Selected items, relating to the Navaho Indians, from the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology.

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Selected items, relating to the Navaho Indians, from the Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology.

Microfilm of selected manuscripts in the library of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., comprising ethnological documents relating to the Navahos, 1870-1882; a monograph by Dorothy L. Keur, Navaho Origins; a Consideration of Ethnological and Archaeological Evidence, ca. 1938; a typed transcript of diaries of John K. Hillers, 1871-1872, while a member of Major Powell's second Colorado River Expedition, and while traveling, 1875, in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma); and a list of Navaho Clans by R.L. Packard, ca. 1882.

Partial microfilm reel (160 exposures) : negative (Rich. 110:18) and positive.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7179772

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Keur, Dorothy Louisek, 1904-....

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Hillers, John K., 1843-1925

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Important early photographer for the Powell Survey, the Bureau of Ethnology, and the Geological Survey. From the description of Papers, 1870-1889. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 43738678 The Cline Endowment Collection consists of photographs purchased through an endowment established by Platt and Barbara Cline, for whom the Cline Library is named. The images were selected on the basis of their relevance to the Department's collecting focus: the Colorado Plate...

Packard, Robert L. (Robert Lewis), 1928-

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