Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Algonquian materials in the Lounsbury Papers include information about Indigenous place names, Delaware kinship terminology in Series II. Series III includes work on comparative linguistics, phonology, dialects. The correspondence in Series I contains letters on kinship systems from a diverse array of tribes.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Aymara materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Quechua

Aymara includes: Aimara

Language:English | Aymara | Spanish | Dutch | Jaqaru

Date:1950-1972

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Aymara materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of comparative linguistics and studies of kinship in Series II. Of particular interest are the audio recordings in Series VII on the folklore of the Ayar Incas. The correspondence, in Series I, contains information of the geographic distribution of the language, Lounsbury's analysis of the language and its relationship to Quechua, Christian scriptures in Aymara, Morris Swadesh's work on genetic classification of Native American languages, and geographic distribution of Aymara population.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Central and South America materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Yanesha' includes: Amuesha

Tupi

Subtiaba includes: Subtiava

Rama

Quechua

Kogi includes: Cogui, Kágaba

Kawahiva includes: Kavahiva

Guarani

Guna includes: Kuna, Cuna, Dule

Ese Ejja includes: Chama, Ece'je

Inca

Cocama includes: Kokáma

Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca

Aymara includes: Aimara

Date:1937-1960 and undated

Type:Text

Extent:23 items

Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest in and research on Indigenous Central and South American languages and cultures. Materials attributed to Mason include a bibliography composed of about 300 cards primarily on South American languages, including many entries not in the Handbook of South American Indians; a notebook of observations on the distribution, relationships, etc., of South American languages; a file with correspondence, bibliography, draft of introduction, etc., relating to his contribution to the Handbook of South American Indians; a 166-page essay on the preconquest history and culture of the Andean region (mostly Peru) through the medium of artifacts preserved in the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania); two copies of Mason's "Andean Civilization," including bibliography, for the Encyclopedia Britannica (1960); two copies of the preface to the Spanish edition of "Ancient Civilizations of Peru," with a memorandum from Alfred Kidder II to Mason regarding recent developments in Central Andean archaeology; an incomplete essay titled "Status and problems of research in the Native Languages of South America," primarily concerned with historical linguistics and genetic relationship; and a file of notes on genetic relationships, subgrouping, etc., from published sources or giving his own impressions: Kamakan, Choroti, Ashluslay Kaduveo, Mataco; Malali, Mashakal, Ge, Vejoz, Coropo, Motilon, Towothl, Kaingang, Subtiaba, Hokan, Coroado, etc.. Unattributed materials (most likely Mason's) include circa 2,000 cards of notes on South American linguistic and ethnology focused on genetic classification of South American languages; circa 4,000 cards of notes regarding South American languages and dialects and their geographical distribution, etc.; and 17 pages of notes concerning a letter (included) from Harry B. Wright to Captain Colon Eloy Alfaro proposing that expeditions be sent to Ecuadorean Oriente for study in linguistics, ethnology, etc. Materials attributed to others than Mason include two essays or drafts by John Peabody Harrington on the affiliation of Witoto [Huitoto, probably Murui Huitoto but possibly Nüpode Huitoto], Miranya [aka Miraña or Miranha, now known as Bora] and Guaranian/Tupi-Guarani [Guarani, represented by Cocama], one with Mason's comments; 27 pages of Kagaba [Kogi] texts with interlinear Spanish translation and lists of animals, plants, body parts, natural phenomena, kinship terms, etc., with Spanish and English glosses; and Eugenio Garro's "Geographical distribution of the Native languages and dialects of Peru," an article submitted for the Handbook of South American Indians (marked "not printed in Handbook"). Correspondence includes Mason's Handbook of South American Indians correspondence, with Zellig S. Harris, Harry Hoijer, Eugene A. Nida, et al., soliciting contributions to the handbook, etc.; letters from Claude Levi-Strauss regarding locations, languages, and dialects of indigenous peoples of Brazil (mentions Parintintin [Kagwahiva], Rama-Rama [Rama], Tupi, Nambikuara [Southern Nambikuára], Tupi-Kawahib [Kawahiva?], Kabixiana [Kabixí], Kep-kiri-uat [?]); correspondence with John Peabody Harrington concerning Harrington's work for Mason on the Handbook of South American Indians; correspondence with Willard Z. Park regarding Park's ethnological work among the Kagaba [Kogi] in Colombia; correspondence with Louis Rankin regarding the Cocama, Cocamilla [the dialects of what is now called Cocama-Cocamilla], Chama [Ese Ejja], Campa [Ajyíninka Apurucayali?], and Amuesha [Yanesha'] languages of Peru; correspondence with David B. Stout regarding Stout's genetic classification of Chibchan, Kuna, and Choco, with one page of Mason's opinions on Stout's classification; correspondence with John Howland Rowe regarding South American languages and cultures, including the Quechua, Aymara, and Millcayac languages, early work of Max Uhle in Peru, Bolivia, etc.. and mentioning Alfred V. Kidder, Alfred L. Kroeber, and others; and a letter from Otis H. Green regarding the origin of the word "jivaro."

Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)

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Collection of Peruvian manuscripts, 1790-1800, 1820

Culture:

Quechua

Inca

Language:Spanish

Date:1780-1800

Subject:Bolivia--History | Peru--History

Type:Text

Extent:26 items

Description: Items relating to the uprising of Túpac Amaru II (José Gabriel Condorcanqui) in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru, 1781-1783. Bulk 1780-1783. Topics include the proclamation of Túpac Amaru II entitling himself Inca; the Siege of La Paz; Spanish efforts to relieve La Paz; the capture of Túpac Amaru II and his wife and family; the pardon and pension of Túpac Amaru II [as most sources indicate that he was executed in 1781, it is possible that he is here confused with others who took the name Túpac Amaru]; an affidavit given by former prisoners of Túpac Amaru II; an official copy of the sentence and execution of the indigenous leader Chabe Diego (Janos) Christoval Túpac Amaru and others; and the 1800 opinion of the Fiscal Villaba respecting the lenient and conciliatory measures to be adopted toward indigenous rebels as an alternative to persecution.

Collection:Collection of Peruvian manuscripts, 1790-1800, 1820 (Mss.980.P75)

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Guarani materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Quechua

Maya

Guarani

Aymara includes: Aimara

Date:1936-1950

Type:Text | Sound recording

Genre:Bibliographies | Notebooks | Vocabularies | Songs | Stories

Description: The Guarani materials in the Lounsbury Papers can be found in multiple sections of the collection. In Series I, there is correspondence from Rahder, Rubin, and Tulchin. In Series II, in the "Other Languages and Cultures of the Americas" section, there are Lounsbury's notes, "Têtagüá Sapucài (Grito del Pueblo)," which accompany sound recordings. In the "South America" section of Series II, see Fieldnotes #5, under "Brazil," and "Terena and Guarani Wire Recordings Tables of Contents." In Series VII, there are two sets of digitized recordings, "Paraguayan Popular Music" and "Terena-Guarani." Of special interest among the audio is the "Story of the Guarani creator, Tupi, and the creation of the Guarani people" told by Pedro Coelho de Suza.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Miscellaneous materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet

