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Language:English
Date:1792-1796
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Zoology | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Nomenclature | Birds | Diseases | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Cherokees. Letter to Thomas Pennant, sending specimens of birds called Onacloneita by visiting Cherokee Indians; and letter to John G. E. Heckewelder, inquiring whether any Indians ever have a sickly white color or white spots on them and mentioning Cherokee belief that their ancestors found a race of "develish white-people" when they came to the area then inhabited. [From original in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Guna includes: Kuna, Cuna, Dule
Language:English | Kuna, San Blas | Spanish
Date:1959, 1960-1962
Contributor:Colman, Seferino | González, Arturo | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Torres de Iannello, Reina | Tipipi, Guayni
Subject:Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography | Folklore | Panama--History | Puberty rites | Birds | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Stories | Songs | Music | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders; 37 minutes
Description: The main Guna materials in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers (spelled Kuna or Cuna in the finding aid) are audio recordings made by Reina Torres de Iannello, in Series VII, from a reel titled "Panama". Correspondence with Clifford Evans in Series I may provide more context. Correspondence with John Gillespie in the same series compares Kuna to several other languages.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1795-1796
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Earthquakes | Folklore | Birds | Natural history | Animals--Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Delawares. Two letters to John G. E. Heckewelder. The first inquires whether words for "earthquake" exist in Delaware or other Indian languages and whether there is an "earthquake theme." The second concerns whether certain objects are unequivocally Indian, and whether any species of birds is venerated or held in particular esteem by the Delawares or other Indians. [Both from originals in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)