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Digitized Content MS 338-c Chukchee Vocabularies
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Creators:
Baer, John
Dates:
1852-1855
Size:
41 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS338C
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Vocabularies collected by the expedition team at the sites called Yerigen (Yergin, Yarga on Arakamchechen Island) and Siqluk (Chak-lock, on the nearby Yttygran Island) respectively, off the Glasenap Harbor, Senyavin Strait, west side of Bering Strait. Yergin/Yarga and Siqluk/Chak-lock are about 2 miles apart.

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MS 1764 Letters regarding publication of "Tales of the Asiatic Eskimo"
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Creators:
Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883-
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Dates:
1918
Size:
240 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1764
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Letters here, 1956. Part of this manuscript has not been located, 1941. Manuscript and 8 illustrations for paper entitled "Tales of the Asiatic Eskimo" missing, 1956.

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Digitized Content Corporal Harold E. Brown collection
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Creators:
Brown, Harold E., 1929-2012
Malewotkuk, Florence Nupok
Dates:
1952-1953
Size:
1 Linear foot
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.099
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains materials that were created and collected by Corporal Harold E. Brown circa 1952-1953 and relate to his service in the United States Army when he was stationed in Alaska during the Korean War (1950-1953). The materials include letters from Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) artist Florence Nupok Malewotkuk (1906-1971) to Cpl. Brown and...

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Digitized Content June and Farrar Burn photographs from Alaska
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Creators:
Burn, Farrar, 1888-1974
Burn, June, 1893-1969
Dates:
1920-1921
Size:
12 Glass plate negatives
13 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.131
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection includes negatives from June and Farrar Burn's time in Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska between 1920 and 1921. The Burns were granted teaching appointments from the Bureau of Education in the Alaska School Service and assigned to Gambell where they lived for a year, working closely with the Yuit (Siberian Yup'ik) community there.

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Digitized Content Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska
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Creators:
Bernard, Joseph-Fidèle, 1878-1972
Dates:
1921
Size:
11 Glass plate negatives
11 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.132
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Joseph-Fidèle Bernard photographs from Alaska consists of negatives taken by Bernard in 1921 among the Inupiaq (Alaska Inupiat Eskimo) and Siberian Yu'pik communities. Bernard was an artic trader, trapper and captain of the schooner "Teddy Bear."

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Digitized Content Henry Bascom Collins films of Yupik Eskimo Life, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska
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Creators:
Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987
Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968
Dates:
circa 1930
Size:
Film reels (black-and-white silent; 2000 feet, 35mm)
Collection ID:
HSFA.1982.06
Repository:
Human Studies Film Archives

Footage taken by Smithsonian anthropologist Henry Collins and his assistant James Ford in the summer of 1930, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Shots include Eskimos in boats; three men positioning themselves in boulders along seacliffs to catch birds with pole net; dancing and drumming; fishing with both lines and nets; dog teams; the preparat...

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James E. Curry papers
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Creators:
Paul, William L. Jr
Curry, James E., 1907-1972
Dates:
1932-1958
Size:
121.7 Linear feet
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.015
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

These are the papers of Washington, D.C. attorney James E. Curry, whose legal career included work both as a government attorney and in his own private practice. The bulk of the papers reflect his private practice in the area of Indian affairs.

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Digitized Content Mary Harriman Rumsey collection of Harriman Alaska Expedition photographs
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Creators:
Rumsey, Mary Harriman, 1881-1934.
Dates:
1898-1900
1903
1914
bulk 1899-1899
Size:
396 Lantern slides
286 Photographic prints
1 Map
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.053
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Mary Harriman Rumsey collection largely consists of photographic prints and lantern slides documenting the Harriman Expedition to Alaska in summer 1899. These depict members of the expedition and Alaskan scenery and people. The collection also includes scenic photographs of Alaska taken by Dora Keen in 1914 and photographs of Blackfeet, Hopi, Apache, and Suquamish Indians made by Edward Curtis in 1900 and 1903.

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Digitized Content Leuman Maurice Waugh collection
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Creators:
Waugh, Donald.
Waugh, Leuman Maurice, 1877-1972.
Dates:
1909-1963
Size:
2.1 Linear feet ((5 boxes; 1 map case drawer))
1,749 Photographic prints
1,035 Lantern slides
1579 Negatives (photographic)
80 Film reels (16mm)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.003
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The Leuman Maurice Waugh collection contains papers, photographs, and film holdings that were created by Waugh during his dental research expeditions to indigenous communities in Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada and in Arctic Alaska.

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Digitized Content Scenes of native life including hunting, sledding, games, animal husbandry and ceremonies
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Creators:
Ivanoff, Stephen ?
Dates:
ca. 1890-1900
Size:
130 Items (ca. 130 drawings)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS260447
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
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