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Language:English
Date:undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Biography | Travel | Benin--History
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Autobiographies
Extent:9 pages
Description: The sole Beta Israel manuscript in the ACLS papers is item 3, "Autobiography of a native of Dahomey, West Africa". It is an autobiographical account from a descendant of Beta Israel from Abomey-Calavi, Dahomey (now Benin).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:1804-1805
Contributor:Dunbar, William, 1749-1810 | Pike, Zebulon, 1751-1834
Subject:Ethnography | Travel | Expeditions
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:1 volume
Description: This collection contains three manuscript journals of exploration expedition, bound together in one volume: one journal by Zebulon Pike, two journals by William Dunbar. The Pike journal documents the expedition to explore the geography of the Mississippi River led by Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike in 1805-1806, and his attempts to purchase sites from the Dakota Indians for future military posts, and to bring influential chiefs back to St. Louis for talks. Dunbar's journald document the expedition up the Red and Ouachita Rivers to the Hot Springs of Arkansas in 1804-1805. The "Journal... to the Mouth of the Red River" (200p.) is the fullest available record of the activities of the expedition from the time of their departure from St. Catharine's Landing on October 16, 1804, until their return to Natchez, Miss., on January 26, 1805. The "Journal of a geometrical survey" includes a record of course and distances as well as a thermometrical log and other brief notes. The second of these mention Osage and Caddo, their relations with whites (enemies and friends), trade to Osages with Delaware Indian as aid, and Chickasaw.
Collection:Expedition Journals (Mss.917.7.D91)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1879, 1930
Contributor:Donaldson, Henry Herbert, 1857-1938
Subject:Ethnography | Travel
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: Reminiscences of a scientist which include brief mention of Inuit seen at Rigolet, Labrador, in 1879.
Collection:Henry H. Donaldson diaries (Mss.B.D713, D713m, D713p)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1861-1916
Contributor:Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927
Subject:Archaeology | Art | Dance | Education | Museums | Travel | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History | Arizona--History | New Mexico--History | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Essays
Extent:19 items
Description: Narratives of travels and adventures, 1881-1864, 1881-1916, in the Far West, Southwest, Northwest, northern Mexico, as well as Ohio, New York, and Europe, apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describing an Indian attack. Visits Pima Indians, Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; visits Sacaton Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on Northwest Art; statues of Indian heroes in Northwest. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum. See especially #1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19.
Collection:Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips (Mss.B.Ay2)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: The only known copy of a manuscript possibly earlier than Byrd's History (#525). This contains fewer Indian references and lacks interpolated information, but describes contact with Saponi and Nottoway Indians in 1728. Three pages missing; these are printed in Woodfin (1945), from fragments of early draft.
Collection:Secret history of the line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99s)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874
Subject:Botany | Folklore | Geography | Health | Religion | North Carolina--History | Travel | Virginia--History | Warfare | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: A finished copy, probably earlier than the Westover manuscript, from which this varies slightly. Byrd interpolated into the narrative of his tour remarks on Indian customs, religion, warfare, trade, in addition to observations on his Saponi guides. Several pages added in 1817 in hand of Nicholas Trist. Printed (from Westover manuscript) in Boyd (1929). See also Woodfin (1944).
Collection:The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99h)
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Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1810
Contributor:Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859
Subject:Mounds | Michigan--History | Botany | Trade | Travel | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries
Extent:1 volume, 121 p., photostat
Description: Thomas Nuttall's travel narrative tracks his journey from Philadelphia to Detroit during the spring and summer of 1810. Nuttall makes a range of observations, including discussions of the weather, plant life, rivers, and the various people he meets, including Native peoples. The last portion of the narrative, which takes place around Detroit, from which he set out by canoe for Michilimackinac, discusses Indians a fair amount – their history in the area, the various groups he met (Chippewa in particular), and their customs.
Collection:Thomas Nuttall diary (Mss.B.N96)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1948
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Geography | Indian captivities | Missions | Travel | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Captivity narratives
Extent:392 leaves
Description: Catalogue and notes prepared by Charles Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., owned and collected by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. Data on house and its contents, and bibliography of books, including some 60 Indian captivities, books on place names, Indian wars, Indian missions, travels, colonial history pertaining to New England and Canada. Extensive reading notes included.
Collection:Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead (Mss.016.9701.G842b)