MS 7439 Copy of  "Professor Hale's manuscript on the Philology, religion and customs of Polynesian groups of islands"
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7439
label: Local Note
content: Positive photographic copy of a manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
label: Collector
content: Riesenberg, Saul H.
label: Names
content: Alexander Turnbull Library -- manuscript from
label: Names
content: United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
label: Collector
content: Riesenberg, Saul H.
culture: label: Culture
content: Pacific Islanders -- Ethnology
label: Culture
content: Pacific Islanders -- Languages
label: Culture
content: Oceania -- Ethnology
label: Culture
content: Oceania -- Linguistics
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: This document is the original manuscript for Hale's Ethnology and Philology, which formed volume 6 of the United States Exploring Expedition during the Years 1838 . . . 1842 under the Command of Charles Wilkes.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 149 Pages
label: Extent
content: 165 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (parts )
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1840s
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Saul Riesenberg apparently obtained the material from the Alexander Turnbull Library of Wellington, New Zealand, for the purpose of comparing the original with the printed version. He turned it over to the Department of Anthropology in April 1986 and in early 1987 it was passed on to the archives.
label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Draft manuscript."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7439
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The description by the Trumbull Library has also been copied and two notes about the manuscript are included. The document is a draft for volume 6, Ethnology and Philology, of the report of the Wilkes Expedition (United States Exploring Expedition. The published version and the manuscript have been compared only briefly. The manscript appears not to include parts of the published version. It is, for example, confined mostly to the narrative portions concerning Oceania. The manuscript is also significantly different in phraseology and certain data that is in the printed version.