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Chitimacha materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Chitimacha

Language:Chitimacha | English

Date:1930-1935, 1939, 1950

Contributor:Dardin, Sadie | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Louisiana--History

Type:Text

Extent:5,000 slips, 1,546 pages

Description: The Chitimacha materials in the ACLS collection consists of an extensive body of materials recorded by Morris Swadesh. These are located in the "Chitimacha" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Noteworthy materials include Swadesh's field notebooks, containing text (on a variety of topics) with interlinear translations, and extensive linguistic analysis of morphology, grammar, and other areas. These also include a brief genealogy. Also in this section are additional texts, and linguistic materials created from the fieldwork materials, such as a draft Chitimacha-English dictionary and a lexical file of over 4000 word slips. See also the single notebook in the "Koasati" section of the finding aid, which contains a French-English-Chitimacha wordlist from Mrs. Sadie Dardin.

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

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Choctaw materials, James M. Crawford Papers

Culture:

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Language:English | Choctaw

Date:1971-1973

Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Farmer, Ruth | Martin, Phillip, 1926-2010 | McCall, Mary | Holden, Marjory

Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Anthropology | Ethnography | Treaties

Type:Text

Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories

Extent:2 folders, 2 boxes

Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Choctaw language. Items include card-sized paper slips, Choctaw-English and English-Choctaw, with pencilled notes in Series V. and two folders of Choctaw notebooks in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. Folder 1 contains a field notebook of Choctaw vocabulary and other linguistic material dated to winter 1971-1972. Ruth Farmer is noted as the Choctaw consultant and students Mary McCall, Marjory Holden, and Mr. Chappel are also noted as using the notebook and eliciting information (mostly vocabulary) from the consultant. Folder 2 contains a field notebook dated to 1973, and notes Phillip Martin, Tribal Chairman of Choctaws, as consultant. This notebook deals more with grammar and sentence structure and includes work on a story or history (in both Choctaw and English) revolving around Choctaw laws or treaties, including the observation that the Choctaws (perhaps Martin?) want the laws transcribed from English to Choctaw.

Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)

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Ethel Aginsky Notebooks Collection

Culture:

Twana

Puyallup includes: Spuyaləpabš, S'Puyalupubsh

Klallam includes: Clallam, S'Klallam, nəxʷsƛ̕ay̕əm

Chehalis includes: Tsihalis

Language:Lushootseed | Twana | Chehalis, Upper | English

Date:ca. 1935-1936, n.d.

Subject:Linguistics | Genealogy | Washington (State)--History

Type:Text

Extent:13 notebooks

Description: 13 notebooks recorded by Ethel Aginsky. The first 11 notebooks document Aginsky's research with mostly Puyallup people between November 1935 and January 1936. Puyallup (Washington) is the only location identified - the location is thought to be Tacoma. Consultants include: Mary Adams, Henry Allen, Emily Hawk, Annie James, Anthony James, Nancy Sherwood, Kimball Sherwood, Joseph Sparr, Annie Wilbur, Jimmy (or Jimmie) Wilbur, Willy Wilbur, Mrs. Willy Wilbur, and Marcel Williams. The notebooks include texts (histories, conversations, etc.) and wordlists. In addition to Lushootseed, there is Chehalis and Twana language identified, and one text in notebook 10 is of Klallam cultural origin (but in Lushootseed). Notebooks 12-13 are Aginsky's unrelated classroom notes.

Collection:Ethel Aginsky Notebooks Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.127)

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Fanggui Li Collection

Culture:

Mattole includes: Bear River

Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan

Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa

Language:English | Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ)

Date:1928-1982

Contributor:Li, Fanggui | Mandeville, François | Ferrier, Baptiste | Thompson, Laurence C. | Thompson, M. Terry

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:1.5 linear feet

Description: The heart of the Fanggui Li Collection is comprised of ten notebooks kept by the linguist Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li relating to his research on the Denesuline "Chipewyan" language in 1928. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from François Mandeville in Denesuline, and, in one instance, Baptiste Ferrier) in July 1928, with interlinear English translations. The topics of these stories include myths, folklore, and tribal history as well as activities like fishing, tanning a moose hide, or making a canoe. The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for Denesuline language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concerning Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics. Interview topics include Li's early education, experience at the University of Chicago, Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir's influence on his course of study, Li's fieldwork on the Mattole language in Northern California in the late 1920s, discrimination against Chinese in that region at that time, Li's work with Sapir on the Hupa reservation, and various aspects of linguistic methodology of the times, including recording with wax cylinders. See the finding aid for more information, including more details on the contents of each notebook and the two audio cassettes, and for related material.

Collection:Fanggui Li Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.119)

Extent:4 notebooks; approx. 2,600 slips

Description: The Kathlamet materials in the ACLS collection consist of items in two sections of the finding aid. In the "Chinook" section, Boas' notebooks 1, 2, and 4 of Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (item Pn4b.5) contain texts, ethnographic information, and grammatical notes. In the same section, Boas' "Miscellaneous notes on Chinookan languages" (item Pn4.1) includes a text in an unidentified language and fragmentary slips of Chinook-Kathlamet comparisons. In the "Kathlamet" section, there is an additional field notebook by Boas (item Pn4a.8), and two large, separate lexicons derived in part from his fieldwork (items Pn4a.2 and Pn4a.3).

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

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Koasati materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Koasati includes: Coushatta

Language:English | Koasati

Date:1983, 1998, 1999

Contributor:Drechsel, Emanuel J. | Francois, Winnie Tempe | Kimball, Geoffrey D., 1954- | Shuck, Sheri Marie | Wilson, Wilfred

Subject:Linguistics | Texas--History

Type:Text

Extent:394 pages

Description: The Koasati 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 Drechsel, Kimball, and Shuck. The most extensive of these are Kimball's, which include a Koasati-English dictionary, and linguistic field notes.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)