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Swan, James G., 1818-1900
Old Toke
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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July 20, August 20, and September 4, 1855
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9 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS970
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National Anthropological Archives
Contents relate to medicine men; story of the Thunder Bird; notes on religion, customs, tribal names, etc.
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Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930
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undated
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10 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2422
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National Anthropological Archives
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Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889
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July 3, 1869
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4 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3675
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National Anthropological Archives
Contains brief remarks on the languages, religious practices, and legends of various northwestern tribes, including the Cayuse, Kalapuya, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Wallawalla, Chehalis, etc.
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ANONYMOUS
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undated
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9 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1220
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes names of the Eskimo, Aleut, Athapascan, Tlingit, Salish, and Sahaptan families. "This seems to be a tentative paper, for many names, of which the anonymous author attempts interpretations, are falsely explained... Some Alaskan names are extracts from Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume 1." --A.S. Gatschet.
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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Bertz, Dietrich
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1895
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599 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7224
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National Anthropological Archives
This is an English translation done for the British Columbia Indian Language Project that was made from Boas's German publication issued in Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 1895.
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Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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August, 1855; November, 1857
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32 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS981
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes letter dated November 9, 1857, including references to these notes. 6 pages.
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Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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undated
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2 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3714
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National Anthropological Archives
Includes data for the following: Songees, Klallum, Soke, Sanitch, Cowegin, Nanaimo, Laycooltach, Quakeeolth, Nitinat [spellings are Gibbs'].
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Furuhjelm, Johan Hampus, 1821-1909
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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April, 1862
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3 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS528
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National Anthropological Archives
Letter transmitting Yakutat (Tlingit) vocabulary, and vocabulary of an Indian language spoken around Fort Ross, California; includes discussion of origin of the term, "Kolosh." Also incomplete clerk's copy of the letter, 1 page.
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Swan, James G., 1818-1900
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October 11, 1875
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19 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1207A
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National Anthropological Archives
Report of a cruise in the U. S. Steamer Wolcott of the Revenue Marine Service, June-July, 1875 in the waters of Alaska and British Columbia. A chart, referred to on page 1 of the letter is not present: "I send a chart published by the English Admiralty of that portion of the Northwest Coast from Fort Simpson, British Columbia to Cross Sound, Alaska...
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Furuhjelm, Johan Hampus, 1821-1909
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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December, 1860
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12 Pages
- Collection ID:
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National Anthropological Archives
Letter discusses the several dialects of Northwestern America, and indicating the number of speakers; with appended list of Sitka (Tlingit) words. Also with the file is a clerk's copy of the letter only.