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Language:English | Narragansett
Date:1916-1926
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | New England--History | Anthropometry | Social life and customs | Picture-writing | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Narragansett language, history, and culture. Includes a one-page report on "Physical measurements of the Narragansett male," based on an individual described as 1/4 Nehantic and 1/2 Brotherton (Narragansett); and Speck's miscellaneous Narragansett notes, comprised of a comparative vocabulary of Massachusetts, Narragansett, Mohegan, Pequot, and Naugatuck (approximately 30 items), 3 vocabulary lists on cards, 1 page of names, and a letter from Edmund B. Delabarre to Speck, May 6, 1920, regarding the author's preference of Cherokee to Narragansett as explanation of origin of characters on Rhode Island stone. Images note: newspaper clipping photographs peace pipe, native attire, tipi.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak
Omaha includes: Umoⁿhoⁿ
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English | Narragansett
Date:1770-1784; 1879
Contributor:Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Massachusetts--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes
Description: The Narragansett materials in the Siebert Papers consist on very early materials including vocabulary lists from the 18th and 19th centuries in Series IV. Siebert's notes on the Narragansett can be found in Series V.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:Algonquin | Choctaw | English | Miami-Illinois | Narragansett
Date:1787-1888
Contributor:Banks, Joseph, 1743-1820 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840 | Gould, Benjamin Apthorp, 1824-1896 | Hassler, F. R, (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 | Richmond, James Cook, 1808-1866 | Ticknor, George, 1791-1871
Subject:Colonies | Germany--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: These letters and documents concern primarily the American Colony of Göttingen, including a record book containing historical data on the group (1855-1888), and the Algonquin, Choctaw, Illinois, and Naragansett Indian languages. Includes letters of: B. A. Gould, F. R. Hassler, Gauss, Sir Joseph Banks, J. F. Blumenbach. Originals in Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany.
Collection:Niedersächsische Staats-und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen letters and documents (Mss.H.S.Film.8)