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Emma Shaw Colcleugh Collection (msESC)

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Brown University
300 Tower Street
Bristol, RI 02809
Tel: (401) 863-5700
email: haffenreffermuseum@brown.edu

Inventory

Series I: Scrapbooks, 1883-1937
A collection of five scrapbooks consisting of articles written by Emma Shaw Colcleugh and organized by Colcleugh according to date and geographic location.

Container Description Date
Text 1 Scrapbook
1.0 bound volumes

Dimensions: 10" x 12" x 1 3/4"

1897-1903
Text 2 Scrapbook
1.0 bound volumes

Dimensions: 10" x 12" x 1 3/4"

1896-1937
Text 3 Scrapbook
1.0 bound volumes

Dimensions: 10" x 12" x 1 3/4"

1890-1908
Text 4 Scrapbook
1.0 bound volumes

Dimensions: 10" x 12" x 1 3/4"

1888-1902
Text 5 Scrapbook
1.0 bound volumes

Dimensions: 9" x 10" x 1 1/4"

1883-1887

Series II: Inventory of field collections
Two inventories of Colcleugh’s ethnographic collection; one of handwritten field notes and one typewritten as part of the sale to Rudolph Haffenreffer in 1930.

Container Description Date
Notebook of field collections
1.0 notebook

Dimensions: 7" x 8" x 1"

1888-1894
Green List Inventory/Bill of sale
1.0 item

1930

Series III: Associated Materials, 1863-1896
Related items from travels; newspaper clipping, postcard, personal photographs and blank Canadian reservation forms.

Container Description Date
Providence Journal Newspaper Pages
2.0 pages


26 April 1896
Cree syllabary Psalms and Hymn Book
1.0 item



Subjects:
Cree language -- Writing
1877
Ration Ticket
1.0 item


1885-1887
Blank Treaty form
1.0 item



Subjects:
Cree Indians -- Treaties
1885-1887
Photograph of Emma Shaw
1.0 photographs

1863
Photograph of Emma Shaw
1.0 photographs

unknown
Postcard photograph of Emma Shaw Colcleugh's Den
1.0 postcard

Series IV: Ethnographic Collection
Collection of ethnographic objects acquired during Colcleugh’s travels and sold to Rudolf Haffenreffer in 1930.