MS 308 Eskimo fables; rough notes
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 308
label: Local Note
content: Letter of J. Henry Turner to Professor T. C. Mendenhall, Supt., U.S.C. and G.S., Washington, September 6, 1890, located in U.S. National Archives by Mrs. Ray (5/67) appears to be in same handwriting as main part of volume. Pages at end of volume seem to be in same hand as letters of Harry M. W. Edmonds to the Supt., U.S.C. and G.S., August 19, 1901 seen by Mrs. Ray in U.S.N.A.
name: label: Creator
content: Turner, J. Henry
label: Creator
content: Edmonds, Harry M. W.
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Eskimo
creator: label: Creator
content: Turner, J. Henry
label: Creator
content: Edmonds, Harry M. W.
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 90 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1890-1891
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS308
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm on file.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: An edited version of the tales recorded by Turner and a verbatim transcription of the four pages recorded by Edwards and headed "Futurity" have been published by Dorothy Jean Ray as "St Michael Eskimo Myths and Tales Collected by J. Henry Turner and H.M.W. Edmonds," Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska, Volume 14, Number 1, 1968, pages 43-83. A reprint is filed with the manuscript.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The volume is unsigned. It contains an ink stamp of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Archives, and was probably written by J. H. Turner, an observer for the U. S. C. and G. S. who wintered at Tat-chek village, 1890-91. The name "Edmonds" appears on the 3rd page from the back; the context is not clear, but it may refer to Assistant Astronomer Harry W. Edmonds, Turner's colleague. Other members of the party were H. N. Kieraulff, physician; Gustav Bergmann, foreman; John Meade, assitant foreman; William Rundquist, cook; and W. E. Lindgard, C. P. Harkort, Otto Polte, and E. Engelstad, laborers. --U. S. C. and G. S., Report for 1891, part 1, Washington, 1892, page 89. The volume is ascribed to J. H. Turner on the basis of the above information, first noted by Mrs. Ray in U.S.N.A. At the end of the volume are brief notes in two other handwritings, one headed "Futurity" (beliefs about afterlife), 4 pages, and one giving Eskimo expressions or songs, 1 page.