National Anthropological Archives

MS 2356 Report on Indian Inhabitants of Washington Territory

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2356
Creators:
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Dates:
March 4, 1854
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
181 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Rough draft, with much crossing out; page order uncertain. Includes "Census [population estimates"] of Indians in Western Division of the Territory of Washington, February, 1854," 2 pages; "Estimate of the Indian population of the Western District of Washington Territory, 1854, 6 pages; and estimates for treaty negotiations, 1854, 22 pages.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2356, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2356

Local Note

Local Note
A neater version or copy with the same date, and consisting of 126 pages is reported by Barbara Lane (June, 1971) to be in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, in the Gen. George B. McClellan papers, volume 5, pages 1070-1195.
Local Note
See Pacific Railroad Reports, volume 1, 1854, page 402 ff. for printed version. The censuses and treaty estimates may not be in either the printed or the other manuscript versions; this has not been checked. Vern Ray notes (October 1957) that 'h' and 'k' are frequently incorrectly transcribed in the native names.
Local Note
autograph document signed


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Censuses -- American Indian -- Washington Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
population -- American Indian -- Washington Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Treaties -- American Indian -- Washington Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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American Indian -- Washington -- Treaties Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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