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Culture:
Osage includes: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν
Language:English
Date:1861
Contributor:Ord, George, 1781-1866
Subject:Indian captivities | Captivity narratives | Expeditions | Social life and customs | Africa
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters to Charles Waterton. Mentions imposture of John D. Hunter [who claimed to have lived among the Kickapoos and Osages], Hunter's work on Indians, his claim to have preceded Lewis and Clark, and Ord's conversation with Sir John Franklin on the topic; Du Chaillu and his work on gorillas; Eleazar Williams and his claim to be the Lost Dauphin; Indian customs; Academy of Natural Sciences; fire in Philadelphia. Also quotes Lewis Cass on Hunter and Franklin.
Collection:George Ord Collection (Mss.B.Or2)
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)