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MS 4117-a Materials relating to the Haida

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4117A
Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Stevens, Tom ?
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Materials in
Kiowa
(Káyowē) and
English
.
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Contents: (1) Vocabulary notes, especially concerning technology, food gathering, and place names. 18 pages. (2) "List of plants collected by Dr John R. Swanton." Scientific and Haida names. 2 pages, typed. (3) Printed copy of "A Preliminary Catalogue of the Collections of Natural History and Ethnology in the Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia," 1898, with Haida names added in pencil by Swanton to the Check List of British Columbia Birds, pages 15-55. Cover marked by Swanton, "Containing Haida names of animals, obtained from Tom Stevens [?], Chief of naikungegawai [?]." Material not in Swanton's hand, but evidently received by him from others: (4) "List of Mollusca collected by the Queen Charlotte Islands with Haida names (all Skidegate)." Subsequent parts of list marked , "Fishes," "Annulosa," "Crustacea," "Echinodermata," "Coelenterata," and "Mammalia." 5 pages.

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Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4117-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4117-a

Other Title

Other Title
List of plants collected by Dr John R. Swanton
Other Title
A Preliminary Catalogue in the Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia
Other Title
List of Mollusca collected by the Q. C. I. with Haida names (all Skidegate)


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Haida language Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Botany -- Haida Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Zoology -- Haida Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Names, place -- Haida Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Haida Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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