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Indians of North America

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Maine/Maritimes Folklore Collection/CP 180

 Collection
Identifier: MF076
Scope and Contents This collection consists of student papers. The early items are largely miscellaneous gatherings of individual items: jokes, tall tales, ghost stories, traditional medicine, popular beliefs and superstitions, legends, local character yarns, etc. and only occasionally include tape recordings. Later accessions reflect the trend in the field of folklore to emphasize context over items gathered for their own sake. Thus they are more apt to consist of life histories with an emphasis on life...
Dates: 1957-1975
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Peter Paul / Nicholas Smith Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MF220
Biographical Note During the mid-20th century, Malecite ethnographer, Dr. Peter Lewis Paul (1902-1989) worked with Dr. Nicholas N. Smith (1926-2022), a white man and ethnographer, to preserve the language, tradition, and "tribal lore" of the Wabanaki community in and around the Woodstock Reserve, New Brunswick, Canada. In 1963, the two men canoed from Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada, to Indian Island, Maine by rediscovering and documenting the Old Meductic Trail. Paul was born on the Woodstock Reserve and was...
Dates: 1970-2003
Found in: Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History

Faculty Records. Professor Robinson (Brian S.) Research Journals

 Record Group
Identifier: UA RG 0011-052
Content Description Research journals of the late Brian Robinson, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, who died in 2016. Journal 1 includes research on the: Mackowski; Wapanucket; Table Land, Manchester, Morrill Point Mound; Godfrey Cemetery; Loring Site; Sunkhaze Ridge; Penobscot Nation Museum; Lawry collection, Waterville; Table Land, Clyde Berry; Henry Parson's archive, Kennebunk. Some of this research is from Robinson's time spent at Brown University. ...
Dates: 1986-2016
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library University Archives

Nicholas N. Smith Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 1788
Abstract

Papers and publications relating to Native Americans in the Northeast.

Dates: 1879-2019
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Walter Brown Smith Journals

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0470
Abstract

Collection of personal journals of one of the founders and first curator of the Abbe Museum at Acadia National park. Materials are related to geology and archaeology and include some correspondence, original illustrations of Native American artifacts, books, and pamphlets used by Walter B. Smith. Archaeological journals have been transcribed and indexed.

Dates: 1878-1929
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

Thoreau Fellowship Records

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0499
Abstract

Included are manuscripts of writings, publications, pamphlets, reprints, and photos.

Dates: 1960-
Found in: Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections

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