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Otto Finsch (1839-1917) ornithologist and ethnologist, was the director of Bremen's Museum of Natural History and Ethnography 1876-1879, and built up a significant collection of material from the Pacific region

Sound reels containing interviews and singing sessions of Okanagan, Thompson, and Shuswap Salish songs recorded by Wendy C. Wickwire during her travels through the Southern Interior of British Columbia (Spuzzum, Lytton, Merritt, Vernon, Chase, and Hedley); 1978 to 1980. [Information adapted from "Okanagan language", "Nlakaʼpamux", and "Shuswap language" articles on Wikipedia; Date Accessed: 05/25/2023] A Jacobs Research Funds grant recipient

Correspondence 1905-1942 on Aboriginal subjects, particularly stone implements. Correspondence 1922-1940 on general Australian history subjects. Drafts, mostly undated, of articles and lectures on history and irrigation

Five letters, 1879-1894, from J.A. Cuoq to James Constantine Pilling, an American ethnologist particularly interested in Indian languages, who compiled comprehensive bibliographies on the topic and assembled the renowned library of the Bureau of American Ethnology -- In Cuoq's responses to Pilling's apparent requests for copies of his works, he notes in an 1879 letter that all copies of requested volumes were destroyed in an 1877 fire at Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes. Later notes concern the forwarding of copies of Cuoq's Lexique de la langue iroquoise (published 1882) and Anotc keton (published 1893), which was an appendix to his Grammaire de la langue algonquine

Mainly James Constantine Pilling's incoming correspondence, 1881-1894, with U.S. and Canadian missionaries, church officials, ethnologists, historians, and others regarding Indian languages, publications in Indian languages, and missionaries to the Indians -- Correspondents include John Campbell, Joseph Mary Cataldo, Charles Ami Cutter, James Owen Dorsey, Paul Durieu, Matilda Ridout Edgar, William Davis Ely, André Marie Garin, Alfred Campbell Garrioch, Emile Grouard, Charles Harrison, John Horden, Samuel Pearce Merrill, Anthony Morvillo, Alfred Longley Riggs, Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson, John Wentworth Sanborn, Samuel Miller Sener, John Dawson Gilmary Shea, James Gilchrist Swan, Alexandre Antonin Taché, and Eugene Vetromile

As of 1997, collection consists of the administrative files of the annual conference 1927-1989, chiefly pertaining to local arrangements. Materials include some photographs and slides of the participants. Notes taken by some attendees have been added

Correspondence, field notes (including sound recordings), and writings of Jane Richardson Hanks, mainly documenting her 1935 graduate student work under Alexander Lesser with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma -- Also included are field notes, writings, and correspondence of Lesser, and Hanks' fellow graduate students Weston La Barre, Donald Collier, William Bascom, and Bernard Mishkin. There are recordings of Kiowa songs performed by White Horse, Old Man Horse, Monroe Hunting Horse, Bilo Cozad, and Stumbling Bear; and slides and motion pictures taken by Hanks at a 1968 Kiowa powwow

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs and memorabilia. The material relates to both Jochelson's and Brodsky's work and writings, and also includes many personal and family items -- Much of the early correspondence is from the 1920s and 30s between Jochelson or Brodsky and former colleagues and professors, many living in Russia (the USSR at the time). Letters describe social conditions as well as covering professional topics. Correspondents include Waldemar Bogoras, another leader of the Jesup Expedition; Franz Boas; and Clark Wissler. All of Jochelson's letters and many of Brodsky's are in Russian, with translations provided by Leon Stavitsky. Photographs show peoples and places of Siberia and Alaska, as well as members of Jochelson's family. Memorabilia include eyeglasses, cups and saucers, and lithics and shells. The later part of the correspondence consists of correspondence between Dina Brodsky's niece, Lydia Domherr, and various ...

Articles on the customs, dialects and mythology of the Victorian aborigines. They include the manuscript of his work The Aborigines of Victoria and several aboriginal legends. Other groups include John Fairfield, the overlander: an Australian story; and seven notebooks of newspaper cuttings

Collection consists of clippings, pamphlets, lithographs, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Mexican history, folk art, folklore, religion, and archeology. Includes material on Native Americans in Mexico, materials about the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), Mexican ballads and song sheets, and portraits of prominent Mexicans of the nineteenth century. Also includes Mexican corridos (some illustrated by Posada), 3 albums of carte-de-visite photographs, and photographs (ca. 1880s-90s) of Los Angeles and vicinity, San Francisco's Chinatown, and El Paso, Texas