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Tlaxcaltec Nahuatl materials, Jane M. Rosenthal Papers

Culture:

Language:Nahuatl, Central | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | English | Spanish

Date:ca.1970-2002

Type:Text | Sound recording | Still Image

Extent:6 linear feet

Description: The majority of the Jane M. Rosenthal Papers centers on Nahuatl linguistic and anthropological research. Materials therefore appear extensively in every series. Rosenthal's own fieldwork on Tlaxcaltec (Acxotla del Monte, Tlaxcala, Mexico) spanned the 1970s and 1980s, involving the production of 17 field notebooks (Series 2 Subseries 1) with accompanying tapes (Series 10, available in the Digital Library), lexical slips (Series 7), photographs (Series 8) and much correspondence, in Spanish, with members of the Atonal and de Texis families (Series 1). Jane Hill also conducted research with many of the same consultants, works by whom (including interview transcriptions) can be found mostly in Series 5. Rosenthal also engaged with preexisting primary sources at archives in Mexico and the U.S., creating transcriptions and interlinearizations of texts (Series 2 Subseries 2), and produced several articles on Nahuatl grammar, Nahua culture and interactions with missions (Series 2 Subseries 3). Further to her own work, this collection contains much gathered material by others. In addition to that of Jane and Kenneth Hill, several drafts and publications by fellow University of Chicago student Kay A. Read on Nahua/Aztec religion appear in Series 5, and publications and commentary with other Uto-Aztecanists are scattered throughout Series 1 and 5. Rosenthal was heavily involved in the meetings of the Friends of Uto-Aztecan from its inception in 1973, many handouts from which (relating to a variety of Uto-Aztecan languages) can be found in Series 6. Her student notes, many produced by Norman McQuown (Series 3), and teaching notes (Series 4) may also be of interest.

Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)

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Tlingit materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit

Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat

Language:English | Tlingit | Haida

Date:1900-1901, 1914, 1952, 1954

Subject:Alaska--History | Linguistics | Music

Type:Text

Extent:272 pages; 4 volumes (approximately 500 pages each)

Description: The Tlingit materials in the ACLS collection are concentrated primarily in the "Tlingit" section of the finding aid. Most items within this section are Frederica de Laguna's detailed notes related to her audio recordings made at Yakutat. See separate guide entries for collections "Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska" (Mss.Rec.19) and "Tlingit, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone recordings" (Mss.Rec.30). This section also includes Sapir's extensive "Comparative Na-Dene dictionary" (item Na20a.3) and "Chilcat vocabulary" (item N2.2), and Swanton's Tlingit and Haida field notebooks from 1900-1901 (item N2.1).

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

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Tohono O'odham materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Tepecano

