Object Details
Collection Creator
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Collection Citation
John Wesley Powell papers (MS 798), National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents
Contains:
(1) Northern Paiute vocabulary recorded by Powell in a partial Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages schedule (1880). The vocabulary is titled in Powell's hand "Numu, Western Shoshone, Western Nevada." This title is in error; the vocabulary is not Shoshone. The vocabulary contains the schedules for 1. Persons; 2. Parts of the Body; 17. Kinship; and 25. Number and Gender of Nouns. Four sheets of letterhead stationary with additional notes have been interfiled. A note on Schedule 17. Kinship states "All these terms corrected by extra sheets 1-19" [see (2) below].
(2) "Extra sheets" containing kinships terms.
(3) Copies of kinship terms copied from Schedule 17. Kinship.
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Local Numbers
MS 827 Numu Western Shoshonee vocabulary in Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages
MS 832 Ethnological and linguistic notes on Paviotso and Shoshoni (Folders 3, 4, 8)
Conservation
The Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages schedule (1880) was laminated and bound by the BAE at an unknown date (circa 1960s). The binding was removed during processing in 2025.
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Container
Box 7, Folder 29
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Processing Information
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Collection Rights
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Collection Restrictions
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Record ID
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