American Philosophical Society Library
GENERAL (cont.)
Additional material from Kendall's Supplement
4260. BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON. Letter to J. T. Ames; Washington, Dec. 31, 1882. A.L.S. 1 p. and end.
Expresses appreciation for Ames's gift of three busts of Indians and promises gift to Ames of some shell and mineral specimens.
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4261. BALL, CARL C. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; Okmulgee, Okla., June 9, 1942. T.L.S. 1 p.
Re: purchase of Indian artifacts from Speck; appreciation for Speck's papers on the Yuchi; desire to obtain items of Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw material culture.
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4262. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; Mar. 22, 1794. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp. and add.
Wants Heckewelder's opinion on the strength of body and age of Indians in comparison to Whites. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4263. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMIITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; Sept. 6, 1795. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp.
Inquires what Indian nations in Heckewelder's knowledge compress heads of children and how it is done. Also seeks information on health, nursing, menstruation, etc. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4264. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John C. E. Heckewelder; Dec. 28, 1795. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp. and add.
Asks the Indian name of a particular bird. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4265. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; Jan. 13, 1796. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp. and add.
Wants to know the Indians' feelings and beliefs about the opossum. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4266. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; May 17, 1796. Photocopy of A.L.S. 1 p. and add.
Expresses belief that some Indian nations formerly had a hieroglyphic writing system and asks Heckewelder's opinion. Inquires whether Indian chiefs have more or less power now than formerly. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4267. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; Feb. 11, 1798. Photocopy of A.L.S. 1 p. and add.
Pursues his inquiry into the relations of North American and Asiatic languages. Asks about accuracy of G. H. Loskiel's "History of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Indians in North America, " which mentions the Moshkos Indians; Barton had never heard of them before. Also mentions study of the Nanticoke. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
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4268. BARTON, BENJAMIN SMITH. Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder; Mar. 14, 1805. Photocopy of A.L.S. 1 p. and add.
Expresses appreciation for materials and information on Indians.
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4268a. BELL, ROBERT. Papers; 1880-1908. A.L.S. 77 items.
Correspondence from Franz Boas, Elliot Coues, William Isbister, J. M. LeMoine, James C. Pilling, and E.F.S.J. Petitot regarding Canada, geography, geology, geological survey of Canada, Indians of North America, and paleontology.
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4268b. BERKHOFER, ROBERT F. Protestant missionaries to the American Indians, 1787-1862; 1960. 1 reel of film. Film no. 1157.
Doctoral dissertation, Cornell University.
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4268c. BOAS, FRANZ, coll. Anthropometric data; 1892, 1897, n.d. A.D. ca. 3,000 pp.
Includes data on: Apache, Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Caddo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Chilcotin, Chippewa, Comanche, Crow, Delaware, Haida, Kiowa, Lillooet, Mississagua, Mohawk, Munsee, Nez Perce, Oglala, Ojibwa, Oka, Omaha, Oneida, Santee, Shuswap, Sioux, Teton, Tlingit, Wichita, Winnegabo, Yankton, and others.
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Donor, Northwestern University Library.
4269. BOAS, FRANZ. Letter to members of the Executive Section and the Advisory Section of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; New York, Nov. 20, 1934. T.L.S. 1 p. c.c.
Re: criticism of the work of the Executive Section.
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4270. BOAS, FRANZ. Letter to Waldo G. Leland, Washington; New York, Tan. 26, 1932. T.L.S. c.c. to Frank G. Speck. 7 pp.
Report of Committee on Research in Native American Languages, listing vanishing languages studied, by whom, publications, materials to be published, work to be done, and expenditures.
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4271. BURGESSE, J. ALLAN. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Gloucester, Mass.; Arvida, P.Q., Aug.5, 1945. T.L.S. 1 p.
Re: dif~culty of obtaining crooked knives, birch-bark baskets, etc., for Speck; Burgesse's work on the translation from the French of Eugene Roy's diary (including Sumner's battle with Cheyennes and descriptions of other Indians).
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4272. CALDWELL, CHARLES. Letter to Benjamin Horner Coates, Philadelphia; Lexington, Ky., Aug. 11, 1834. A.L.S. 3 pp. and add., end.
