MS 7083 Notes on Pygmies of the South Atlas Mountains in Morocco and related correspondence
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 7083
label: Local Note
content: autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Haliburton, R. G. (Robert Grant), 1831-1901
label: Addressee
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
label: Addressee
content: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900
topic: label: Topic
content: Morocco
creator: label: Creator
content: Haliburton, R. G. (Robert Grant), 1831-1901
label: Addressee
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
label: Addressee
content: Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max), 1823-1900
culture: label: Culture
content: Pygmies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1891
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from Smithsonian Institution Libraries, 3/16/76. Manuscript Document National Museum catalog Number 193451. National Anthropological Archives accession 76-117.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7083
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Notes include statements from Moroccan informants about the existence, location, physical and cultural characteristics of and superstitions about the pygmies. The handwritten notes include some statements by Moroccan and European informants that are not included in the typescript. Letters include: Haliburton to Max Muller, August 8, 1891, summarizing findings about the pygmies and providing brief notes on Berber and pre-Berber languages; Haliburton to Otis T. Mason, August 11, 1891, transmitting the notes and letter to Muller; Haliburton to Mason, September 6, [1891], giving permission to publish the notes and other information.