Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Of particular interest might be Folder "A:9770-1-118 Indians from Oklahoma (Work Sent in by Mr. Paul Roofe)" (1926), containing 118 pages of Individual Analysis Cards containing personal and family information about students at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. There is also "Folder A:9770 #1. Indian Photographs, Bureau of American Ethnography" (1870-1912), containing 23 photographs of Native individuals, all men, most with both front and profile shots, and identifying information on the back. Cultures represented include Kiowa, Brule (Dakota), Apache, Delaware, Papago (Tohono O'odham), Arapaho, Wichita, Zuni, Santa Clara (Pueblo), Shawnee, Pojoaque (Pueblo), Cheyenne, and Bannock. Folder "A:9770 #3. American Indians" (1920-1934) contains material about Bolivia Indians, Chippewas (Ojibwe) in Michigan, and from Dr. Margaret W. Koenig of the Nebraska Medical Women's League regarding the family history of Permela Palmer (Chicksaw), who married a Choctaw and then a white man, and who was of particular note because of her supernumerary mammary glands and the similarly abnormal breast development of some of her daughters. Folder "A:974 x 7. Caucasian x Indian" (1920-1925) contains trait charts of mixed families, including charts of a French-Cree and Choctaw family and a French-Cree and Scotch-Cree family sent by Mrs. L. M. William of Battleford, Sask.; a three-page typed essay, "For a Universial Marriage Law," advocating the prohibition of mixed marriages, also attributed to Mrs. William; and a magazine article, intended to be humorous, titled "Indian Wives and White Husbands" by Josiah M. Ward. Folder "A:976 x 70. American Indian - Negro" (1919-1928) contains charts, anecdotal data, notes, etc. regarding the traits of mixed children of Native and African American parents, several examples of which are stamped State Normal School, Montclair, NJ; a letter from the state registrar of Virginia to the Census Bureau concerning the efforts of people trying to gain recogition as Chickahominy, Rappahannock, and other groups despite having been previously been designated as "mullatoes," fear about such people having "broken into the census as Indians," and from there "have gotten across into the white race," and hopes to clarify matters for the 1930 Censuses; and materials (interviews, family trees, forms, notes) from a study directed by A. H. Estabrook and I. E. McDougle of the Sociology Department of Sweet Briar College--with fieldwork (such as interviews) performed by Sweet Briar students--titled "The Isshys, An Indian-Negro-White Family Group Near Amherest, Virginia."

Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)

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Hopi materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Nahua

Hopi

Language:English | Hopi | Tohono O'odham | Nahuatl, Tetelcingo

Date:1975-1977 and undated

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Humor | Ethnography

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays

Extent:25 folders

Description: There are several items relating to the Hopi language in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Items are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with Kenneth L. Hale (regarding passivity, clowning, and comparisons to Papago [Tohono O'odham] and Walbiri) and Dennis Tedlock (regarding Tedlock's Zuni consultants' dealings with Hopi) in Series I. Correspondence; a "Papago and Hopi" file in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; and 6 folders of Hopi material (mostly consisting of handwritten linguistic notes in pencil) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. In Subcollection II, there is Hopi-related correspondence with Francis X. Grolling, S.J. (brief note mentioning two-hearted people and kachinas), Kenneth Hale (regarding Voegelin's Hopi research), Jerome Kirk (Voegelin mentions that his Hopi consultants prefer to use English directional terms), Ekkehart Malotki (regarding Hopi fieldwork and language), Joel M. Maring (regarding Eastern and Western Keresan and Hopi parallels), Raven I. McDavid, Jr. (brief note mentioning his enjoyment of Hopi fieldwork), Alice Schlegel (regarding teasing/humor), Morris Swadesh (mentions Charles Loloma), Unidentified (miscellaneous Hopi linguistic notes), and Gary Witherspoon (the world view problem, work of LaVerne Masayesva at MIT) in Series I. Correspondence. Also in Subcollection II, there is Hopi-Tewa material in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VII. Kiowa-Tanoan; and two Hopi-related files in Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. These include a general "Hopi" folder and another folder of Edward A. Kennard's Hopi Texts, consisting of 5 typewritten texts in Hopi and English accompanied by two letters, Kennard to Voegelin, 1976-1977. There is also a copy of C. F. and F. M. Voegelin's "Hopi Number in Respect to Idiosyncracy" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works; Helmut Gipper's "The conception of time and space in Hopi: Some necessary corrections to the views of B.L. Whorf" in Series IV. Works by Others; and a file for Tetelcingo Nahuatl (with Hopi comparison) in Series V. Card Files.

