National Anthropological Archives

MS 2371-b Descriptions of signs collected by Hoffman in 1881-82

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2371B
Creators:
Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Item
lot cards
Repository:

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2371-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2371-b

Local Note

Local Note
For mention of specific projects and materials collected by Hoffman concerning sign language and pictography, see Manuscript file Number 1341..., Hoffman's account of his fieldwork, 1871-1893; and see clippings from Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports re Hoffman's work, assembled in 1 folder in Archives office file.
Local Note
Collected subsequent to Mallery's sign language publications.
Local Note
Identified by LaMont West, 1956.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Sign language Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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