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Language:English
Date:1958
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Material culture | Museums
Type:Text
Genre:Sketches | Inventories | Bibliographies
Extent:1 unbound photostat volume
Description: List with sketches of design of artifacts in various French and British museums; Canadian and U.S. Indian materials, as well as South Pacific, Southeast Asian, and provincial French pieces. Some bibliographic references.
Collection:Checklist of American Indian antiquities found in European institutions..., (Mss.016.9701.B235c)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1952-1953
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958
Subject:British Columbia--History | Carving | Ethnography | Medicine | Material culture
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: A work intended as a sequel to Barbeau (1953) Haida myths. In addition to discussing Skidegate and Masset carvers and their work, the author presents material on carvers as medicine men, material on shamanism and witchcraft, classification of the subjects of statuettes (chiefs and illustration of myths). An appendix includes myths recorded by William Beynon among the Skidegate, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a, from 1952-1954.
Collection:Haida carvers in argillite (Mss.970.6.B23h)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1920-1939
Contributor:Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Subject:Population | Folklore | Material culture | Hunting | Architecture | Pottery | Music | Drums | Clans | Politics and government | Social life and customs | Kinship | Religion | Animals | Games | Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography
Type:Still Image
Genre:Lecture notes | Bibliographies | Notes | Charts
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Hallowell papers are located in Series V. There are postcards of museum exhibits featuring Iroquois culture in the "American Indian" series of folders. The rest of the materials are concentrated in the folder labled "Eastern Woodlands." These items include information on material culture, the social organization of the confederacy, a chart of relational systems of clans, kinship, and genealogy. Specific topics includ Huron Mythology, Oneida magic, Seneca secret societies and genealogy. Some of this material is culturally sensitive and may be restricted.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Language:English
Date:May 28, 1846; 1950
Contributor:Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Graves | Masks | Basketry | Art | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Gallatin's letter to Messrs. Lea and Blanchard regarding returning their copy of Horatio Hale on Indian languages west of the Rocky Mountains which Gallatin borrowed to study. Trying to get Library of Congress to loan him another. Barbeau's "List of photos...research in whaler's and clipper ships' activities" including New England, New York, and Pennsylvania materials, including tombstones of eighteenth century; Northwest Coast carvings and masks; Haida argillite carvings; Eastern Woodlands baskets and bark vessels, etc. Descriptive catalogue of items from Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard, Yale, American Museum of Natural History, U.S. National Museum, Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)