Tepehuán includes: Tepehuanes, Tepehuano

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Spanish | Tohono O'odham

Date:1918-1955

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:19 items; photographs

Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest in and research on Tohono O'odham language and culture, and particularly of his preparation of "The Language of the Papago of Arizona" (1950), informally referred to as his Papago grammar. Of particular interest will be materials by Juan Dolores, a Tohono O'odham man who both published his own work on Tohono O'odham (then called Papago) language and culture and also worked as a consultant for Mason, Alfred Kroeber, and others. Dolores items in this collection include three notebooks (numbered 10, 11, and 12, each with a table of contents) on Papago [Tohono O'odham] grammar apparently in the hand of Dolores with some additional notes by Mason; a table of contents listing myths and songs in notebook #14, which is missing; 138 pages of Papago [Tohono O'odham] texts with interlinear English and two copies of "The Sacred Case" myth in Northern Tepehuan with English translation. There is also a Papago [Tohono O'odham] text (in ink) without translation, attributed to Miguel Garcia, with corrections by Juan Dolores (in pencil). This collection also contains many of Mason's field notes and writings on Tohono O'odham, including a notebook of field notes on kinship terms, vocabulary, texts, comparisons with Tepecano, etc.; a notebook of songs with English interlinear translations, ethnographic and archaeological notes, Tepecano and Papago [Tohono O'odham] comparisons, etc.; two boxes comprising a linguistics card file of Papago [Tohono O'odham] words with English glosses, along with grammatical or other explanatory notes; miscellaneous notes on kinship terms, paradigms, and various other grammatical matters; a four-page summary of the general characteristics of Tohono O'odham without examples; drafts of an article by Mason giving Dolores' verb conjugations and a letter of George Herzog's comments on same, along with various notes, lists, analyses, etc., on Papago [Tohono O'odham] adjectives, nouns, verbs, pronouns, etc., much of it from Dolores; notes on Papago nominal stems ending in l, li, or ta based on list of stems from Dolores, with cognates from Pima, Northern Tepehuan, and Tepecano; four pages on Papago words with p and t, with English glosses; Tohono O'odham texts with interlinear translations in English and occasionally Spanish; and Mason's comments on William Kurath's "A brief introduction to Papago." Correspondents include George Herzog, who sent several pages of comments on Mason's Papago [Tohono O'odham] grammar; Alfred Kroeber regarding Mason's Papago [Tohono O'odham] grammar; Ruth Underhill regarding their shared interests in Papago [Tohono O'odham] culture and and Joe Grimes, Burton W. Bascom, Jr., George Herzog, Rev. Fr. Regis Rohder, O. F. M., and Dean Saxton regarding Mason's Papago [Tohono O'odham] grammar and the dispute with Morris Swadesh on whether there is one or two stop series in Papago [Tohono O'odham].

Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)

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Tsimshian materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Tsimshian includes: Ts'msyan, Ts'msyen, Zimshian

Language:English | Tsimshian

Date:1959-1962, 1970, 1989-1990, 1993-1994

Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958 | Compton, Brian D. | Dunn, John A.

Subject:Alaska--History | British Columbia--History | Botany | Folklore | Kinship

Type:Text

Extent:2555 pages

Description: The Tsimshian materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 9 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Barbeau, Compton, and Dunn.

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

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Tunica materials, Mary R. Haas Papers

Culture:

Timucua

Tunica

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Natchez

Koasati includes: Coushatta

Chitimacha

Chickasaw

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Creek

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Avoyelles includes: Avoyel

Apalachee

Alabama includes: Alibamu

Date:ca.1933-1960s

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:3 linear feet

Description: Mary Haas conducted extensive fieldwork on Tunica with last speaker Sesostrie Youchigant, subsequently publishing a grammar as her PhD dissertation, and later texts and a dictionary. Fourteen field notebooks can be found in the dedicated subseries in Series 2, along with abundant grammatical and lexical notes and sheet music. Tunica was an integral part of Haas' comparative work on the Gulf hypothesis, so extensive comparisons can be found, especially in the lexical slip files of Series 9. Haas' Tunica work also contains more ethnographic notes than most of her files. Photographs of Sesostrie Youchigant are present in Series 11 and can be viewed at the Digital Library.

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

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Tzotzil materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Tzotzil includes: Tsotsil

Maya

Language:English | Spanish | Tzotzil

Date:1977

Contributor:Adams, Walter Randolph

Subject:Chiapas (Mexico)--History | Religion

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Reports | Stories

Extent:66 pages

Description: The Tzotzil 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 Adams.

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

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Ute materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Ute

Language:Ute-Southern Paiute | English

Date:1935-1937, 1960, 1964

Contributor:Johnson, Harriet | Jorgensen, Joseph G. | Cooke, Anne M., (Anne M. Smith), 1900-1981 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996

Type:Text | Sound recording

Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Reports | Elicitation sessions | Stories

Extent:ca. 1200 pages, 1 reel-to-reel tape

Description: There are three identified areas of Ute material in the Lounsbury Papers. 400 pages of field notes by Anne M. Smith (1936-1937) and 800 pages of Uintah field notes by La Barre (1935-1937) can be found in the "Uto-Aztecan" subseries of Series II, along with reports sent to Leslie Spier and Edward Sapir in Series I. An audio recording made by Lounsbury and Joseph Jorgensen with Harriet Johnson (Uncompaghre Ute of Whiterocks, Utah) in 1960 is in Series VII, and associated correspondence with Jorgensen in Series I describes further details.