Discusses speculations on the origin of the American Indian and the futility of such speculations. Points out difficulty with Coates's hypothesis.
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4273. CHASE, FANNIE S. (MRS. WALTER G.) Letters to Frank G. Speck; Wiscasset, Me., Jan. 13, 1934 and earlier. T.L.S. 3 pp.
Re: Speck's manuscript on the Penobscot Indians; her work on the Wawenock tribe. Mentions Henry Masta, Dr. Kohl, Cyrus Curtis, J. Franklin Jameson, Pemaquid Indians.
[170(30)]
4273a.CHOATES, J. N., photographer. Photographs from the Indian Training School, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; 1879-1880, n.d. 30 positive prints, 18 negatives.
Groups represented in the pictures include: Cheyenne, Creek, Lipan, Peoria, Fueblo (Laguna, San Felipe, unidentified), Sioux, Ute, and Zuni. Individuals include: Mad Wolf (Chey enne), Man on Cloud (Cheyenne), Spotted Tail (Sioux Chief), and others. Also includes: boys at work in shoemaker's and saddler's shops, Indian students' brass band, native costumes, etc.
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4274.COBB, RODNEY D. Letters to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; Fresno, Jan. 27 & Mar. 15, 1944. A.L.S. 2 pp. and add.
Request for copies of some of Speck's publications and other references on the birch-bark technique.
[170(30)]
4274a. DE LAGUNA, FREDERICA. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1930-1949. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 86L.
Re: archeological work in Alaska; the Eskimo; southwestern United States; Northwest Coast; Mexico.
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4275. DOUGLAS, FREDERIC H., and FRANCES RAYNOLDS. Letters to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia and Gloucester, Mass.; Denver, 1939-1943. T.L.S. 10pp.
Re: acquisition by the Denver Art Museum her Indi- of items of material culture of Malecite, Penobscot, Famunkey, Chickahominy, Rappahannock, Tunica, Creek, Nanticoke, Yuchi, Northwest Coast, Mattaponi, Catawba, Naskapi, and Micmac.
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4276. DRAKE, NOAH FIELDS. Letter to the American Philosophical Society; Stanford University, Jan. 4, 1898. A.L.S. 2 pp. Enc. wanting.
Requests additional copies of his paper, "A Geological Reconnaissance of the Coal Fields of the Indian Territory" [Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 36 (1897): pp. 326-419].
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4277. DRAKE, NOAH FIELDS. Letter to Isaac Minis Hays, Philadelphia; Stanford University, Jan. 5 and Apr. 14, 1898. A.L.S. 2pp.
Re: the paper in no. 4276.
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4278. DUNNACK, HENRY E. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Phila.; Augusta, Me., Dec. 18, 1935. T.L.S. 1 p.
States that the Maine State Library has Symbolism in Penobsot Art and Wawenock Myth Texts and has ordered Naskapi. Anticipates Speck's new volume on Maine Indians.
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4279. EDGERTON, FRANKLIN. Letter to Frank G. Speck; Phila., Nov. 20, 1915. A.L.S. 1 p.
Expresses appreciation for copies of some of Speck's publications.
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4280. ESKEW, JAMES W. Letters to Frank G. Speck; Findlay, Ill., Aug. 8, 1943, and Nov.4, 1944. T. and A.L.S. 2pp.
Requests information on publications relating to American Indians, e.g., about the mounds of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and about the Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos of the Southwest.
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4281. FIELD, CLARK. Letters to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; Tulsa, Apr. 2, 1946, and May 12, 1947. A.L.S. 2 pp.
Re: purchase from Speck of Malecite storage basket; Penobscot carrying basket; possible procurement for Field of Tunica-Louisiana baskets. Mentions Arthur Langer and Frederic Douglas.
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4282. GALLATIN, ALBERT. Letter to ----; Washington, May 29, 1826. A.L.S. 1 p. and end.
Requests that enclosed letters be forwarded to E. Lincoln, J. Pickering, S. Wood, Ebenezer Harris, James Rochelle, and Peter S. Du Ponceau with documents for collection of vocabularies.
