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Language:English
Date:1978; 1986
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Essays | Drafts | Programs (documents)
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of Muskogean languages. Items include a file containing a Xeroxed program from the Conference on Muskogean Languages and Linguistics [19 Oct. 1978] in Series II. Subject Files; and several drafts (8 full, including endnotes and bibliography, typed, with pencilled edits; some incomplete) and handwritten notes for Crawford's "On the Relationship Between Timucua and Muskogean" [1986] in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Language:English | French | Nahuatl, Classical | Nahuatl, Morelos | Spanish | Yaqui
Date:1912-1924, 1928, 1930, 1940, 1949-1950, 1953
Contributor:Barlow, R. H. (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Croft, Kenneth | Gonsales, Milesio | Haeberlin, Herman Karl, 1890-1918 | Jiménez Quispe, Luz | Leon, Adrian F. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Ripley, June E. | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Siméon, Rémi, 1827- | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Tapia, Lucio | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | Orthography and spelling | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Essays | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:359 pages, Circa 750 slips, 1 notebook (314 pages), 1 volume (168 pages)
Description: The Nahua materials in the ACLS collection consist of numerous items in the "Nahuatl" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Prominent materials include texts recorded by Boas from Milpa Alta speakers, including Doña Luz Jiménez, in 1912 (item U7b.4). There are also additional texts, recorded by Miguel Barrios Espinosa in 1950 San Juan Tlilhuacan, Delegacion de Azcapotzales, Mexico City (item U7b.9). Mason (and possibly also Boas') "Nahuatl vocabulary" (item U7b.3) contains 750+ word slips based upon work by Simeón and Mason. "Vocabularies Nawatl" (item U7b.12) by Leon and Swadesh consists of vocabulary of 3 Nahuatl dialects (identified as Telina, Ilamalan, and San Pedro [Atocpan?]) based on field work in 1939 with 4 speakers. There are additional grammatical studies and linguistic treatments by Whorf, Barlow, Croft, and Ripley. Some Nahuatl vocabulary can also be found in comparative Uto-Aztecan materials in the "Uto-Aztecan" section of the finding aid.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Nahuatl, Morelos | Spanish
Date:1930
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Nahua materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist one folder, "Spanish Element in Modern Nahuatl," containing a draft article.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Language:English | Nahuatl, Highland Puebla | Nahuatl, Zacatlán-Ahuacatlán-Tepetzintla | Spanish | Nahuatl, Northern Puebla
Date:1605, 1649, 1970-1979
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Higgins, F. R. | Knab, Timothy | Nutini, Hugo G.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Grammars | Maps | Reports
Extent:1101 pages
Description: The Nahua materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 8 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed Campbell, Higgins, Knab, and Nutini.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Highland Puebla | Nahuatl, Tetelcingo | Nahuatl, Western Huasteca
Date:1944-1969 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Croft, Kenneth | McKinlay, Archibald | Turner, Glen D. | García de León, Antonio
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Drafts | Essays | Dissertations | Reports | Correspondence
Extent:17 folders, 1 box
Description: Several items relating to the Nahuatl language of the Nahua (Aztec) culture have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are mostly in Subcollection II. However, there is also relevant correspondence with Glen Turner in Subcollection I, Series I. Correspondence. Materials in Subcollection II include relevant correspondence with Kenneth Croft (regarding Croft's Nahuatl fieldwork in Mexico) and Antonio Garcia de Leon (a brief note in Spanish on Nahua work) in Series I. Correspondence; "Nahuatl" and "Zacapoaxtlateco (Nahuatl)" folders in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. Nahuatl is also one of the languages Voegelin considered in a grammatical analysis of Uto-Aztecan languages. Drafts of seven chapters of this work can be found in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III: Uto-Aztecan book. There are five items in Series IV. Works by Others: Kenneth Croft's "Matlapa Nahuatl: Morpheme Shapes and Affix List," "Matlapa and Classical Nahuatl with Comparative Notes on the Two Dialects" (1953), and "Phonemics and Morphemics of Matlapa Nahuatl: With a Critical Bibliography Covering Six Decades of Nahuatl Linguistics" (1951); and Archibald McKinlay's "The Phonemes of Northern Puebla Aztec" (1944) and "The Tense-Aspect System of the Aztec of Northern Puebla." McKinlay's language community has been identified as Barrio de Xalacapan, Municipio de Zacapoaxtla, Puebla, Mexico. These are part of his report for Summer Institute of Linguistics, and include a cover letter from McKinlay to Voegelin. Finally, there is a box of Tetelcingo Nahuatl material (with Hopi comparison) containing 171 comparative vocabulary slips in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Language:Spanish
Date:Undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:15 pages
Description: One of various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). This item, "Algo de lengua mexicana, y de la explicacion de Algunos geroglificos," is a brief essay on phonology, dialectical differences, and an explanation of some hieroglyphics.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Culture:
Date:1992-1993, 2007
Contributor:Chafe, Wallace L. | Kendall, Daythal | Kimball, Geoffrey D., 1954-
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:2 folders
Description: While Daythal Kendall was working at the American Philosophical Society, he responded to queries from Wallace Chafe about Natchez materials in the Floyd Lounsbury collection (Series 1). There is also a conference paper from the 1992-1993 American Anthropological Association meetings, by Geoffrey Kimball (Series 7).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1979-1981
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Mississippi--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 folders
Description: These materials consist of two copies--one with pencilled edits and one clean--of James M. Crawford's article on the Natchez in the "Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas" [1979]; and 3 drafts (with pencilled or penned edits), some handwritten notes, 2 sets of page proofs, and 1 set of tear sheets of Crawford's review of Charles D. Van Tuyl's "The Natchez: Annotated Translations from Antoine Simon le Page du Pratz's Histoire de la Louisiane and a Short English-Natchez Dictionary," published in Plains Anthropologist, Journal of the Plains Conference [1981]. Both folders located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1929-1930; 1932
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Classroom notes | Essays | Field notes | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:18 notebooks (approximately 125 pages each), approximately 11,000 slips, 172 loose pages
Description: The Navajo materials in the ACLS collection include 3 items in the "Navajo" section of the finding. The largest of these is Sapir's "Navajo texts, field notes, and word lists" (item Na31.5), which includes 17 notebooks of texts with interlinear translations and a word slip file derived from these texts that numbers around 11,000 slips. There is also Sapir's "A list of Navaho stems" (item Na31.2) and Morris Swadesh's class notes (Na31.3) based on Edward Sapir's lectures on the Navaho language, containing grammatical notes, texts with translation, 175-word vocabulary, and a brief descriptive essay. In the "Yana" section of the finding aid, see also Swadesh's "Yana and Navaho notes from Edward Sapir" (item H6.1) containing class notes from Sapir's lectures on Yana, Navaho, with comparative Athapascan material. NOTE: Portions of this material may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:circa 1974
Contributor:Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015
Subject:Anthropology | Witchcraft | Art | Religion | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers are a vast collection of materials relating to Wallace's work at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and history. Though further research might yield more results, three folders of materials directly pertaining to the Navajo (called "Navaho" in the finding aid) have been identified. These items are all in Series IV. Works by Wallace A. Professional and include two folders on Wallace's introduction to Evelyn Hatcher's "Visual Metaphors: A Formal Analysis of Navaho Art" (1974) and Wallace's "Psychic Unity of Iroquois and Navaho Witchcraft." See the finding aid for a detailed discussion of Wallace's long and varied career and an itemized list of the collection's contents.
Collection:Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64a)