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Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary

Courtesy of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

The diary of a Korean international student who attended Vanderbilt University and Emory College in the late nineteenth century.

Creator: Yun Ch’i-ho

Date of Creation: 1883 to 1945

Place of origin: Entries written in a variety of locations, including Nashville, TN and Oxford, GA

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Handwritten

Current location: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

Further Reading

Mark Caprio, “Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator? The Yun Ch’iho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7, no. 3 (2006): n.p.  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/209552

Chris Suh, “What Yun Ch’i-ho Knew: U.S.-Japan Relations and Imperial Race Making in Korea and the American South, 1904–1919,” Journal of American History 104, no. 1 (June 2017): 68–96. https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/104/1/68/3860656

Andrew Urban, “Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the ‘New’ South, 1888–1893,” Journal of Asian American Studies 17, no. 3 (October 2014), 305–36. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/556380

Information contributed by Chris Suh.

Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu’s Arabic Address

Courtesy of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast.

An address celebrating emancipation delivered in August 1838 in Jamaica by a former slave and apprentice originally from West Africa.

Creator: Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu

Date of Creation: 1838

Place of origin: Jamiaca

Measurements: 14” x 14”, 1 page

Materials: Ink on paper, with cutout of printed text affixed with tape

Process by which it was made: Handwritten

Current location: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast.

Further Reading

Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami, “Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu’s Arabic Address on the Occasion of Emancipation in Jamaica,” The William and Mary Quarterly 76.2 (2019): 289-312.

Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami, “Emancipation address as creole testimony: Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu, a formerly enslaved Muslim in Jamaica,” Slavery & Abolition 41.2 (2020):1-21.

Paul E. Lovejoy and Yacine Daddi Addoun, “Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu and the Muslim Community of Jamaica,” in Paul E. Lovejoy (ed.), Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam (Princeton: Markus Wiener, Publisher, 2004): 201-20.

Paul E. Lovejoy, Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions (Athens, Ohio, 2016).

Ghada Osman and Camille F Forbes, “Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said,” Journal of Islamic Studies 15.3 (2004): 331-343.

http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/amcdouga/Hist446/reading_assignments_2010/slave_narratives/narrative_omar_ibn_said.pdf 

Information contributed by Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami.

Chauncey Yellow Robe’s “Record of Graduates and Returned Students”

Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

An early twentieth-century response to a survey of recent graduates of a Native American boarding school.

Creator: Chauncey Yellow Robe

Date of Creation: 1910

Place of origin: Survey created in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; survey filled out in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Physical measurements: 3 pages

Materials: Paper, graphite, and ink.

Process by which it was made: Handwriting on a pre-printed survey form.

Current location: National Archives and Records Administration

Further Reading

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations, edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose, 43-53. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dwssxz.7. 

Pexa, Christopher J. Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Warrior, Robert. The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.Yellow Robe, Chauncey. “The Autobiography of An Indian Boy.” How the Silent Enemy Was Made. Cline Printing Co., 1930: 4, 17.

Information contributed by Rachel Linea Brown.

An Hy[s]torical [acco]unt of the Doing[s] & Sufferings of [the] Christian Indians in New England

Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago.

An unpublished book that complicates the politics of Native-colonist relationships that became inflamed in the mid-1670s.

Creator: Daniel Gookin

Date of Creation: 1677

Place of origin: Massachusetts Bay Colony

Physical measurements: 300 [4], 99, [3] p. ; 21cm high and 17 cm wide

Materials: Paper and ink

Process by which it was made: Handwriting

Current location: The Newberry Library, Chicago.

Further Reading

Richard W. Cogley, John Eliot’s Mission to the Indians before King Philip’s War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).

Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004). 

David D. Hall, Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-making in Seventeenth-century New England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

J. Patrick Cesarini, “What Has Become of Your Praying to God?” Daniel Gookin’s Troubled History of King Philip’s War,” Early American Literature, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2009): 489-515.

Jenny Hale Pulsipher, “Massacre at Hurtleberry Hill: Christian Indians and English Authority in Metacom’s War,” William and Mary Quarterly Vol. 53, No. 3 (Jul., 1996): 459-486.

Information contributed by David D. Hall and Adrian Chastain Weimer.

Reglas y estatutos del coro de la santa metropolitana iglesia de Santiago de Goathemala

Courtesy of the Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

One of the few books published in Guatemala on music, it outlined rules for his cathedral singers in the colonial capital of Santiago de Guatemala.

Creators: Pedro Cortés y Larraz; printer: Don Antonio Sanchez Cubillas

Date of Creation: 1772

Place of origin: Santiago de Guatemala (current day Antigua, Guatemala)

Physical measurements: 20 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Archivo Histórico del Arquidiocesano de Guatemala

Further Reading

Alfred Lemmon, “Reglas y estatutos del coro de la Santa Metropolitana Iglesia de Santiago de Guatemala,” Mesoamérica: revista del Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica 11, no. 19-20 (1990): 299-314.

Ana María Martínez de Sánchez, “Fuentes de archivo para el estudio del derecho canónico indiano local,” Revista de estudios histórico-jurídicos, no. 30 (2008): 485-503.

Kate van Orden, Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Information contributed by Diane Oliva.

Jesus Maria Letter

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Courtesy of P. K. Yonge School

The earliest extant letter written by a Native person in a Native language in what is now the United States.

