Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: Materials relating to both Algonquin and related Algonquian peoples, cultures, and languages. Includes Speck's notes on artifacts found near Lake Abitibi and in the Nipissing district; his Seven Islands field notes, including texts with interlinear translations, house data, names of animals, and a letter in French from Marie Louise Ambroise; sketches and comments on shoulder blade divination (scapulimancy), including notes on deer drives (including an undated note from A. Irving Hallowell) and the distribution of artifacts among Algonquin, Naskapi, and Mistissini peoples; two field notebooks containing (1) linguistic notes and informant and population data for Waswanipi, Abitibi, Temiskaming [Timiskaming], Nipissing, Algonquian and (2) Temiskaming ethnography, Wisiledjak (Wiskyjack) [Wisakedjak, a manitou] text (in English), Temagami ethnology and texts (in English), and one Iroquois legend; general information on birch-bark containers, including 37 photographs and 40 pages of notes relating to Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe and Ktunaxa specimens, and a letter from Bella Weitzner; and a letter from A. G. Bailey sending Speck a copy of his book on Algonquians.

Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)

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John Kirk Townsend Indian vocabularies collection

Culture:

Walla Walla includes: Waluulapam, Natítayt

Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit

Secwépemc includes: Shuswap

Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish

Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan

Nisga'a includes: Nass, Nisgha, Nishga, Nishka, Niska, Nisqa'a

Nuxalk includes: Bella Coola, Bellacoola

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu

Klickitat includes: Klikitat

Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa

Klallam includes: Clallam, S'Klallam, nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm

Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat

Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv

Kalapuya

Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ

Cayuse includes: Liksiyu, Natítayt

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Date:1834-1836

Type:Text

Genre:Notebooks

Extent:2 volumes

Description: This collection contains two manuscript volumes collected by the naturalist John Kirk Townsend, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. The first volume contains a collection of multiple comparative vocabulary lists of languages of modern-day Washington, Idaho, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska, obtained by dictation from native speakers, people of mixed ancestry, and traders of the Hudson's Bay Company. Languages included are: "Okanagan" (N̓səl̓xcin), "Attnaha" or "Shoushwap" (Secwepemctsin), "Walla Walla (Sahaptin), "Squalyamish" (Squamish / Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ?), "Nooselalum" (Klallam / nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm), "Haeeltzuk" (Heiltsuk), "Billichoola" (Nuxalk), "Nass" (Nisga'a), "Haidah" (Haida), "Tongaase" (Tlingit, possibly inland variety), Nez Perce, Chinook [Jargon], "Carrier or Takelhé" (Dakelh), "Kayouse" (Cayuse), and "Kootenai" (Ktunaxa). The second volume is a collection of vocabulary lists of 19 Indigenous languages, primarily of the Pacific Northwest, re-copied from earlier notes in an orderly fashion with an index and additional introductory information on the area where each language is spoken and the source of the vocabulary. 15 of the vocabularies are re-copied out from the first volume in this collection. This volume includes the languages listed for that volume, plus Cree (possibly Plains Cree), "Kalapooyah" (Kalapuya), Klikatat (Sahaptin or Yakama), and "Seauteux" (Western Ojibwa/Ojibwe).

Collection:John Kirk Townsend Indian vocabularies collection (Mss.497.3.T66)

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Robert Bell correspondence

Culture:

Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo

Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Algonquin

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English

Date:1880-1908

Contributor:Bell, Robert | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Isbister, William

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence

Extent:5 folders

Description: The Robert Bell correspondence collection is a small collection of incoming letters to Robert Bell, who was primarily a geologist. The main content relating to Indigenous peoples in the collection is from Franz Boas, which mentions Boas's field trips to British Columbia and Baffin Island, anthropometric data collection, the collection of objects for museums, and human remains. There is also mention of William Isbister documenting Cree stories around Oxford House, Manitoba. See individual letter descriptions for more detail.

Collection:Robert Bell correspondence (Mss.B.B421)