Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

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Mohawk materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Shawnee

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Language:English | Mohawk

Date:1863; 1903; 1949-1972

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Mohawk materials in the Lounsbury Papers are primarily found in the "Mohawk" section of Series II: Research Subject. This section contains materials Lounsbury recorded directly with Mohawk speakers from Kahnawake such as Minnie Diabo and Louise Diabo, who Lounsbury appears to have first met via the Mohawk community in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. The section also contains notes by Gordon Day, Marius Barbeau, J.N.B. Hewitt, and others. There are also notes for a Mohawk dictionary collected by Gunther Michelson between 1961-1994. The recordings in Series VII include a series entitled "The Mohawks Learn Mohawk," of Lounsbury talking with students in a classroom setting. There are also recordings of Lounsbury teaching at Yale with the Mohawk speaker Minnie Diabo

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Nahuatl materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:

Nahua

Language:Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan | English | Spanish

Date:ca.1940s-2003

Type:Text

Extent:2 linear feet

Description: William Bright's Nahuatl materials are sizeable and cover his entire research life, mostly consisting of his own work from the 1960s and 1990s (Series 4), and many copies of small publications throughout his life (Series 2). Of note in the small publications is almost every issue of “Nahua Newsletter” (Indiana University) between 1986 and 2004, issues 1-18 of “Mexihkatl Itonalama”, and several 1940s-1960s SIL-archived publications. From his own work (Series 4) are interlinear glosses of Nahuatl texts, materials in preparation for taught courses at UCLA, products of brief fieldwork in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, 1966, working versions of two of his own publications, and further linguistic analysis. He also corresponded with several linguists on Nahuatl varieties (Series 1), including Una Canger, who gave him a copy of the Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project.

Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)

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Natchez materials, Mary R. Haas Papers

Culture:

Tunica

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Natchez

Koasati includes: Coushatta

Chitimacha

Chickasaw

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Creek

Alabama includes: Alibamu

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Apalachee

Date:ca.1934-1960s

Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Sam, Watt | Raven, Nancy | Leaf, Peggy

Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Genealogy

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:5 linear feet

Description: Mary Haas' Natchez file is one of her largest, and relatively little was published from it during her lifetime. She conducted fieldwork with Watt Sam, Nancy Raven and Peggy Leaf, captured in twelve field notebooks in Series 2. A large volume of texts were elicited here and later typeset, with different versions also present in Series 2. Particularly extensive is Haas' set of Natchez lexical slips, amounting to 7 boxes (likely over 10,000 slips), including (in addition to full alphabetizations) grammatical analyses and comparisons with other languages. There are some sound recordings in Series 10. Haas' fieldwork on Natchez and other neighboring languages was used as partial evidence for the Gulf hypothesis, for which comparisons are abundant also in Series 9. Additionally, Haas corresponded with a large number of linguists (Series 1).

Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)

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Ojibwe materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Language:English | French | Ojibwe

Date:1831-1886

Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Dance | Ethnography | Orthography and spelling

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Dictionaries

Extent:10 items

Description: Materials relating to Ojibwe language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include George Antoine Belcourt's French-Ojibwe dictionary, particularly plans for its the presentation of Belcourt's memoir by the Smithsonian; a recent fire at the Smithsonian requiring $200,000 in repair work; Edwin James' Chippewa New Testament and his desire to publish a Chippewa grammar under the auspices of the APS; Walter James Hoffman's work at White Earth, Minnesota, where observed the Grand Medicine (Medawin) dance in detail and collected pictographic records of same on birch bark; Thomas L. McKenney's donation of a manuscript of McKenney (1827), out of respect to John Vaughan and the APS. Other individuals mentioned include Stephen H. Long, Ferdinand V. Hayden, J. Peter Lesley, Pliny E. Chase, and Judge William C. Frazer (Superior County, Wisconsin Territory).

Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)

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Onondaga materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Date:1834-1888; 1938-1978

Subject:Religion | Folklore | Ethnography | Rites and ceremonies | Music

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Onondaga materials in the Lounsbury collection include a French-Onondaga from 1860 in Series II. There are numerous audio recordings including that of a Condolence Ceremony and the Feast of the White Dog (Guy-wee-oo) in Series VII. (These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.) The correspondence, in Series I, includes Harold Blau's mention of a recording in Onondaga of part of Handsome Lake's code, William Fenton's work with Howard Sky on the Goldenweiser version of the Great Law of Peace in Onondaga, Michael Foster's description of collecting versions of the Thanksgiving Address in Onondaga, Cara Richards on Onondaga recordings.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Patwin materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Language:English | Patwin

Date:1929; Circa 1932-1959;

Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Stories

Extent:572 pages

Description: The Patwin materials in the ACLS collection consist of 4 items in the "Patwin" section of the finding aid. Jaime de Angulo's "The Patwin language" (item P4b.1-4) consists of analyses phonology and morphology; semasiology (semantically arranged vocabularies), conversation, and autobiography, all relating to the Colusa dialect. Three items by Radin include a Patwin-English dictionary (item P4b.5), a set of ethnographic and folkloristic stories (item P4b.6-7), and a sketch of Patwin grammar (item P4b.8).

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Patwin materials, Harvey Pitkin Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Maidu

Language:English | Patwin | Wintu | Maidu (macrolanguage)

Date:1903-1957

Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Dance | California--History

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Patwin materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include notebooks, notes, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and tracings by A.M. Halpern, Paul Radin, A.L. Kroeber, T.T. Waterman, Donald Ultan, and Howard Wilson, along with pencil sketches by Patwin people in Subcollection I, Series I, Series I-A. There are two dictionaries, by Paul Radin and Donald Ultan in Subcollection I, Series I, Series I-B. Series I-C contains linguistic materials collected by Jaime de Angulo, Kroeber, and Waterman. Series I-D contains Pitkin's work with using a krmograph to create phonetic tracings. Subcollection I, Series II-A includes linguistic work done by Elizabeth Bright, Waterman. Subseries 4-C in Subcollection II includes fieldwork done by Pitkin comparing Patin to Wintu and Nomlaki as well as FIeld notes by Morris Swadesh, nineteen unpublished Vocabularies collected by Pitkin, Jaime de Angulo, Mary Haas, Sally McLendon, Mary Bright, Donald Ultan, and Radin. Subseries 5 contains an index to Radin's work on Patwin as well as Pitkin's work on Proto-Wintu and William Bright's worker wtih the speaker Minnie Bill.

Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)

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Rarámuri materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Rarámuri includes: Tarahumara

Language:English | Spanish | Tarahumara, Central

Date:1931, 1940

Contributor:Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953 | Henry, Jules, 1904-1969

Subject:Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Ethnography | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs

Type:Text

Extent:300+ pages, 1800 slips, and 3 notebooks

Description: The Rarámuri materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items located in the "Tarahumara" section of the finding aid. There is a set of texts with interlinear Spanish translations (item U6a.2), recorded by Wendell Bennett, with a related lexical file (item U6a.1) of 1800+ word slips derived from the texts. Material recorded by Jules Henry consists of 3 field notebooks (item U6a.4) with texts with interlinear translations and biographical information on speakers who provided the stories. Henry's related "Tarahumara materials" (item U6a.3) includes a diverse set of items, including word lists, a draft dictionary, additional texts, a Spanish-Tarahumara newsletter, and a "Cartilla Tarahumara de Lectura" with photomechanical prints depicting housing, utensils, clothing, and social customs.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Sahaptin materials, Virginia D. Hymes Papers

Culture:

Tenino

Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin

Language:Tenino | English

Date:1950s-1980s, bulk 1970s-1980s

Type:Text

Extent:10 linear feet

Description: The majority of the Virginia D. Hymes Papers relate to her work on the Warm Springs Reservation. This includes all or most of Series I, II, III and V. Series V (Card Files) contains around 35000 lexical files compiled by Hymes as well as David and Kay French and an unidentified researcher. Series III (Research Files) contains fieldnotes, texts and dictionary files. Series I (Correspondence) and IV (Works by Others) also mostly relate to Sahaptin research by others, including Bruce Rigsby (Yakima and Umatilla Sahaptin), Virginia Beavert, and Eugene Hunn.

Collection:Virginia D. Hymes Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.189)

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Seneca materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Date:1950-1995

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Seneca materials in the Lounsbury Papers include his extensive work on kinship. Linguistic materials in Series II include work done by Karin Michelson, Morris Swadesh, and Wallace Chafe. Recordings in Series VII include songs from the Cold Spring Longhouse on the Allegany Indian reservation (NY). There are a large number of unidentified songs.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)