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Úza includes: Chichimeca-Jonaz
Date:1929
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Currently, the only Chichimeco-related letter identified in this collection is one letter from Pablo González Casanova from January 17, 1929. This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Language:English
Date:1787; 1777
Contributor:Sevier, John, 1745-1815
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letter from John Sevier regarding Creek raids and a murder in Chickasaw territory. Second item titled "Talk from Indians to George Golphin, one of the commissioners of Indian affairs" in which the King of Talesy (probably the Creek town of Tálisi) speaks of trade with Pensacola; relations with Chickasaws and Choctaws. In a second speech the King of the Ocksuskeys (probably the Creek town of Okfuski) speaks of Cupitaws (possibly either the Creek town Kasíhta or Kawíta) and Ockjoys (probably Creek town Oktcháyi); describes a belt of wampum.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Date:1972
Contributor:Pulte, William John, 1941-
Subject:Linguistics | Muskogean languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of a letter from William (Bill) Pulte regarding his graduate work on the Chickasaw and Cherokee languages enclosing a paper titled "The Position of Chickasaw in Western Muskogean."
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Date:1985, 1991
Contributor:Carlisle, John C. | Drechsel, Emanuel J.
Subject:Art | Linguistics | Oklahoma--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs | Reports
Extent:7 pages, 8 photos
Description: The Chickasaw materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Carlisle and Drechsel.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Language:English
Date:March 24, 1837
Contributor:Troost, Gerard, 1776-1850
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Mounds | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Sends drawings of heads, one of an ancient tribe, flattened at back of head, from mound at junction of French-Broad and Holston rivers. Other from bank of Cumberland river above Nashville, probably of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Choctaw nations said to visit here. They seem much alike in their living form to Troost.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:January 8, 1740
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Warfare | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Samuel Blunston. Mentions past expedition against Chickasaws; movement of French and Indians.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Chinantec includes: Chinanteco, Yolox, Yetla
Language:English | Spanish | Chinantec, Quiotepec | Chinantec, Valle Nacional | Mixtec
Date:1916, 1922, 1939, 1940, 1942
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Lincoln, Jackson Steward, 1902-1941 | McQuown, Norman A. | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
Subject:Linguistics | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dictionaries | Illustrations | Stories
Extent:80 pages; 334 cards
Description: The Chinanteco material in the ACLS collections are primarily found in the "Chinanteco" section of the finding aid. Two items are stories (Ch.1 and Ch.2, "El perrito de Teotitlan" and "Cuento del pescador", which identifies Yolox and Yetla varieties) recorded by Jaime de Angulo, with Spanish and English translation. Another item (Ch.3) is a 64-word Spanish-Chinantec vocabulary recorded by Norman McQuown. Two items in the "Mexico" section of the finding aid (items AM3 "Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico" and AM5 "Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico") contain comparative vocabularies that include Chinantec, as do two items in the "Mixtec" section (items MiM.1 "Mixtec tones and morphological comments" and MiM.2 "Mixtec and Chinantec lexicon", varieties of Mixtec unidentified), and "Zapotecan texts" (item Z.3) in the "Zapotec" section. The identification of varieties of Chinantec in most of the materials is undetermined.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:1835; 1837
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Mounds | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Letter from John Warren Collins including a list of American Indian skulls in his collection: Chinook, Mound Builder, and Algonquian. Has cast of Guanche skull from Canary Islands. Two letters from John Kirk Townsend on September 20, 1835 concern Chinook and Klickitat ancestors' remains he is sending to Morton from Philadelphia, including disturbing descriptions of grave-robbing and the destruction of sacred sites in the midst of epidemic disease.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:Chinook | Kathlamet | English | Chinook Jargon
Date:ca.1976-1994
Contributor:Johnson, Samuel | Hymes, Dell H. | Kendall, Daythal | Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Gender
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Chinookan language materials in the Daythal Kendall Papers is entirely works collected from others, most notably Dell Hymes, Samuel Johnson and Marie-Lucie Tarpent, the latter of which includes a paper with over 200 comparisons between Chinookan and Tsimshian languages. These are mostly in Series 5. There are two works by Samuel Johnson about Chinook Jargon (Series 5 and 7).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)