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Language:English
Date:1796-1809
Contributor:Hunter, George, 1755-1823
Subject:Expeditions | Natural history | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Travel narratives
Extent:4 volumes
Description: I. Journal kept by George Hunter of a tour from Philadelphia to Kentucky and the Illinois country. July 14 - October 18, 1796 (38 pages). Journal from Philadelphia towards Lexington, Kentucky, by George Hunter, Senior and Junior, August 19 - September 8, 1802 (28 pages). Miscellaneous accounts (2 pages). II. Continuation of journal of trip to Lexington, September 13 - 0ctober 26, 1802 (33 pages). Journey to explore Louisiana, May 27, 1804 - January 28, 1805 (36 pages). III. Journal of an excursion from Natchez on the Mississippi, October 16 - December 31, 1804 (40 pages). Thermometrical observations, October 18 - December 6, 1804 (27 pages). IV. Continuation of journal of excursion from Natchez, January 1 - March 27, 1805 (17 pages). Volume I mentions Indians resorting at the Wabash, gives account of Indian woman who lost nose for infidelity; mentions theft of horses and Indians hired to recover them (Delaware); Indian Gillaway among these. Volumes II, III, and IV, in part based on letters to Hunter's wife, probably copied from these. Volume III mentions Captain Jacobs; Delaware Indians; Chickasaw and Choctaw. Volume IV mentions murder of some Cherokees by Little Osages; plundering of white men by Grand Osages who had visited Washington; Choctaw woman mourning child; memo noting omission of description of Indian mounds, present in copy #472.
Collection:George Hunter Journals (Mss.B.H912)
Date:1995
Contributor:C'Hair, Wayne | C'Hair, William James | Gone, Fred P. | Hatton, Orin T., 1953- | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject:Dance | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Wyoming--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs
Extent:5 sound tape reels (4 hr., 44 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic and cultural fieldwork about songs associated with the Crow Dance of the Northern Arapaho and its relation to the Ghost Dance and other tribes' dances. Consists of linguistic and cultural analysis and transcription of 16 pre-recorded songs sung by Fred Gone, Sr. an with Arapaho consultant, William C'Hair. Also includes extensive discussion of Arapaho customs and ceremonies. Recorded in Arapahoe, Wyoming on 18 July 1995. (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:Ghost Dance-era Songs of the Arapaho Crow Dance (Mss.Rec.242)
Culture:
Gitxsan includes: Gitksan
Date:1991, 2006
Contributor:Bessell, Nicola | Jóhannsdóttir, Kristin | Matthewson, Lisa | Sennott, Barbara
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Essays | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent:120 pages
Description: The Gitxsan 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 and Johannsdottir.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Language:Ditidaht | Nuu-chah-nulth | English
Date:2000
Contributor:Dick, Mary Jane | Tate, Richard | Kim, Eun-Sook
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:8 audiocassettes (3 hr., 52 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings of speakers of the Ditidaht language and the Ahousaht dialect of the Nuu-chah-nulth language, made on Vancouver Island and Flores Island, British Columbia, in 2000. Consists of elicitations of lexical items focusing on glottalization. (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:Glottalization in Nuu-chah-nulth: Ahousaht and Ditidaht (Mss.Rec.273)
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Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:Undated
Contributor:Williams, Eleazar, 1688-1742
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages | Kinship | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Grammars
Extent:1 reel
Description: This grammar includes the Mohawk alphabet, phonetics, conjugation of parts of speech, numbers, and kinship classification. Notes dialect differences. From originals in the Missouri Historical Society.
Collection:Grammar of the Mohawk dialect of the Iroquois language (Mss.Film.578)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:Danish | English | Greenlandic
Date:1979
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Geisler, Peter | Kleeman, Kristoffer | Moldrup, Birgithe | Moller, Niels
Subject:Folklore | Greenland--History | Music
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Prayers | Songs | Speeches | Stories
Extent:10 audiocassettes (9 hr., 24 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made by Frederica de Laguna at Upernavik, Greenland in July and August 1979. Stories in Greenlandic Inuktitut and conversation in Danish. (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:Greenland Recordings (Mss.Rec.123)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | Greenlandic
Date:1936
Contributor:Kleinschmidt, Samuel, 1814-1886 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:150 pages
Description: The Greenlandic Inuit materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Eskimo" section of the finding aid: Swadesh's "Greenlandic materials" (item E1a.100), consisting of rough notes used by the author in preparing his discussion of South Greenlandic (Eskimo). This material is based on Samuel Kleinschmidt's "Grammatik der Groenlandischen Sprache" (1851) and "Groenlandsk Ordbog" (1871).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Language:English
Date:1933, 1984-1985
Contributor:Nooder, Gert | Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays | Photographs | Negatives
Extent:1 folder and 3 photographic negatives
Description: Two items in the Baruch Blumberg papers are identified as being from East Greenland. In Series XIV. Photographic Materials are three negatives of unidentified Greenlandic people fishing in Kûngmiut (Kuummiit) and Quarmiut, taken by Gert Nooder and from the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. In Series VI. Works by Blumberg is an essay titled "Hepatitis B Virus and Sex Ratio of Offspring in East Greenland".
Collection:Baruch S. Blumberg Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.144)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | Greenlandic
Date:1930, 1969, 1979-1981, 19985, 1995-1996
Contributor:Berge, Anna | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Gunther, Erna
Subject:Archaeology | Greenland--History | Linguistics | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Interviews | Reports | Stories
Extent:573 pages
Description: The Greenlandic materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Berge, de Laguna, and Gunther.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Language:English
Date:1884
Contributor:Middleton, Thomas C. (Thomas Cooke), 1842-1923
Subject:South America | Missions | South America--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 pages
Description: Three letters to Henry Phillips, Jr. concerning the American Philosophical Society manuscript by Parras, #1531. Middleton fails to identify Parras for Phillips. Padre Francisco Pedro Joseph de Parras wrote a travel narrative [#1531]devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians, and a list of Jesuits at various missions.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)