The Undiscovered Tappan Adney

So Much More Than Bark Canoes

by

James W. Wheaton
2405 Franciscan Drive #33
Clearwater, FL 33763-3232
(727) 726-5060
tradrjim@tampabay.rr.com

Tappan Adney - New York - 1890s

1. Awakening of an Artist - 1868-1883
2. Prelude to Adventure - 1883 - 1887
3. The Irresistable Wilderness - 1887 - 1889
   Excerpts from the First Journal
4. Trekking with Hum - 1890 - 1896
   • New York, 1889 - 1890- The Linnaean Society
     Bliss Carman, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Edmund Collins
   • First Trip to Nova Scotia and Second Trip to NB, July to November 1890
   • Third Trip to New Brunswick, November 1891 to November 1892
   • Fourth Trip to New Brunswick, 1893
   • Fifth Trip to New Brunswick, 1896
5. Courting the Eccentric Minnie Bell - 1893 -1897
   • Victoria Conservatory of Music
   • Tappan Adney's Visit, 1895
   • Managing the Sharp Family Orchard Business
   • Minnie Bell Goes to Jail
6. The Klondike Stampede - 1897 - 1898
   
   • Over the Chilkoot Pass and Down the Yukon River to Dawson
   • The Gold Fields - Winter in Dawson - Jack London - Adney Names a Creek - Moose Hunting with the Tro-Chu-Tin Indians - Birchbark canoe research
7. Marriage, Manuscripts, and Alaskan Gold - 1899-1900
   • Return from the Klondike
   • Tappan Adney and Minnie Bell are Married
   • Reporting from Cape Nome, Alaska
   • Adney Meets Elizabeth Robins
   • Return to Flushing, Long Island

   PART II - THE NEXT 33 YEARS - 1901 - 1933

8. Pursuing Fame and Fortune - 1901 - 1906
   • Domestic Life in Flushing, Long Island
   • The Ohio Society - Genealogy - Lecture Tour
   • The Explorers Club, 1904 - 1906
   • John J. Healy and the Alaska Northern Railroad
9. Music, Apples, Genealogy, and Hardscrabble - 1907- 1915
   • Minnie Bell's Woodstock School of Music
   • Writing "The Sharp Family"
   • Francis Peabody Sharp, Pioneer Orchardist
   • Reviving the Sharp Orchard Business
   • "Hardscrabble"
10. The Military, Models, and Montreal - 1916 - 1933
    • Tappan Adney Joins the Army
    • Adney Family Genealogy
    • Heraldic Artist
    • Adam Sherriff Scott
    • McGill University
    • Adney's Lake Missinaibi Expedition
    • Lionel Judah
    • Adney, Minnie Bell, and Glenn in Montreal

    PART III - THE LAST 17 YEARS - 1934 to 1950

11. Always: the Canoes - Research and Model Construction
12. Final Retreat to Woodstock
    • General Activities - Leon Thornton
    • Minnie Bell's Death in 1937
    • The Mariners' Museum Acquires the Canoe Models
    • Work on "The Bark Canoes" Monograph
13. Linguistics and Indian Culture
    • Early work on vocabulary
    • Relationships with Speck, Sapir, Siebert, Fannie Hardy Eckstorm, Jenness, Hadlock, Willoughby, Byers, Deardorff, ethnologists at the Bureau of American Ethnology
    • Adney's theories of Indian language
    • Adney's dissertations on the Indian's View of Nature: Astronomy and the Seasons
14. Repaying the Debt - 1945 to 1949
    • Peter Paul Case
    • Research in Treaties
    • St. John River Tribe - Woolastuck
    • Indians' regard for Adney
15. Last Days, 1949 - 1950

    Epilogue

    PART IV - THE YEARS AFTER 1950

16. Disposition of Adney Papers and Artifacts
    • Peabody Essex Museum - Hadlock
    • The Mariners' Museum
    • Dartmouth College - Stefansson Collection
    • University of New Brunswick - Harriet Irving Library
    • Carleton County Historical Society
    • New Brunswick Museum
17. Publication of The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America in 1964 (Extracts from Ted Behne article)
    • The Mariners' Museum contract with Chapelle, 1953 - Stefansson/Chapelle Correspondence
    • Publication by the Smithsonian Institution, 1964, and reprints
    • Review in "The Beaver," Summer 1965
18. Assessment
    • Recognition of Adney's Contributions
      a. Statements of McPhee, Berton, Gidmark, Vennum
      b. The Wooden Canoe Heritage Association
      c. Adney as Anthropologist - Ben Ford Paper re Boas
      d. Citations in Bibliographies
      e. Adney Game Management Area, Upper Woodstock
      f. Contribution to the Cause of First Peoples' Rights
      
    • Assessment of Adney as a Person
      a. General characteristics, good and bad - recollections of those who knew him personally
      b. "Rhymes and Verses"
      c. Relationship with Fred Clarke - "Saxon" - Recollections of the Clarke Family
    • Summary

      CHAPTER NOTES

      APPENDIX A - GENERAL

      1. Canoe Models in The Mariners' Museum
      2. Grants received for model and document preservation
      3. Adney Publications List
         • Publications by or about Adney
         • Harper's Young People article, 1890
         • Outing article, 1900
      4. Native Birchbark Canoe Builders

      APPENDIX B - THE SHARP FAMILY

      1. Francis Peabody Sharp
      2. Minnie Bell Sharp's "Autobiography" - 1919

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

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      Table of Contents page revised April 9, 2005