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

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Wampanoag materials, Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Culture:

Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak

Language:English | Wampanoag

Date:1919

Contributor:Jeffers, Lucina | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Subject:Folklore | Massachusetts--History | Social life and customs

Type:Text

Genre:Field notes | Stories | Genealogies

Extent:12 pages

Description: The Wampanoag materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of one set of loose notes labelled "Martha's Vineyard - Notes," found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes." These notes were recorded in 1919 from Lucina Jeffers (Wampanoag) of Aquinnah ("Gay Head"), who was aged 85 at the time. The notes concern folklore and customs on Martha's Vineyard and some genealogical information.

Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)

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Wintu materials, Harvey Pitkin Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Takelma includes: Rogue River

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Maya

Miwok

Klamath

Date:1888-1953

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Wintu materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers are extensive. Subcollection I, Series I, contains notes, notebooks, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and phonetic tracings by Jeremiah Curtin in the late 19th century, Roland Dixon, and A.M. Halpern. Series I-B contains Pitkin's grammar slip files and vocabularies collected by Curtin. Series I-C includes Jaime de Angulo's manuscript on the Patwin language, S.A. Barrett's transcriptions and translations of speech and song recordings, Radin's "Grammatical Sketch" and Waterman's notes on Patwin phonetics. Series II-A is rich in materials collected by A.L. Krober. In Subcollection II, Pitkin's field notes are located in Series 2, Subseries 1. Subseries 2 includes Pitkin's extensive notes on his Wintu dictionary, grammar, texts, stories, and music. The manuscript of the dictionary is located in Subseries 3. There is an unpublished 416 page manuscript of stories written in both English and Wintu, songs, and transcriptions in Subseries 4. This section also includes copies of all the extant linguistic material with works by noted linguists such as Curtin, Albert Gatschet, Radin, Halpern, Morris Swadesh, Victor Golla, and J.P. Harrington. Series 6 is comprised of card file slips with comparative analyses by Pitkin of the four languages of the Wintun family.

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

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Yuchi materials, James M. Crawford Papers

Culture:

Yavapai

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Timucua

Tunica

Tutelo includes: Yesan

Shawnee

Ofo includes: Ofoe, Mosopelea

Maidu

Catawba includes: Iswa

Creek

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Biloxi includes: Tanêks, Tanêksa

Language:English | Mobilian | Yuchi

Date:circa 1969-1987

Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Fogelson, Raymond D. | Sturtevant, William C.

Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Oklahoma--History | Education

