National Anthropological Archives

MS 2576 Dictionary of geographical names of North and South America

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2576
Creators:
Watkins, William Brown, 1834-1890
Gannett, Henry, 1846-1914
Dates:
1880-1890 ?
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
11 Volumes
2 Boxes
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Each volume has 200-250 pages. Includes many names of Indian origin, but these are usually indentified only as "Ind." with no indication of language or tribe.

Administration

Custodial History
Received from Henry Gannett, Geographer, USGS, Washington, D. C., November 19, 1908. (Transmittal correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology Correspondence Files.)

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2576, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2576

Local Note

Local Note
Date supplied from J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of Algonquian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology-B 13, 1891, page 521.
Local Note
autograph document signed

Bibliography

Bibliography
According to the old catalog card, the dictionary was largely published by Henry Gannett in The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, [Government printing office, Washington,] 1902; this published work has not been compared with the Manuscript as of 7/1970.

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Names, place -- geographic -- North America Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Names, place -- geographic -- South America Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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