Seneca materials, Frans M. Olbrechts papers
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date: 1929-1930
Contributor: Doctor, Peter | Doxtater, Avis | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 319 pages, 8 cards
Description: The Seneca materials in the Frans Olbrechts Papers consist of 6 items, found in different sections of the finding aid. In Series I, see items 6 and 7, which include Seneca vocabulary, some in charts comparing them to other Iroquoian languages. Item 9 in this series, "Seneca texts," contains 2 Seneca stories, with partial English interlinear translation. In Series II, item "2: Onondaga and Seneca notebook" includes 36 pages of notes in English on Seneca grammar, and item "9: Field notes, Tuscarora trip" includes Seneca words and phrases given by Peter Doctor. Finally, in Series III, item 14 partially includes texts in Seneca given by Avis Doxtater. See also item "10: Iroquoian languages lexical files," which includes comparative vocabulary of multiple Iroquoian languages.
Collection: Frans M. Olbrechts papers Mss.497.3.OL2