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Language:Spanish
Date:1785; circa 1800
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Material culture | Stone carving | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Sketches | Notes | Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two of the various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). "Notas varias y Caprichosas; Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc." discusses means of construction and decoration of stone work in various Mexican and Mayan sites (One sheet bears reference to 2nd Mixtecan expedition, 1806, i.e., DuPaix's 1806 expedition). "Pyramide de Paplanta [sic]. Description Ic[o]nografica, de la antigua y famosa Piramide o Adoratorio del Pueblo de Papantla" consists of two items relating to the pyramid at Papantla.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Hunting | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Essays
Extent:2 pages
Description: A brief two-page piece attributed to A. P. H. titled "The method of the Indians in preparing skins." Describes the steps taken by Native women when dressing buck and doe skins. Restricted. Original at the Royal Society of London.
Collection:Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents (Mss.Film.460)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries
Extent:1,216 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This particular item is a French-Mohawk dictionary. Original at the Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Language:Spanish
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:15 pages
Description: One of various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). This item, "Algo de lengua mexicana, y de la explicacion de Algunos geroglificos," is a brief essay on phonology, dialectical differences, and an explanation of some hieroglyphics.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Culture:
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Language:English
Date:1804-1806
Contributor:Unknown
Type:Text
Extent:2 pages
Description: John Ordway accompanied Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean. This item is comprised of two loose sheets found in Ordway's journals: (1) location of Sheetsomish and Chopunnish [Nez Perce] with distances, data from a prisoner of the Walla Walla, concerning the Multnomah River [what Lewis and Clark called the Willamette River][same as Codex M: 1-2 from the Lewis and Clark Journals (917.3 L58)]; (2) unfilled chart for distances between points from St. Louis to Sandy Lake (on the Mississippi).
Collection:John Ordway journal, 1804-1806 (Mss.917.3.Or2)
Culture:
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1699 and undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Sulpicians | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Catechisms | Instructions | Dictionaries
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in the French and Ottawa [or Odawa] languages. Includes a petit catechisme, a literal, page-by-page translation into Ottawa of the "Catechisme des fetes principales de l'annee publie a Chartres par Etienne Massot le Jeune en 1683"; and "Racines de la langue 8ta8aise et algonquine," A to S only. The last 56 pages of the latter contain "Instructions sur les exhortations relatives aux commandements" while the cover reads "Instruction sur les symboles." Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection:Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 (Mss.Film.1109)
Culture:
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Catechisms | Hymns | Prayers
Extent:2 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items relate to the Ottawa (Odawa) language and include prayers, hymns, and catechisms. Originals at the Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec and Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:April 29, 1688
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Birds | Zoology | Wampum | Material culture | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from S. P., perhaps to Robert Boyle of the Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge. Sends dead hummingbird and a sample of Indian wampum which Indians measure by cubits, varying with each person. Original at the Royal Society of London.
Collection:Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents (Mss.Film.460)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1665-1775
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Massachusetts--History | New York (State)--History | New England--History | Treaties | Diplomacy | Boundaries | Warfare | Government relations | Land tenure
Type:Text
Extent:3 reels
Description: Selections from 31 volumes from the Massachusetts State Archives (volumes 1-6, 13, 20-22, 25, 27-33, 35, 38A, 51-54, 74, 80, 108-109, 219, 233, 287). These materials include letters and papers from the official records of provincial Massachusetts. Many relate to the Haudenosaunee in New York, and to French activity and influence among the Indians. Contains references to the treaties at Albany with the Haudenosaunee, the western boundary of Massachusetts, the Stockbridge removal, and the sack of Deerfield by Caughnawaga Mohawks.
Collection:Selected materials, 1665-1775, on Indian affairs (Mss.Film.642)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1840
Contributor:Unknown
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Oral histories
Extent:136 pages
Description: This account of the Natchez was written at Natchez in November 1840 and appears to convey oral history of the time. The unidentified author begins by stating “it was with extreme difficulty we succeeded in procuring the information.” The document touches on Natchez history and “manners, customs, [and] traditions.” The focus of the document is on their history, however, and much of the content was relayed to the author orally by Natchez consultants. There is an extended discussion of Natchez beliefs and practices. The document contains biographical data on prominent members of the Natchez and other native peoples, such as Pushmataha.
Collection:The Natchez, 1840 (Mss.970.3.N19)