Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

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Nahuatl materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:

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

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Alabama includes: Alibamu

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

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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Navajo materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Language:English | Navajo

Date:1929-1930; 1932

Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

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)

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Nisga'a materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Nisga'a includes: Nass, Nisgha, Nishga, Nishka, Niska, Nisqa'a

Language:English | German | Nisga'a

Date:circa 1894; After 1911; 1920

Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Matheson, G. | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Schulenburg, A. C. | Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975

Subject:Biography | Linguistics

Type:Text

Extent:Circa 3,300 slips, 241 pages, 4 notebooks

Description: The Nisga'a materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of materials in the "Nass (Nisga'a)" section of the finding aid. The earliest item (Pn5b.3) is a roughly 500-word Nisga'a-English list compiled by Boas from his own work and that of Schulenberg's "Die Sprache der Zimshian-Indianer." There are subsequent texts and vocabularies recorded by Boas, Sapir, and Stirling within this section. Also included is the first half of a Nisga'a-German dictionary compiled by Boas (item Pn5b.4), and an extensive lexicon by Stirling numbering over 3000 word slips (item Pn5b.1). In the "Tsimshian" section of the finding aid, see also Boas' "Texts and word lists in Tsimshian, Ts'ets'aut, and Nisga'a" (item Pn5a.5), which includes original field notes, texts (most published), song texts, musical scores, and some shorthand notes. Overall, material described in the collection as "Nass" or "Nass River" is Nisga'a, though some may be intermixed among Tsimshian materials.

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

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Nongatl materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Nongatl

Language:English | Wailaki

Date:1902-1903, 1907-1908

Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Mr. Pete | Mrs. Pete

Subject:Ethnography | California--History | Linguistics | Place names

Type:Text

Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:23+ notebooks

Description: The Nongatl materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of 23 notebooks (item Na20h.1) in the "Nongatl" section of the finding aid. These were recorded by Goddard at Van Dusen Fork and Mad River from consultants Pete and Mrs. Pete, and include Vocabularies, texts with partial translations, narrative of family migration, Mad River place names, and material on Big Bend and Mad River settlements. In the "Hupa" section of the finding aid, Goddard's "Field notes in California Athabascan languages" (item Na.2) also include some Nongatl texts and ethnographic information.

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

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Nuu-chah-nulth materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast

Language:Ditidaht | English | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1970, 1972, 1991-1998, 2000-2005; 2015

Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:733 pages, 1 USB flash drive

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bessell, Davidson, Harkin, Kim, Klokeid, Nakayama, Wojdak, and Woo.

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

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Nuu-chah-nulth materials, Susan Golla papers

Culture:

Tseshaht

Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast

Hupacasath includes: Hupač̓asatḥ, Opetchesaht

Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1960-1990

Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics | Boarding schools

Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text

Extent:10.5 linear feet; 34 hours

Description: The Susan Golla Papers include research notes, subject files, field notes, copies of archival documents (photocopies; microfilm), audio recordings, 35 mm slides, and printed materials. The entirety of the collection concerns the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Vancouver Island, primarily the Hupacasath and Tseshaht of the Port Alberni region where Golla conducted her fieldwork in the 1970s. Series 1 contains correspondence. Series 2 contains 28 field notebooks from 1967, 1976-1979, and 1990-1991. This series also contains notes relating to work with the Tseshaht elder Mabel Taylor on translation of "The Legendary of Tseshaht," an untranslated story from Edward Sapir's field notebooks, originally told by Tom Sayachapis and recorded by Edward Sapir in November 1910. Series 5 includes an incomplete set of Ha-Shilth-Sa, the newspaper of record for the Nuu-chah-nulth communities of Vancouver Island, from 1976-1989. Series 6 includes 334 color slides of Hupacasath and Tseshaht ceremonies, 1976-1979. Includes images of singing, dancing, and bartering of wealth with gifts of food and goods at weddings and other community events. Prints also display regalia, traditional musical instruments, and the carving and raising of a pole. Series 7 includes interviews with Tseshaht elders Mabel Taylor, Margaret Shewish, Hughie Watts, on Nuu-chah-nulth language, food prepration, and Sayachapis. Additional tapes are of sessions working with Mabel Taylor on the translation of "The Legendary History of the Tseshaht." NOTE: Some portions of the field notes may be restricted due to privacy concerns surrounding personal information.

Collection:Susan Golla papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.89)

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Oaxaca materials, Field notebooks and anthropometric data

Culture:

Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca

Pochutec includes: Pochuteco

Chatino includes: Kitse Cha'tño

Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish

Date:1912

Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History

Type:Text

Extent:1 notebook

Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)

Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)

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Ojibwa ethnographic and linguistic field notes, 1903-1905

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Ojibwe

Date:circa 1903-1905

Contributor:Jones, William, 1871-1909

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Stories

Extent:ca 250 pages, 42 photographs

Description: "Ethnographic and linguistic field notes on the Ojibwa Indians," some 250 pages and 42 photographs regarding government, mythology, festivals, customs, games, etc. Also includes comments on the vocabulary, some items with English glosses; lists of bands and locations; photographs of people, activities, dwellings, canoes, etc.

Collection:Ojibwa ethnographic and linguistic field notes, 1903-1905 (Mss.497.3.J71)

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Ojibwe materials, Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Chippewa | Ojibwa, Northwestern

Date:1932-1949

Type:Text | Cartographic | Still Image

Description: The Ojibwe materials in the A. Irving Hallowell Papers are extensive. Hallowell focused on three regions of Ojibwe territory: Berens River in north, central Canada (Pikangikum, Pauingassi, Poplar River; Little Grand Rapids First Nations) and Lac du Flambeau in Wisconsin. Hallowell was particularly interested in psychological anthropology. Both the Berens River and Lac du Flambeau materials in Series V, for example, includes ethnographic information on taboos, incest regulations, Rorschach tests, dreams, and acculturation. Hallowell's interests in traditional knowledge are represented by descriptions of the practice of the Midewiwin religion; traditional stories about Wisakedjak and Tcakabec/Chakabesh, Memegwesiug, Windigos, and Thunderbirds. Of particular interest in the Lac du Flambeau materials are hundred of pages of family biographies in Series V and photographs with the names of community members in Series VI, Subseries B. Of particular interest in the Berens River materials are maps of traditional hunting grounds, a diagram of Ojibwe cosmology, an autobiography by Hallowell's collaborator Chief William Berens, 29 folders of "Saulteaux Indians--Myths and Tales" all in Series V. There are hundreds of photographs from the region, with many community members identified, and all digitized, in Series VI, Subseries A. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Robert Ritzenhaler's description of a shaking tent ceremony by Ojibwe in Wisconsin; a detailed account of Joseph Fiddler's trial for murdering a windigo in the folder labled Royal Canadian Mounted Police; papers sent by Morton Teicher detailing incidents of windigo in Canada (50+ pages); a letter from Frances Densmore describing a shaking tent ceremony; and several letters from Chief William Berens providing information about Ojibwe people in the photographs in Series VI.

Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)