MS 4396 Hugh Lenox Scott letters and clippings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4396
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Personal letters received, 1897-98, 1926, 1929" 6/13/2014.
name: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
label: Creator
content: Tompkins, William
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal-Indian relations
label: Topic
content: Sign language
label: Topic
content: War
label: Topic
content: Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
label: Topic
content: Treaties
creator: label: Creator
content: Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934
label: Creator
content: Tompkins, William
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 85 Items (0.85 linear feet (2 boxes and 1 map folder)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1897-circa 1930s
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received with Scott papers donated by Mrs Hugh L. Scott, ca. 1934-1938 (correspondence in old Bureau of American Ethnology letter files).
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4396
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Clippings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Clippings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Personal letters received by Hugh Lenox Scott and his collection of newspaper clippings relating to Indians. Box 1: Personal letters received, 1897-98 and 1926, 1929. Alphabetically arranged by sender. Approximately 100 letters. Bills and receipts, personal. 1 folder. Newsclippings. Roughly sorted by cataloguer into the following categories: Sign Language work of H. L. Scott. Sign Language work of William Tompkins (3 clippings) H. L. Scott and Indians: conferences, inspection trips, lectures. Box 2: Newsclippings, continued: Indian conditions, welfare, legislation. Feature articles--accounts and reminiscences concerning Indian history: battles, treaties, forts, scouts, etc., including 1 folder of Battle of Little Big Horn. Map folder: Newspaper clippings about Hugh L. Scott and one article about Hopi snake dance.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: Biographical clippings and obituary notices of Indians, Indian fighters, etc. have been removed from this collection and added to the main biographical file in Bureau of American Ethnology Archives office.