Creators: Don Manuel, cacique of Asile

Date of Creation: 1651

Place of origin: Asile, Timucua town of Florida

Physical measurements: 2 pages

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Handwriting

Current location: Original housed at the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain.

Further Reading 

Alyssa Mt. Plesant, Caroline Wigginton, and Kelly Wisecup, “Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies: Completing the Turn,” The William and Mary Quarterly 75:2 (2018) 207-36.

Amy Turner Bushnell, “Patricio De Hinachuba: Defender of the Word of God, the Crown of the King, and the Little Children of Ivitachuco.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 3, no. 3 (1979): 1-2George Aaron Broadwell & Alejandra Dubcovsky, “Chief Manuel’s 1651 Timucua letter: The oldest letter in a Native language of the United States,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Forthcoming.

Alejandra Dubcovsky and George Aaron Broadwell. “Writing Timucua: Recovering and Interrogating Indigenous Authorship.” Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 15, no. 3 (2017): 409-41.

Jerald T. Milanich, The Timucua. (Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers, 1996).

Information contributed by Alejandra Dubcovsky and George Aaron Broadwell.

Piedras Negras Stela 14

A Maya stone sculpture dedicated by the ruler Yo’nal Ahk II.

Creators: Six Maya sculptors from Yokib

Date of Creation: c. 761 CE

Place of origin: Piedras Negras, Guatemala

Physical measurements: Height: 295 cm; Width: 85 cm; Depth: 40.64 cm

Materials: Limestone

Process by which it was made: Carving, painting

Current location: Penn Museum, University of Pennsylavnia

Further Reading

Clancy, Flora Simmons. The Monuments of Piedras Negras, an Ancient Maya City. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009.

Carranza, Luis E. Architecture as Revolution Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.

Martin, Simon. Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 

Miller, Mary Ellen and Megan E. O’Neil, Maya Art and Architecture, 2nd rev edn. London: Thames and Hudson, 2014.

O’Neil, Megan E. Engaging Ancient Maya Sculpture at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.

Information contributed by Megan E. O’Neil.

Burning of a Chief Priest

Courtesy of American Baptist Historical Society.

A detailed vision of the cremation of a prominent Burmese Buddhist monk.

Creators: Unknown Burmese artist

Date of Creation: Late 1830s

Place of origin: Tavoy, Burma (Dawei, Myanmar)

Physical measurements: 1 page

Materials: Watercolor, paper, pencil, ink

Process by which it was made: Painting

Current location: American Baptist Historical Society.

Further Reading

Isaacs, Ralph. 2009. “Rockets and Ashes: Pongyibyan as depicted in nineteenth-and twentieth-century European sources.” Journal of Burma Studies 13 (1): 107-136.

Lopez, Donald S. 1995. Curators of the Buddha: the study of Buddhism under colonialism. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press. 
Masuzawa, Tomoko. 2005. The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism, University of Chicago Press.

Information contributed by Alexandra Kaloyanides.

Settlement Negotiation for the Sierra Leone Company

Courtesy of National Archives, London.

The terms of a settlement between the Sierra Leone Company and a group of Maroons.

Creators: The Sierra Leone Company founder Henry Thornton sent The Terms in a letter to William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland and Home Secretary, in October 1799. Sierra Leone colony Governor Thomas Ludlam, Maroon Superintendent George Ross, and Maroon captains Montague James, Andrew Smith, Charles Shaw, John Palmer, Thomas Johnstone, and a captain named only as Baily discussed revisions to The Terms on October 2, 1800

Date of Creation: 1799-1800

Place of origin: England and Freetown, Sierra Leone

Physical measurements: 2 pages, one covered on both sides and one single-sided

Materials: Paper and ink

Process by which it was made: Handwriting

Current location: National Archives, Kew, London, United Kingdom

Further Reading 

Kenneth M. Bilby, True-born maroons (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005).

Ruma Chopra, Almost Home: Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

Mavis C. Campbell, The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796 (Amherst, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, Inc., 1988).

Barbara Klamon Kopytoff, “Jamaican Maroon Political Organization: The effects of the Treaties,” Social and Economic Studies 25, no. 2 (June 1976), 87-105.

Cassandra Pybus, Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and their Global Quest for Liberty (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006).

Information contributed by Rachel B. Herrmann.

Atlas de la Confédération Argentine

The first atlas of Argentina, written for the country’s new government by a French geographer.

Creator: Victor Martin de Moussy, with assistance and preface by Louis Bouvet

Date of Creation: 1869

Place of origin: Paris

Physical measurements: 48cm x 34cm, 24 pages of text, 29 plates

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Print

Current location: Multiple copies.

Further Reading

Andermann, Jens.  The Optic of the State.  Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007.

Bernstein, David.  How the West Was Drawn:  Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Craib, Raymond B.  Cartographic Mexico:  A History of State Fixations and Fugitive Landscapes.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 2004.

Monmonier, Mark.  “The Rise of the National Atlas.”  In Images of the World:  The Atlas through History, eds. John A. Wolter and Ronald E. Grim.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 1997.  369–399.

Solnit, Rebecca.  Infinite City:  A San Francisco Atlas.  Berkeley:  University of California Press, 2010.

Information contributed by Brian Bockelman.