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4283. GODMAN, JOHN DAVIDSON. Letter to Reuben Haines, New York; Germantown, Nov. 18, 1828. Photocopy of A.L.S. 3 pp. and add.
Expresses intention to give Haines an Indian pipe and stem ornamented with porcupine quills. From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
[Call no. 509:L56.26]
4284. GUSINDE, MARTIN. Letter to Frank G. Speck; Laxenburg bei Wien, Mar. 13, 1939. T.L.S. 1 p. InGerman. Requests a copy of Speck (1933). Mentions Gusinde's Anthropologie der Feuerland-Indianer.
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4285. HALLOWELL, A. IRVING. Letter to John Witthoft, Harrisburg; Philadelphia, July 14, 1950. T. and A.D. 35 items.
Includes materials for Speck bibliography to be published.
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4286. HALLOWELL, A. IRVING. The nature and function of property as a human institution; n.d. T.D. 33pp. cc.
Prepublication manuscript with additions and corrections.
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4287. HEYE, GEORGE G. D. and L. S. ca. 225L.
Re: Heye's obituary and biography.
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4288.HILLER, WESLEY R. Letter to Frank G. Speck; Minneapolis, March 26, 1946. A.L.S. 2pp.
Re: obtaining copies of publications by Speck and others.
[170(26)]
4289. History of Science Film no. 8; n.d. 1 reel of film.
Re: Algonquian, Choctaw, Illinois, and Narraganset. Includes letters of: B. A. Gould, F. R. Hassler, Gauss, Sir Joseph Banks, J. F. Blumenbach. From originals in the possession of the Niedersächische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen.
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4289a. HOWARD, EDGAR B. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1929-1943. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 46 pp.
Re: "Pygmy Race of Durango"; archaeological work in western United States, Saskatchewan, Mexico; Hrdlicka's archaeological work in Alaska.
[4017(C20)]
4290. HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON. Letter to Rembrandt Peale; Paris, Sept. 15, 1810. A.L.S. 1 p. In French.
Requests that Indian material be forwarded. Refers to C. W. Peale.
[91(H88.54)]
4291. Indian medicine; 1958, 1965. T.L. andL.S. 9pp.
Correspondence of Paul A. W. Wallace with Francisco Guerra and R. Jerrel Williams regarding references pertaining to Indian medicine.
[4021(6)]
4291a. Indian races of North and South America: illustrations; 1855. 37 engravings.
Hand colored engravings like those published in Charles DeWolf Brownell's The Indian Races of North and South America. Includes: Montezuma, Osceola, Pocahontas, Samoset, Tisquantum (or Squanto), King Philip, Joseph Brant, Red Jacket, Tecumseh, Black Hawk, and others.
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4291b, Indians of North and South America: miscellaneous illustrations; n.d. 78 items
Mostly engravings (some hand colored). Subjects include: King Philip (Metacomet), Powhatan, Pontiac, Pocahontas, Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Osage warrior, Kickapoo chief, Iowa chief, Cherokee, Pequot, etc. Artists include: J. R. Chapin, A. Chappel, E. H. Corbould, F.O.C. Darley, J. M. Nevin, J. A. Oertel, H. Warren, A. H. Wray, and others. Engravers include: J. C. Armytage, J. C. Buttre, A. B. Durand, A. W. Graham, A. Heath, T. Knight, W. Ridg· way, John Rogers, J. Sartain, J. Stephenson, and others.
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4292. KAYE, S. A. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Swarthmore; New York, Sept. 16, 1946. T.L.S. with 3 enclosures. 6 pp.
Re: Speck's biography for the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World; includes a partial bibliography through early 1942.
[170(26)]
4293. KEALIINOHOMOKU, JOANN W. Dance data guide; 1966. T.D. 6 pp.
Guide for collection of data on dances by anthropologists who are non-dancers.
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Donor, grantee, 1966.
4293a. KROEBER, ALFRED L. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1926-1957. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. ca. 200L.
Re: migration routes from Asia to North America; Mason's archeological work in Mexico; Mason's work on Papago and Uto-Aztecan; South America; Franz Boas; John P. Harrington. Mention of numerous colleagues. Includes correspondence between Mason and Carl Sauer.
