Alphonse Louis Pinart Papers, 1870-1885
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Title: Alphonse Louis Pinart papers
Creator:
Pinart, Alphonse L. (Alphonse Louis), 1852-1911
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS Z-Z 17
Physical Description:
4 linear feet
(20 volumes (contained in 4 boxes); 6 volumes; 16
digital objects (16 images))
Date (inclusive): 1870-1885
Physical Location: For current information on the
location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in
English
Access
Collection is open for research except for the originals in the following
volumes:
Volumes 3-7, 9-11, 15, 18-20: use microfilm only. Use of originals only by permission
of the Head of the Public Services of The Bancroft Libary.
Acquisition Information
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft collection.
Alternate Forms Available
Digital reproductions and microfilm of selected items are available.
Scope and Content
Alphonse Louis Pinart (1852-1911) was a French scholar with wide linguistic and
ethnological interests who traveled extensively, collecting documents and
information as he went. Most of his collections as of 1885 were acquired by H. H.
Bancroft. This group consists of diaries, notebooks, correspondence and other
personal papers. Material primarily of linguistic interest, or concerned with the
history of particular areas, has been assigned separate call numbers, and readers
should consult the manuscripts catalog and
A Guide to the Manuscript
Collections of the Bancroft Library,
v. 1.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alphonse Louis Pinart Papers, BANC MSS Z-Z 17, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Related Collections
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Title: Collection of linguistic material relating to the Indians of
Central America,
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS Z-C 8
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of
Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Arrangement
Box 1: contains volume 1. Box 2: contains volume 4-10. Box 3: contains volume 11-13,
14. Box 4: contains volume 20-24. Volume 2, 3, 13a, 18-19, and 25 are stand-alone
items and not contained in boxes.
box 1, Volume 1
Volume 1: Correspondence, various documents and
drawings.
Physical Description: Volume 1 stored in
Box 1.
Scope and Contents
Includes letters received by Pinart (a list of the more important
correspondents follows the Key); drafts and press copies of a few
letters written by Pinart; visas, letters of introduction and other
personalia; draft of Pinart's published article on the Indians of
Central America; manuscript maps of Puerto Rico, Sonora, and he State of
Mexico; drawings of artifacts (presumably of North American Indians) in
museums in Copenhagen, Helsingfors, St. Petersburg, Moscow and Dorpat;
miscellaneous notes and bibliographic references on linguistics; a
vocabulary form in blank used by ethnologists in recording Indian
vocabularies; copies, made by Pinart, of articles written by Eugene
Vetromile; a report on Cuna Indians by Tomas J. Carranza; extracts from
the civil and political code of Mangareva Islands; and a French-African
(Ogooué) vocabulary.
Drawings of artifacts in the Ethnographic Museum in
Copenhagen, Denmark
January 4, 1873
Physical Description:
1 Drawing
volume 2
Drawings of artifacts and pictographs in Puerto Rico and
Guadelupe Island; plates for published articles.
Physical Description: Portfolio
Diaries of Pinart's travels
1871-1882
volume 3
Diary
1871-05-1871-06
1871-08-1871-10
1872-03-1872-04
Scope and Contents
Travels in Alaska (Bay of Bristol, Ft. Alexandria, Unalaska, Kodiak
Islands, Afognak and Shouiak Islands).
General
In English and French. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 4
Diary
1875-11-03-1875-11-13
Scope and Contents
Trip to Maine and Nova Scotia, with observations on the Micmac
Indians of Nova Scotia. The rest of the volume consists mainly of
his drawings of artifacts and pictographs at Oatman's Flat, Casa
Grande, Camp MacDowell and Maricopa Wells, Arizona; notes on shell
mounds in Berkeley, Calif and on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay;
and drawings of artifacts in Alaska and in Puerto Rico.
General
In French. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 5
Diary
December 21, 1875-April 25, 1876.
Scope and Contents
Travels in Arizona (Ft. Mojave, Camp MacDowell, Phoenix, Maricopa
Wells, Pima Indian Agency, Casa Grande, Tucson, Camp Bowie, San
Carlos Indian Agency, Yuma City and Ft.Yuma.
General
In French. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 6
Diary
1876-05-17-1876-07-08
1877-06-09-1877-06-18
Scope and Contents
Travels in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. Included is a
description of the Cowitchan Indian Mission at Vancouver Island.
Written from the back of the volume, is the diary of his excursion
from Papeete to the Paumotu Islands, June 9-18, 1877.
General
In French. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 7
Diary
1877-01-18-1877-04-26
Scope and Contents
Travels from France to the West Indies (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
Haiti, Cuba and Jamaica), Panama, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, and
voyage to Tahiti. Written from the back of the volume, is a diary of
his trip to the Easter Island, April 1877, notes on the Island,
sketches of artifacts and sketches of Pisco Bay, Peru.
General
In French. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 8
Diary
1877-07-26-1877-08-11
1877-10-08-1877-11-06
Scope and Contents
Travels in Tahiti. Written from the back of the volume, are notes on
early printing in Tahiti and diary kept en route to San Francisco
from Papeete aboard the Nautilus (ship), October 8-November 6,
1877.
General
In French.
box 2, Volume 9
Diary
June 24-October 26, 1878.
Scope and Contents
Travels in California (Gilroy, Monterey, Paso Robles, San Luis
Obispo, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, Tulare, Santa Barbara, and the
missions.) Written from the back of the volume, are notes on
California missions and notes from baptismal registers of San Carlos
Mission.
