Mr. Bartlett's vocabularies
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content: MS 1627 Miscellaneous vocabularies of 32 different tribes
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content: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
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content: Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, 1805-1880
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content: Husband, Bruce
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content: Peabody, E.T.
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content: Reading, Pierson Barton
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content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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content: Bartlett, John Russell, 1805-1886
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content: Heintzelman, Samuel Peter, 1805-1880
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content: Husband, Bruce
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content: Reading, Pierson Barton
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content: Sioux
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content: Nevome (Pima Bajo)
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content: Comcaac (Seri)
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content: Yoeme (Yaqui)
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content: Opata
label: Culture
content: Apache
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content: Chiricahua Apache
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content: Piro Pueblo Indians
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content: Tiwa Pueblos
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content: Piipaash (Maricopa)
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content: Rarámuri (Tarahumara)
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content: Payómkawichum (Luiseño)
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content: Ohlone (Costano)
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content: Patwin
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content: Wintun
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content: Mojave (Mohave)
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content: Chitimacha
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content: Atakapa
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Vocabularies recorded by others / Bartlett, John Russell
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content: 1849-1863
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content: Consists of a bound volume of thirty-three (33) vocabularies.  The vocabularies are a mix of originals collected by Bartlett in the field, vocabularies collected by Bartlett from others, and vocabularies copied from published sources.  

Contains:

(i) "List of Mr. Bartlett's Vocabularies": A numbered list in the handwriting of Gibbs, listing thrity-two (32) vocabularies included in the volume.  Page numbers and language families have been added in an unidentified handwriting.  The last vocabulary (Nevome) and the letter of transmittal are not included in the list.

(1) "Sioux" vocabulary recorded by Bruce Husband, June 26, 1849, Fort Laramie in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form.  A note indicates that Husband recorded the vocabulary on a form provided by Gibbs, but forwarded it to Bartlett. 

(2) "Kioway" [Kiowa] vocabulary collected by Bartlett "from Esteban a Mexican with the Boundary Commission...a captive 7 years among the Comanches and Kioways in Texas."  

(3) "Ceris" [Seri] vocabulary collected by Bartlett "from a native at Hermosillo, January 1, 1852" and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of numerals.  A note by Gatschet indicates that the informant was Colúsio, and the correct date is January 1, 1853. 

(4) "Yaqui" [Yoeme] vocabulary collected by Bartlett from "Father Encinas, priest at Ures" in December 1851 and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of numerals and notes. 

(5) "Opate" [Opata] vocabulary collected by Bartlett at "Ures, Sonora" in December 1851 and recorded a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of numerals and notes. 

(6) "Apaches of the Copper Mines" vocabulary collected by Bartlett from Mangas Coloradas in July 1851 and recorded in two Vocabulary of 180 Words forms along with a separate page of numerals and notes. 

(7)  "Piro" vocabulary collected by Bartlett from Hieromymo Peraza and Marcus Alejo and recorded in two Vocabulary of 180 Words forms along with additional notes on the "Language of the Piros."  

(8) "Tigua" [Tiwa] vocabulary collected by Bartlett in Taos, New Mexico from "Santiago Ortiz (A-hé-ba-tee), head chief of Senecu, Isleta, etc." in October 1852 and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form with additional words for numerals added.  

(9) "Coco Maricopas" [Piipaash] vocabulary collected by Bartlett and recorded in Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of numerals.  

(10) "Dieguena language of California" [Kumeyaay (Diegueño)] vocabulary collected by Bartlett and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with additional pages of numerals and notes.

(11) "Los Angeles Indians, Diegueno tribe" [Kumeyaay (Diegueño)] vocabulary collected by Bartlett.

(12) "Yuma or Cuchan" [Quechan] and "Co-mi-ya" [Kumeyaay] comparative vocabularies collected by Bartlett from an unidentified source.  Includes notes and extracts from: United States Congress. Report of the Secretary of War Communicating [...] the Report of Lieutenant Whipple's Expedition from San Diego to the Colorado. 31st Congress. 2nd Sess., February 1, 1851.

(13) "Digger" [Maidu] vocabulary collected by Bartlett from a "manuscript in the possession of J. B. [Jacob Bailey] Moore obtained by H. B. [Henry B.] Brown" and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of numerals and phrases.

