mexico

 Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9218
Scope and content

Photographs from Guerrero Mexico from negatives taken by William Niven. Photos show locals, cacti, buildings, and ruins.

Dates: 1895.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Photographs from State of Guerrero Mexico

Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies.

 Collection
Identifier: 9254
Abstract

Photostats of a selection of important manuscripts and documents regarding Indians from the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain, particularly the section of Papeles procedentes de Cuba.

Dates: 1765-1802.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Photostats of scattered Indian documents in the Archives of the Indies.

Plan of Teotihuacan on maguey paper.

 Item — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9160
Scope and content

Copy of an old city plan of the ancient city of Teotihuacan.

Dates: 1898; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Plan of Teotihuacan on maguey paper.

Pottawatomie prints and correspondence

 Collection — Huntington box 1 - folder 1
Identifier: 9071
Scope and content Eight prints that are numbered 43 of 1000 and correspondence regarding the prints. Prints are from original drawings done by Winter in 1837. Included is a letter to Marsha Winter from R. Spiner Ball, dated May 21, 1987, discussing how the prints were supposed to be sold, but could not find a market. Also some mention of the people that Mr. Winter drew. There is also a certificate of authenticity, signed by Cecily Gordon Bottum-Ball, a press release, a sheet describing the works, and the...
Dates: 1987.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Pottawatomie prints and correspondence

Provenance and Associated documents removed from Native American Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9209
Scope and content Collection contains loose items that were removed from the inside of books and manuscript collections from the Huntington Free Library. Items include letters regarding the books, book dealer listings, assorted cards and notes, additional encyclopedic information, and other ephemera. Items organized by call number. Books and manuscripts in the Native American Collection that have a folder in this collection are noted as having additional material in their record. Also a chronology of the Heye...
Dates: [ca. 1920-1980].
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Provenance and Associated documents removed from Native American Collection

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

Registro de Reales Cedulas de las provincia de Santa Marta

 Collection
Identifier: 9199
Scope and content

Bound photostats of a register, from Santa Marta Columbia, parts appear to be written in an unidentified Indian language, likely a form of the Mayan language, other parts look to be Spanish. Inside front cover, modern note states: "Archivo de Indias, de Sevilla. Est. 119, caj. 7, leg. 22. Tomo 1. Años 1529-1533." Written in Spanish on the backs of many of the pages are some identification notes.

Dates: 1529-1533.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Registro de Reales Cedulas de las provincia de Santa Marta

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