Tunica

Tsimshian includes: Ts'msyan, Ts'msyen, Zimshian

Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Maya

Nanticoke

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie

Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl

Klamath

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer

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

Cheyenne

Cherokee

Creek

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Catawba includes: Iswa

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Chinook

Chitimacha

Catawba includes: Iswa

Chickahominy

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Language:English | German

Date:1904-1950

Type:Text

Extent:46 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's research and other professional activities. Items include Speck's notes taken during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for his own anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania; Speck's miscellaneous notes comprising circa 500 bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work [other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to tribe]; correspondence concerning exhibits and specimens for the Chicago World's Fair and for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in New York City; two letters from Boas regarding the work of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; correspondence regarding topics such as the double-curve motif, family hunting areas, indigenous foods and cooking methods, wampum, silverwork, birch-bark technique, baskets, Speck's research and publications, the research and publications of others, obtaining indigenous material cultural specimens for Speck, purchases of indigenous material culture specimens (baskets, masks, etc.) from Speck, Speck's identification of items in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, Speck's bibliography, and Speck's obituary; letters requesting copies of Speck's publications, or acknowledging the transmission of publications between Speck and others; copies and/or drafts of several of Speck's presentations and publications, including "Lectures on Primitive Religion," "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas," "Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," and "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonquian Art"; a bibliography of Speck's publications through 1942; rough drafts of miscellaneous papers, 1928-1948; Speck's notes on topics such as crane posture; Birket-Smith's 1946 "Plan for Circumpolar Research"; ten distribution maps for circumpolar culture traits, colored in with crayon to show distribution of traits including divination and miracle shamanism, sweat bath, turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept, bone divination, bear veneration, curative power of mystic words and formulae, dog-ancestor myth, dog as soul leader, curvilinear patterns, and confession to cure taboo violation; and a prepublication manuscript of Hallowell's "The nature and function of property as a human institution" with additions and corrections.

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

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Quechua materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Quechua

Language:English | Spanish

Date:1936-1937

Contributor:Farfán, José M. B. | Ritchie, John, 1874-1957 | Shedd, Leslie M. | Ward, I. C. | Wintersteen, Carl H.

Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling

Type:Text

Genre:Notes

Extent:37 pages

Description: The Quechua materials in the ACLS collection consist of 4 items in the "Quechua" section of the finding, all of which include discussions (in Spanish and English) about Quechua orthography. Specific Quechua language information is not clearly identified.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Quechua materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:

Quechua

Language:English

Date:1819-1859

Contributor:Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860 | Curson, S. (?) | Bloomfield, Joseph E. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844

Subject:Antiquities | Linguistics | Pottery | Material culture | Peru--History

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Essays

Extent:5 items

Description: Items relating to Quechua materials. Items include Peter A. Browne's letter regarding microscopic examination of hair of ancient Peruvians and modern Indians; S. Curson's report concerning Arequipa, Peru, including a climb of Mount Yachi, Quechua concepts of oxygen deficiency, and local Indians' attitude toward revelation of mine locations; Joseph E. Bloomfield's letter to John Vaughan concerning Peruvian vases taken from Temple of the Sun by Pizarro's men, received in Spain and now deposited with the American Philosophical Society for inspection; Samuel G. Morton's letter to Vaughan regarding a collection of antique Peruvian vessels "from ruins near Truxillo" deposited in his care for the APS by Marmaduke Burrough (a memoir by Dr. Burrough to follow); and Peter S. du Ponceau's letter to Johann S. Vater concerning Indian languages, especially those of Peru, requesting Vater's addenda so Du Ponceau can publish a translation of Vater's book, and information received from Don Pedro Perez, half-breed Quechua, regarding the "I am that I am" problem in linguistics, and regarding Basque and South American-Malay comparisons.

Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)

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Quechua materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Quechua

Language:English | Quechua

Date:1967 and undated

Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Orr D., Carolina | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Wölck, Wolfgang

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ecuador--History

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays

Extent:3 folders

Description: Three items relating to Quechua languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection I. They consist of correspondence with John H. Rowe in Series I. Correspondence; Carolyn Orr's (Carolina D. Orr) "Ecuador Quichua Phonology" in Series IV. Works by Others; and a Quechua file containing two pages of handwritten notes and a six-page typed Quechua bibliography compiled by Wolfgang Wölck in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

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Quechua materials, Daythal L. Kendall Papes

Culture:

Quechua

Language:Quechua | English | Takelma

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies

Extent:0.1 linear feet

Description: Daythal Kendall collected and added marginalia to several publications and sets of archival materials on Quechua, particularly identifying correspondences between Quechua and Takelma. These are to be found in Series 2 and 5.

Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)