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Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1880-1908
Contributor:Bell, Robert | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Isbister, William
Subject:Anthropometry | Physical anthropology | Geology | Geography | Birds | Human remains | Grave robbing | Museum objects | Museum specimens | Museums | Chicago World's Fair
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Robert Bell correspondence collection is a small collection of incoming letters to Robert Bell, who was primarily a geologist. The main content relating to Indigenous peoples in the collection is from Franz Boas, which mentions Boas's field trips to British Columbia and Baffin Island, anthropometric data collection, the collection of objects for museums, and human remains. There is also mention of William Isbister documenting Cree stories around Oxford House, Manitoba. See individual letter descriptions for more detail.
Collection:Robert Bell correspondence (Mss.B.B421)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Snunueymuxw materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #4.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886, 1888, circa 1890, 1900
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:131 pages
Description: The Snuneymuxw matierals in the ACLS collection consist of two items. In the "Halkomelem" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Nanaimo, Cowichan, and Lower Fraser materials" (item S2i.1) contain extensive vocabulary and texts with interlinear translations recorded in 1886. In the "Salish" section, Boas' "Comparative vocabularies of eight Salishan languages" (item S.1) includes Snuneymuxw vocabulary derived from this earlier fieldwork. See also "Squamish vocabulary," circa 1888, (item S2h.1,) which includes a comparative vocabulary for numbers in multiple Coast Salish languages.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)