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

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Houma materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Houma

Creek

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English

Date:1929-1947

Type:Text | Three-dimensional object

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Specimens | Reports

Extent:11 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Houma history and culture. Includes correspondence with Houma consultants such as members of the Billiot family, Ann Celestine, Dorothy Celestine, and Ben Paul about topics including museum specimens (a pirogue, beaded belts, baskets, blow guns, etc.), land questions, and schooling problems; correspondence with government officials and academic colleagues including Willard Beatty, William Zimmerman, Joseph McCaskill, Alice Marriott, and John Reed Swanton, and others regarding Speck's field work, various aspects of his research, and the social and economic conditions of the Houma people; a draft and copy of Speck's "Report...on Houma Indians" prepared for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, concerning the history and condition of the Houma and their educational needs; notes and correspondence regarding Houma medicine and traps; and Houma specimens consisting of six bone and wood points for canoe arrows and a model of canoe with two paddles.

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

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Mexico materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Wichí includes: Mataco (pej.)

Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Tepecano

Tlapanec includes: Me'phaa, Tlapaneco

Úza includes: Chichimeca-Jonaz

Popoluca includes: Nundajɨypappɨc, Soteapanec, Popoloca

Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Pame includes: Xi'úi

Mazatec includes: Ha Shuta Enima, Mazateco

Nahua

Mazahua includes: Hñatho

Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco

Karankawa

Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko

Cuitlatec includes: Cuitlateco

Cuicatec includes: Cuicateco

Chatino includes: Kitse Cha'tño

Chinantec includes: Chinanteco, Yolox, Yetla

Amuzgo includes: Amochco, Amoxco, Ñuuñama

Language:English

Date:1913-1966;

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:165 pages; Circa 300 items;

Description: The Mexico materials, John Alden Mason Papers include a log of a trip to Sonora, itinerary of pack trip from Yecora to Maicoba; lists of photographs; journal. Archaological materials: report on archaeological sites near Rancho Guiracoba, Sonora, Mexico with report on surface collections at six sites in southern Sonora. Notes on the Northern Extension of the Chalchihuites Culture, written for the Mexican Historical Congress, Zacatecas. Slayton Creek Excavation, regarding Mexico; the Papago [Tohono O'odham]; a dig at Slayton Creek, Delaware. Regarding archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic work in Mexico; genetic classification of languages of Central America and Mexico. Regarding internal strife in local (Durango) Indian tribe (including murders); archaeology in Durango; collection of specimens of material culture; work at Schroeder pyramid; cliff dwellings near Mezquital. Mentions Alex Krieger. Cave investigations in Durango and Coahuila, report on search conducted with Robert H. Merrill for traces of early man, particularly on the Folsom horizon. Written for Weitlaner volume. Includes description of three varieties of Cucurbita moschata; evidence in conflict with the theory that Cucurbita moschata was introduced into southern Arizona in late prehistoric or early historic times from the north and east. Regarding Maya pottery; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; archaeological work in Mexico and Guatemala; the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania); Vaillant's obituary. Includes correspondence between Mason and Sue Vaillant (Mrs. George C.) and between Mason and Charles Marius Barbeau. Linguistic materials: a list entitled, "Familias linguisticas de Mexico-idiomas y dialectos a ellas pertencientes," with the families with subdivisions: for Museo nacional de arqueologia, historia y etnologia, Anales. Includes lexical items in the various languages--Hokan, Oto-Manguren, Uto-Aztecan, and Maya-- arranged in columns; Spanish glosses. Regarding Mason's Subtiaba-Hokan-Caduveo-Mataco comparative vocabulary. Kroeber is not much impressed with the possible resemblances in Mason's list (included). Mexican linguistics, comparative vocabularies, etc., includes short comparative vocabularies for Comecrudo, Papago-Tepecano, Nahua, Huaxtec, Choctaw, Coahuiltec, Karankawa, Torkana, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica; notes on Sapir's classification; other miscellaneous notes. Comparative vocabulary, includes letter from Frederick Johnson to John Alden Mason; comparative vocabulary which is number-keyed to a list of twenty-two languages and arranged in columns headed by Spanish glosses. Words lacking in some languages for almost all items. Languages include Otomi, Mazahua, Matlatzinca, Ocuiltec, Pame, Chichimeca, Cuitlateco, Mazatec, Popoluca, Chochotec (Tlapanec), Ichcateco, Trique, Chiapanec, Manque, Mixtec, Cuicatec, Amuzgo, Zapotec, Chatino, Chinantec, Tarasco, and Tlapanec. Scholarly materials: two versions of a paper, entitled, "Los Cuatro Grandes Filones Linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica," for the International Congress of Americanists, August 1939, Mexico. Photographs: Unidentified photographs showing people, dwellings, terrain, etc. Images of temples, excavations, crypts, jade work, etc. Includes a photograph of John Alden Mason and Burton W. Bascom from Palenque. Entire series of photographs from the Mason papers. The bulk of the images are from Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, etc.). Also 3 contact sheets of images from Peru. From the Durango expedition, a list of photographs; "Informes hacera de la Sierro de la Candela:" notes from Tarayre, pages 184-185; "Ruins of an agricultural colony near Zape"; possible routes of migration into Mexico; Everardo Gamiz "La Raza Pigmea," Durango, April 1934; an incomplete set of numbered photos enumerated in above list (all duplicates from museum set). A linguistic realignment north of Mexico, which gives six phyla, one "broken phylum," and two uncertain languages (for presentation at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1940) and a detailed outline of five phyla plus several unaffiliated languages.

