National Anthropological Archives

MS 667 Miscellaneous Hupa materials

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS667
Creators:
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Dates:
ca. 1888
Languages:
Undetermined
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Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Contains: Vocabulary torn from Powell's printed "Schedule," 4 pages; Verb paradigms, 3 pages; story, "Old Blind Man," 4 pages; notes, 14 pages as follows, and one sketch map: "Summer Dance" (white deerskin dance), "Fall Dance," burial customs, Remarks on the Hupa."

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Note on loose page with Karok vocabulary, Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript 1450 reads, "Hoopa finished Dec. 16, 1888, Sunday."

Administration

Sponsor
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 667, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 667

Other Title

Other Title
Old Blind Man


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
White Deerskin Dance -- Hupa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fall Dance -- Hupa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Summer Dance -- Hupa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Maps Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hupa Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Karuk (Karok) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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