[Letter of transmittal for Contributions to North American Ethnology Vol 3 and related documents]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 3122 Material regarding estimates of the aboriginal population of California
name: label: Creator
content: Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
label: Collection Creator
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
creator: label: Creator
content: Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
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content: John Wesley Powell papers
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content: John Wesley Powell papers / Reports and Writing / Drafts and unpublished works
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1876 November
container: label: Container
content: Box 9, Folder 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) Letter from Powers to Powell defending his estimates of the indigenous population of California, dated November 24, 1876 [crossed out and replaced with "Nov. 3"], Waterford, Wash Co. [Washington County], Ohio.

(2) Draft letter of transmittal from Powell to the Secretary of the Interior, forwarding the manuscript of Contributions to North American Ethnology Vol 3 and Powers' letter.

(3) Lists of California tribes and languages and population estimates.