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Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1845-1881
Contributor:Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 | Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908 | Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Geology | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Great Law of Peace | New York (State)--History | Kinship | Clans | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Journals | Notes | Reports | Notebooks | Speeches
Extent:2 reels
Description: Materials of ethnologist and anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Reel 1: Lorimer Fison and Alfred W. Howitt to Morgan, 1865-1881, 455 pages. Materials pertaining to geology, etc., 194 pages. Materials pertaining to Morgan's secret society, Grand Council of the Iroquois, by Morgan, 156 pages, by others, 105 pages. Rules, Constitutions, etc., 44 pages. Volume 1 of Morgan manuscript journals, 394 pages. Reel 2: Volumes 2-6 of Morgan manuscript journals, 453, 532, 385, 456, and 552 pages. The journal includes notes on travels to New York and Michigan, conversations, and Indian councils. Record of Indian letters [i.e., Record of the inquiry concerning the Indian system of relationship...], volume 1, letters sent, 230 pages; volume 2, letters received, 279 pages. (Includes related correspondence). Printed table of contents (1936). [See also, for descriptive contents, Rochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series 2: 83-97; and White (1959).] Originals in the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester.
Collection:Lewis Henry Morgan journal and correspondence, 1845-1876 (Mss.Film.582)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1880-1908
Contributor:Bell, Robert | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Isbister, William
Subject:Anthropometry | Physical anthropology | Geology | Geography | Birds | Human remains | Grave robbing | Museum objects | Museum specimens | Museums | Chicago World's Fair
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Robert Bell correspondence collection is a small collection of incoming letters to Robert Bell, who was primarily a geologist. The main content relating to Indigenous peoples in the collection is from Franz Boas, which mentions Boas's field trips to British Columbia and Baffin Island, anthropometric data collection, the collection of objects for museums, and human remains. There is also mention of William Isbister documenting Cree stories around Oxford House, Manitoba. See individual letter descriptions for more detail.
Collection:Robert Bell correspondence (Mss.B.B421)