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Digitized Content MS 2806 Edward Sapir notes on vocabularies of Algonquian languages
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Creators:
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
circa 1911
Size:
28 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2806
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite (Riviere du Loup, Thomas Paul), pages 13-17; Micmac, pages 18-23, Cree (Rupert's House), pages 24-25; Montagnais (Louis Clairie, Pointe Bleue), pages 26-2...

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George Eli Whitney Papers
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Creators:
Whitney, George Eli, 1862-1963 (engineer)
Transportation, Division of, NMAH, SI.
Dates:
1898-1957
Size:
0.5 Cubic feet (1 box)
Collection ID:
NMAH.AC.0463
Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Correspondence includes handwritten letters to John H. Bacon from Whitney. Bacon apparently undertook the task of collecting documentation of Whitney's career in the 1950s. Another 30 letters involve former associates of Whitney's, particularly Nathaniel Henry Cooledge (known as "Oliver") who was associated with Whitney as his trusted foreman and...

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Digitized Content Sheba Land Reports
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Creators:
American Foundation for the Study of Man
Dates:
1952
Size:
1 Painting
12 Photographs
1 Item (folio)
Collection ID:
FSA.A2015.07
Repository:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Photographs and Folio created by American Foundation for Study of Man Two reports sent to Bayard Colgate, member of the Board of Directors of the American Foundation for the Study of Man in 1952 summarizing the expeditions between 1950 and 1952. One is a letter-size, spiral bound folio of reproduction photographs with a 4 page report; the second is...

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Michael M. Engel papers
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Creators:
Engel, Michael M., 1896-1969
Dates:
1937-1969
Size:
3 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.engemich
Repository:
Archives of American Art

Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and miscellany.

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Microfilm of Sheldon Jackson photograph collection
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Creators:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909
Dates:
circa 1877-1907
Size:
1 Roll (microfilm)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R81-13
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Circa 500 photographs documenting Sheldon Jackson's work in the Presbyterian Church and among Alaskan natives, including images of towns, buildings, scenery, and Alaskan natives. The collection includes commercial prints and photographs probably made by Jackson.

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Digitized Content MS 4883 Posters of Indian art from the Indian Court in the Federal Building at the Golden Gate International Exposition
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Creators:
Siegriest, 1899-1989
United States. Works Progress Administration
Dates:
1939
Size:
7 Posters
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4883
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Titles: "Antelope Hunt from a Navaho Drawing, New Mexico;" "Pomo Indian Basket, California;" "Apache Devil Dancer from an Indian Painting, Arizona;" "Pueblo Turtle Dancers from an Indian Painting, New Mexico;" "Eskimo Mask, Western Alaska;" "Blanket Design of the Haida Indians, Alaska;" and "From an Indian Painting on Elkskin, Great Plains."

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MS 4695 Minor Archaeological Papers by W. H. Holmes
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Creators:
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Dates:
1872-1920 assembled May 7th, 1932."
Size:
24 Items (Approximately papers Approximately 24 papers)
260 Items (Approximately pages Approximately 260 pages)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4695
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The Story of the Human Race. Notes for Lecture. 1916. (Sketches Nos. I and IX Missing) 2. Bearing of Archeological Evidence on the Place of Origin and on the Question of the Unity or Plurality of the American Race. 1912. 3. Art in Stone. Lithic Art in History. 4. Stone Age Among Eastern and Northern Tribes. 5. The Place of Archeology in Human Histo...

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Photographs from an exhibit relating to the Hayden Surveys
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Dates:
mid-20th century
Size:
6 Mounted prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.73-43A
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Mounted photographs, probably from a small exhibit relating to Ferdinand V. Hayden's surveys, 1872-1874. The collection includes copies of photographs and drawings depicting Hayden in 1872, Hayden and his assistants in 1874, Hayden's assistants in 1924, the entire survey party at Yellowstone, and a cliff house photographed during the surveys. The c...

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Copies of William Henry Jackson photographs of Nick Jenise and Leon Palliday
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Creators:
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Dates:
circa 1870-1872
Size:
2 Copy prints
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.R82-10
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Portraits of Leon Palliday and "Nick" Jenise, two American Indian language interpreters for the United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Notation on the verso incorrectly identifies the photographer as Charles Milton Bell.

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MS 7090 Letters from George Bird Grinnell to C. Hart Merriam
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Creators:
Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
Dates:
1878-1932
Size:
200 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS7090
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Consists of correspondence with two newspaper clippings. Includes detailed discussion of the efforts of Grinnell and Merriam, through contacts with President Theodore Roosevelt and influential Congressmen, to bring about Federal investigation of charges of maladministration by the Indian Agent at the Blackfeet Reservation in 1903-4. It also contain...

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