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Culture:
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Language:English
Date:1889, 1890, 1894, and 1900
Contributor:Perkins, Frederick Stanton
Subject:Wisconsin--History | Museum objects | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries
Extent:4 notebooks
Description: This small collection contains four manuscript diaries created by Frederick Stanton Perkins (1832-1899), who lived in Burlington, Wisconsin. Perkins’ diaries are dated 1889, 1890, 1894, and 1899-1900 and contain hand-written notes about many things, such as the addresses of friends and family, the weather, farming, family life, and financial accounts. However, thebulk of his entries relate to his massive collection of ancient objects and chronicle meetings with fellow collectors and potential buyers, such as the Smithsonian Institution. A telling note from January 1, 1889 reads, "I have to sell 22,000 flint and stone implements (relics)... also 3 of shell, 3 of lead, 388 of copper (including 79 beads). All found in Wisconsin." Inventories like these shed light on the content of his collection, pre-dispersal, as well as references to the artifacts he was painting.
Collection:Frederick Stanton Perkins diaries (Mss.SMs.Coll.179)
Culture:
Poqomam includes: Pokomam
Date:1955
Contributor:Miles, Suzanne W.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Diaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: Anthropologist Suzanne W. Miles received her Ph.D. at Radcliffe in 1955 for a study of the Pokom-Maya Indians [Poqomam]; she died in Guatemala in the mid-1960s. This volume is a field diary kept by Miles in the Cuchmatanes mountains of Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.
Collection:Suzanne W. Miles field diary (Mss.572.9728.M59)
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Language:English
Date:1905-1947
Contributor:Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subject:Archaeology | Expeditions | Orthography and spelling
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:39 volumes
Description: Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the native people. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. Includes 106 ink sketches and 105 pencil sketches by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley to illustrate his excavation descriptions of Mayan sites in Yaxchilan (1931), Calakmul (1932), Copan (1937, 1947), and Uxmal (1941-42). Primarily Mayan glyphs, images include diagrams of stairways, pyramids, and ball courts. Originals at Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection:Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828)