Pacific Northwest materials, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Culture:
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Language: English
Date: May 28, 1846; 1950
Contributor: Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject: Linguistics | Graves | Masks | Basketry | Art | Material culture
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 2 items
Description: Gallatin's letter to Messrs. Lea and Blanchard regarding returning their copy of Horatio Hale on Indian languages west of the Rocky Mountains which Gallatin borrowed to study. Trying to get Library of Congress to loan him another. Barbeau's "List of photos...research in whaler's and clipper ships' activities" including New England, New York, and Pennsylvania materials, including tombstones of eighteenth century; Northwest Coast carvings and masks; Haida argillite carvings; Eastern Woodlands baskets and bark vessels, etc. Descriptive catalogue of items from Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard, Yale, American Museum of Natural History, U.S. National Museum, Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.
Collection: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection Mss.Ms.Coll.200