MS 1795 v1 front cover
Previously titled "Journals."
Volumes 1-11 (Number 7 missing).
MS 1795-b Typescripts of John Wesley Powell Journals, contains partial transcripts of some of the journals.
MS 1795-c Inventory of photographs made on Powell's expeditions, 1871-1875.
MS 1928 John F. Steward's report on geology of Green and Colorado River, 1871.
MS 1445 "No. 12. Navajo Indians"
MS 1795 v1 front cover
Number 1 "Journal of Cañon trip of 1869"
32 or 37 pages. Incomplete and begins July 2 at what is now Ouray, Utah. Nearly 100 miles of the trip had already been accomplished at this date. The beginning of the journal is not here.
MS 1795a v2 front cover
Number 2 "Geological Notes and Sections, and Astronomical Record of 1869"
78 or 84 pages.
MS 1795A vol 3 front cover
Number 3 "Stewart's [John F. Steward?] Notes and Sections"
72 or 81 pages.
MS 1795A v4 front cover
Number 4 "Notes on Language, Songs, and Mythology of the Pai-Utes for 1871"
Vocabulary of Uinta Ute, a "Pa Ute [vocabulary] from Jacob Hamblin," song texts in a Southern Paiute dialect of Ute with English translations, and Southern Paiute myths in English. Material copied from other manuscripts. Numbers 4 and 11 together have approximately 238 pages. The pages of volumes 4 and 11 were transferred from No. 2247, where they were found intermingled. The volume to which these materials pertain is in doubt. Note that there is an entry in the manuscript list of the First Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, page 574, as follows: "Notes on the Songs, Mythology, and Language of the Pai-Utes, 1871-'72. 194 page folio." Except for the size, this would seem to refer to volumes 4 and 11 of the journals, whose contents were combined.
Number 5 "Journal from Green River to Browns Park; Journal commencing Sept. 2d at Henry's Butte with Compass bearings; also Journal from Mille Crag Bend to the crossing of the Fathers"
80 pages.
MS 1795A v6 front cover
Number 6 "Shinomo Language"
Hopi vocabulary.
Number 8 "Geological notes of 1870. (Land trip)"
8 pages.
MS 1795A v9 front cover
Number 9 "Journal of the trip of 1872 through the Grand Cañon"
13 pages.
MS 1795A v10 front cover
Number 10 "Geological notes of 1872 of Marble Cañon, & Kanab Cañon & Paria Cañon. Also Section on the Kanab in 1871"
90 pages.
Number 11 "Notes on Songs, Mythology & Language of the Pai-Utes, 1872"
Additional vocabulary, grammatical notes and song texts in a Southern Paiute dialect of Ute, with myths in English. Numbers 4 and 11 together have approximately 238 pages. The pages of volumes 4 and 11 were transferred from No. 2247, where they were found intermingled. The volume to which these materials pertain is in doubt. Note that there is an entry in the manuscript list of the First Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, page 574, as follows: "Notes on the Songs, Mythology, and Language of the Pai-Utes, 1871-'72. 194 page folio." Except for the size, this would seem to refer to volumes 4 and 11 of the journals, whose contents were combined.
No Number [Notes in Powell's hand, apparently part of Journals, found in 2247 (although not listed on 2247 card), and transferred to 1795a]
Approximately 81 pages. Includes Paiute myth, Paiute (?) ling. notes.