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Language:Abenaki, Eastern | Abenaki, Western | Mi'kmaq | English
Date:1965-1966, undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Day, Gordon M.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' Abenaki materials consist mostly of comparisons with other languages, particularly Proto-Algonquian and other languages of the eastern US. These can be found in Series 2 and Series 9, including a brief (ca.50-100 slip) lexical file of Abenaki. There is also correspondence in Series 1 and 9 with Gordon M. Day that includes Mi'kmaq comparisons.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:circa 1825
Subject:Social life and customs | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Reports
Extent:1 reel
Description: This is a forty-eight page report on Delaware culture and language, with selected words and phrases and their meanings, by C. C. Trowbridge in response to a 1823 questionnaire distributed by Lewis Cass. In part a criticism of Heckewelder and DuPonceau. Originals at the University of Michigan.
Collection:Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa Indians: traditions of the Lenee Lenaupee or Delawares: and, language of the Delawares, [ca. 1825] (Mss.Film.883)
Date:1907, 1931-1935
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Carmony, Willard | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:California--History | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Linguistics | Boarding schools
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:615 pages
Description: The Achumawi materials in the ACLS collection are primarily located in the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, with some also in the "Atsugewi" section (specifically item H1a.2, "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts"). They include a word list from the Pit River area; autobiographies of Willard Carmony, an Achumawi speaker, whose stories refers to being sent to Fort Bidwell Indian Boarding School; linguistic analysis of Achumawi's relationship to the Hokan language family; conversational texts in the Achumawi language; free English translations; and grammars. Also included are notes on dialectical differences between Atwamdzini, Hammawi, and Adzumawi.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Hokan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders, 1 box
Description: Three items relating to the Achumawi language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. They consist of a folder of Achumawi & Atsugewi material and a folder containing a comparative vocabulary of California tribes (with words from from Hupa, Wiyot, Karuk, Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Konkow, Yana, Wintu, Maidu, and Modoc) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries V. Hokan; and a box of notes in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Language:English
Date:circa 1910s-1930s
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:1911-1915, 1936
Contributor:Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Pitkin, Harvey | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks
Description: The Achumawi materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers consist of miscellaneous materials in Series III, a political history of the tribe in III-A, and linguistic material collected by A.M. Halpern and J.P. Harrington also in III-A.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:1953-1976
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Hawkins, James | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Shirley, Silver | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Radin, Doris
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' brief Achumawi (Pit River) file contains a lexicon, likely derived from the work of J. P. Harrington of Big Bend Achumawi with consultant James Hawkins (Series 9), and correspondence with Paul and Doris Radin and Silver Shirley about her Californian fieldwork (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Acoma includes: Áakʾùumʾé, Keres
Language:English | Keres, Western
Date:1957-1963, 1969
Contributor:Davis, Irvine | Maring, Joel M.
Subject:Linguistics | Music | New Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Stories | Transcriptions
Extent:261 pages
Description: The Acoma 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 Irvine Davis and Joel Maring.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Date:1880-1901, n.d.
Contributor:Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920 | Pfizmaier, August, 1808-1887
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts
Extent:ca. 250 p.
Description: Benjamin Smith Lyman was a geologist and amateur linguist who worked in Japan at the end of the 19th century. During this time he authored and collected several manuscripts and printed materials on (and possibly in) the Ainu language. These items have not been assessed for content, but are in Series VI. Writings and Research Files, Subseries 6. Linguistics and 7. Asian Culture, described with the name "Aino". Additional materials identified as Japanese may also be about Ainu.
Collection:Benjamin Smith Lyman Papers (Mss.B.L982)
Culture:
Akimel O'odham includes: Pima
Language:English | Tohono O'odham
Date:circa 1920s-1930s
Contributor:Herzog, George, 1901-1983
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Warfare | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Speeches
Extent:52 pages
Description: The Akimel O'odham materials in the ACLS collection consist of 1 item in the "Pima" section of the finding aid. This item is "Pima speeches," (item U8.2) which has fourteen texts of speeches with interlinear translation. Most of the speeches relate to rain making and warfare.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)