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Culture:
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Language:English | Tohono O'odham
Date:Undated
Contributor:Enos, Susie | Ventura, Jose
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:31 pages
Description: Susie Enos was a native speaker of Tohono O'Odham and an early writer of her language. This text, collected by Enos from a consultant, Jose Ventura, "Ho'ok Oks" (Witch, Green Hawk, Eagle), includes indications of the syntactic function elements in the sentences and other grammatical notes, with a separate, line-by-line English translation.
Collection:Papago Stories narrated by Jose Ventura (Mss.497.P21)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1893-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Witthoft, John | Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Material culture | Social life and customs | Clothing and dress | Warfare | Masks | Dance | Games | North Carolina--History | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Still Image
Genre:Sketches | Photographs | Negatives
Extent:19 pages
Description: This collection consists of 28 sketches, 8 black and white silver gelatin photographs, and 2 negatives of North Carolina Cherokee artifacts from ca. 1893-1948. Presumably collected by Frank Speck with John Witthoft during the latter's graduate field work, the images reflect the social life and customs of the Cherokee including war clubs, garments, Deer & Bear masks, rattles and dance formations. Of the dances presented are the Pigeon, Partridge, Corn, Beaver, Green Corn, and Ball game. Of note, an 1893 photograph by Mooney depicting Cherokee men and women in native attire at a ceremony before a ball game. The sketches are noted in Murphy Smith's Historical American Sketches.
Collection:Papers and drawings for Cherokee Indian materials (Mss.970.3.W78)
Culture:
Date:1914
Contributor:Beauchamp, William Martin, 1830-1925
Subject:History | Government relations | Personal names | Diplomacy | Treaties | Politics and government | Biography
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Essays
Extent:1 reel
Description: Collected by William Martin Beauchamp, an Episcopal clergyman, in 1909, these names were taken from treaties, delegations, and other documents and are often accompanied by English translations as well as biographical information. Includes "Sketches of Onondagas of Note," "Names given to whites," and "Names of Iroquois, exclusive of Onondagas." Originals at the Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse Public Library, Syracuse, NY.
Collection:Papers on Iroquois personal names, 1914 (Mss.Film.643)
Language:English
Date:1748-1759
Contributor:Glen, James, 1701-1777 | Forbes, John, 1707-1759
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 | Warfare | Government relations | South Carolina--History | Military history
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: These concern James Glen, Governor of South Carolina from 1743 to 1756, and John Forbes, Colonel and later Brigadier General in the British Forces stationed in North America. There are references to South Carolina politics and government, Indian policy, the French and Indian War, and Forbes' expedition. From originals in the Dalhousie Muniments, Scottish Record Office, General Register House, Edinburgh.
Collection:Papers relating to America in the Dalhousie Muniments, 1748-1759 (Mss.Film.1231)
Language:English
Date:1884-1886
Contributor:Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:8 pages
Description: A series of eight letters, one page each, to Edward D. Cope, J. Peter Lesley, and Henry Phillips, concerning his article on the Aruba [Papiamento] language and the two parts of his article on the Beothuk language. See also Gatschet (1885) and (1885 and 1886).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English | Papiamento | Spanish
Date:1963-1964
Contributor:Forbes, Jacques C. R.
Subject:Curaçao--History | Dance | Linguistics | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Bibliographies | Reports | Stories | Photographs
Extent:30 pages; 52 slides
Description: The Papiamento materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Forbes. See collection "Materials on Papiamento, native language of the Netherlands Antilles" (Mss.Rec.48) for accompanying audio.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:Papiamento | English | Spanish
Date:1951
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Netherlands Information Service | Lenz, Rodolfo
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Stories | Drafts
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright copied and analyzed texts, mostly from a publication by Rodolfo Lenz, of Papiamento, and corresponded with the Netherlands Information Service on a Papiamento language newspaper (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Paresi includes: Paressi, Parecis
Date:1950-1952
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Subject:Brazil--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notebooks | Vocabularies
Description: The Paresi material in the Lounsbury Papers includes field notebooks in Series II and recordings with unidentified informants in Series VII.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1906
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject:Linguistics | Mississippi--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: One letter from Swanton to Boas dated March 19, 1906 includes a brief mention of the Pascagoula. 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:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English
Date:1898-1899
Contributor:Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945
Subject:Politics and government | Algonquian languages | Linguistics | Wampum | Witchcraft | Folklore | Mythology | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters from John Dyneley Prince to the American Philosophical Society regarding his work on the Passamaquoddy. Prince requests copies of his article "Passamaquoddy Wampum Records" [see Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 36 (1897): pages 479-495]; acknowledges receipt thereof; and writes again regarding a paper on Passamaquoddy witchcraft tales, his article on Passamaquoddy wampum records, and his study of the language and traditions of the eastern Algic tribes, particularly Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, and Penobscots. Mentions Daniel G. Brinton.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)