Henry Tate Tsimshian manuscripts, 1903-1914

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Henry Tate Tsimshian manuscripts



Box 1 Folder 1 Story of moist matter thrown from the nose (Tate 5)


Box 1 Folder 2-3 Story of Ashdilthda (Tate 6)


Box 1 Folder 4 Story of the Meeting of the Wild Beasts (Tate 7)


Box 1 Folder 5 Story of the Feast of the Mountain-Goats (Tate 8)


Box 1 Folder 6 Story of Sucking-Intestines (Tate 9)


Box 1 Folder 7 Story of Bruning-Leggings and Snowshoes (Tate 10)


Box 1 Folder 8-32 Story of Tkemsum (Tate 12)



Box 2 Folder 1-10 Story of Tkemsum (Tate 12)


Box 2 Folder 11 Story of the World's Flood (Tate 13)


Box 2 Folder 12 The explanation of the Chieftan's Frog (Tate 14)


Box 2 Folder 13 The explanation of Pearly Bow (Tate 15)


Box 2 Folder 14 The explanation of Prince Black Bear, The explanation of Boiling Words (Tate 16, 17)


Box 2 Folder 15 The explanation of Chief Welcome Rattle (Tate 18)


Box 2 Folder 16 The explanation of the Sorcerer's Rattle (Tate 19)


Box 2 Folder 17 The explanation of the Beaver Hat with claws of copper and copper eyes (Tate 20)


Box 2 Folder 18-20 The story of a young prince taken away by the spring-salmon (Tate 21)


Box 2 Folder 21 Story of [Kbishount] (Tate 22)



Box 3 Folder 1 Story of Porcupine (Tate 23)


Box 3 Folder 2 Story of Prince Snail (Tate 24)


Box 3 Folder 3-4 The princess who rejected her cousin for a husband (Tate 25)


Box 3 Folder 5 The story of the hunter's wife who changed to a beaver (Tate 26)


Box 3 Folder 6-8 The wolf relation story (Tate 27)


Box 3 Folder 9 Title missing (Tate 28)


Box 3 Folder 10 The story of the winter hunters (Tate 29)


Box 3 Folder 11-12 Story of the ghost who fought with the great magician (Tate 30)


Box 3 Folder 13 Story of the ten brothers who set out for hunting (Tate 31)


Box 3 Folder 14-15 Story of the daughter of the Chief of Peace (Tate 32)


Box 3 Folder 16 Story of plucking eyes out (Tate 33)


Box 3 Folder 17 Story of very dirty Adaogum (Tate 34)


Box 3 Folder 18 Story of the house of Getnagunaksh (Tate 35)


Box 3 Folder 19 Story of poor blind Giatkada (Tate 36)


Box 3 Folder 20 Story of how a magician bound a wrinkle at the back of his head (Tate 37)


Box 3 Folder 21 Customs of the Tsimsheans (Tate 38)


Box 3 Folder 22 Story of Grizzly Bear and the Beaver (Tate 39)


Box 3 Folder 23 Story of the Ghost (Tate 40)


Box 3 Folder 24 Story of the Porcupine Hunter (Tate 41)


Box 3 Folder 25 Story of the two fighting Chiefs (Tate 42)



Box 4 Folder 1 Story of the two fighting Chiefs (Tate 42)


Box 4 Folder 2-3 Title missing (Tate 43)


Box 4 Folder 4-5 Story of the war between Haidha and Gishpaklauz (Tate 44)


Box 4 Folder 6 Supplementary Material 1


Box 4 Folder 7 Supplementary material 2


Box 4 Folder 8 Supplementary Material 3


Box 4 Folder 9 Supplementary Material 4


Box 4 Folder 10 Supplementary Material 5


Box 4 Folder 11 Supplementary Material 6


Box 4 Folder 12 Typewritten index and library catalog card


Box 4 Folder 13 Correspondence between Tate and Boas, 1907-1910



Box 5 Old folders