General
Mainly in French, a few pages in English. Available on microfilm.
box 2, Volume 10
Diary
October 26, 1878-April 26, 1879
Scope and Contents
Travels in Sonora, Mexico. Written from the back of volume 11 (Sonora
volume 2) is a list: frayles en los libros de partidos en la iglesia
de Sn. Xavier/Ariz del Bac.
General
In French. Available on microfilm.
box 3, Volume 11
Diary
1878-10-26-1879-04-26
box 3, Volume 12
Diary
1879-10-04-1880-01-11
Scope and Contents
Travels in Mexico through the states of Guerrero and Santa Cruz.
Written from the back of the volume, are notes on agricultural
production in Mexico, and lists of medicinal plants, flowers and
important trees.
General
In French.
box 3, Volume 13
Diary
1881-08-30-1881-12-06
Scope and Contents
Travels in Mexico (states of Puebla, Mexico and Vera Cruz) and Texas
(Houston, Galveston, San Antonio, Laredo and Austin).
General
Written from the back of the volume are notes on Mexican missions;
bibliographical information on Catholic Church writings translated
into Indian 1anguages; sketches of Mexican missions; vocabulary
lists in Tepehua and other Mexican Indian languages; notes from
baptismal and marriage registers of various missions.
(Partial transcript of V. 13, made by Guy Stresaer-Pean)
General
In French.
Volume 13a
Partial transcript of Diary in volume 13 by Guy
Stresser-Pean
1968-06
box 3, Volume 14
Diary
1882-01-25-1882-05-30
Scope and Contents
Travels in Panama.
General
In French.
Notebooks and sketchbooks
box 3, Volume 15
Drawings of artifacts, pictographs and geological formations
in British Columbia with related notes; and notes on Cowichan and
Snohomish Indians.
1876
General
In French and English. Available on microfilm.
box 3, Volume 16
Notes made during Pinart's travels in Sonora.
1878-1879
Scope and Contents
Volume marked "Sonora A" includes notes on the missions and pueblos,
lists of priests at the missions and three Opata vocabularies.
Volume marked "Sonora B" includes additional notes and
bibliographical references.
box 3, Volume 17
Notes made during Pinart's travels in Sonora.
1878-1879
Volume 18
Sketches made on his trip in Sonora, Mexico.
1876-1879
Scope and Contents
Volume 18 contains drawings of churches, village scenes, artifacts
and a manuscript map. Volume 19 consists mainly of drawings of rock
formations, churches and mountain ranges.
General
Available on microfilm.
Volume 19
Sketches made on his trip in Sonora, Mexico.
1876-1879
box 4, Volume 20
Notebook of articles and documents copied by
Pinart.
approximately 1868-1875
Scope and Contents
Includes articles copied by Pinart from California and Arizona
newspapers, 1868-1873, relating to early navigation in California,
the California Mission Indians, Santa Barbara Mission, explorations
and archeological discoveries in Arizona, and the Yuma and the Moqui
Indiana; a copy of a report on the Coyetero Apaches made by L. Y.
Loring, U. S. A., 1875; and a copy of a Mohave vocabulary recorded
Dec. 31, 1875.
General
Available on microfilm.
box 4, Volume 21
Drawings of artifacts in the Museo Nacional, Santiago, Chile;
and notes from various published sources on the Indians of Argentina
and on the natives of various islands in the Pacific.
1877-02
box 4, Volume 22
Miscellaneous notebooks with only a few written
pages.
Scope and Contents
Includes drawings of artifacts, records of a few financial
transactions, a brief expense account for West Indies travel,
etc.
box 4, Volume 23
Miscellaneous notebooks with only a few written
pages.
box 4, Volume 24
Miscellaneous notebooks with only a few written
pages.
volume 25
California sketchbook.
1877-1878
Physical Description:
15 Drawings
[Mission] San Carlos de Carmelo, Monterey.
June 27, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo,] Monterey.
June 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Paso Robles.
1878?
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Scope and Contents
House with windmill.
El Paso Robles.
June 28, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Mission San Miguel.
June 29, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
San Miguel.
June 29, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Mission] San Luis Obispo.
July 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Mission] San Carlos.
1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Old Custom House, Monterey.
July 20, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Mission] La Soledad.
July 20, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Mission San Antonio.
August 3, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Mission San Antonio.
August 3, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Mission] San Juan.
1878?
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Road leading to buildings in a valley].
1878?
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
[Mission] Santa Inez.
October 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Mazaslan [coast of Mazatlan?]. BANC MSS Z_Z 17 v_25
November 2, 1878
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
Fort Ross. BANC MSS Z_Z 17 v_25
November 1877?
Physical Description:
1
Drawing
List of Major Correspondents
Cataldo, Joseph M., 1837-
Letter with an addendum of prayers written in the Nez Percé
language.
March 8, 1870.
Cadrington[?], Robert Henry, 1830-1922
Letter regarding hieroglyphics and stone statues on Easter
Island.
June 30, 1876.
Catschet, Albert Samul, 1832-1907
Letter in French.
October 13, 1883.
Im Thurn, Sir Everard Ferdinand, 1852-1932
Petitot, Emile Fortuné Stanislas Joseph, 1838-
6 letters in French.
April-June 1875.
Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
Letter written for the Bureau of Ethnology.
June 29, 1863.
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Letter written as director, Bureau of Ethnology.
July 27, 1883.
Schuchardt, Hugo Ernst Mario, 1842-1927
Letter in French.
July 20, 1683.
Selwyn, John Richardson, 1844-1898
Letter
September 25, 1878