Onondaga materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Lokono includes: Arawak
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language: English
Date: 1818-1888
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Potts, William John, 1842-1895 | Hayward, W. S.
Subject: Linguistics | Iroquoian languages
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent: 4 items
Description: Materials relating to Onondaga language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include David Zeisberger's "Essay on an Onondaga grammar" in the Pennsylvania Magazine of universal languages; the destruction (according to Heckewelder) of part 1 of Zeisberger's Onondaga dictionary, his grammar of Onondaga, and Schuman's [i.e., Schulz's] Arruwak [Arawak] dictionary (variety unidentified); request from W.S. Hayward for Zeisberger's works on the Onondaga Hayward's grammar of the Iroquois in English; and du Ponceau forwarded Onondaga Indian vocabularies [to Johann S. Vater?]
Collection: American Philosophical Society Archives APS.Archives