Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Kalapuya material in the ACLS collection is concentrated primarily in the "Kalapuya" section of the finding aid, which contains several manuscripts relating to Kalapuya language, folklore, and ethnology, primarily recorded by Leo Frachtenberg and Jaime de Angulo. Additional materials can also be found in the "Tualatin" (also known as Atfalati/Wapato Lake) section of the finding aid, which includes autobiographical stories and linguistic analyses.

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

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Karok language recordings

Culture:

Karuk includes: Karok

Language:English | Karuk

Date:1989

Contributor:Howerton, Harry | Howerton, Stella | Macaulay, Monica Ann

Subject:Linguistics | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies

Extent:12 audiocassettes (8 hr., 52 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Elicited Karuk words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karuk social life and customs. (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:Karok language recordings (Mss.Rec.180)

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Keresan Recordings

Culture:

Cochiti includes: Kotyit, Keres

Language:English | Keres, Eastern

Date:1957

Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Kurath, Hans, 1891-1992 | Quintana, Celestino

Subject:Dance | Music | New Mexico--History | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Interviews | Songs

Extent:5 sound tape reels (4 hr.)

Description: Field recordings made at Cochiti Pueblo and Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1957 with Celestino Quintana of numerous dances, discussions of dances, song texts, and interviews for Keresan terminology and sound patterns. NOTE: Portions of this material may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.

Collection:Keresan Recordings (Mss.Rec.24)

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Kiowa Apache materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Apache, Kiowa

Language:English

Date:1949-1953, 1991-1994

Contributor:Brant, Charles S. | Meadows, William C., 1966-

Subject:Dance | Oklahoma--History | Religion | Social life and customs

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Essays | Field notes | Interviews | Photographs | Transcriptions

Extent:453 pages, 64 photographs

Description: The Kiowa Apache 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 Charles Brant and William C. Meadows. The Brant material consists of 3 reprints of articles by Brant that appeared in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology in 1949-1953. The Meadows material is his "Ethnohistorical Research on Southern Plains Military Societies," which partially concerns Kiowa Apache socieities such as the Manatidie/Blackfeet Society and includes transcripts summarizing interviews found in a related audio collection.

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

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Kiowa Belief Systems

Culture:

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Language:English

Date:1994

Subject:Oklahoma--History | Powwows | Religion | Social life and customs

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Hymns | Interviews | Reports | Songs

Extent:24 audiocassettes (29 hr., 4 min.)

Description: Consists of the researcher's personally dictated notes regarding his fieldwork, interviews, and research, as well as recordings of Kiowa Black Leggings Warrior Society Powwows and memorial services. These powwow and memorial service recordings may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity and privacy concerns.

Collection:Kiowa Belief Systems (Mss.Rec.280)

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Kiowa materials, Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Culture:

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Language:English | Kiowa

Date:1927

Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Subject:Oklahoma--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Text

Genre:Notebooks

Extent:3 notebooks

Description: The Kiowa materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of 3 "Kaiowa" notebooks found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes." Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.

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

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Kiowa materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Language:English | Kiowa

Date:1976, 1992, 1994-1995, 2002

Type:Moving Image | Text

Extent:637 pages, 8 slides, 64 photographs

Description: The Kiowa materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Carlisle, Kilroe, Kracht, Levine, Meadows, and Merrill.

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

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Kwakwaka'wakw materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Wiwekam

Wiweqayi

Zulu includes: AmaZulu

Tłatłasikwala

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

Namgis includes: Nimkish, Nimpkish

Ndau

Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl

K'ómoks includes: Comox

Gwatsinuxw includes: Quatsino

Gwawa'enuxw

Dzawada'enuxw includes: Tsawataineuk

Gopinuxw

Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo

Gwa'sala

Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv

Da'naxda'xw

A'wa'etłala

Date:1893-1951

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:Approx. 10,000 loose pages, 10 notebooks, 7000+ cards, 10+ maps

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, Boas-Rukeyser Collection

Culture:

Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl

Language:English

Date:1934

Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cranmer, Dan

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

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence

Extent:18 letters

Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw material in the Boas-Rukeyser collection primarily consists of a series letters to and from Dan Cranmer written in 1934. These letters all been digitized and can be accessed via links the finding aid. Other correspondence files in this collection may contain some additional Kwakwaka'wakw-related content.

Collection:Boas-Rukeyser Collection (Mss.B.B61ru)