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4294. LARUE, MABEL G. (MRS. DANIEL W.) Letter to Frank G. Speck; East Stroudsburg, Pa., Sept. 5, 1947. T.L.S. 2 pp.
Re: methods used by Indians of New England to suspend pots over fire; preparation of educational materials (supplementary readers) pertaining to American Indians.
[170(26)]
4295. LINGELBACH, WILLIAM E. Correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace; Dec. 1939-Mar. 1962. T.L. and L.S. ca. 250 pp
Regarding Wallace's research on: John Heckewelder; the Muhlenberg family; Indians of Pennsylvania; the Six Nations; collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society; Cree; Blackfoot; etc.
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4295a. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. American Anthropological Association: correspondence; 1927-1964. ca. 3000 pp.
Re: matters concerning Mason as editor of the American Anthropologist. Correspondents include: Burt W. Aginsky, Ethel G. Aginsky, Ralph L. Beals, Ruth Benedict, Douglas S. Byers, Frederica de Laguna, Henry Field, A. Irving Hallowell, John P. Harrington, Melville J. Herskovits, Harry Hoijer, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alfred L. Kroeber, Weston La Barre, Ralph Linton, Robert H. Lowie, Margaret Mead, George P. Murdock, Leslie Spier, lulian H. Steward, Sol Tax, Carl F. Voegelin, Erminie W. Voegelin, Leslie White, et al.
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4296. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Class notes; 1908-1910. D. 1 notebook of ca. 70L., ca. 400L.
Notes from courses taken at the University of Pennsylvania with Edward Sapir, Frank G. Speck, et al. Topics include: ethnology, archeology, linguistics, Iroquois religion, and Takelma.
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4297. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Correspondence with Franz Boas; 1927-1940. T. and A.L.S. ca.l30pp.
Includes: professional correspondence on various topics; copy of letter from Boas, Leonard Bloomfield, and Edward Sapir on proposed organization of a Society for American Indian Linguistics and an International Journal of American Indian Languages; carbon of letter to Edward Sapir; a few letters between Frans Blom and Mason.
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4298. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Liaisons between linguistics and archeology; 1939. T.D. 10pp.
Paper delivered at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1939.
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4299. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Fifty years of American anthropology; Oct. 1, 1956Feb. 19, 1957. T. and A.D. and T.L.S. ca. 85 items
Re: Mason's 1957 Wenner-Gren talk. Includes: list of invitees; guest list; abstract; correspondence with Paul Fejos; notecards.
[4017(ling. #2)]
4300. MAZZEI, FILIPPO. Letter to Giovanni Fabroni; Pisa, July 6, 1803. A.L.S.: Pippo. 1 p. InItalian.
Re: Jefferson and a quote from a translation he made referring to Indians. Mentions Appleton.
[Call no. B:F113.m]
4301. MEIER, EMIL F. Letters to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia and Gloucester; Chicago, Feb. 27-July 13, 1937. T.L.S. 4 pp.
Re: difficulties in obtaining Indian masks; purchase of two Eskimo masks and one Naskapi mask from Speck; Eskimo masks and masks from Mexico and Guatemala, in his own collection.
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4301a. Miscellaneous drawings; 1966, n.d. photographs and 18 items
Pictures include: Aztec drawings (cf: Nos. 58 and 2140); front and rear views of silver statuette from Peru; church and roundhouse at Isleta Pueblo, New Mexico.
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4301b.Miscellaneous photographs and sketches; 1907, 1909, 1924, 1933, 1940, 1943, n.d. 128 items
Includes: Labrador sketches by Frank Stanford Speck; petroglyphs; Sauk and Fox; Wichita; Seminole; Creek; Piegan; Delaware; Minnehaha, Sacajawea, and Pocahontas by Georgianna Marbeson; Iroquois false face; Weasel Tail; Lottie Welsh and daughter; portraits by L. T. Alexander; unidentified people and scenes; Choctaw belt and Ojibwa(?) cradle board; splint basket; birch-bark baskets; cave scene diorama (Guernsey and Pitman); notes to Florence Insley from C. L. Brooke and Frank G. Speck; note to Frank C. Speck from (Pvt.) Claude E. Schaeffer; map showing distribution of southeastern tribes; Indian children in school; Machapunga (North Carolina); Choctaw village, La. (from D. I. Bushnell, Choctaw, Bayou La Combe, La.); unidentified people, scenes, and objects (eastern U.S. and Canada).
