Hopi materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Date: 1915; 1933-1941
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 2 slips; 300+ pages
Description: The Hopi materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials primarily in the "Hopi" section of the finding aid. The earliest item is a brief word list recorded in 1915 by Edward Sapir (item U3a.4). The remaining items in this section are all by Benjamin Lee Whorf, including an initial linguistic report sent to Sapir, a grammatical sketch, an interlinear text on marriage customs, and a brief discussion of verb classes. In the "Bella Bella (Heiltsuk)" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Bella Bella suffix list" (item W1b.4) includes Hopi ethnographic materials on ceremony and religion written on the reverse side of sheets.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c