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Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Creator:: Kirkpatrick, Kristin A.
Abstract:: Franz Boas collected anthropometric data on approximately 15,000 people from over 200 Native American tribal groups between 1888 and 1902. Twelve basic measurements were taken: standing height, shoulder height, height to digit III, arm span, sitting height, shoulder width, head length and width, face height and breadth, and nose height...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

Creator:: Schulenburg, Albrecht Conon, Graf von der, 1865-1902 and Flaherty, Virginia C.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Early Commercial Development, Bandon, Oregon : Block 1 of the Averill Addition, 1886-1936

Creator:: Vogel, Betty L.
Abstract:: Block 1 of the Averill Addition played an important role in the early commercial development of Bandon, Oregon, a town located on Oregon's south coast. Retail establishments located on the block supplied the local residents with a variety of merchandise for the period of 1886-1914. During this period Bandon served...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Creator:: Shinn, Dean Allison
Abstract:: Ecological and historical information are combined in examining the environmental influence of fire and grazing on rangelands in eastern Oregon through time. Competitive relationships between herbaceous and woody flora in the northern Great Basin are discussed, focusing broadly on the shrubsteppe regions 'of Franklin and Dyrness (1973) but with special...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ; Griffiths, 1902, 1903). In Oregon east of the Cascade Range, shrub-steppe regions occur largely in the

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

Creator:: Read, Richard Thomas
Abstract:: In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: zoology and ento- mology. Leaving OAC in 1895, he taught at the University of Oregon until 1902, when he

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Creator:: Paullin, Pamela K.
Abstract:: Although the timber industry was the major economic force in the lives of several generations of Oregon families, very little archaeological investigation has been done on the dozens of abandoned logging camps that are scattered throughout the forests of the Pacific Northwest. This project focuses on Camp 1, a 1920s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: the 1902 Hillockburn Fire which burned through portions of Ladee Flat (Estacada

Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

Creator:: Yao, Yingxia
Abstract:: This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Company, 1902), 108. 39 Morrison Education Society Annual Report, 1847 (Hong Kong, 1847), 7-8, in

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity, generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information, however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily understood by the general public. This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: conditions (Kirkwood 1902; Morris 1934). Figure 3. The Willamette Valley, from Mary's Peak, View is

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Creator:: Burk, Rene F.
Abstract:: Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: example of an herbarium specimen collected in 1902, and a distribution map..44 19. Map of facilities that

Non-reservation Indian boarding schools, 1879-1969

Creator:: Jaworski, Carole Ann
Abstract:: This study examines two major issues: (1) to what extent have the conditions at non-reservation Indian boarding schools, as described by the Meriam Report of 1928, been in evidence from the beginning?; and (2) to what extent have these conditions improved since 1928? The conditions examined are: (1) General Conditions...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: feature of the non- reservation school was made by Commissioner Jones in his report for 1901-1902

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Archival Anthropometry: An Analysis of the Anthropometric Data of Native American Children Gathered by Franz Boas, 1888-1902

Schulenburg's Tsimshian Grammar

Early Commercial Development, Bandon, Oregon : Block 1 of the Averill Addition, 1886-1936

Man and the land : an ecological history of fire and grazing on eastern Oregon rangelands

Institutionalizing Science in Oregon : The Role of the Oregon State Academy of Sciences, 1905-1914

Boring to the Core: The Archaeology, History, and Dendrochronology of a Railroad Logging Camp, Ladee Flat, Clackamas County, Oregon

Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

Non-reservation Indian boarding schools, 1879-1969

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