MS 4271 J.N.B. Hewitt Correspondence
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4271
label: Local Note
content: Researcher (Fr Aloysius Schretlen, SJ) trying to locate Ojibway Manuscript of Fr Ferard says not at Wikwemikong, Jesuit Motherhouse in Canada, as stated elsewhere. Says "I much fear the manuscript may have been lost in the disastrous fire of 1954, for I feel sure it would have been shown to me..." (correspondence 88-464, dated 3/17/88) KTB 4/5/88
name: label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Chew, William
label: Correspondent
content: Cornplanter, Jesse J.
label: Correspondent
content: Haag, Mack, 1883-1948
label: Correspondent
content: Harkins, Lee F.
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, Alvis David, 1843-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, Caroline (Tuscarora)
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, David Brainard
label: Correspondent
content: Johnson, Elias
label: Correspondent
content: Kellogg, Laura Cornelius, 1880-1947
label: Correspondent
content: Lincoln, George I.
label: Correspondent
content: Lyons, Iva B.
label: Correspondent
content: Lyon(s), Phoebe Patterson, Mrs
label: Correspondent
content: Chief Emmet Lyons (Onondaga), -1933
label: Correspondent
content: Owl, W. David (Walter David)
label: Correspondent
content: Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Tarbell, Margarette W.
label: Correspondent
content: Chief Wild Pigeon, -1927
label: Correspondent
content: Baldwin, Marie Louise Bottineau, 1863-1952
label: Correspondent
content: Gabaoosa, George
label: Correspondent
content: Gibson, John H.
label: Correspondent
content: Gibson, Simeon, 1889-1943
label: Correspondent
content: Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974
label: Correspondent
content: Newhouse, Seth
label: Correspondent
content: Morgan, Cecil E. (Cecil Etienne)
label: Names
content: Society of American Indians
label: Names
content: Thomas Asylum for Orphan and Destitute Indian Children (Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, N.Y.)
label: Names
content: Owl, W. David (Walter David)
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Chew, William
label: Correspondent
content: Cornplanter, Jesse J.
label: Correspondent
content: Haag, Mack, 1883-1948
label: Correspondent
content: Harkins, Lee F.
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, Alvis David, 1843-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, Caroline (Tuscarora)
label: Correspondent
content: Hewitt, David Brainard
label: Correspondent
content: Johnson, Elias
label: Correspondent
content: Kellogg, Laura Cornelius, 1880-1947
label: Correspondent
content: Lincoln, George I.
label: Correspondent
content: Lyons, Iva B.
label: Correspondent
content: Lyon(s), Phoebe Patterson, Mrs
label: Correspondent
content: Chief Emmet Lyons (Onondaga), -1933
label: Correspondent
content: Owl, W. David (Walter David)
label: Correspondent
content: Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Robinson, Joseph Taylor, 1872-1937
label: Correspondent
content: Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Tarbell, Margarette W.
label: Correspondent
content: Chief Wild Pigeon, -1927
label: Correspondent
content: Baldwin, Marie Louise Bottineau, 1863-1952
label: Correspondent
content: Gabaoosa, George
label: Correspondent
content: Gibson, John H.
label: Correspondent
content: Gibson, Simeon, 1889-1943
label: Correspondent
content: Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974
label: Correspondent
content: Newhouse, Seth
label: Correspondent
content: Morgan, Cecil E. (Cecil Etienne)
culture: label: Culture
content: Iroquois
label: Culture
content: Tuscarora
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886-ca. 1935
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4271
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents:

1. Letters received from other anthropologists and the public, with a few copies of letters sent, 1886- ca. 1933. Alphabetically arranged.

2. Letters received from Indians of the Onondaga, Tonowanda, and Tuscarora Reservations, with a few copies of letters sent, ca. 1902-ca. 1935. Alphabetically arranged.

3. Letters received from Indians of the Six Nations Reservation, Grand River, Ontario, Canada, with a few copies of letters sent, 1897-1937, Alphabetically arranged.

4. Letters sent, 1902-1905. In letterpress copybook, pages 84-338. Pages 1-83 contain an Iroquois text, untranslated. Correspondents include: Melancon, Art.[?] S. J., Archivist, College Sainte-Marie, Montreau. May 8, 1930. Concerning whereabouts of Ojibwa manuscript of Fr. Ferard.

Bureau of American Ethnology 4721 Correspondents include: Adkins, O.W., Bailey, Nicodemus, Carroll, Julia C., Chew, William, Clute, Alexander H., Coolidge, Sherman Rev. (see Society of American Indians), Cornplanter, Jesse, Doxtator, George, Gansworth, Howard, Haag, Mack, Harkin, Lee F., Henricks, Walter A. Mrs, Hewitt, Alvis B., Hewitt, Caroline, Hewitt, David B., Hill, Mrs, Hill, C. D., Hill, David Russell, Howe, Chester, Honyoust, John, Johnson, Elias, Johnson, Isaac Mrs, Johnson, Matthew L., Johnson, William J., Jonathan, Jesse, Jones, W. Franklin, Kellogg, Laura C. (Mrs O. J.), Kirk, Jesse Rev., Koeppler, John L., Lincoln, George I. (see Thomas Asylum) Lyon(s), Iva B., Lyon(s), Phoebe Patterson Mrs, Lyon(s), Emmet Chief, Metoxen, Pierson L., [RE: Mountpleasant, John] Gearlow, George C., Mountpleasant, Grant, Murray, Robert Knox, Moore, M. M., Owl, W. David (Charo.), Parker, Arthur C., (see Society of American Indians), Patterson, Holland, D., Robinson, Joe T. (U. S. Senator, Arkansas), Seneca Nation, Resolution, March 21, '03, Society of American Indians, The, Parker, Arthur C., Secretary-Treasurer (Includes 2 page biographical notes by JNBH on Jean Baptiste Bottineau) Smith, Lucy M., Tarbell, Margarette (nee M. M. White), Tuscarora Tribe, Thomas Asylum, Lincoln, George I. Superindendent, White, M. M. see Tarbell; Wild Pigeon, Chief.

Correspondents at Six Nations Reservation. (Incomplete list.) Baldwin, Marie L. B., Beaver, G. W., Buck, John, Gabaoosa, George (Garden River, Ontario, Not Brantford, Grand River), Gibson, John H., Gibson, Simeon, Gridley, Marion E. (Indian Council Fire)-- See note on reverse., Hess, Jacob, Hill, Asa R., Newhouse, Seth, 1897-1911, Thomas, David, Morgan, C. E., Lt Col., Gridley, M. includes biographical notes on the following: Dr Arthur C. Parker, William B. Newell (Rolling Thunder), Dr George W. Beaver, W. David Owl, Louis Deer (Oskanonton).

"H" section includes office memos and various papers relating to Hewitt and his career with the Bureau of American Ethnology. (They are not necessarily received from persons whose names begin with H, but should be kept together because of their relevance to Hewitt's career.) Nothing here from Horatio Hale. MCB 6/6/63.

Includes sidelights on others in Bureau of American Ethnology and out- e.g. letter from Sapir concerning Radins "dismisal" and concerning Hewitt's relationship with Hodge.