Includes occasional brief references to the Mattaponi and Chickahominy. Contents: Indian medicines by Lavinia Cook, 3 pages; names of Chiefs, from "Mrs R. C.," 1 page; the country and animals hunted, 1 page; tenure of lands, 1 page; population, 1 page; government, 1 page; "sustentation," 1 page; local names in King William Co., Virginia, 3 pages, note about Roxy (Roxanna) Indians near Norfolk, Virginia: "Meherrins?," 1 page; note on Cumberland town, English settlement on Pamunkey river, and "Cumberland Indians" visited by Gatschet, November 16, 1890, 3 pages; vocabulary notes from John Smith, Thomas Strachey, and the Reverend William Dalrymple, 3 pages; historical notes extracted in Virginia State Library, 2 pages; sketch map of King William County, Virginia, 1 page; sketch map of same area, after John Smith, 1608, 1 page.
Newspaper clippings, as follows: "Tribe of Pamunkey," The Daily Times, Richmond, Virginia, October 26, 1890 and November 2, 1890, 6 pages; a notice of the Pamunkey Indians on a reservation near Richmond, Virginia having sent a delegation to the World's Fair to invite other Indians to come and settle on their reservation, Indian Journal of Muskogee, Eufaula, Indian Territory, August 3, 1893, 1 page; "Pamunkeys Want a Sea Trip," Times, Washington, D.C., July 6, 1899, 1 page; "Powhatan's Men Yet Live," Washington [D.C.] Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 25, 1894, 2 pages; "Pamunkey Indians and Their Little Reservation," Washington Chronicle, Washington, D.C., December 14, 1890, 2 pages. Reference added to file, 1956: The Historical Magazine, 1858, Volume 2, Number 6, page 182, containing Pamunkey vocabulary by Reverend Dalrymple (transcribed by Gatschet in his notebook). Photostat, 1 page.
Original caption reads, "Madagascar - Payment of taxes in the villages."
Logo on verso reads: "Messageries Maritimes."
Local Numbers:
EEPA MG-15-12
Local Note:
temp 80
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Contents: Notes on Dekanawida text; Hiawatha; notes on the League; notes to Seneca League traditions; translation by Hilton M. Hill, Seneca, official interpreter of the Six Nations Agency, Brantford; "down fended" explained; Mohawk Owachira and clans, 1932; Oneida titles (Jacob Hess, 1930); notes to texts, Charles, 1917 (1928); insert in the law of the woman chief, English; ascendancy of War Chiefs; Procedure by R. Davey, Cayuga chief, 1925-6. Also Principles of the League, text, typed, 19 pages.
Title supplied by J. N. B. Hewitt, and sections numbered and arranged by him. Unnumbered sections added later.
Sections entitled:
(1) Games and amusements, 3 pages;
(2,3) [Paiute; transferred in 1959 to file Number 831-c, -d];
(4) Means of Subsistence, 52 pages;
(5) Migration, 8 pages;
(6) Home, 5 pages;
(7) Government, 10 pages;
(8) Fear of the insane, 2 pages;
(9) treatment of the sick, 27 pages;
(10) Treatment of the aged, 4 pages;
(11) Killing the doctor (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, May, 1873), 3 pages;
(12) The boundaries of the earth, 5 pages;
(13) Na-gun'-tu-wip, the home of the departed spirits, 8 pages;
(14) Methods of marrying, 7 pages;
(15) Selection of food (1873), 3 pages;
(16) The morning address, 2 pages;
(17) Some of their faculties;, 4 pages;
(18) Notes on the gentes (in shorthand), 2 pages; Mythology of the Numas, 10 pages; Pine nuts are brought from a distant country (legend, 1873), 4 pages; Burying customs (told by Naches, Salt Lake City, 1873), 1 page; Religion of the Utes (talk given by Powell ?), 29 pages.