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MS 4846 Correspondence between BAE authors and the BAE Editorʹs office
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Creators:
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Editor
Adams, William Yewdale
Alphonse, Rev. E.S.
Bass, William Marvin, III
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Dates:
1927-1967
Size:
3 Volumes
4 Boxes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4846
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Also records of galley and page proofs.

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American Ethnological Society records
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Creators:
Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991
Ewbank, Thomas
Fischell, A.
French, Kathrine S. (Kathrine Story), 1922-2006
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Dates:
1834-1964
Size:
7 Linear feet (14 boxes)
Collection ID:
NAA.2007-11
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The records of the American Ethnological Society (AES) document its activities from its founding in 1842 through the mid-1960s. The American Ethnological Society is the oldest anthropological association in America. It has been interested in publishing and promoting study of different cultures in the Americas from its founding in 1842 to the present. Materials include correspondence, reports, and financial records relating to the administrative functions of the organization.

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MS 7369 Margaret Lantis correspondence concerning "The U.S.A. as Anthropologists See It" (American Anthropologist, Vol. 57, No. 6 December 1955)
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Lantis, Margaret, 1906-2006
Vogt, Evon Z. (Evon Zartman), 1918-2004
Henry, Jules, 1904-1969
Harrington, J. C. (Jean Carl), 1901-1998
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Dates:
1953-1954
Size:
1 Item (ca. 3/4 in. )
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7369
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Consists mainly of correspondence with Sol Tax, editor of the American Anthropologist at the time. Also includes correspondence with contributors and prospective contributors to the volume and participants in a related symposium, including Jules Henry, Evon Zartmann Vogt, Jean C. Harrington, David M. Schneider, Charles F. Harding, III, John Gillin,...

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MS 4689 Matilda Coxe Stevenson Papers
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Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915
Stevenson, James, 1840-1888
Anderson, Larz
Avery, Rachel Foster
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Dates:
ca. 1870-1910
Size:
5 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4689
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Most of Stevenson's scientific notes are included as separate items in the series of numbered manuscript and the papers of John Peabody Harrington. This particular set of materials is made up of papers that passed into the hands of the executor of her estate. It consists of a miscellany of letters, notes, legal documents, cartographic materials, ge...

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MS 4024-c Personal letters received by John Wesley Powell
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Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Becker, G. F.
Bell, Alexander G.
Croly, D. G. Mrs
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Dates:
1880-1907
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4024C
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: Becker, G. F. San Francisco, California. June 24, 1884. 1 page. Asking to be relieved of an inefficient clerical helper. Bell, Alexander G. Washington, D. C. December 17, 1884. 1 page. Invitation to dinner. Croly, Mrs D. G. New York City. 1884. 3 pages. Requesting photographs for International Bazaar at Cassel, Germany. Cushing, Frank Ham...

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MS 4271 J.N.B. Hewitt Correspondence
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Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Chew, William
Cornplanter, Jesse J.
Haag, Mack
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Dates:
1886-ca. 1935
Size:
2 Boxes
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4271
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

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 India...

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MS 2359 Correspondence regarding the Thompson Lytton Liturgy
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Creators:
Good, J. B. (John Booth), 1833-1916
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
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Dates:
1899-1904
Size:
1 folder
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2359
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Relates to the Thompson Lytton liturgy. ("The Thompson-Lytton Liturgy" or "The Black Manuscript of the Ne Kla Kapa nuk"). Apparently this was a translation by Reverend Good of the Christian liturgy into the language of the Thompson River Indians. It was contained in a book with black covers. MCB 9/22/54. The manuscript was returned to Mr. Good in ...

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Digitized Content MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs
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Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966
Allyn, Harriet M.
Antevs, Ernst V.
Baker, Frank C.
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Dates:
undated
Size:
1 Item (Papers : 5.4 linear feet (16 boxes)
1 Item (Photographs : ca 3100 prints and negatives)
1 Item (Maps and illustrations )
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4851
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection of Rober's papers and photographs is almost excluvely concerned with his scientific fieldwork and resulting publications. It is not complete; for example, there is little in the photographs concerning his work at Agate Basin in Wyoming (though some related site forms are part of the records of the River Basin Surveys). Apparently, s...

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MS 4238 J.P. Harrington replies to inquiries
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Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Merrill, Robert Valentine, 1892-1951
Leveque, Ernest J.
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Dates:
undated
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4238
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Concerns the origin of the word: Tassinong. The Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico gives it as "probably a Potawatomie place name." Replies from the following are cited: Truman Michelson, Robert V. Merrill (2), Ernest J. Leveque, C. H. C. Wright, J. D. M. Ford, Jean L. Launay, W. A. Briggs (Gary, Indiana), and J. P. Harrington.

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MS 4745 Letters received by William Henry Holmes, and other papers and notes about correspondents
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Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957
Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933
Zimmerman, Mark E.
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Dates:
1880's-1925
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4745
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: (1) Letter from Francis Densmore to W. H. Holmes describing a Hidatsa "bannerstone," June 6, 1916. (2) Letters received from and copies of letters sent to Gerard Fowke, mainly relative to cave explorations, 1890-91, 1893, 1903-1904. Also reports of "Shell Mounds on Tennessee River & Tributaries," 5 pages, and hematite Indian mine, Leslie ...

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