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Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1755; 1847
Contributor:De Lorimier, Jean-Baptiste, 1786-1845
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Essays
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include an unattributed 1847 letter, in French, on the etymology of some Personal names; a word list obtained at Sault St. Louis, with a note on provenance, attributed to de Lorimier, possibly the French-Haudenosaunee interpreter and agent Jean-Baptiste de Lorimier or one of his relations; and the 1755 "Livre des prieres, cantiques, et himnes en langue hyroquois telles qu'on se sont maintenant a la Mission du Lac des Deux Montagnes," containing various notes added to an original manuscript on plain chant, carols, articles preliminary to the peace of Versailles in 1783, description of a serpent killed at Chateau Ste. Anne, recipes, remedies, etc. Originals in Laval University, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:September 2, 1761; 1742; July 1, 1756; February 13, 1756
Contributor:Brodhead, Charles | Dioga | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Newcastle, Captain | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb, 1704-1792 | Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: In sections 2:437, 1:155, 1:103-106. Dioga, French, and Iroquois threats; attacks planned; danger to life of Brodhead. Names of the Indians present at the treaty held at Philadelphia, July 1742. Pockschnos, the Shawanese chief has gone to a council at Sir William Johnson's. Treaty session at Carlisle with the Haudenosaunee.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1796-1798
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Subject:Rites and ceremonies | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two letters to John G. E. Heckewelder. The first inquires whether Heckewelder knows of the sacrifice of a large tortoise or other animal by the Onondaga. The other is regarding an Onondaga vocabulary and an Indian Bible which Heckewelder is to send. [Both from originals in the Gilbert Collection, College of Physicians, Philadelphia.]
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Hawaiian includes: Kānaka Maoli, Hawaiʻi Maoli
Language:English
Date:1926-1944
Contributor:Bunker, Frank F. (Frank Forest), 1873-1944
Subject:Eugenics | Anthropometry | Demographics | Children
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays | Newspaper clippings | Correspondence
Extent:2 folders
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. Hawaiian materials can be found in Series I. Trait Files. Folder "A:974 x 96. Caucasian x Hawaiian" (1942) in Box #62 contains an article about the many combinations of races in the Hawaiian Islands, with photos of people of Hawaiian, white, Filipino, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Samoan, Portuguese, Hindu, and Danish descent, and a slip noting a cross reference in Folder A:97-35-39. Folder "A:97·51 x 96. Chinese - Hawaiian" (1926-1927) in Box #64 contains a 1926 clipping (with photo) about Eleanor Lukela, possibly the "most perfect child" because of her Chinese-Hawaiian heritage; a three-page abstract from Porteus and Babcock about Chinese-Hawaiian traits; and a letter from Frank F. Bunker of the Carnegie Institute to Dr. Charles B. Davenport, director of the Department of Genetics, mentioning Bunker's own experience with "the splendid qualities of the children of Chinese and Hawaiian marriages," but drawing the attention to the importance of environment and parental involvement with the children rather than attributing it only to genetics.
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala
Date:circa 1923-1930
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Haeberlin, Herman Karl, 1890-1918 | Hunt, George
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | British Columbia--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drawings | Grammars | Maps | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies | Stories | Sketches
Extent:2,219 slips; 5 notebooks; 175 pages; 243 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk materials in the ACLS collection are located in the "Bella Bella" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. The majority of the materials were recorded or assembled by Franz Boas and George Hunt in the 1920s and consist predominantly of texts with interlinear translations (some in English only), linguistic notes, and lexical files. The item "Bella Bella notes" (item 4) by Herman Haeberlin contains color drawings of numerous Heiltsuk masks with accompanying commentary in English.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Latin
Date:1986, 1989-1990, 1994
Contributor:Compton, Brian D. | Harkin, Michael
Subject:British Columbia--History | Botany | Linguistics | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:265 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk 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 Compton and Harkin. Compton's material include 4 items relating to Heiltsuk botanical knowledge. Harkin's material is "Ethnohistory of the Heiltsuk," is described as "research...conducted in Bella Bella, British Columbia, 1986-1987, and involved eliciting ethnohistorical narratives, and ethnological and linguistic data, with elders from the Heiltsuk band, in order to record a Heiltsuk perspective of their own history. Consultants included Gordon Reid, Evelyn and Charles Windsor, Esther and Jimmy Lawson, Stanley George, Ed Martin, Margaret Campbell, and Clarence Martin."
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Hidatsa includes: Hiratsa, Hiraacá, Gros Ventre, Minnetaree
Date:1934-1951
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Robinett | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: Haas' Hidatsa file consists of organized lexica from others including Voegelin and Robinett, found in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages' and more significantly Series 9. There is also some correspondence with Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin that mentions her field research on Hidatsa and Shawnee.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Hidatsa includes: Hiratsa, Hiraacá, Gros Ventre, Minnetaree
Date:1967-1972
Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Powers, William K.
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | North Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports | Stories
Extent:214 pages
Description: The Hidatsa 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 Bowers and Powers. Bowers' material includes a report and inventory accompanying a large set of audio recordings, listed separately in this guide.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Language:Chontal, Highland Oaxaca | Spanish
Date:1966, 1968
Contributor:Martinez, Abram | Robles, Martin | Turner, Paul R., 1929-
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Elicitation sessions | Essays | Grammars | Maps | Newspaper clippings | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:366 pages
Description: The Highland Chontal materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items, all listed under "Turner, Paul." This includes Turner's dissertation, "Highland Chontal Grammar," which includes interlinear texts of stories on a related recording collection. "Highland Chontal Dialect Survey" provides a detailed account of a project of Turner's for which there is an accompanying audio collection, listed separately in this guide. Finally, there is also a newspaper clipping on consultant Clemente Zarate's visit to the U.S.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1937-1938
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Notes
Description: The Hitchiti materials in the Lounsbury Papers are limited to secondary sources by Haas located in Series II, and a report on fieldwork in Series I to Leslie Spier.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)