Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw materials in the ACLS collection are located predominantly in the "Kwakiutl" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing of all materials (other relevant sections are "Northwest Coast", "Bella Bella (Heitsuk)", and item AfBnd.4 in "Non-American and non-linguistic material"). Some of the larger individual sets of materials listed within this section also have their own specific tables of contents (available upon request) detailing their often highly diverse contents. Overall, the vast majority of the material is made of of 1) manuscripts sent to Boas by George Hunt from the 1890s to the 1930s, frequently in both Kwak'wala and English, covering a very broad range of Kwakwaka'wakw history, culture, languages, customs, and traditions; and 2) field work materials recorded by Boas and Boas' own analyses of material sent by Hunt, covering a similar range of topics. Additional materials by other individuals focus especially on linguistic and ethnographic matters. Also see the guide entry "Kwakiutl materials, Franz Boas Papers" for information on the correspondence between Boas and Hunt, which gives additional context to the materials in the ACLS collection.

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

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Kwakwaka'wakw materials, Franz Boas Professional Papers

Culture:

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

Nak'waxda'xw includes: Nakoaktok, Nakwoktak, Nakwaxda'xw

Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl

Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo

Gwawa'enuxw

Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat

Language:English | Kwak'wala

Date:undated, and 1920-1942

Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cranmer, Dan | Hunt, George | Hunt, George, Mrs. | Gi'galas

Type:Text

Extent:12+ folders; 4 notebooks

Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of numerous folders containing Kwakwaka'wakw stories (some by George Hunt), notes on songs (much of it by the Namgis chief, Dan Cranmer), ethnographic and historical information, and linguistic notes on the Kwak'wala language. See items listed under "Boas, Franz -- Kwakiutl," for some materials, including those by Dan Cranmer. Under "Hunt, George - Kwakiutl," there are notebooks and texts, including 6 texts in Boas's hand in Kwak'wala with English interlinear translation. These includes "Host Speech for great great feast," two texts on "Supernatural Experience" and marriage told by Mrs. George Hunt, and Hë'mănis told by Gi'galas (Gwawa'enuxw), with revised version written by George Hunt. Finally, see the folder labeled "Kwakiutl material (on names)," which contains lists of names of plants, birds, specific people, positions, coppers, and other matters, primarily provided by Dan Cranmer.

Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)

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Lakota materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Lakota

Language:English | Lakota

Date:1966-1970, 1976, 1992-1995, 2012-2015

Type:Moving Image | Text | Still Image

Extent:863 pages; 64 slides

Description: The Lakota materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 14 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Green, Harbeck, Kilroe, Merrill, Pollak, Potts, Powers, Price, Sistrunk, Wagoner, and Znamenski.

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

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Legends, etc., collected among the Hare Indians, Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada

Culture:

K’ásho Got’ıné includes: Hare

Language:English | Slavey, North

Date:1961-1962

Subject:Folklore | Food | Hunting | Northwest Territories--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:9 sound tape reels (14 hr.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Field recordings made at Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, in the summers of 1961 and 1962. Includes vocabulary and phrase lists relating to hunting, animals, berry-picking, material culture, place names, health, and body parts; songs; autobiographical stories; animal stories; conversations with children. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Legends, etc., collected among the Hare Indians, Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., Canada (Mss.Rec.38)

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Lenape materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Language:Delaware | English

Date:1928, 1970, 1973-1974, 1980, 1994-1995

Type:Text

Extent:1267 pages

Description: The Lenape (or "Delaware") materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Becker, Goddard, Masthay, Roark-Calnek, Schutt, and Swan.

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

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Linguistic properties of the Caddo language

Culture:

Caddo

Language:Caddo | English

Date:1993

Contributor:Brown, Clara | Cousins, Retha | Melnar, Lynette | Tate, Helen

Subject:Linguistics | Music | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Elicitation sessions | Interviews | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:29 sound tape reels (14 hr., 45 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: The collection consists of linguistic recordings of relating to Caddo vocabulary, phrase structure, syntax, adjectives, and sound changes. Also includes interviews and discussion of Caddo traditional songs and customs. Recorded by Lynette Melar at Binger and Gracemont, Oklahoma in September 1993 with consultants Clara Brown, Retha Cousins, and Helen Tate. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Linguistic properties of the Caddo language (Mss.Rec.186)

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Materials Recorded at Copper Center and Chistochina, Alaska

Culture:

Tutchone, Northern

Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit

Tanacross includes: Koxt'een

Tanana, Upper includes: Kohtʼiin

Ahtna includes: Atna, Ahtena

Date:1960

Contributor:Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Sanford, Frieda | Sanford, Mary | Sinyone, Jim

Subject:Alaska--History | Dance | Music | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Songs | Vocabularies

Extent:9 sound tape reels (6 hr., 22 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Field recordings made in Chistochina and Copper Center, Alaska in 1960. Includes potlatch songs, love songs, Christmas tree songs, sorry songs, dance songs, and others. Some songs Yakutat Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross. Also includes some Ahtna vocabulary. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Materials Recorded at Copper Center and Chistochina, Alaska (Mss.Rec.41)

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Mojave materials, James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages

Culture:

Mojave includes: Mohave, Aha Macav

Language:English | Mojave

Date:Undated

Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Thomas, Frank

Subject:Arizona--History | California--History | Music

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Songs

Extent:1 sound tape reel (46 min.)

Description: The Mohave material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of 1 reel-to-reel tape located in "Series 8: Mohave," which contains numerous song given by Frank Thomas, and a brief conversation. In a field notebook, Crawford records that Frank Thomas, Victor Hayes, and Rudy Hayes recorded 14 songs in his apartment one their way to sing at the funeral of a Maricopa infant: “All are ‘Mohave Songs' and bird songs.”

Collection:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)

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Musical roles of Nez Perce women

Culture:

Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu

Language:English | Nez Perce

Date:1990-1991

Contributor:Jackson, Dorothy | Jones, Judy A. | Olson, Loran | Pablo, Julia | Watters, Mari

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Songs

Extent:6 audiocassettes (5 hr., 51 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Interviews and discussions with Dorothy Jackson, Mari Watters, and Julia Pablo on a variety of topics, including personal and musical experiences, songs and dances (including lullaby, flute, war dances, women's dances, soup dance, dance for picking up the feather, personal medicine songs), Nez Perce flute, Seven Drum religion, Protestant hymns, gender roles, and “Songs from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.” (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Musical roles of Nez Perce women (Mss.Rec.155)

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Nahuatl texts

Culture:

Yaqui includes: Hiaki, Yoeme

Totonac includes: Totonaca

Nahua

Language:English | Nahuatl, Morelos | Totonac, Highland | Yaqui

Date:1949

Contributor:Barlow, R. H. (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951

Subject:Folklore | Music | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Songs | Stories

Extent:1 sound tape reel (42 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Nahuatl Texts, recorded on phonograph discs by Robert Barlow circa 1949, in Milpa Alta, Mexico. Stories given entirely in untranslated Nahuatl, with the exception of two stories given in Spanish. Almost all stories are given by Luz Jimenez. The identifiable texts include a story about the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday and the mountain Popocatepetl. Also includes one Yaqui song and one text that may be in a Totonac language. There is occasional prominent cracking and hissing background noise on the recording. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)

Collection:Nahuatl texts (Mss.Rec.6)