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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 147 Collections and/or Records:

The Delaware Indians: a brief tribal history

 Collection — Huntington box 27a - folder 1
Identifier: 9179
Scope and content

Typed manuscript with annotations that was under consideration for publication by the Museum of the American Indian. It appears to have not been published. Included is correspondence discussing the work, to Roland Force from Mary Davis and Brenda Holland. Includes suggested further reading list.

Dates: 1985.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Delaware Indians: a brief tribal history

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Huffman pictures

The Indians of northeastern California

 Collection — Huntington box 46
Identifier: 9163
Scope and content

Typed manuscript as requested by his excellency William D. Stephens, Governor of California, by Allen Gillihan and Alma B. Shaffer for the California State Board of Health.

Dates: ca. 1917-1923.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The Indians of northeastern California

The weaving symbols of the Mayan peoples of Chiapas, Mexico

 Collection — Huntington box 1: [Barcode: 31924092111024]
Identifier: 9067
Scope and content

Xerox of a holograph manuscript about Mayan weaving. Includes autobiographical information and field notes regarding the author's travels while researching. Many illustrations of weaving patterns. Some of the descriptions are written in Mayan. Title is dated September 1974. It appears this manuscript may have been published in a limited number.



Dates: 1974.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The weaving symbols of the Mayan peoples of Chiapas, Mexico

The white woman

 Collection — Huntington box 39 - folder 1
Identifier: 9002
Scope and content

Handwritten manuscript dated May, 17 1841, Chapel Hill, signed by Susan W. McFarland. An extract of an account of a mission performed in 1820 among the Seneca and Munsee by the Rev. Timothy Alden, president of Allegheny College, addressed to Rev. Abiel Holmes, describing a visit with Mary Jemison.

Dates: 1841 May 17.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / The white woman

Three rare pre-columbian codices.

 Collection — Huntington box 32 - folder 1
Identifier: 9159
Scope and content Numbers 263, 317, and 356 in Glass' A Survey and Census of Native Middle American pictorial manuscripts. Codices are also described in Analas del Museo Nacional De Mexico for 1886. Published as a set with the original price of $3.00. Lithographed in Paris from the originals, which were held in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Codices include the Mapa Quinatzin, Mapa Tepechpan, and Mapa Tlotzin. They depict Aztec history from 1298 to 1596, including Tenochtitlan, Chapultepec, Aztec emperor...
Dates: 1886; Undated
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Three rare pre-columbian codices.

Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

 Collection — Manuscript box 40 - folder 1
Identifier: 9012
Scope and content This is a tracing of a deer skin history made by Wounded Bear, Ogallala Sioux. The tracing was made by E. J. Bush. Two versions of the tracing are included. The collection also contains 2 typed translations of the drawings and 1 handwritten copy, plus provenance notes. A note with the collection states that the original deerskin has been lost. A separate note, from E. K. Bennett, states that on June 20, 1938, Mr. Bush reported that the original deer skin was offered for sale through Ben...
Dates: 1894.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tracing made from a painted buckskin showing tribal history

Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

 Collection — Mapcase folder 45
Identifier: 9091
Scope and content Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation entered into by their deputies before Sir William Johnson, baronet, His Majesty's sole agent and superintendent of Indian affairs in the Northern Department of North America...May 8 1765. With supplemental treaty, which was bound to the main treaty, titled The Delaware deputys [sic] sent from Ohio, to strengthen, ratify and confirm the annexed treaty subscribed by Killbuck...July 12, 1765. Treaty discusses the Indians being accepted by the English in...
Dates: 1765.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Treaty of peace with the Delaware Nation, also documentation and supplemental treaty

Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

 Item — Huntington box 41 - folder 1
Identifier: 9102
Scope and content

Drawing of an unfinished Mayan tomb that was visited by Dr. N. H. Wheeler and W. F. Parker, February 19, 1895. Drawing has dimensions of the tomb. It is signed "complimentos de Dr. N. H. Wheeler."

Dates: 1895.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Unfinished toomb [sic] 5 miles east of Mitla

United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

 Collection
Identifier: 9188
Abstract

Typed transcripts of correspondence and records of activities with Indian nations. Transcripts include information on Indian census, Indian removal, reports from Indian agencies, United States policy, trade regulations, emigration, crime, and treaties. Many of the reports are from Indian agents to commanding officers or superintendents of the Office of Indian Affairs, some correspondence giving instructions to agents. Includes an index.

Dates: 1798-1874.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / United States War Department correspondence and records regarding Indian affairs and activities with Indian nations

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