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4302. MOONEY, JAMES. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Ottawa; Wash., D.C., Nov. 1, 1915. A.L.S. 1 p.
Expresses appreciation for copies of some of Speck's publications.
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4303. MORTON, SAMUEL GEORGE. Letter to Joseph N. Nicollet, Washington; Philadelphia, Mar. 8, 1840. A.L.S. 1 p. and add.
Acknowledges receipt of shipment of Indian skulls from west of the Mississippi.
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4303a. MORTON, SAMUEL G. Sketches of human skeletons; n.d. D. 12 items
Includes: drawing of an Aymara tomb (Peru); drawings of skeletons and skulls of American Indians from burial sites in Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Tennessee.
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4304.MYERS(?), JOHN L. Letters to Frank G. Speck; Oxford, May 5 and May 7, 1943. A.L.S. 4pp.
Expresses appreciation for a copy of Montagnais-Naskapi Bands. Some discussion of ethical sanctions on personal rights (e.g., game taken in traps) and Speck's papers on Algonquian and Iroquois society.
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4305. NELSON, DOROTHY M. Letter to Frank C. Speck; Moorestown, N.J., n.d. A.L.S. 1 p.
Re: payment for purchase of Indian materials from Speck.
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4306. NORTON, JEANETTE YOUNG. Correspondence with Frank G. Speck; Dec. 3 and Dec. 6, 1926. T.L.S. 2pp.
Re: information on Indians' foods; tribes other than Navajo who do silver work; a wampum "memory chain"; northwestern tribes.
[170(26)]
4307.NUTTALL, ZELIA MARIA MAGDALENA. Summary of paper "Fresh Light on Ancient American Civilizations and Calendars"; l926. T.D. 5pp.
Re: means by which ancient American cultures situated between 20°N. and 20°S. of the equator learned the true length of the solar year; various features of art, architecture, and religion in light of her hypothesis. Read at the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Oxford, Aug. 11, 1926.
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4308. OAK, LISTON M. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New York, Apr. 2, 1931. T.L.S. 2pp.
Re: purchase of Chitimacha baskets, Catawba pottery, Cherokee baskets, or other articles suitable for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts,
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4309. OAK, LISTON M. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New York, Apr. 21, 1931. T.L.S. 5pp.
Includes: informal report on activities and progress of Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, Inc., New York; estimated budget.
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4310. OWEN, SIR RICHARD. Letter to Mrs. Denman; May 23, 1865. A.L.S. 4 pp.
Re: animal specimens from Panama; Indians' skinning of sea otters.
[Call no. B:Ow2.18]
4311. PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS. Correspondence; 1921-1941. L., postal cards, pictures, etc, ca. 750 items
Re: the publication of her own and others' work; American Folklore Society; American Anthropological Association; etc. Correspondents include: Bernard W. Aginsky, Ruth Benedict, Frank Calcott, John W. Cooper, D. S. Davidson, Fred Eggan, Aurelio M. Espinosa, Jr., Ann H. Grayton, A. Irving Hallowell, Melville J. Herskovits, George Herzog, Hamilton Holt, Dorothy L. Keur, Clyde Kluckhohn, Paul S. Martin, J. Alden Mason, H. Scudder Mekeel, Cornelius Osgood, Juan B. Rael, Robert Redfield, F. M. Settler, Marian Smith, Leslie Spier, Bernhard J. Stern, William Duncan Strong, Stith Thompson, George C. Vaillant, Bella Weitzner, Edward M. Weyer, Leslie A. White, and Clark Wissler.
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4312. PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS. Letter to Leslie A. White; May 4, 1931. Photocopy of T.L.S. 2pp.
Re: Parsons's recent return from Mexico; her popular books; anthropological laboratory at Santa Fe.
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4313. PAUL WILHELM, DUKE OF WURTEMBURG. Letter to "Monsieur le President"; Oct. 30, 1856. A.L.S. 2 pp. In French.
