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Notes relating to Dorsey's "The Gentile System of Siletz Tribes"

National Museum of Natural History

Notes relating to Dorsey's "The Gentile System of Siletz Tribes"
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Object Details

sova.naa.ms4800_ref493
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a668e37a-2b7e-418a-ab0f-414b14aea949
Collection Creator
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 2: Siletz Reservation
Sponsor
Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund. Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Date
circa 1884
Container
Box 59, Item 362
Oversize BAE, Folder 362
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection Rights
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital surrogates are available.
Scope and Contents
Notes to article published in Journal of American Folklore, Vol 3, No 10, 1890, pages 227-237. Includes: parts of text of published article; lists of villages and gentes in vicinity of Siletz Agency (some appear to tally with published lists and some do not); miscellaneous notes; sketch maps and diagrams as follows: "Diagram of the principal streams in the priscan habitats of the Siletz Tribes" (published); sketch of Takelma localities (?) (1 page on cardboard); "Map, showing Athapascan villages in Oregon and California, according to a Naltunnetunne, Alex Ross, Siletz Agency, Oregon, October, 1884" (localities numbered in black ink and these numbers canceled and corrected in red; keyed to unidentified numbered list); "Map drawn according to directions of E'-ne-a'-ti, a Tututunne, by J. Owen Dorsey, Siletz Agency, Oregon, Sept. 1884" (localities numbered; 4-p. key apparently goes with this); sketch of Rogue River and tributaries; sketch of Curry, Josephine, and Jackson Cos., showing streams; sketch of southern Oregon and northern California. (Localities numbered; numbers all cancelled; keyed to unidentified list.)
Collection Restrictions
The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
NAA.MS4800_ref493
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a668e37a-2b7e-418a-ab0f-414b14aea949
NAA.MS4800
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1503512914364-1503512914459-4

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