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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Envelopes
Vocabulary
Date:
1858
Scope and Contents:
Contains 174 terms. (a)- Vocabulary, on printed schedule distributed by George Gibbs, Fort Townsend, Washington Territory. (1853-54). Original ? (b)- Additional sheet 8 3/4 in x 7 1/2 in with 7 terms for salmon in Clallam, and list of numerals copied from (a). (c)- Sheet 5 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in with additional terms.
Images of streets, houses, and other buildings in Klukwan, a Tlingit village in Alaska, made on August 6, 1993. According to a description by photographer Adrienne DeArmas, the images form "a panoramic view of the Tlingit Village in Klukwan, Alaska, U.S.A. . . .The slides begin on the left-hand side of the road which divides the community into the riverside and the mountain side, and progress to the end of the community and back up the road on the right-hand side. The river is to the left and the mountains to the right."
Biographical/Historical note:
In 1993, National Museum of Natural History staff traveled to Juneau and Klukwan, Alaska, to present their plan for the museum's renovated North American Hall to the board members of the Sealaska Corporation and to the community of Klukwan. During the trip, permission was obtained to photograph the community for the archives, the village, and the Sealaska Corporation.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 94-19
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Citation:
Photo Lot 94-19, Adrienne DeArmas photographs of Tlingit village in Klukwan, Alaska, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Negatives
Photographs
Date:
probably 1870s-1880s
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs of skulls in the United States Army Medical Museum collection, which appear to have been collected for physical anthropological purposes. Included are archeological remains and remains of historical American Indian tribes and some other ethnic groups. Other than tribe or location, data for the specimens include Army Medical Museum specimen number, AMM negative number, and sex; for some, there is also collection data and information on physical or medical conditions. There are also notes identifying donors who included army officers, physicians, scientists, and explorers such as Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Edward Palmer, Frederic Ward Putnam, George Rolleston, Paul Schumacher, and many others. Some of the photographs may have been made as part of the Army Medical Museumʹs program of distributing images of its specimens.
Represented are Africans, Chinook, Choptank, Dakota, Eskimo of Greenland, Taiwanese peoples, Hawaiians, Hidatsa, Nisqually, Philippine peoples, Ponca, Potowatomi, Pueblo, Tonkawa, and Ute. Archeological specimens are from the Aleutian Islands, California, the Dakotas, England (Roman period), Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, Peru, Vancouver Island, and Vermont. For some, there is also information about the status or physical condition of the individual or observations of medical conditions shown in the specimens. Some additional photographs appear to show specimens at the American Museum of Natural History.
Biographical/Historical note:
The United States Army Medical Museum (AMM, renamed the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989) was established by US Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond in 1862. Its initial focus was on collecting specimens of unusual pathology, mostly taken from victims of the American Civil War. By 1867, the museum had expanded to include medical, microsopical, anatomical, comparative anatomics, and other sections. The anatomical collection grew in part as a result of Circular No. 2 of 1867, which authorized military medical officers to collect cranial specimens from deceased American Indians. Additionally, the AMM made an arrangement with the Smithsonian Institution, by which the Smithsonian transferred their collection of human remains in exchange for ethnological artifacts. AMM photographed and measured many of the specimens in its collection as part of the museum's anthropological research.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 73-26C, NAA Photo Lot 73-26D
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 73-26D have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 73-26C. These are also Army Medical Museum negatives of skulls and form part of this collection.
Additional Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 6A, Photo Lot 6B, Photo Lot 78-42, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 97.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 73-26C, United States Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
1865 ?
Scope and Contents:
Contents: (a)- Vocabulary, on sheet, 2 columns on first page and 3 on second page. (b)- A copy of vocabulary a with the exception of a few words omitted. Copied by George Gibbs, on printed form with heading "Comparative Vocabulary, 6 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 989-a-b
General:
Previously titled "Vocabularies."
Topic:
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
1853-4 ?
Scope and Contents:
Contents: (a)- Vocabulary, 6 pages on printed schedule distributed by George Gibbs, Washington Territory. (b)- Partial copy of vocabulary a on printed form with heading "Comparative Vocabulary," 6 pages. Only the words on the original which correspond with those on printed sheets were copied.
