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Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt
Wishram includes: Wasco-Wishram
Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Mandan includes: Nueta
Hidatsa includes: Hiratsa, Hiraacá, Gros Ventre, Minnetaree
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Blackfoot includes: Niitsítapi, Blackfeet
Arikara includes: Sahnish, Arikaree, Hundi
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:English
Date:1805-1806
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809 | Clark, William, 1770-1838
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:4 books
Description: The Plateau materials in the Lewis and Clark journals include discussions of the following tribes: Blackfoot; Salis; Dakota; Walla Walla; Nez Perce, Mandan; Shoshone; Hidatsa; Arikara; Crow; Chinook; Wishram; Assiniboine; Shahaptian. Also listed are tribes with names no longer in use: Shalee (Ootlashoot), Shallalah, Skitswish, Willetpos, Castahana, Tushepaw, Quamash, Cathlamet, Cathlapotle, Chiluckittequaw, Cathlamet, Cathlapotle, Chiluckittequaw, Clatsop, Enesher, Friendly Village, Multnomah (Wappato), Quamash, Shahaptian, Skilloot, Sokulk, Wahkiakum, Chopunnish, Sokulk, Chimnapum, Willetpos, Chalee, Sheetsomish, and Chopunnish.
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
Language:French
Date:1783
Contributor:Mandrillon, Joseph, 1743-1794
Subject:Expeditions
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:127 pages
Description: This small leather bound volume contains an essay by APS member Joseph Mandrillon, prepared for the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon. The essay discusses the discovery of America, early exploration, and colonization. It is written in French. Joseph Mandrillon was a French businessman and writer elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1785. This essay was printed, with slight changes, in Le Spectateur américain ou remarques générales sur l'Amérique septentrionale et sur la république des Treize États-Unis (Amsterdam, 1784).
Collection:Recherches philosophiques sur la découverte de l'Amérique, 1783 (Mss.973.1.M31)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Language:English
Date:1805
Contributor:Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:1 volume
Description: The Shoshone materials in the Lewis & Clark Journals consist of include "A general account of the Shoshoni Indians, their material culture, etc.," copied from Clark's journal, Codex G.
Collection:Lewis and Clark Journals (Mss.917.3.L58)
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)
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Language:English
Date:1905-1947
Contributor:Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subject:Archaeology | Expeditions | Orthography and spelling
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:39 volumes
Description: Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the native people. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. Includes 106 ink sketches and 105 pencil sketches by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley to illustrate his excavation descriptions of Mayan sites in Yaxchilan (1931), Calakmul (1932), Copan (1937, 1947), and Uxmal (1941-42). Primarily Mayan glyphs, images include diagrams of stairways, pyramids, and ball courts. Originals at Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection:Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828)
Culture:
Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘
Language:English
Date:1819
Subject:Expeditions | Mounds | Natural history
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Journals | Notebooks
Extent:43 pages
Description: "Journal kept...as assistant naturalist of Long's expedition west of the Rocky Mountains from May 3 to August 1, 1819." This journal was kept by Peale as the assistant naturalist of Stephen Long's expedition west of the Rocky Mountains, May 3-August 1, 1819. Mentions meeting Osage and other Indians; examining mounds on Mississippi River. Donor, Robert J. Drake, 1954. Printed, Weese (1947) and extracted and discussed, Poesch (1961): 22-35. Originals in Library of Congress.
Collection:Titian Ramsay Peale journal, 1819 (Mss.Film.694)
Language:English
Date:circa 1924
Subject:Expeditions | Grand Canyon (Ariz.)--History | Arizona--History | Surveying | Geology | Geography
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Diaries
Extent:56 pages
Description: Diary titled "Through the canyon of the Colorado with John Wesley Powell," prepared from shorthand notes in 1903; with marginal notes by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, circa 1924. Brief reference to the Ute Indians and to the Navajo. Original in the New York Public Library.
Collection:John Wesley Powell correspondence and diary, 1871-1907 (Mss.Film.736.1)
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Language:English
Date:1868
Contributor:Rocky Mountain news | Garman, Samuel, 1843-1927
Subject:Economic conditions | Colorado--History | Expeditions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:2 items
Description: Newspaper clipping on the Powell expedition with a byline of Byers [?] at Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, mentions Utes. Sam Garmin, the entomologist of the Colorado Exploring Expedition, mentions Ute Indians begging for food at Hot Sulphur Springs in a letter to Gertrude Lewis.
Collection:Papers relating to John Wesley Powell and the Colorado River (Mss.B.P869s.c)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Language:English
Date:April 19, 1890
Contributor:Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
Subject:Expeditions | New Mexico--History | New Mexico--History | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Desires copy of the report of Hon. Bradford Prince, Santa Fe, New Mexico, on New Mexico, which gave interesting facts concerning early Spanish expeditions, especially regarding Cibola. Mentions Hodge's service with Hemenway Expedition, stay at Zuni.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)