Expresses appreciation for publications. Discusses eating of horse meat and dogs by Indians.
[Call no. 509:L56.f]
4314. PEALE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Letter to Titian Ramsay Peale; Philadelphia, Mar.31, 1855. A.L.S. 2pp.
Re: the sending of Indian artifacts and skulls to Dr. Davis of Shelton, England.
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4315. PEALE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Letter to Titian Ramsay Peale; Feb. 15, 1861. A.L.S. 3pp.
Re: his cabinet of Stone Age artifacts; catalog; possible additions to the collection.
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4316. PEALE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Letter to Titian Ramsay Peale; Philadelphia, July 12, 1861. A.L.S. 4 pp.
Forwarding copies of a paper read before the American Philosophical Society; speculations on means employed in making stone tools.
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4317. PEALE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Letter to Titian Ramsay Peale; March 28, 1862. A.L.S. 2pp.
Re: shipment of two boxes of Stone Age im· plements to Henry; photographing his cabinet of Stone Age artifacts.
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4318. PEALE, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Letter to Titian Ramsay Peale; April 20, 1862. A.L.S. 6pp.
Asks whether or not two boxes of Stone Age implements reached the Smithsonian Institution.
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4319. PHILLIPS, HENRY, JR. Letter to Hugo von Meltzel, Kolozsvor, Hungary; Philadelphia, n.d. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp.
Re: some American Indian songs sent to von Meltzel. From original in Magyar Indomanyou Akademie.
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4319a. Photographs of Franz Boas; 1866-1932, n.d. ca. l60 items
Re: Boas as child, student, and adult; Boas with wife, children, other relatives, friends, and colleagues; Boas on Arctic trip and in Eskimo costume; Boas in various activities and groups; his seventieth birthday. Also includes photographs of: Wilhelm Weike and wife; George Hunt and family (Kwakiutl Indians); Eskimo family; Boas's Arctic sketches and pictures; some of Boas's maternal ancestors.
[4016a(B:B61 in F & G)]
4320. PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY. Letter to Thomas Jefferson; Washington, Feb.3, 1808. Photocopy of A.L.S. 4pp., end.
Acknowledges receipt of Jefferson's letter and answers Peale's inquiry about some grizzly bears captured by Indians. From original in Edward Wanton Smith Collection, Haverford College Library.
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Donor, Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., 1969.
4321. PRESCOTT, WILLIAM HICKLING. Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau, Philadelphia; Boston, Mar. 14, 1839. A.L.S. 2 pp. and add., end.
Re: a copy of Du Ponceau's "Memoir on the Indian Languages." Mentions J. Vaughan and J. Pickering.
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4322. PRIESTLEY, JOSEPH. Letter to Benjamin Smith Barton, Philadelphia; Northumberland, June 16, 1796. Copy of A.L.S. 3 pp. and add., end.
Re: printing of Barton's paper on Indian antiquities.
[Call no. B:P931.7]
4323. RAFINESQUE-SCHMMLTZ, CONSTANTINE SAMUEL. Letter to John Quincy Adams, Washington City; Lexington, Ky., July 8, 1824. 3 pp. and add., end.
Re: Rafinesque's interest in the ancient history, antiquities and languages of America; vocabularies deposited in the State or War Department, particularly of Lewis and Clark, Pike, and Dunbar.
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4324. Review of Dean Pittman, Practical Linguistics; l950. T.L.S. 10pp.
Re: John Alden Mason's review of the book. Includes: copy of letter from George L. Trager to Melville J. Herskovits criticizing Mason's review; letter from Herskovits to Mason enclosing copy of Trager's letter for rejoinder; three versions of Mason's reply.
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4325. RHOADS, CHARLES JAMES. Papers; 1929. D. ca.300pp. and newspaper clippings.
Re: Rhoads's appointment as Commissioner of Indian Affairs by President Hoover.
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Donor, Brown Brothers, Harrimann and Co. through Mrs. Thatcher M. Brown III, Mar. 1965.
4326. SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY R. Letter to Messrs. Carey, Lea, & Blanchard, Philadelphia; Michilimackinac, Feb. 9, 1835. A.L.S. 1 p.
