Menominee materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Date: circa 1930s-1960s
Subject: Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Algonquian languages | Orthography and spelling | Wisconsin--History
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies | Grammars
Extent: 10 folders, 3 boxes
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain vocabulary, grammatical notes, short texts, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Menominee language and culture. These are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II of the Voegelin Papers. Materials in Subcollection I include corespondence with Leonard Bloomfield (regarding inscription on a silver bracelet obtained from Menominees and Bloomfield's "Menomini Grammar") in Series I. Correspondence; and 3 boxes of Menominee vocabulary and 2 folders of document files (mostly regarding kinship terminology) in Series II. Card Files. Materials in Subcollection II include a folder of Menominee notes (possibly given to Voegelin by Leonard Bloomfield) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian. There are also Menominee examples in at least 6 folders ("Č and K," "L and M," "N and P," " Š and T," "Θ and ?" and "Specimens of Central Algonquian") of the many Comparative Algonquian notebooks in the same subseries (i.e., Macro-Algonquian).
Collection: C. F. Voegelin Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.68