Notes relating to Dorsey's "The Gentile System of Siletz Tribes"
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 2: Siletz Reservation
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1884
container: label: Container
content: Box 59, Item 362
label: Container
content: Oversize BAE, Folder 362
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Notes to article published in Journal of American Folklore, Vol 3, No 10, 1890, pages 227-237. Includes: parts of text of published article; lists of villages and gentes in vicinity of Siletz Agency (some appear to tally with published lists and some do not); miscellaneous notes; sketch maps and diagrams as follows: "Diagram of the principal streams in the priscan habitats of the Siletz Tribes" (published); sketch of Takelma localities (?) (1 page on cardboard); "Map, showing Athapascan villages in Oregon and California, according to a Naltunnetunne, Alex Ross, Siletz Agency, Oregon, October, 1884" (localities numbered in black ink and these numbers canceled and corrected in red; keyed to unidentified numbered list); "Map drawn according to directions of E'-ne-a'-ti, a Tututunne, by J. Owen Dorsey, Siletz Agency, Oregon, Sept. 1884" (localities numbered; 4-p. key apparently goes with this); sketch of Rogue River and tributaries; sketch of Curry, Josephine, and Jackson Cos., showing streams; sketch of southern Oregon and northern California. (Localities numbered; numbers all cancelled; keyed to unidentified list.)