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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:
Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin
Date:1950s-1980s, bulk 1970s-1980s
Contributor:Hymes, Virginia D. | Hunn, Eugene | French, David | French, Kathrine | Rigsby, Bruce | Pistolhead, Elsie | Suppah, Hazel | Greene, Verbana | Winishut, Linton | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy
Subject:Oregon--History | Washington (State)--History | Linguistics | Ethnography | Animals | Animals--Nomenclature | Anthropology | Fieldwork | Language study and teaching | Orthography and spelling | Pedagogy | Sahaptin languages
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Correspondence | Stories | Oral histories | Dictionaries | Drafts | Elicitation sessions | Grammars | Vocabularies | Transcripts | Essays
Extent:10 linear feet
Description: The majority of the Virginia D. Hymes Papers relate to her work on the Warm Springs Reservation. This includes all or most of Series I, II, III and V. Series V (Card Files) contains around 35000 lexical files compiled by Hymes as well as David and Kay French and an unidentified researcher. Series III (Research Files) contains fieldnotes, texts and dictionary files. Series I (Correspondence) and IV (Works by Others) also mostly relate to Sahaptin research by others, including Bruce Rigsby (Yakima and Umatilla Sahaptin), Virginia Beavert, and Eugene Hunn.
Collection:Virginia D. Hymes Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.189)