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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4271 J.N.B. Hewitt Correspondence
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4271
- Creators:
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Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937Chew, WilliamCornplanter, Jesse J.Haag, MackHarkins, Lee F.Hewitt, Alvis David, 1843-1937Hewitt, Caroline (Tuscarora)Hewitt, David BrainardJohnson, EliasKellogg, Laura Cornelius, 1880-1947Lincoln, George I.Lyons, Iva B.Lyon(s), Phoebe Patterson, MrsChief Emmet Lyons (Onondaga), -1933Owl, W. David (Walter David)Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955Tarbell, Margarette W.Chief Wild Pigeon, -1927Baldwin, Marie Louise Bottineau, 1863-1952Gabaoosa, GeorgeGibson, John H.Gibson, Simeon, 1889-1943Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974Newhouse, SethMorgan, Cecil E. (Cecil Etienne)
- Dates:
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1886-ca. 1935
- Languages:
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Multiple languages.
- Physical Description:
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2 Boxes
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Contents:
1. Letters received from other anthropologists and the public, with a few copies of letters sent, 1886- ca. 1933. Alphabetically arranged.
2. Letters received from Indians of the Onondaga, Tonowanda, and Tuscarora Reservations, with a few copies of letters sent, ca. 1902-ca. 1935. Alphabetically arranged.
3. Letters received from Indians of the Six Nations Reservation, Grand River, Ontario, Canada, with a few copies of letters sent, 1897-1937, Alphabetically arranged.
4. Letters sent, 1902-1905. In letterpress copybook, pages 84-338. Pages 1-83 contain an Iroquois text, untranslated. Correspondents include: Melancon, Art.[?] S. J., Archivist, College Sainte-Marie, Montreau. May 8, 1930. Concerning whereabouts of Ojibwa manuscript of Fr. Ferard.
Bureau of American Ethnology 4721 Correspondents include: Adkins, O.W., Bailey, Nicodemus, Carroll, Julia C., Chew, William, Clute, Alexander H., Coolidge, Sherman Rev. (see Society of American Indians), Cornplanter, Jesse, Doxtator, George, Gansworth, Howard, Haag, Mack, Harkin, Lee F., Henricks, Walter A. Mrs, Hewitt, Alvis B., Hewitt, Caroline, Hewitt, David B., Hill, Mrs, Hill, C. D., Hill, David Russell, Howe, Chester, Honyoust, John, Johnson, Elias, Johnson, Isaac Mrs, Johnson, Matthew L., Johnson, William J., Jonathan, Jesse, Jones, W. Franklin, Kellogg, Laura C. (Mrs O. J.), Kirk, Jesse Rev., Koeppler, John L., Lincoln, George I. (see Thomas Asylum) Lyon(s), Iva B., Lyon(s), Phoebe Patterson Mrs, Lyon(s), Emmet Chief, Metoxen, Pierson L., [RE: Mountpleasant, John] Gearlow, George C., Mountpleasant, Grant, Murray, Robert Knox, Moore, M. M., Owl, W. David (Charo.), Parker, Arthur C., (see Society of American Indians), Patterson, Holland, D., Robinson, Joe T. (U. S. Senator, Arkansas), Seneca Nation, Resolution, March 21, '03, Society of American Indians, The, Parker, Arthur C., Secretary-Treasurer (Includes 2 page biographical notes by JNBH on Jean Baptiste Bottineau) Smith, Lucy M., Tarbell, Margarette (nee M. M. White), Tuscarora Tribe, Thomas Asylum, Lincoln, George I. Superindendent, White, M. M. see Tarbell; Wild Pigeon, Chief.
Correspondents at Six Nations Reservation. (Incomplete list.) Baldwin, Marie L. B., Beaver, G. W., Buck, John, Gabaoosa, George (Garden River, Ontario, Not Brantford, Grand River), Gibson, John H., Gibson, Simeon, Gridley, Marion E. (Indian Council Fire)-- See note on reverse., Hess, Jacob, Hill, Asa R., Newhouse, Seth, 1897-1911, Thomas, David, Morgan, C. E., Lt Col., Gridley, M. includes biographical notes on the following: Dr Arthur C. Parker, William B. Newell (Rolling Thunder), Dr George W. Beaver, W. David Owl, Louis Deer (Oskanonton).
"H" section includes office memos and various papers relating to Hewitt and his career with the Bureau of American Ethnology. (They are not necessarily received from persons whose names begin with H, but should be kept together because of their relevance to Hewitt's career.) Nothing here from Horatio Hale. MCB 6/6/63.
Includes sidelights on others in Bureau of American Ethnology and out- e.g. letter from Sapir concerning Radins "dismisal" and concerning Hewitt's relationship with Hodge.
Using the Collection
Preferred Citation
Manuscript 4271, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4271
Local Note
Local Note
Researcher (Fr Aloysius Schretlen, SJ) trying to locate Ojibway Manuscript of Fr Ferard says not at Wikwemikong, Jesuit Motherhouse in Canada, as stated elsewhere. Says "I much fear the manuscript may have been lost in the disastrous fire of 1954, for I feel sure it would have been shown to me..." (correspondence 88-464, dated 3/17/88) KTB 4/5/88
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Iroquois | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Tuscarora | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Owl, W. David (Walter David) | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Society of American Indians | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children (Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, N.Y.) | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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