Type:Text | Three-dimensional object

Extent:34 folders, 45 boxes, 4 magnetic tapes

Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's interest in and research on the Yuchi language. Items in Series III-B. Works by Crawford—Yuchi include "Biloxi, Ofo, and Yuchi" [1970], a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society; "Reconnaissance Among Several Indian Groups in Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana" [1969], 2 folders containing typed and edited drafts of the narrative of a research trip including itinerary, names of people contacted, names of possible informants, and vocabulary items [See related materials regarding Crawford's research trips searching for data on the Mobilian trade language]; "Timucua and Yuchi: Two Language Isolates of the Southeast" [1977], 2 folders containing typed and edited drafts of an essay published in “The Languages of North America: Historical and Comparative Assessment,” edited by Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun; "Yuchi" [n.d.], a 7-page Xeroxed copy of the “Yuchi” entry, focusing on history and sources, in a volume on Southeastern Indian Languages; "Yuchi" in Handbook of North American Indians [1979], 2 folders of handwritten notes, typed drafts, and other research for the Yuchi entry in the Handbook; "Yuchi Phonology" [1970s], 3 folders of handwritten and typed notes and drafts of an essay on Yuchi and "Yuchi Text with Translation" [1972], containing handwritten and typed versions of a text and translation Crawford was preparing for publication. Items in Series IV-B. Research Notes & Notebooks—Yuchi include a word list and phrases in Yuchi and English in a folder labeled “Handouts” [n.d.]; 2 pages of unidentified linguistic notes and one page listing language consultants for Yuchi, Creek, and Shawnee in a folder labeled “Informants” [n.d.]; a typed copy and Xeroxed copy of a list of phrases demonstrating Yuchi negation in a folder labeled “Negation” [n.d.]; a folder of typed and handwritten “Notes on Yuchi Syntax” [1978]; "Possible Cognates to Yuchi in Siouan, Atakapa, Yava, Maider, etc." [1971-1977], which contains 9 full sheets and 2 slips of handwritten notes comparing Yuchi, Biloxi, Ofo, Catawba, Atakapa, Maidu, Yava, Wocco, Tutelo, etc.; "Some Possible Cognates Between Yuchi and Siouan and Between Yuchi and Tunica" [1976], containing a typed three-page chart comparing Yuchi, Dakota, and Biloxi (also with some Catawba examples); a folder of “Rough Sheets” containing handwritten Yuchi linguistic notes and charts; two five-inch floppy discs and a dot matrix print-out in a folder labeled “Yuchi Data” [1985]; and a folder of handwritten and typed Vocabularies and linguistic data in “Yuchi Vocabulary by Seymour Frank” [1970]. Nine field notebooks dating to 1970, 1971, and 1973 might be of particular interest. As well as linguistic information, Crawford also kept track of his itinerary, possible language consultants, etc. Crawford's interest in the Mobilian trade language is clear from the start, as he mentions Arzelia Langley and other consultants early on in #1 before focusing on Yuchi. Interviews with Maggie Poncho and Leonard Lavan are at the end of #4 after Crawford spent most of the summer working with Yuchi consultants, and his pursuit of Mobilian resumed in the summer of 1971 with #5, when Lavan was dying and no longer recognized Crawford, but Crawford worked with members of the Langley and Medford families and continued searching for more Mobilian speakers before again spending most of the summer working with Yuchi consultants in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. In the summer of 1973, Crawford worked on Yuchi in Sapulpa again before heading to Arizona and spending the rest of the summer working on Cocopa, particularly Cocopa baby talk. Language consultants mentioned include Frank Seymour, Nancy Wildcat, Addie George, Maggie Poncho, Leonard Lavan, Claude Medford, and many more potential consultants mentioned. A tenth notebook, dated to 1987 and largely empty, records another brief trip to Sapulpa to work again with Addie George and other Yuchi consultants. These notebooks, as well as a folder labeled “Notes” that is filled with miscellaneous handwritten and typed notes relating to Crawford's research trips, work on the Yuchi language, work with Yuchi people on bilingual education, and the like, all mention numerous Yuchi and other indigenous individuals and sometimes include genealogical and family history information as well. Finally, there are 45 boxes of word slips, Yuchi—English and English—Yuchi, in Series V. Card Files, and four magnetic tapes of Yuchi linguistic materials dating from 1979 to 1986 in Series IV-B, Research Notes & Notebooks—Yuchi (an Oversized series). See also: the Mobilian entry and the Linguistics entry for the Crawford Papers for related materials, including more field notes from Crawford's visits to Sapulpa and with other Yuchi consultants and materials relating to Crawford's work with bilingual education with Yuchis in Oklahoma, including a booklet titled “Euchee Mission Reunion” in “Sapulpa, Oklahoma Public Schools” in Series II. Subject Files. Finally, Series I. Correspondence contains correspondence from Raymond Fogelson with reader reports from William Sturtevant and Lew Ballard on Crawford's Yuchi entry for the Handbook of North American Indians, and Crawford's reply asking that the entry be reassigned due the years that have passed since he submitted the essay and the considerable edits required to revise the entry for and correspondence from William Sturtevant regarding attempts by Kristian Hvidt (librarian of the Danish parliament) to learn more about 1735 Georgia drawings by Baron Philipp Georg von Reck, a commissaire to the Salzburgers who settled at Ebenezer, along with Crawford's subsequent notes and drafts of a brief essay on the history and nature of the images, stressing the Yuchi and Creek elements.

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