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MS 2915 Field drawings of Tlingit and Haida village plans, and section of printed map with annotations

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Catalog Data

Creator:
Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936  Search this
Culture:
Tlingit  Search this
Haida  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Maps
Place:
Alaska
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: Tlingit: (1) Sketch Map showing the Tuxekan Village. 1922. (Monuments worth preserving and worth transporting indicated in blue and red, respectively.) 22"x 36". (2) Tongass Island Village, diagram. April 29, 1922. 18" x 10 1/2". (3) Map showing the names of places in the vicinity of Kaduqguka ("Tongass Village") on "Port Tongass" base map of Coast & Geodetic Survey. Sites numbered, but no key present. 14" x 16". (4) Sketch map of Village Island, Tlingit, S. E. Alaska. 1922. Haida: (5) Kasaan Village, Position Sketch. (Missing in 1955, at time file was first examined and listed by MCB.) (6) Position sketch of Howkan, S. E. Alaska, Haida. (Kaigani). 1922. (Monuments worth preserving and worth removing indicated in blue and red, respectively.) 27" x 41". ,
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2915
Local Note:
Numbers 1-4, 6 in map file. There are also unannotated Coast & Geodetic Charts used for reference only. 1 envelope. (Chart Numbers 8075, 8077, 8084, 8152.)
Topic:
Towns, villages and other settlements -- Tuxekan Village  Search this
Names, place -- Tongass Village, vicinity of  Search this
Genre/Form:
Drawings
Maps
Citation:
Manuscript 2915, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2915
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3eccd51c3-0520-4dc9-8bc8-1254ab23959a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2915