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Language:English
Date:1805-1838
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:6 items
Description: Materials relating to Northwest Coast languages and cultures at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include APS support for John Kirk Townsend's expedition [to Oregon, with botonist Thomas Nuttall, the second western expedition of Boston entrepreneur Nathaniel J. Jarvis]; Captain Swift's [of Boston] observations of indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast; Lieutenant Sylvanus W. Godon's return from U.S. exploring expedition aboard the Peacock, a gift of vocabularies, and the gift of Northwest Coast Indian pipe to John Vaughan; a draft letter to Samuel G. Morton signed by Titian Peale regarding the division of materials from Townsend's expedition between American Philosophical Society and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; a letter from Morton stating that the Academy of Natural Sciences didn't subscribe to Townsend's expedition and consequently has no claim on his collections; and Townsend's letter to John Vaughan transmitting Northwest Coast Indian vocabularies--the originals have been given to the APS and have also been rearranged and transcribed for Du Ponceau, and Nuttall has a copy of four or five vocabularies. Geological specimens and shells selected by Titian R. Peale also transmitted.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Date:undated
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Laufer, Berthold
Subject:Expeditions | Linguistics | Siberia--History | Russia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:5+ folders
Description: The Siberian materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of notes and correspondence within in the "Jesup Siberian Expedition" folders. See also correspondence with Morris K. Jesup, Waldemar Bogoras, and Berthold Laufer for possible additional information surrounding the Jesup expedition.
Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)