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Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:1992, 1994
Contributor:Levine, Frances | Merian, Thomas W. | Meadows, William C., 1966- | Merrill, William Lewis
Subject:Dance | New Mexico--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs | Texas--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Photographs
Extent:470 pages, 61 photos
Description: The Comanche materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Levine, Meadows, and Merrill.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:1994-1997, undated
Contributor:Anderton, Alice J. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Charney, Jean Ormsbee
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's Comanche language materials are in correspondence with Alice Anderton and Jean Charney (Series 1), including Comanche language lessons, floppy disks that may contain relevant material, and a 174-page lexicon from Casagrande's work “Comanche Linguistic Acculturation”.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Language:English
Date:April 2, 1812
Contributor:Sibley, John, 1757-1837
Subject:Indian agents | Warfare | Expeditions | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 pages
Description: Original in Missouri Historical Society, Sibley Papers. Sibley (Indian agent at Nachitoches) mentions Spanish-Indian conflict, naming Hietans, Tankaways, Comanches, Tanakenos, and Panies. Bad behavior of American troops. He has journal and maps of George the Factor from a trip to the Kansas and Pawnees, during which he experienced the earthquakes. Worries about becoming a state and French majority without annexation of West Florida.
Collection:Zebulon Montgomery Pike biographical materials (Mss.B.P63)
Culture:
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Language:English
Date:1945
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 pages
Description: Two letters of William H. Gilbert to Frank G. Speck, concerning "We Sorts," a remnant group of Maryland, perhaps Weschuk, and thought to be Piscataway (Conoy).
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Coos includes: Hanis, Miluk
Date:undated
Contributor:Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Sokolow, Jane | Kendall, Daythal
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Daythal Kendall created several lexical slip files out of the Coos linguistic data collected by Leo Frachtenberg, including his own linguistic analysis, which can be found in Series 8. The other item of significance is a manuscript by Jane Sokolow on Coos phonology, found in correspondence with William Shipley (Series 1).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Language:English
Date:1933-1935
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Zingg, Robert M.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays
Extent:130+ pages, 3 folders
Description: The Cora and Huichol materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers can be found in a few items. In Subcollection I, Series II, see "Notes on parallels between Cora-Huichol and the Pueblo" (item 37); and notebook 4 in "Mitla journals" (item 19), which may contain some field notes. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts," see manuscript also titled "Note on Parallels Between the Cora-Huichol and the Pueblos." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Cora/Huichol notes." Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Cora includes: Naáyarite
Language:Cora, Santa Teresa | Cora, El Nayar | English
Date:1988-1992
Contributor:Casad, Eugene | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Cora materials consist of correspondence with Eugene Casad (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Language:English
Date:1978-1979
Contributor:Bierhorst, John | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
Subject:Anthropology | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Flyers | Obituaries
Extent:14 items
Description: Fourteen letters between Frederica de Laguna and John Bierhorst, from April 7, 1978 to May 31, 1979, initially regarding a permission question, with additonal subsequent correspondence including de Laguna's reaction to a review of Under Mount Saint Elias, reference to her travel plans, offering comments on Yakutat Tlingit informants and Yakutat music, and mention of Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ruth Benedict, David McAllister, and Alan Lomax. Includes copies of obituaries (in 2004) for de Laguna and the program for her memorial service at Bryn Mawr College.
Collection:Correspondence between Frederica de Laguna and John Bierhorst (Mss.SMs.Coll.22)
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Date:1783-1817
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | McAtee, William L.
Subject:Botany | Health | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:107 pages
Description: These letters authored by Benjamin Barton Smith to various correspondents discuss Indian vocabulary words for birds, earthquakes, and animals of their domestic economy. Smith solicits information about Indian beliefs about health, nursing, menstration, animal sacrifice, Indian Bible, origins of Indian tribes, white race, Orthography and spelling, chief's political power, and comparative linguistic analysis between Indian and Asiatic languages.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Plains
Date:1925; Circa 1935; 1948; 1949;
Contributor:Achenam, Harry | Achenam, Maggie | Ahenakew, Edward | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Constant, Jerry | Cook, Sam | Moostoos, James | Moostoos, Susan | Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 | Starblanket, Chief | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Genealogy | Folklore | Linguistics | Material culture | Religion | Saskatchewan--History | Treaties | Warfare | Windigo
Type:Text
Genre:Abstracts | Autobiographies | Correspondence | Drawings | Stories
Extent:830 pages
Description: The Cree materials in the ACLS collection are Plains Cree materials predominantly from Saskatchewan and are located in the "Cree" section of the finding aid. "Plains Cree texts, "Series Two: Syllabary Texts from Sweet Grass Reserve"" (item A1.1) recorded by Harry Achenam of Sweetgrass Reserve (and previously attributed to Leonard Bloomfield), contains 67 unpublished stories written in Cree syllabics. The other primary materials are several items (64-68 and 70) by Edward Ahenakew, written in English, concerning his family's genealogy, methods for tanning leather and building canoes, accounts of medicine practices and conjuring, and stories of little people, Wetikoo (or Wihtigo, Windigo), and other non-human beings. Many of these stories were given by various consultants such as Chief Starblanket of Ahtahkakoop, Jerry Constant, James Moostoos, and Susan Moostoos.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)