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content: MS 1894 Material on Cherokee botany (part)

MS 1894 Material on Cherokee botany - 4 notebooks, 16 cm. (4 x 6-1/2in.) 1 -(3- 1/2 x 8 in"); 14 pages notes, 8 cards 4-1/2 x 6-1/2; 1 letter with list of plants; one memorandum. 16 cm (part)

MS 1909 Letters received by James Mooney

MS 1975 Correspondence concerning Cynthia Ann Parker

MS 7586 Card to James Mooney

MS 2002-01 Letter from Vilhjalmur Stefansson to James Mooney
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
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content: James Mooney collection
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content: James Mooney collection / Series 5: Other research
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890-1920
container: label: Container
content: Box 38, Folder 4
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) Barry, J. Nelson. St Stephen's Parish, Baker City, Oregon. February 22, 1910. Refers to "Wesorts" of southern Maryland. 

(2) Bowers, George M. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Washington, D.C. September 20, 1899. Concerning the identity of a "stone-piling fish" in the headwaters of the Tennessee River. 

(3) Clark, Ben. Fort Reno. Oklahoma. February 5, 1906. Concerning the Mormon massacre of 1857, with a newsclipping of the story. 

(4) Clark, Ben. Fort Reno, Oklahoma. January 16, 1907. Concerning the movements of certain bands of Nez Perce and Cheyenne Indians. 

(5) Cleveland, R. E. Anadarko, Oklahoma. January 15, 1904. Asking value of a Martin Van Buren peace medal. 

(6) Devitt, E. I. Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. January 7, 1909.  Concerning the Wesorts of Charles County, Maryland.

(7) Grinnell, George Bird. New York, New York. September 7, 1894. Concerning the appearance of the Gros Ventre of the prairie in the northern country. Mention is also made of the Cree names for the Cheyenne. 

(8) Halbert, Henry S. State of Alabama, Department of Archives and History.  July 2, 1915.  Concering the recapture of Cynthia Ann Park and enclosing two letters from Francis Marion Cassaday and Dave Simpson providing eyewitness accounts.  Includes a partial typescript of the letter to Mooney and typescript copies of the enclosures with notes by Mooney; the original enclosures were returned.

(9) Hough, Walter. March 16, 1920. Concerning reports of cliff dwellings in caves near Murphy, North Carolina.

(8) Jackson, R. C. Smithwood, Knox County, Tennessee. August 15, 1890. 3 pages. Concerning life and murder of Jack Walker (Cherokee). Date of murder given as between 1830 amd 1835.

(9) Jones, Dr Alexander. American Journal of Science and Arts, Volume xxvi, pages 189-190, New Haven, 1834. Concerning "American Gypsies" residing on Biloxi Bay, Louisiana. Typed extract by Mooney from above source.

(10) León, Nicolás. Mexico. 1919.  Card of appreciation and thanks.

(10) Powell, Major John. Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. June 28, 1893.  Concerning request made to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Kiowa Indians be permitted to hold their Medicine Dance to enable the Bureau to study it. 

(11) Scott, W. L. Fort Sill, Oklahoma. May 11, 1893.  Concerning Kiowa tribes' concern over the delegation sent to Washington to represent the tribe.

(12) South Carolina Historical Society (Mabel L. Webber). Charleston, South Carolina. March 5, 1919. Concerning enclosed list of Cherokee villages and an account of the "Routes and Distances from Fort Prince to Fort Louden." ("The common route" and the "Route over the four and twenty mountains.") 

(14) Stefansson, Vilhjalmur.  Winter Quarters of the Canadian Arctic Expedition at Armstrong Point, Victoria Island. November 10, 1915.  In response to Mooney's letter sent July 10, 1914. Stefansson clarifies Eskimo terms and suggests people in Point Barrow, Alaska that Mooney can contact for information on the Barrow Eskimos. He also describes errors in his recently published diary, Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic expedition of the American museum: preliminary ethnological report, published by the American Museum of Natural History (1914).

(13) Tatum, Lawrie. Springfield. Iowa. April 7, 1896. Concerning Satanta and the story of the part he took in the raids into Texas in 1870.

(14) United States Geological Survey (David Day). Washington, D.C. October 7, 1903. Concerning results of analysis of clay particles submitted by James Mooney. 

(15) Whatley, L. A., Superindendent of State Penitentiaries. Huntsville, Texas. March 3, 1896.  Concerning the imprisonment, parole, and suicide of Satanta, the Kiowa Chief.