Franz Boas field notebooks and anthropometric data
ca. 1883-1912
(1.5 lin. feet)

B B61.5

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Detailed inventory
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Collection V. Field notebooks and anthropometric data ca. 1883-1912 1.5 linear feet (B B61.5)

Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1897
Box 1

Recorded at Kamloops School and other locations, British Columbia and Washington. Data for Lilloet, Bella Bella, Salish, Thompson.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Recorded at Winnebago Reservation, Minn. Data for Winnebago.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Recorded at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, and other locations. Data for Cherokee.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Recorded at Lincoln College, Philadelphia. Data for Oglalla, Cheyenne, Omaha, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Data for Santee, Yankton, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Recorded at various locations in Ontario. Data for Mississagua, Chippewa, Oneida, Munsee, Ottawa, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 1

Recorded at Crow Agency, N.D. Data for Crow.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1891
Box 2

Recorded at Cheyenne River Agency, S.D. Data for Dakota, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 2

Recorded at White Earth Agency, Leech lake, and Pine Point, Minn. Data for Chippewa, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets ca.1892
Box 2

Recorded at Anadarko, Fort Sill, and Grantham Springs, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Data for Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets ca.1891-1892
Box 2

Recorded at Omaha Government School, Nebraska. Data for Omaha.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1891
Box 2

Recorded at Stonewall and Tishimingo, Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Data for Chickasaw.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1891
Box 2

Recorded at various locations in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Data for Ojibwa, Cree, Saulteux, etc.


Anthropometric datasheets Summer 1892
Box 2

Recorded at Kamloops, Lytton, and other locations in British Columbia, Spokane, Washington. Data for Thompson, etc.


Boas, Franz.
Baffinland diary
1883 July 16-1884 January
Box 3




Boas, Franz.
Baffinland notebook
1883-1884
Box 3




Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1886 #1
1886 September 18-October 3
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Tsimshian, Bella Coola, Tlingit, Bella Bella


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1886 #2
1886 November
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Comox, Lequiltoq, Sisia'atl (Sechelt).


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1886 #3
1886 October 26-November
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Bella Coola, Tlingit, Cowichan, Nitinat, Comox, Pentlatch, Lequiltoq, Sisia'atl (Sechelt).


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1886 #4
1886 November-December 16
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Pentlatch, Comox, Eeqswem, Nanaimo, Squamish.


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1888 #1
1888 May 31-June
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Squamish, Tsimshian, Nisgah, Haida, Coastal Salishan anthropometry, Tahltan, Kwakwala, Tlingit, Heiltsuk.


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1888 #2
1888 June-July 24
Box 3

Includes vocabularies, texts, shorthand notes for Heiltsuk, Tlingit, Haida, Cowichan, "Aht," Nootka, Ntlakapamuk, Kootenai.


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1889 #1
1889 July 24
Box 3

Part of BAAS survey, including linguistic data on Songish, Alberni, Bella Coola, and Bella Bella.


Boas, Franz.
Field notes 1889 #2
1889(?)
Box 3

Part of BAAS survey, including linguistic data on Bella Coola, River Inlet, Kwakiutl, Nootka.


Unidentified.
Field notes
1909-1912?
Box 3

Linguistic data and texts for Chatino and (?) Nahuatl.


Boas, Franz.
Inuit word lists and proper names
ca.1882-1883
Box 3

Boas, Franz.
TMs. The Relation of Darwin to Anthropology
n.d.
Box 3

Boas, Franz.
Spanish Elements in Modern Nahuatl
ca.1882-1883
Box 3

Folder includes disparate linguistic materials from the Northwest Coast, including for Coastal Salish (re: a religious prophet), Puyallup, Tsimshian.


Boas, Franz.
TMs, Theory of Correlations
n.d.
Box 3

Boas, Franz.
TMs. Was sind Rassen?
n.d.
Box 3

In German.


Miscellaneous n.d.
Box 3

Includes Boas Family genealogical information (1920s?), forms for anthropometric surveys, stereograph of cranium of male Aleut; two silver prints of Amazonian Indians, etc.