MS 1339 Ruins of the Southwest
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1339
name: label: Creator
content: Stephen, Alexander MacGregor, d. 1894
topic: label: Topic
content: United States -- South West -- Archeology
creator: label: Creator
content: Stephen, Alexander MacGregor, d. 1894
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 67 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1884
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1339
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: MS 1339 was previously misattributed to Cosmos Mindeleff and believed to be the introductory to Mindeleff's manuscript for the BAE 16th Annual Report. According to Louis A. Hieb (e-mail correspondence to NAA, 9/2/2008), this document is in Alexander MacGregor Stephen's handwriting and is a rewriting of his introduction to his manuscript, "Catalogue of the Keam's Canon Collection of Relics of the Ancient Builders of the Southwestern Table Lands" (1884). Hieb believes that MS 1339 may have been submitted to Victor Mindeleff in 1888 as a possible introduction for the BAE 8th Annual Report.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: According to Louis A. Hieb, Manuscript 3282 "represents the catalogue proper" of Stephen's 1884 manuscript, without the introduction. Newberry Library and the Peabody Museum at Harvard University also hold copies of the manuscript (with additions), both of which include the introduction that served as the basis for MS 1339.