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Language:English
Date:1819
Contributor:Davis, John
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John Vaughan (?), suggesting that Du Ponceau obtain a copy of Febres (1765).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wonderly, William L. | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | Peeke, M. Catherine
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Colombia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Notes | Essays | Maps
Extent:12 folders
Description: There are many items relating to South American languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials that cover South American languages in general and might not show up in narrower searches. Researchers should also view the entries for specific languages (i.e., Quechua, etc.). In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with John H. Rowe and William L. Wonderly in Series I. Correspondence; a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages placed unexpectedly at the end of Ojibwa Folder #4 in Series II. "Ethnological Research Opportunities in Colombia," "Living Language Families," and "Peopling of the New World (South America After North America)" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; George P. Murdock's "Maps for South America" (Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture"), M. Catherine Peeke's "Divisive Criteria for Auca World Classes," and William L. Wonderly's "List of Central American Indian Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others; a file on "Amazon Indian Languages" (containing typed classifications of languages of the Amazon, Putomayo, and Caqueta regions of Brazil, with population numbers) and folder on South American and Other Latin American Languages (which includes Central America and Mexico and contains a list of languages and notes on some of them) in file in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes [see also the associated material in Oversized]; and a map of "South America and other Latin American languages" in Series VII. Photographs. Several references throughout the collection are made to "Island" and "Central American" Carib.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Laet, Johannes de
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Includes Lengua del Chile, extracted from Molina (1788). Notes, vocabulary, and comparisons from De Laet (1633) on languages of Guiana. Discussion of 184 dialects found in the Orinoco region, extracted from Humboldt (1814).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Language:English | Ute-Southern Paiute
Date:1959-1962 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Jake, Vernon E. | Jake | Vivian | Voegelin, F. M. (Florence Marie), 1927-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Uto-Aztecan languages | Folklore | Ethnography | Genealogy
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Stories | Field notes | Drafts
Extent:18 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Southern Paiute language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. In Subcollection I, there is a typed invitation in Paiute and English from Vivian Jake and Florence Voegelin inviting friends to dinner after "the Navaho Show" in Series I. Correspondence; five "Paiute, Southern" folders dating to 1959-1961 and containing field notes made with Vivian Jake (along with references to associated tapes/reels throughout, and genealogical information in #4) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; and four unbound Southern Paiute texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts. In Subcollection II, there is a letter to Vernon E. Jake, Chairman of the Kaibab Paiute Tribal Council, regarding a proposed language speaker census (with particular interest in discerning how well children really know the language) in Series I. Correspondence; and a Southern Paiute folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. Finally, Southern Paiute is also one of the languages Voegelin considered in a grammatical analysis of Uto-Aztecan languages. Drafts of seven chapters of this work can be found in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III: Uto-Aztecan book.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:Pomo, Southern | English
Date:1981
Contributor:Oswalt, Robert L.
Subject:Place names | Linguistics | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: A copy of Robert Oswalt's "Southern Pomo Word List and Map of Native Place Names in the Warm Springs Dam Area", produced by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, would have been used toward William Bright's work on Native American place names of the United States.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1974, 1989-1991, 1993
Contributor:Bessell, Nicola | Carlson, Barry F. | Flett, Pauline | Orser, Brenda I. L.
Subject:Linguistics | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dictionaries | Elicitation sessions | Notebooks | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:260 pages
Description: The Spokane materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bessell, Carlson, and Orser.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Date:1976
Contributor:Parker, Larry
Subject:Linguistics | Salishan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:58 pages
Description: This was copied by Larry Parker from originals (by unknown) in Eastern Washington State Historical Society, and includes words, phrases, and sentences in Spokane (Salish Indian language) and English.
Collection:Spokane primer (Mss.497.3.Sp5)
Culture:
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Date:1886, 1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Squamish materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #4 and Field notes 1888 #1.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
St'at'imc includes: Stl’atl’imx, Lillooet
Language:English | St'at'imcets
Date:1910-1921
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Museum objects | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:200+ pages
Description: The St'at'imc materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of materials in the "Lillooet" section of the finding aid. These include ethnographic notes and multiple word lists recorded by Sapir, Boas, and Teit, including both Upper and Lower Lillooet. In the "Salish" section, Teit's "Salish (and Dene) ethnographic notes" (item 60) includes information on St'at'imc objects sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) includes notes on 80 songs (some of which are St'at'imc) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In the "Thompson" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Salish ethnographic materials" (item 61) includes some St'at'imc ethnographic information of undetermined extent.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
St'at'imc includes: Stl’atl’imx, Lillooet
Language:English | St'at'imcets
Date:1991-1993
Contributor:Bessell, Nicola | MacLaury, Robert E., 1944- | Whitley, Rose
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:88 pages
Description: The St'at'imc 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 Bessell and MacLaury.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)