Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian
Culture: Cherokee | Apache | Caddo | Calusa | Ojibwe | Choctaw | Lenape | Gwich'in | Haudenosaunee | Inuit | Karankawa | Mattaponi | Meskwaki | Muscogee | Navajo | Onondaga | Seminole | Seneca | Shawnee | Oceti Sakowin | Sahtú | Timucua | Tuscarora | Tutelo | Wyandot | Zuni
Alternate forms: Chippewa | Creek | Eskimo | Fox | Kuchin | Kutchin | Loucheux | Ojibwa | Ojibway | Mvskoke | Sauk | Huron | Wendat
Language(s): English
Date: 1939-1945; 1947-Circa 1961; 1951-1962;
Contributor: Gillespie, John Douglas | Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992
Subject: Archaeology | Dance | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Medicine | Music | Rites and ceremonies
Type: Text | Still Image
Genre: Grammars | Musical scores | Newspaper clippings | Photographs
Extent: Circa 350 volumes; 75 photographs; 75 newspaper clippings; 70 manuscripts
Description: This collection pertains principally to the Cherokees of North Carolina and Oklahoma and to their language, ethnography, folklore, archeology, history, music, etc. Includes Indian studies and correspondence by Gillespie, notes on Indian dances and linguistics, bibliographies, publications of the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University, and newspaper clippings. Also comprised of materials on: Apache, Calusa, Chippewa, Choctaw, Delaware, Eskimo, Fox, Haudenosaunee, Karankawa, Gwich'in, Mattaponi, Muskogee, Navajo, Onondaga, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Slave, Timucua, Tuscarora, Tutelo, Wyandot, and Zuni. Contains: Gillespie, "A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family," 1949-1954 (131 pages); "Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language"; "Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian."
Collection: Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian (Mss.497.3.G41)