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Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1972-1975 1989-1991
Contributor:Bessell, Nicola | Brown, Alanna K | Watkins, Donald | McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil, 1860-1944 | Gabriel, Louise | Pierre, Larry | Pierre, Selina | Armstrong, Willie | Lezard, George | Gregoire, Tommy | Holding, Margaret | Abel, Joe | Abel, Mary
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Essays | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:76 pages
Description: The Sylix (Okanagon) 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, Brown, and Watkins.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | English
Date:1987
Contributor:Mattina, Anthony | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Coyote tales
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Stories
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright corresponded with Anthony Mattina on Colville coyote stories, alongside a publication on the subject (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1905-1947
Contributor:Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subject:Archaeology | Expeditions | Orthography and spelling
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:39 volumes
Description: Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the native people. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. Includes 106 ink sketches and 105 pencil sketches by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley to illustrate his excavation descriptions of Mayan sites in Yaxchilan (1931), Calakmul (1932), Copan (1937, 1947), and Uxmal (1941-42). Primarily Mayan glyphs, images include diagrams of stairways, pyramids, and ball courts. Originals at Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection:Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1865-1871
Contributor:Trippe, T. Martin, 1848-
Subject:Birds | Minnesota--History | Natural history | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Notebooks | Travel narratives
Extent:2 volumes, 655 p.
Description: The two surviving volumes of Trippe's journals document his ornithological and natural historical observations between 1865 and 1871, including meticulously detailed records of the avifauna (and to lesser degree other fauna) in central New Jersey, central Iowa, and southern Minnesota. They include detailed, and Trippe provided year-end taxonomic and meteorological indexes for 1869, 1870, and 1871. Includes brief mentiones of Chippewa Indians.
Collection:T. Martin Trippe Journals (Mss.598.2.T73)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1906-1922
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:32 letters
Description: The Tahltan materials in the Franz Boas Papers consist of 32 letters among the correspondence between Boas and James Teit that mention Tahltan people or language to some extent. The length of the mentions range from very brief to more substantial. Many relate to Teit's travels in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon region on ethnographic field trips or as a hunting guide. Five letters mention a Tahltan man named Adset (or Adsit) with whom Teit worked. (See especially letter of November 20, 1908.) Other mentions of Tahltan people or language may exist elsewhere in this collection but are not known.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Date:1997-2000
Contributor:Alderete, John
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations
Extent:96 pages
Description: The Tahltan 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 Bob.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Date:1825
Contributor:Izard, George
Subject:Haiti--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Taino materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as item 25, Rafinesque's "Vocabulary of the extinct Haytian or Taino language," comparing Taino to Old World languages (Berber, Cantabrian, Celtic, Coptic, etc.)
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:English
Date:1922
Contributor:La Varre, William, 1898-1991
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Taino (Carib) materials include Folder "A:9780. South America" (1922) in Series I. Trait Files, Box #65, which contains a journal article titled "Discovering Diamonds in British Guiana: An American's Adventure in Opening Up the Treasure House on the Upper Mazaruni River" by William J. LaVarre, Jr., in which the author tells of locating diamond deposits through his association with Carib (Taino) villagers. The article includes textual descriptions and photos of indigenous individuals.
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:Taino | English | Berber | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date:1825
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:Documents
Description: Comparative list of 40 words (following Spanish orthography), by means of which the author asserts a relationship with the Berber and other African languages, as well as with the Maya and other Central American languages. His sources are Columbus, D'Anghiera, Herrera, Edwards.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)