Ho-Chunk materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Date: 1938-1939
Contributor: Blowsnake, Sam | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Marsh, Gordon H. | Susman, Amelia, 1915-
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | Orthography and spelling | Stories
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Songs | Notes | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 281 pages, 11 notebooks
Description: The Ho-Chunk materials in the ACLS collection consists primarily of three items in the "Winnebago (Ho-Chunk)" section of the finding aid. The bulk of the material is Amelia Susman's 11 field notebooks (item X5.2), which contains texts with interlinear translation, Vocabularies, ethnographical and linguistic notes, and some songs. Two additional items also by Susman are extended analyses based upon field work with Sam Blowsnake and his unnamed wife: "The accentual system of Winnebago" (item X5.1) and "The Winnebago syllabary" (item X5.3). In the "Chiwere (Iowa)" section of the finding aid, Gordon Marsh's "Materials for a study of the Iowa Indian language" (item X4a.2) include some Ho-Chunk grammatical notes, and Ho-Chunk cognates with Chiwere. Lastly, in the "Dakota" section, Franz Boas' "Miscellaneous Dakota notes" (item X8a.3) includes a Dakota-Ho-Chunk comparative word list.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c