MS 2573 Miscellaneous papers and extracts on Florida
Adair, James, approximately 1709-1783
González Barcia, Andrés
Moore, Francis, active 1744
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Miscellaneous papers as follows: Gatschet,- The Timucua Language. Florida Linguistics-- Mouilla, Pareja, Sedeno. Florida Springs. Chichimees in Florida. Yamassee War, 1715. Mobilians. Yamasee. Creeks- Adair. Apalachees, Conchaques, Alibamons, Apalachicolys. Cannibals Defined, 1520. Narvaez, 1528. Timucua. Ais. Cuban Colony and the Arawaks. Caloosas and Neighbors- Spanish Captives 1564. Discovery of Florida- 1513. Remnant Tribes in Cuba …
MS 7295 Miscellaneous manuscripts relating to the aboriginal Indians of Dutch and British Guiana
The material includes lists, texts, brief articles, clippings, vocabularies, letters, reading notes, bibliographic notes, and maps. Much of the material has to do with natural history and geography and includes material on place names and animal names. Some of the material has no direct relation to Roth's study of Guyana …
MS 48 Collectanea upon the Codex Troano, terms of the Maya and other Central American languages
A collection of ethnographic and linguistic notes from diverse sources, aiming at an understanding of problems of reading Mayan hieroglyphic characters. Most of the notes cover Mayan vocabulary and glyphs, but Gatschet ranges almost at random over other data, ethnographic and linguistic, that may have caught his interest. He touches …
A. Hyatt Verrill negatives, photographs and other materials
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
170 Photographic prints (albumen)
392 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
These images depict the indigenous people of Peru, Bolivia, Suriname and Chile; the largest percentage of the images are of Panama and Guyana (British Guiana).
MS 2028 Notebook containing North American Indian and other vocabularies collected by A.S. Gatschet and others, and miscellaneous notes and bibliographic references
Loew, O. (Oscar), 1844-
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
Antonia, Marie
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The material is in the handwriting of A.S. Gatschet, in a composition book. In the same volume are numerous miscellaneous notes, many in German script; brief bibliographic notes, and notes of an apparently personal nature. There are also extracts from the Codex Wangianus, from Charles Lyell, and from others. In …
Shirley Hoffmann photographs of Amazonas
This collection contains 8 color slides photographed by Shirley Hoffmann circa 1989-1990 depicting Arawakan women of the San Carlos de Rio Negro region of the Amazonas, Venezuala.
MS 3976 Notes on the Caribbean relation to the languages of Southern Florida
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Contents: "Affinity of Timucua with the Arawak stock." 3 pages orig. by A. S. Gatschet, including brief vocabulary. "Affinities of Timucua with Maskoki, some probably derived from intercourse with the Seminoles." 4 pages orig. by A. S. Gatschet, including brief vocabulary. "Affinity of Timucua with Carib." 2 pages orig. by A. S. Gatschet …
Peru: When the World Turned Dark
Edited film, produced for Cinematograficas Arawak S.A., focuses on the religious celebrations of the village of Yanque where Andean rites continue to be followed along with Christian rituals which have survived from the colonial era. Also examined are current myths of the Colca Valley, including the one arising from the …
Herbert William Krieger papers
Jacobs, Melville
Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949
Cook, W. A.
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The papers of this collection are those of Herbert William Krieger (b. 1889), archaeologist and curator of the Division of Ethnology for the former United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Included are correspondence, field notebooks, notes, administrative material, manuscripts of writings, printed matter, sketches, maps, photographs and other documents.
Irving Goldman papers
bulk 1934-1994
9.3 Linear feet (26 boxes)
Irving Goldman (1911-2002) was an anthropologist who conducted research among the Modoc Indians in California, the Ulkatcho Carrier of British Columbia, and the Cubeo Indians in the Vaupes region of the Northwest Amazon. The focus of the collection is Goldman's field research on the Cubeo. The collection also includes some materials relating to his work on the Modoc, the Ulkatcho Carrier, Polynesians, and Tzotzil of Chamula Indians of Chiapas, Mexico. Other materials in the collection include his professional and personal correspondence and his writings. Another important part of this collection is from his personal materials. Goldman was a Communist from 1936-1942, and in 1953 was brought before the Jenner Committee. The file Goldman kept of this investigation includes a transcript of his appearance in front of the Committee, as well as many newspaper clippings.