Also includes letter from A.C. Anderson to George Gibbs referring to the vocabulary. June 12, 1865.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 985-a-b
Local Note:
Note on original states: "This and the Nootka are almost identical."
Topic:
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Archival materials
Pages
Date:
May 19, 1865
Scope and Contents:
Encloses comparative vocabulary of Chinook and "Tahkaht" (Nootka), 3 pages. Also 3 sheets (6 pages) miscellaneous notes on blue paper similar to covering letter, and presumably enclosed with it.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 992-b
Local Note:
One of the miscellaneous sheets, approximately 6 " square, carries a note signed by C. Knipe, however, the notes on the reverse are in the handwriting of George Gibbs. --MCB.
General:
Previously titled "Letter."
Topic:
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Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Text as follows: "Marriage Ceremonies," 1 page. (The original contains notes following the text which are not included here.) "The Myth of the Coyote." 3 pages. "The Molala tribe raided by the Cayuse Indians," 9 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 998
Local Note:
Copied by Gatschet from his original texts in BAE Manuscript Number 2029.
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Archival materials
Pages
Date:
November 1878 (original)
Scope and Contents:
Includes phonology, vocabulary, and notes. The manuscript is apparently Leo J. Fractenburg's copy of Eels' vocabulary provided in Powell's outline (MS 272). Repetition has been eliminated, and a few of the notes have have not been copied. The phonology is from a different source.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7549
Local Note:
Typescript document
Topic:
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Citation:
Manuscript 7549, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
circa 1916
Scope and Contents:
Includes in volume 1: mental and physical traits (p. 1); population (p. 7), basketry (Mrs. Carl Black, Mrs. Jennie Blair, Billy Hehalagap; p. 19); in volume 2: early history and distribution (Arthur Howeattle; p. 3); manufacture (Arthur Howeattle; p. 14); houses and households (Arthur Howeattle and Talicas Eastman, p. 39), and house furnishings (p. 53); clothing and adornment (Arthur Howeattle; p. 60); in volume 3: clothing (p. 3); personal adornment (Mrs. Robert Lee, Mrs. Sunflower, Arthur Howeattle; p. 6); subsistence (A.H.; p. 18); dishes (p. 31); seasons (p. 34); hunting (A.H. andBilly Hebaladuf; p. 37); fishing (A.H.; p. 57); sealing (80); whaling (p. 102); travel, transportation and trade (A.H.; p. 127); and warfare (A.H. and Webo Tones; p. 144). Also three pages of notes in what appears to be the hand o
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7590
Citation:
Manuscript 7590, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Archival materials
Prints
Photographs
Letters
Date:
1985
Scope and Contents:
The photographs include: carved thunderbird from old clan house in Klukwan; Chilkat Valley eagles; gillnet boats; drying salmon, net housefish house, and portraits of Bill Nigh, Frankie Jimmy, Tom Abbott, Cory James Mann, Mike Earl Mann, Lilly Klanott-Abbott-Nigh, George Abbott, Jeanette Abbott Mann, Brenda Mann, Victoria Mann-Angleo, Ann Abbott, Helen Abbott, Charlie Abbott, and Jennie Thlunaut.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7401
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Letters
Citation:
Manuscript 7401, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Comparative vocabulary on printed schedule issued by the Geographic and Geological Survey, Interior Department, arranged in parallel columns.
Note on the Cowlitz, in Gatschet's hand: "Differs quite considerably from the Kuwalitsk of Gibbs--Powell, Contributions I, 271, etc."
Words for "father", "mother" and others indicate this is definitely Lower Cowlitz (Salishan). Manuscript examined by Dr M. Dale Kinkade, University of Kansas, here 3/11/71.
Laurence Thompson, here 4/64, points out that there is confusion between Cowlitz (a southern Washington language close to Upper Chehalis) and Kuwalitsk, apptly. a Fraser River dialect--cf. Powell Contrib. I, page 269.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 733
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 733, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
