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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9147

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Title:Eastern North America materials, American Philosophical Society Archives
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Turner, George, 1750-1843
Thorburn, John
Townsend, Thomas
Morris, J. Cheston (James Cheston), 1831-1923
Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820
Smith, Charles
Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888
Miller, Samuel
Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900
Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823
Forshey, Caleb Goldsmith, 1812-1881
Hullihen, S. P. (Simon P.), 1810-1857
Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863
Thomas, Isaiah, 1773-1835
Date:1792-1897
Description: Items relating to materials about the Native peoples of Eastern North America. Topics include papers and articles, particularly those considered for publication (on the relation of pentagonal dodecahedron found near Marietta, Ohio, to shamanism; memoir on aboriginal monuments; memoir of Dr. Charles D. Meigs on bones and burial customs; multiple items regarding a letter from S. P. Hullihen to Dr. Richard Harlan regarding inscription on a stone found at Grave Creek near Wheeling, and Thomas Townsend's claim to prior publication rights to Grave Creek inscription; Caleb Forshey's paper describing a great mound in Adams County, Mississippi; Cushing's publication on exploration of ancient key dwellers' remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida; a response to Henry Phillips' article on supposed runic inscriptions at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia); requests for information or materials (Samuel Miller's request for copies of designated Indian vocabularies of Delaware, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Osage, for training missionaries of United Foreign Missionary Society); donations to APS ("curiosities" taken from Indian grave near Cincinnati; relics and fossil shells found in Huntingdon County, West Virginia;"western productions"); Peter S. du Ponceau's work on Southern Indian languages and customs (including Creek, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Yuchi), Indian vocabularies, and for APS; information from Judge William C. Frazer (Wisconsin Territory, Superior County), concerning discovery of burned bricks in Aztalan Mound, Jefferson County, Wisconsin; Cutler's estimation of age of Ohio mounds referred to in Barton (1787) using tree-ring dating; sketch of the plan of an ancient work three miles southeast of Lexington (Kentucky); American Antiquarian Society's plans to publish a volume on mounds based on Caleb Atwater's data; and comparative vocabularies of British Columbia tribes. Other individuals mentioned include Murray, Duralde, Colonel Smith, Benjamin Hawkins, Robley Dunglison, Isaac Lea, Benjamin W. Richards, George M. Wharton, Nathaniel Ware, General Wayne, Dr. Tolmie, George M. Dawson, and Abelard Tomlinson.
Extent:28 items
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/9147
Language:English
French
Language (ISO639):eng
fra
Subject:Natchez
Choctaw
Chickasaw
Yuchi
Delaware
Cherokee
Creek
Osage
Linguistics
Missions
Mounds
Inscriptions
Petroglyphs
Archaeology
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Type:Correspondence
Reports
Memoranda
Sketches
Type (DCMI):StillImage
Text

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Citation: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844; Turner, George, 1750-1843; Thorburn, John; Townsend, Thomas; Morris, J. Cheston (James Cheston), 1831-1923; Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820; Smith, Charles; Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888; Turner, George, 1750-1843; Miller, Samuel; Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900; Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823; Forshey, Caleb Goldsmith, 1812-1881; Hullihen, S. P. (Simon P.), 1810-1857; Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863; Thomas, Isaiah, 1773-1835. 1792-1897. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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