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Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Longbone, Willie | Witthoft, John | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Seaman, John Nelson, 1915- | Pearson, Kennth E. | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Peters, Nicodemus
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Migrations | Algonquian languages
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Notes | Stories | Maps | Essays | Drafts | Grammars
Extent:48 folders, 5 boxes
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain correspondence, card files, notes, notebooks, texts, translations, drafts, articles, maps, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Delaware (Lenape) language and culture. Many of these items pertain to Voegelin's "Walam Olum or Red Score: The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians," published by the Indiana Historical Society in 1954. Such materials are located in primarily in Subcollection I. There is relevant correspondence with Charles Hockett (with questions about Voegelin's article on Delaware and examples from other Algonquian languages), Eli Lilly (regarding various aspects of the Walam Olum, its interpretation and publication), Kenneth E. Pearson (regarding use of Delaware language in Boy Scout ceremonies), John N. Seaman (regarding language consultant Willy Longbone), Frank Siebert (regarding Walam Olum, Munsee materials, language consultants Willy Longbone, Nicodemus Peters, and Nicholas Powless), Morris Swadesh (including a brief Stockbridge vocabulary and a slip of Moravian Delaware), and John Witthoft (regarding Walam Olum) in Series I. Correspondence. Delaware materials also include 5 boxes of card files and 5 folders of document files (primarily vocabulary and linguistic notes, and including 1 box and 1 folder relating to specifically to Munsee and 1 box and 1 folder of Walam Olum vocabulary keyed to the Rafinesque translation) in Series II. 7 folders pertaining to Voegelin's work on the Walam Olum in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin; a folder on Delaware grammar in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; 3 articles on the Walam Olum by Constantine Rafinesque, Daniel G. Brinton, and Frank Speck in Series IV. Works by Others; 2 folders on Delaware and 1 on Delaware-Munsee (containing Vocabularies, notes, texts, translations, and various typed works by the Group for Delaware at the Linguistic Institute over multiple summers) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; 18 folders of unbound texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; Delaware materials in Blackfoot Folder #2 and Ojibwe Folder #24 in Series VI. Notebooks; an ink map of Delaware locations created for Voegelin's published translation of the Walam Olum in Series VII. Photographs; and a folder related to Voegelin's translation of the Walam Olum in the Oversized files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Date:1895-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Peters, Nicodemus | Moses, Jesse | Springer, Ethel M. (Ethel Maria), 1880- | Witapanóxwe | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Montour, Josiah | Washington, Fred | Washington, Jane | Washington, Joe | Greywacz, Kathryn B. | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958 | Wallace, Paul A. W. | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Anderson, George | Hill, Jasper (Big White Owl)
Subject:Ethnography | Anthropology | Linguistics | Museums | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Material culture | Peyote | Religion | Art | Folklore | Place names | Botany | Oklahoma--History | Ontario--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Drafts | Essays | Sketches | Photographs | Reports
Extent:57 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Lenape (or "Delaware") history, language, and culture. Speck's correspondence with Delaware collaborators in Oklahoma relating to Lenape history, ethnographic data, linguistics, museum specimens, and reservation affairs, etc., might be of particular interest; there are also several tales related by Witapanóxwe, or War Eagle, other tales and texts (some with interlineal translation) from Josiah Montour and other unknown contributors, and 11 sketches of Lenape art designs. Other correspondence touches on Speck's efforts to collect specimens (and individuals and institutions interested in acquiring them), his efforts to collect paintings and sketches of ceremonies and designs, his fieldwork and expenses, financial support from the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana Historical Society, Shawnee data on Oklahoma Delawares, the Big House Ceremony, efforts to acquire a Delaware Big House to erect in Harrisburg, Delawares-as-women, etc. There are also at least 82 pages (in three folders) of Speck's field notes of ethnographic and linguistic data, and over 50 pages (in two folders) of Speck's miscellaneous notes (including some correspondence) on topics such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Lenape designs, botanical specimens, linguistic materials, museum specimens, the Walam Olum, the "Six Nation Delaware reservation", the celestial bear theme, native religion, reviews of Speck's publications, etc. Other notes cover Delaware grammar and vocabulary, Delaware clans and social organization, dualism in Delaware religion, the influence of Christianity on Delaware religion, the provenance of Delaware museum specimens obtained from Delawares in Oklahoma and Canada, biographical information on Joseph Montur and Nicodemus Peters, etc. There are also various drafts, essays, lectures and other writings by Speck on topics such as Delaware religion, ceremonies, peyote rites, designs, population, remnant populations in the east, history, place names, a Delaware bibliography and a notebook of reports to the University of Pennsylvania Research Committee on fieldwork among Oklahoma Delaware, St. Francis Abenaki, Munsee and Six Nations (Haudenosaunee) Delaware, Tutelo, Cayuga, 1931-1936.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1926
Contributor:Schuller, Rudolf
Subject:El Salvador--History | Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Extent:11 typed pages
Description: The Lenca materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item in the "Lenca" section of the finding aid: Rudolph Schuller's "The linguistic chart of El Salvador (Central America)" (item AM2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:unknown
Contributor:Steele, Susan
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Drafts | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: Jane Rosenthal possessed drafts of two linguistics manuscripts by Susan Steele on Luiseño syntax and auxiliaries.
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Language:English
Date:1993-1996
Contributor:Thorne, Tanis C. | Weiner, Diane
Subject:California--History | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports
Extent:440 pages
Description: The Luiseño 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 Thorne and Weiner.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Snohomish includes: Sduhubš, Sdoh-doh-hohbsh
Suquamish includes: Suqwabš
Snoqualmie includes: Sduqwalbixw, Sduk-al-bixw
Stillaguamish includes: stuləgʷábš
Puyallup includes: Spuyaləpabš, S'Puyalupubsh
Nisqually includes: Squalli-Absh, sq̓ʷaliʼabš
Duwamish includes: Dkhʷ'Duw'Absh, Dxʷ'Dəw?Abš
Language:Lushootseed | English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Haas' small Lushootseed file mostly consists of comparisons, including to other Salishan languages. A card file comparing Nuu-chah-nulth with an unidentified Salish language is in Series 9, which may be Lushootseed. The varieties of Lushootseed are not specified.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Language:English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1975-1978, 1995, 1998
Contributor:Campana, Mark | Knecht, Laura | LeSourd, Philip S. | Ng, Eve | Paul, Peter Lewis, 1902-1989 | Smith, Nicholas N.
Subject:Linguistics | Maine--History | New Brunswick--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Essays | Field notes | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:858 pages
Description: The Malecite-Passamaquoddy materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Campana, Knecht, LeSourd, Ng, and Smith.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:English
Date:1833-1893
Contributor:Howe, John, 1754-1835 | Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896 | Phillips, Henry, 1838-1895 | Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
Subject:Quillwork | Linguistics | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:4 items
Description: Items relating to Maliseet culture and Malecite-Passamaquoddy language. These include John Howe's presentation of a set of porcupine table mats, made by the Native people of St. John, New Brunswick, to the Horatio Hale's letter to Henry Phillips concerning the proper title of his pamphlet [i.e., "Remarks on the language of the St. John's, or Wlastukweek Indians, with a Penobscot vocabulary" (1834)], words taken when Indians visited Cambridge, and faulty reference in Pilling's proof sheets; James Pilling's letter to Phillips seeking proper bibliographical entry for Hale (1834) pamphlet on Wlastukweek and the spelling of the name; and Phillips' "Concerning pamphlet on the language of the St. John's...Indians," about Hale (1834).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Mandan includes: Nueta
Date:1968-1972, 1997
Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Hollow, Robert C. | Powers, William K. | Williams, Randy H.
Subject:Linguistics | North Dakota--History | Trade
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:711 pages
Description: The Mandan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bowers, Hollow, Powers, and Williams.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)