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

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North American materials, James V. Neel Papers

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan

Hopi

Language:English

Date:1964-1984

Contributor:Neel, James V., (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000

Subject:Arizona--History | Genetics

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence | Maps

Extent:7 folders

Description: The North American materials in the James V. Neel papers consists materials related to Neel's genetics and populations studies among some indigenous people in the Southwest and Great Lakes region. The bulk of these materials are found in "Series IIa: Amerindian," "Series IIIa: Amerindian," and "Series IV: Committees." These materials can be located most quickly by doing a keyword search in the aid for the culture terms listed above.

Collection:James V. Neel Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.96)

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O'odham materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Tohono O'odham

Date:1957-1962, 1978-1980, 1994-1997

Contributor:Bahr, Donald M. | Fitzgerald, Colleen Miriam | Graves, William | Gregorio, Juan | Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001

Subject:Arizona--History | Linguistics | Music

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Interviews | Reports | Songs

Extent:627 pages

Description: The O'odham materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bahr, Fitzgerald, Graves, and Hale.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Papago and Pima oral literature

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Tohono O'odham

Date:1966-1969, 1972-1978

Subject:Arizona--History | Medicine | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Songs | Speeches

Extent:132 sound tape reels (87 hr., 28 min.)

Description: Akimel O'odham (formerly "Pima) and Tohono O'odham (formerly "Papago") songs, orations, discussions, and performances, recorded by Donald M. Bahr. Predominantly consists of a wide variety of curing songs and a long series of Swallow songs. Some materials in this collection may be designated as culturally sensitive and not reproducible.

Collection:Papago and Pima oral literature (Mss.Rec.111)

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Papago Stories narrated by Jose Ventura

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Language:English | Tohono O'odham

Date:Undated

Contributor:Enos, Susie | Ventura, Jose

Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Arizona--History

Type:Text

Genre:Vocabularies | Stories

Extent:31 pages

Description: Susie Enos was a native speaker of Tohono O'Odham and an early writer of her language. This text, collected by Enos from a consultant, Jose Ventura, "Ho'ok Oks" (Witch, Green Hawk, Eagle), includes indications of the syntactic function elements in the sentences and other grammatical notes, with a separate, line-by-line English translation.

Collection:Papago Stories narrated by Jose Ventura (Mss.497.P21)

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Pima-Papago recordings

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Tohono O'odham

Date:1961

Contributor:Antone, Isaac | Antone, Laurence | Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001 | Preston, Luke

Subject:Arizona--History | Games | Kinship | Linguistics | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:6 sound tape reels (8 hr., 50 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Linguistic field recordings made by Kenneth Hale with Luke Preston, Laurence Antone, and Isaac Antone in Arizona at Chichiu, Sacaton, and San Xavier Indian Reservation. Contents include several stories and brief "textlets" on various topics, including discussions of games and meaning of different words. Also includes elicitations of a variety of utterances, sentence permutations, and Vocabularies on body parts, kinship terms, and other general lists. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Pima-Papago recordings (Mss.Rec.39)

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Quechua materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Quechua

Cocama includes: Kokáma

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Spanish | Quechua | Cocama-Cocamilla

Date:1941-1948

Contributor:Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Valcárcel, Luis E. (Luis Eduardo), 1891-1987

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays | Grammars

Extent:4 items

Description: Materials relating to Quechua language and culture. Includes John Peabody Harrington's correspondence with John Alden Mason regarding Harrington's work on the Hokan nature of Quechua and on Pima-Papago [Tohono O'odham, and possibly Akimel O'odham]; Harrington's "The nominal derivational suffixes of Quechua" with a list of the suffixes with examples, a brief discussion by Harrington, and Mason's comments; Harrington's "Adjective derivational suffixes of Quechua," a listing of suffixes with brief comments and one slip of Mason's comments; and Harrington and Luis Valcárcel's "Grammarlets of the Quechua and Cocama languages," with grammatical sketch of Quechua and a very brief sketch of Cocama [Cocama-Cocamilla].

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