Inquires whether or not they would be inter ested in publishing his projected volumes or Indians.
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4327. SHEEHAN, BERNARD W. Civilization and the American Indian in the thought of the Jeffersonian era; 1965. 1 reel of film. Film no. 1241.4.
Doctoral dissertation in history, University of Virginia.
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4327a. SINGER, FRNESTINE H. WIEDER, comp. Anthropological reading notes; 1935. D.S. ca. 150pp.
Includes: course notes on primitive economics (Incan) with A. Irving Hallowell; notes from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (Mayan ar chitecture), E. B. Howard (Problems of the Clovis, New Mexico, Site), and others; notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association from papers given by Ruth Benedict, Frederica de Laguna, Walter Dyk, William N. Fenton, Alfred V. Kidder, David G. Mandelbaum, George P. Murdock, Arthur C. Parker, Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys A. Reich ard, William A. Ritchie, Linton Satterthwaite, Gene Weltfish, and others regarding Cree, Flatheads, Iroquois, Kaingang (S. Brazil), Kiowa, Mayan, Natchez, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Pueblos, Sahaptin, Saulteaux, Siouan, Tarascan, Tonowanda (Seneca), Zuni, etc.
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4328. SMILEY FAMILY: papers of the conferences at Lake Mohonk; 1885-1930. 1 reel of film. Film no. 1246.
Table of contents for the collection which is primarily concerned with the Indian confer ences. From originals in possession of Haverford College.
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4329. SMITH, EDGAR F. Letters to Frank G. Speck; Philadelphia, Aug. 2, 1915-Sept. 25, 1916. T.L.S. 3pp.
Expresses appreciation for copies of some of Speck's publications.
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4330. SPECK, FRANK G. The American Indian as a factor in American history; n.d. T.D. 8pp.
Chapter and heading outline for book.
[170(30)]
4331. SPECK, FRANK G. Letters to E. S. Gauthier, Maniwaki, P.Q.; Feb. 16, 1928, and May 4, 1929. T.L. 2 pp. c.c.
Re: the meaning of the Indian name Pizendawach; purchase of a bow and arrow by Speck. Mentions Andre Cayer.
[170(26)]
4331a. SPIER, LESLIE. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1928-1944. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S., T.D. 65 pp.
Re: Yuman tribes of the Gila River; Pima; Yaqui; Papago; South American languages; archeological work in Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico; American Anthropologist transportation of artifacts by migratory animals. Mentions Alfred L. Kroeber, Melville Jacobs, Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Elsie Clews Parsons, Frank G. Speck.
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4332. STAUB, PETER. Letter to Frank C. [sic] Speck, Philadelphia; Johannesburg, July 11, 1941. T.L.S. and A.D. 2pp.
Re: obtaining North Carolina Cherokee masks and masks in general; list of masks sent to Peter Staub: two Eskimo, one Cherokee, one Tsimshian, one Iroquois, one Seneca, and one Cayuga.
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4333. SWADESH, MORRIS. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1954. T.L. and L.S. 26L.
Re: disagreement between Mason and Swadesh as to whether there were one or two phonemic stop series in Papago. Includes: Mason's correspondence with Swadesh, Fr. Regis Rohder, O.F.M., and Dean F. Saxton; copy of "Amerindian Non-Cultural Vocabularies" (8pp.) for Tunica, Muysca, Dakota, Chitimacha, and Calcasien and Hiyekit.
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4333a. SWANTON, JOHN R. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1940-1953. T.L. and L.S., T.D. 27 pp.
Re: Papago place-names; Haida totem poles from Old Kasaan, Alaska; proposed linguistic relationships involving Uto-Aztecan, Hokan, Quechua, and others; parapsychology.
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4334. TURNER, C.E.S. Letter to Frank C. Speck, Philadelphia; Oxford, Aug. 24, 1942. T.L.S. 3pp.
Description of some moccasins in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, for possible identification by Speck. Discussion of other items in the museum and comparison of moose hair embroidery with quillwork.
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4334a. VOEGELIN, CARL F. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1941-1964. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 46 pp.
