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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: (1) Vocabulary notes, especially concerning technology, food gathering, and place names. 18 pages. (2) "List of plants collected by Dr John R. Swanton." Scientific and Haida names. 2 pages, typed. (3) Printed copy of "A Preliminary Catalogue of the Collections of Natural History and Ethnology in the Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia," 1898, with Haida names added in pencil by Swanton to the Check List of British Columbia Birds, pages 15-55. Cover marked by Swanton, "Containing Haida names of animals, obtained from Tom Stevens [?], Chief of naikungegawai [?]." Material not in Swanton's hand, but evidently received by him from others: (4) "List of Mollusca collected by the Queen Charlotte Islands with Haida names (all Skidegate)." Subsequent parts of list marked , "Fishes," "Annulosa," "Crustacea," "Echinodermata," "Coelenterata," and "Mammalia." 5 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4117-a
Other Title:
List of plants collected by Dr John R. Swanton
A Preliminary Catalogue in the Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia
List of Mollusca collected by the Q. C. I. with Haida names (all Skidegate)
