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Title: List of articles presented by George Turner
Identifier(s): text:256571
Description: Partially printed list in APS Minutes, Feb.24. 1797, p. 251, reads as follows: "List of Western curiosities, presented by Judge Turner, February 10. Indian boy's leggings; calumet; conjuror's mask; bone headed arrow; eight common Miami arrows; stone pestle; ‘stone hatchet formerly in use among the savages, the handle was always a withe--’ ‘petrified buffalo dung [!] from the Rapids of Ohio, where such and various petrifactions are found in abundance'--’'petrified ordure, supposed to be human, from the same place'--'fine fossil coal, resembling the canal [sic] coal of Europe, from Cincinnati on Ohio’ [!]--’ part of one of 30 or 40 trees all completely petrified found...212 miles up the Tennassee [sic] river, having tumbled into it with the bank on which they grew [!] The present specimen appears to have been black walnut’ [!]--Indian bowl, complete, from the bed of the Tennessee--oviform [or aviform?] stone from the Wabash; marine shells and perforated bones from a grave on the great Kenhawa [sic]--’ for the remainder . . . . see page 157.’ This list of twenty-five articles being read, thanks were voted to Judge Turner ‘for this extremely acceptable proof of his Philosophical Industry, and his disposition to gratify them.'" Some of these objects remain in the collections of the APS Museum.
Creator: American Philosophical Societyet al
Subject: Miami Indians; Myaamia people; Archaeology
Date: 1797-02

Title: III(5E1e) - Central Algonkians -- e. Miami Miscellaneous notes
Identifier(s): text:159666
Description: Letter from E. T. Adney to Frank Speck, July 19, 1943. Concerns numerous topics including Miami Indians and language, Narragansetts, Mi'kmaq ("Micmac"), and inter-relations to other Algonquian peoples and languages.
Source: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126); http://search.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.126-ead.xml
Subject: Miami Indians; Miami language; Narragansett Indians; Micmac Indians; Algonquian languages; Algonquian Indians
Date: 1943-07-19

Title: Red Man in Michigan: The Tribes
Identifier(s): audio:13317; APSdigrec_5075; 01; 01; 01
Description: Part of a series, "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM radio in Ann Arbor, Michigan. These programs use extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath.
Subject: Radio programs; Indians of North America--Michigan; Ottawa Indians; Chippewa Indians; Wyandot Indians; Mascouten Indians; Sauk Indians; Potawatomi Indians; Miami Indians; Menominee Indians
Date: 1960