Re: bibliography of American Indian linguistics; classification of Central and South American languages; Uto-Aztecan; Papago. Mentions Morris Swadesh, George Trager, and others.
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4335. WALLACE, PAUL A. W. A debt we owe the Indian; June 24, 1949, and Apr. 21, 1950. T. and A.D. 83pp.
Notes and different versions of talks given at Farmers' Forum, York, Pa., Madison Historical Society, N.J., etc.
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4336. WALTERS, EDWIN. Letter to De Moss Powers, Los Angeles; Kansas City, Mo., Sept.27, 1909. A.L.S. 1 p.
Re: Walters's intention to publish a book on Indian sign language possibly with an appendix or second part on Indian picture writing or Indian art.
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4337. WASHINGTON, GEORGE. Letter to Richard Henry Lee; March 15, 1785. A.L.S. 3 pp.
Re: a treaty with the Western Indians; the Shawnees in Ohio.
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4338. WHEELER, GEORGE M. Letter to Stephen Bowers, Santa Barbara; Washington, Nov.6, 1879. A.L.S. 2pp.
Inquires about an Indian woman who was "rescued" from San Nicholas Island in 1851 by a Mr. Nidever and taken to Santa Barbara.
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4339. WHORF, BENJAMIN LEE. Remarks on Utaztecan and Macro-Penutian; Jan. 1939. T.D. 9pp.
Discussion of Utaztecan, Penutian, and Mayan and probable linguistic relationship.
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Donor, Mrs. Paul Radin through Dell Hymes; May 1972.
4339a. WISSLER, CLARK. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1927-1941. T.D., T.L. and L.S. 70 pp.
Re: routine affairs of the American Anthropological Association, the American Museum of Natural History, and the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania); publications; Central and South American archaeology.
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4340. WISSLER, CLARK. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New York, July 1, 1935. T.L.S. 1 p.
Invites Speck to become a member of editorial committee for new enlarged edition of the Handbook of American Indians. Sapir, Stirling, Kidder also invited.
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4341. YARDLEY, T. W. Letter to John L. LeConte; Wyandotte, Kans., Dec. 23, 1866. A.L.S. 3pp.
Re: plans for railroad across the Rockies; Indian disapproval of railroads.
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GUARANI (Guarani)
1528. DOBLAZ, GONZALO DE. Memoria historica, Políca Económica de esta Provincia de Misiones de Indios Guaranis [1785]. D. 1 vol. of 1261. In Spanish.
A report prepared for Felix de Azara, commandant of Paraguay, giving an account of Spanish policy toward the Guarani Indians living in missions, particularly after the suppression of the Jesuits.
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Donor, Joel R. Poinsett, 1820.
Printed, from variant manuscript, De Angelis (1836), 3 (6).
1529. LOZANO, PEDRO. Diccionario Histórico-Indico [1748-1752]. D. 1 vol. of 408p. (vol. 3, G-L only). In Spanish.
A biographical and geographical dictionary concerning Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries in Central and South America. Entries vary in length from a few lines to several pages. Missionaries of the seventeenth century are included. Printed and manuscript source material is cited in the entries.
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Donor, Joel R. Poinsett, 1820.
Cf. Cardozo (1950):298, for description of an unpublished manuscript of the same title now in the papers of the Colegio Máximo de Córdoba.
1530. MIDDLETON, THOMAS C. Letters to Henry Phillips, Jr. [Feb. 18, March 3 and 22, 1884]. A.L.S. 1p.; 2p.; 2p.
Concerning the APS manuscript by Parras, No. 1531. Middleton fails to identify Parras for Phillips.
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1531. PARRAS, PADRE FRANISCO PEDRO JOSEPH DE. Diario Y Derrotero de los viages que ha hecho ... desde que salió de la Ciudad de Zaragoza en Aragón para la América con Una brevisima relacion de lo q[u]e personal[me]nte ha experimentado en diversos paises, y de las cosas mas notables q[u]e on ellos a visto [1748-1759]. D. 1 vol. of 450p. In Spanish.
A travel narrative devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians. Includes list of Jesuits at various missions.
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Donor, Joel R. Poinsett, 1820.