Materials on Sign Language
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
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content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8.15 Linear feet (8 boxes and 6 oversize folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1843-1849
label: Date
content: 1873-1894
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2372, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This series is arranged in 6 sub-series: (2.1) Correspondence on sign language filed by Native American culture area, 1849, 1877-1896; (2.2) Correspondence on sign language filed by world region, 1843, 1880-1891; (2.3) Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1873-1894; (2.4) Notes and Articles, 1879-1894, undated; (2.5) Bound Volumes and Annotations, 1879-1881, 1894; (2.6) Illustrations prepared for use in BAE 1st Annual Report (1879-1880), circa 1879-1880
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series contains correspondence, notes, articles, and bound volumes relating to sign language. The materials are generally filed by Native American culture area or world region, and documents that do not pertain to any one region are filed under "miscellaneous." Bound volumes include two copies of A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians and Introduction to the Study of Sign Languages Among the North American Indians. Boxes 10 and 11 contain annotated pages from a first printing of A Collection of Gesture-Signs and Signals of the North American Indians with notations by collaborators on the project.