Copy by George Gibbs from "one obtained by Mr. Bartlett from Major Heintzelman" April 19, 1854 (Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript 1627, pages 165-66), to which Gibbs has added and marked with an asterisk "some words collected by Mr. E.T. Peabody of Capt. C.P. Stone's surveying party in Sonora" (Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript 1866). Some changes in orthography have been made by Gibbs.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1133
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Items correspond to schedule in Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary. General vocabulary of the Bannock dialect of Paviotso, with notes on phonetics.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 760
Local Note:
Autograph document
Place:
Dry Creek Walla Walla County Washington Territory
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Vocabulary
Citation:
Manuscript 760, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Historical and linguistic notes 4 pages. Also a brief account in handwriting of George Gibbs, of the Cherokee Removal, and a vocabulary, mostly geographical, 2 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1611
Place:
Ft. Smith Arkansas
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1611, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Also with Cocopa vocabulary collected by Assistant Engineer E.T. Peabody, 1 page and Mayo vocabulary collected 1858 by 3rd Assistant Sparrow Purdy, 2 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1866
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1866, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Includes discussion, 2 pages. Vocabulary in hand of George Gibbs, with notations and additions by Anderson, 12 pages. Listed by Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 15, page 2.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 404
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 404, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Folder 1: Powell to Whitney, July 17, 1877 (Copy) Whiteney to Powell, July 25, 1877 (Draft) Powell to Whitney, July 31, 1877 (Draft) List of vowel and consonant symbols, with definitions, from Whitney (so identified in George Gibb's hand--MCB); undated copy of draft of Whitneyʹs manuscript which is also in the Yale manuscripts. It was subsequently published, slightly revised and attributed to Whitney as "On the alphabet," page 306 of Powellʹs Introduction . . ., 1877. 11 pages.
Folder 2: Photographic copies of all Powell-Whitney correspondence in Yale University Library, secured by W. C. Sturtevant after visit of November 4, 1960 (Stirling Memorial Library, Yale University, Historical Manuscripts Collections, W. D. Whitney (1827-1894) collection): Powell to Whitney, July 17, 1877, 15 pages. Enclosure in above : untitled manuscript by W. D. W., describing alphabet for Indian languages. 22 pages. Powell to Whitney, July 31, 1877, 6 pages letter and 6 pages tables of symbols. Powell to Whitney, August 27, 1877, 2 pages (transmitting 2 copies of printed alphabet, not present).
Folder 3: 3 drafts of Powellʹs alphabet with introduction, undated. "Suggestions from I. (?) Porter", May 12, (no year) re Whitneyʹs orthographic proposals. 2 pages. O. T. Masonʹs note on Powellʹs and Whitneyʹs orthography, 2 pages. 2 unsigned copies of letter to William Dwight Whitney, May 7th, 1877, labelled "O. T. Mason," on US Geographic & Geologic Survey Rocky Mountains letterhead paper--written in phonetic orthography, one (marked "q") in Whitneyʹs orthography, and the other (marked "r" in Masonʹs modification, 2 pages each.
Folder 4: Several sheets on orthography, unsigned, undated, marked "Gibbs," "Pilling," "Gatschet," etc. and apparently received from them. The manuscript copy in Gibbsʹ hand marked "Pickeringʹs alphabet" is summarized from pages 35-36 of "An essay on a uniform orthography for the Indian languages of North America," by John Pickering, Cambridge, University Press, 1820 (reprint from Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences volume 4, art.22)(BAE Library PM 211.P5). The Dakota alphabet in Gibb's hand is a copy from Riggs, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 4, 1852.
Folder 5: Printed materials: Clipping, definition of symbols "from the manual or circular sent out by Gibbs, George . . . . 1863" two copies printed sheet "The Origin of our alphabet," copyright 1877 by J. Enthoffer Newspaper clipping re Melville Bellʹs "Universal Alphabet," March 17, 1876.
Folder 6: McGee to Boas, May 27, 1903 (Copy); Boas to McGee, May 28, 1903; McGee to Boas, June 16, 1903; J. P. Harrington to F. W. Hodge, January 11, 1910; J. P. Harrington to F. W. Hodge, January 16, 1910 (two letters, this date); Hodge to Harrington, January 20, 1910; Harrington to Hodge, September 30, 1911; Hewitt to Hodge, October 16, 1911 re Harringtonʹs proposals; Hodge to Harrington, October 18, 1911.
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
1853
Scope and Contents:
The document consists of a four-page original, a copy in the same hand, and a copy in a different hand. The last-mentioned copy is the item described in James C. Pilling's Bibliography of the Chinookan Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin, 1893, p. 68.
Biographical / Historical:
Robert Shortess's wife was "a native Chinook woman."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2254
Local Note:
Manuscript documents
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2254, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Manuscript, taken from an octodecimo grammar presented to the American Ethnological Society, entitled, "Arte de la lengua Metropolitana del Reyno Cakchiquel e Guatemalteco, con parallello de las lenguas Metropolitanas de los Reynos Kiche, Cakchiquel y, Tutuhil, que hoy integran el Reyno de Guatemala. Composta por P. F. Ildefonso Joseph Flores, etc., etc., "En Guatemala, con licencia, etc., 1753." Theodore Dwight's copy of the original and also a copy of Mr Dwight's copy. 18 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1087
General:
Previously titled "On numerals and methods of counting various objects."
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