National Anthropological Archives

MS 2630 Tobacco, pipe, corn, etc. among the stocks of Mexico and Central America

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2630
Creators:
McGuire, Dr.
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
850 Items
ca. 850 pages
1,775 Items
cards
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Subject: 1. "Tobacco," "pipe," and occasionally "maize" in a variety of Indian languages, by language family. Approximately 600 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 2. "History of Tobacco." Draft. 74 pages. Footnotes, 18 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 1927. 3. "Tobacco and its Mixtures." Draft. 50 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 4. "Sacrificial Offerings." Draft. 14 pages. Originally from Manuscript 2630. 5. "Kinnikinnick." Draft. 9 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 6. "Pipe-stems." Draft. 9 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 7. "Tobacco bag, box etc." Draft. 2 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 8. "Examples of some Indian words." Draft. 2 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 9. "Tomahawk." Draft. 15 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 2630. 10. "Material smoked." Draft. 23 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 1927. 11. "Tobacco, foreign." Draft. 14 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 1927. 12. "Maize" and notes on its distribution. 9 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 1927. 13. Miscellaneous short notes on history of tobacco. 10 pages. Originally from Manuscript Number 1927. 14. Extracts from vocabularies and historical narratives relating to tobacco, pipes and a few to maize. Approximately 1775 cards. 500 cards from Manuscript 1927, 1225 cards from Manuscript 1967.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2630, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2630


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Tobacco -- Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pipes -- Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mexico Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Central America Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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