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Language:English | Marshallese | Pohnpeian | Mortlockese | Kosraean
Date:1856, 1870-1880, 1904
Contributor:Whitney, Joel
Subject:Micronesia | Missions
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Diaries | Photographs | Broadsides | Poems | Marriage registers | Receipts
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Papers of Joel F. Whitney, missionary on the island of Ebon, Marshall Islands, and Kusaie (Kosrae), Micronesia. Includes linguistic material, a small amount of mission press publications in Kosrean, Mortlockese, and Pohnpeian, one tintype likely showing Joel Whitney, realia, letters, and diaries that include some information in Marshallese, including records (with names) of marriages for 1876 and 1877 at the Ebon mission. Primarily materials relating to Ebon, including two diaries (1876-1877); early Micronesian printing, primarily of missionary texts such as the Lord's Prayer (first printing in Mortlock language; also some in Pohnpeian); manuscript articles about Micronesia; correspondence; billheads; reports; minutes of meetings, etc. Also included is a small wiskbroom or fan made of island bark and a scroll. Tintype photo ofolder man (possibly Whitney) with young native girl with hoop, circa 1880. The diaries have approx. 164pp, 130pp; approx. 149pp of correspondence; approx. 30 billheads or receipts (many are very long ordering 3 to 6 months of supplies); 13pp of minutes of missionary meetings; approx. 75pp of manuscript drafts of "articles" on history of Micronesian missions; approx. 38pp of mission press printed materials (including duplication).
Collection:Joel F. Whitney Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.98)
Culture:
Scaticook includes: Scatticook, Schaghticoke
Date:1903-1943
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | New England--History | Connecticut--History | Captivity narratives | Population | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Censuses | Notebooks | Correspondence | Broadsides | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of the language, history, and culture of the Scaticook (Scatticook, aka Schaghticoke) people of southern New England. Items include Speck's 1903 Scaticook field notebook containing vocabulary, census, and reservation data, biographical notes, and traditions; Speck's miscellaneous Scaticook notes, comprised of a 1904 vocabulary, two letters from Chief Swimming Eel (1939 and 1940) concerning Indian social activities, and 1 broadside; and two letters from Frank Edward Smith, Jr., concerning his interest in Scatticook Indians and in captivity narratives.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)