Inuit Vocabulary in Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages
name: label: Creator
content: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892
label: Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
topic: label: Topic
content: Inuit language
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Dr. George Clemans (Bowling Green State University) through Igor Krupnik.
creator: label: Creator
content: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892
label: Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Lt. Frederick Schwatka (1849-1892) attended Willamette University and West Point Military Academy. He served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Calvary in the Dakota Territory, while studying medicine and law, receiving a medical degree in 1875. From 1878-1880 he led an expedition sponsored by the American Geographical Society to search for remains of the lost Sir John Franklin's expedition in arctic Canada. Schwatka made three more arctic trips, and another later in Mexico, before his death in 1892.

Biography courtesy of:
Krupnik, Igor. "COMING HOME...AFTER 130 YEARS: LT. FREDERICK SCHWATKA'S AIVILINGMIUT VOCABULARY RETURNS TO SMITHSONIAN." Artic Studies Center Newsletter 21 (April 2014): 22-24.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.17 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878 August 4-1880 August 5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2013-15
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Filled in by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka among the Inuit in the Northwest Hudson Bay region during an American Geographical Society sponsored trip to the area from 1878-1880. Contains 500-600 Inuit words and terms in addition to some textual pages.