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Language:Abenaki, Western | English
Date:1957
Contributor:Day, Gordon M. | Laurent, Stephen
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies
Extent:5 sound tape reels (7 hr., 51 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: A reading of Joseph Laurent's "New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues" (St-Francis, Quebec, 1884). The author was a chief of the Abenakis Indians at the village of St. Francis, Quebec. The reader is the son of the author. Recorded in New Hampshire in 1957. (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:New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues (Mss.Rec.27)
Culture:
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Language:English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1995
Contributor:Campana, Mark | Francis, David
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 3 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recorded in July 1995 at Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation, between Perry and Eastport, Maine. Primarily consists of grammatical and syntactical elicitations and the "checking [of] attested words & sentences, and evaluating the acceptability of various permutations." (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:Passamaquoddy Syntax Project (Mss.Rec.245)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English
Date:circa 1970s
Contributor:Dana, Susie | McKeough, Helen | Pritchard, Evan
Subject:Maine--History | Language study and teaching | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:1 folder; 12 audiocassettes (4 hr., 47 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recording of Penobscot Language Master Cards. Also contains the original list of 1255 English words and phrases used in the recordings (47 p,); a phonetic transcription of the corresponding Penobscot for the first 333 cards, made by Evan Pritchard (10 p.); and a letter from Sister Helen McKeough of the Indian Island School to members of the Penobscot Nation explaining the contents of the tapes and circumstances of their recording. (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:Penobscot Language Master Cards (Mss.SMs.Coll.14)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1933
Contributor:Attean, Mitchell | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:50 pages
Description: The Penobscot materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item in the "Malecite" section of the finding aid. Sapir and Swadesh's "Notes on Penobscot and Malecite" (item A1n.1) primarily consists of Penobscot, with additional Maliseet vocabulary. It contains a Penobscot alphabet, text, and carbon copy of texts from records with interlinear translations, and lexical items on slips. Recorded in part with speaker Mitchell Attean.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)