(14) "Indians of the Napa Valley (there called Diggers)" [Maidu] vocabulary obtained from "a tribe living near Knight's farm at the ead of the Valley toward Clear Lake" and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form.

(15) Comparative vocabulary of "Mackaw Indians of Oregon" and "Digger Indians of Napa Valley" [Maidu]. 

(16) "Kechi tribe connected with the mission of San Luis Rey" [Payómkawichum (Luiseño)] vocabulary collected by Bartlett from Pedro Cawenas on May 10, 1852 and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with a separate page of notes.

(17) Comparative vocabulary of "San Luis Rey Mission-Kechi tribe" [Payómkawichum (Luiseño)] and "Comanche" and related notes.

(18) "San Luis Obispo" [Chumash] vocabulary collected by Bartlett and recorded in Vocabulary of 180 Words form.

(19) "San José" [Ohlone (Costano)] vocabulary obtained by Bartlett from "an Indian woman who lived at San José" and related notes.

(20) "H'Ha-na" [Pomo] vocabulary collected by Bartlett and recorded in Vocabulary of 180 Words form along with additional pages of numerals and notes.

(21) Comparative vocabulary of "Coluse" [Patwin] and "Noema-Wylacker" [Wintun]. Also includes six words of "Coluse between Sacramento River and Clear Lake" recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form and "Additional words and phrases obtained of Major [Pierson Barton] Reading." 

(22) "Tehama" [Wintun] vocabulary obtained "from H. B. [Henry B.] Brown" and recorded in a Vocabulary of 180 Words form.

(23) "Mackah" [Makah]--this vocabulary is listed in the inventory, but missing from this volume.

(24) "Cocopa" vocabulary obtained by Bartlett at the "mouth of the Colorado river."

(25) "Mo-ha-vi of the Colorado River, California" [Mojave] vocabulary "received from Major [Samuel P.] Heintzelman and recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852) and related notes.

(26) "Otomi" vocabulary recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852).  The vocabulary was derived from:

Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas De Orthographia, Diccionario y Arte del Idioma Othomi: Breve Instruccion para los Principiantes. Mexico: Imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767.

Lopez Yepes, Joaquin. Catecismo y Declaracion de la doctrina cristinana en lengua Otomí. Megico, 1826.

(27) "Chetimache" [Chitimacha] and (28) "Attacapa" [Atakapa] vocabularies derived from a manuscript by Martin Duralde held by the American Philosophical Society (11. Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas and 10. Suite du vocabulaire de la langue des Atacapas).

(29) "Maya" from a "manuscript dictionary in possession of John Carter Brown" and recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852). 
 
(30) "Tarahumara" [Rarámuri] vocabulary recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852).  The vocabulary was derived from:

Tellechea, Miguel. Compendio Gramatical para la Inteligencia del Idióma Tarahumar Imprenta de la Federacion en palacio, 1826.

Hervás, Lorenzo. Vocabulario poligloto. G. Biasini all' Insegna di Pallade, 1787.

Steffel, Matthäus. Tarahumarisches Wörterbuch. J.C. Hendel, 1809.

(31) "Cahita" vocabulary recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852).  The vocabulary was copied from:

Arte de la Lengua Cahita Conforme à las Reglas de Muchos Peritos en Ella. Imprenta de D. Francisco Xavier Sanchez, 1737.

(32) "Cochimi" vocabulary "obtained through Mr. [John Alfred] Robinson of Guaymas Sonora" and recorded in an American Ethnological Society-Circular No 1. (1852). 

(33) A clipping containing grammatical notes, general vocabulary, and the Lord's Prayer in Nevome (Pima Bajo) --  Smith, Buckingham. "Vocabulary of the Nevome, As Spoken by the Pima of Moris, A Town of Sonora." in The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America. C.B. Richardson, July 1861. 202-203.  

(34) A letter from Gibbs to Bartlett forwarding the vocabularies "for revision" and discussing related matters, dated April 16 1863, 261 Greene Street, New York.
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content: Additional letters from Gibbs to Bartlett concerning the vocabularies are held by the Beinecke Library at Yale University in:  George Gibbs Letters to John Russell Bartlett.