Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

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Greenlandic materials, Phillips Fund Collection

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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Kwakwaka'wakw materials, Franz Boas Papers

Culture:

Wiwekam

Wiweqayi

Tłatłasikwala

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

Namgis includes: Nimkish, Nimpkish

K'ómoks includes: Comox

Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl

Dzawada'enuxw includes: Tsawataineuk

Gopinuxw

Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo

Gwa'sala

Gwatsinuxw includes: Quatsino

Gwawa'enuxw

Da'naxda'xw

A'wa'etłala

Language:English | German | Kwak'wala

Date:1885-1942

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence

Extent:1 linear foot

Description: 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. The largest correspondence is that of George Hunt, which took place from 1894-1933 and runs around 1000 pages. A full index for this correspondence is available upon request, and includes cross references to the locations (in other APS collections) of fieldwork and other materials referred to in the letters. Other correspondences primarily about Kwakwaka'wakw matters are that of the Cadwalladers, Dan Cranmer, John Fillmore (concerning the transcription of Boas' cylinder recordings of Kwakiutl songs), Alfred I. Hall, and C. J. Nowell. 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)

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Maya materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:

Maya

Language:English | Spanish

Date:1827-1959

Contributor:Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845 | Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Cresson, Hilborne Thomson | Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Compendia | Certificates

Extent:8 items

Description: Materials relating to Mayan culture and language materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include Warden's article on Ohio antiquities and Palenque [Warden (1827)]; several items on Cresson's work on Mayan glyphs, including "Remarks upon the graphic system of the ancient Mayas" and Cresson's thoughts on interpretation of Mayan glyphs, the Troano manuscript, the Dresden Codex, and the Zapotec calendar; Gatschet's thank-you note, enclosing photograph of inscribed stone from Palenque, Mexico, now in Smithsonian; Harris on superiority of volumes by Dupaix and Viages at the APS; and a 1959 citation from the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania for aid in restoring Tikal.

Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)

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Maya materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tzeltal includes: Winik Atel, Batzil’op

Maya

Mixe includes: Ayuukjä'äy

Language:English | French | Yucateco | Spanish | Mayan, Classical

Date:1963-1995

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Maya materials in the Lounsbury Papers are extensive. The correspondence in Series I includes a Motul (Mayan) dictionary, discussion about translating Maya glyphs and calendrical calculations, the Popol Vuh. Series II consists of articles and manuscripts from a project identified as "Maya kinship unfin. project." Much of this work is focused on interpreting Maya hieroglyphs. In Series VII there are a number of recordings of Yucatec Maya made in the 1960s focused on vocabulary. The correspondence, in Series I, includes a dictionary by Rene Acuna, Lloyd Anderson's Etymologies of Mayan calendrical and astronomical terms, Anthony Aveni's interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, Brent Berlin's decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs, Gordon Brotherston's comments on FGL's manuscript on Maya dates, Lyle Campbell's bibliography of Mayan linguistics, Wallace Chafe on how FGL got into the study of Maya hieroglyphics, Michael Coe's report that Soviets were successful in using a computer to translate Maya hieroglyphs, R. David Drucker's comparison of Aztec and Maya calendars, Dieter Dutting on Maya hieroglyphs; transformational analysis of Yucatec.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Mexico materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Wichí includes: Mataco (pej.)

Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca

Úza includes: Chichimeca-Jonaz

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Tepecano

Tlapanec includes: Me'phaa, Tlapaneco

Popoluca includes: Nundajɨypappɨc, Soteapanec, Popoloca

Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Pame includes: Xi'úi

Mazatec includes: Ha Shuta Enima, Mazateco

Nahua

Mazahua includes: Hñatho

Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco

Karankawa

Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko

Cuitlatec includes: Cuitlateco

Cuicatec includes: Cuicateco

Chatino includes: Kitse Cha'tño

Chinantec includes: Chinanteco, Yolox, Yetla

Amuzgo includes: Amochco, Amoxco, Ñuuñama

Language:English

Date:1913-1966;

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:165 pages; Circa 300 items;

Description: The Mexico materials, John Alden Mason Papers include a log of a trip to Sonora, itinerary of pack trip from Yecora to Maicoba; lists of photographs; journal. Archaological materials: report on archaeological sites near Rancho Guiracoba, Sonora, Mexico with report on surface collections at six sites in southern Sonora. Notes on the Northern Extension of the Chalchihuites Culture, written for the Mexican Historical Congress, Zacatecas. Slayton Creek Excavation, regarding Mexico; the Papago [Tohono O'odham]; a dig at Slayton Creek, Delaware. Regarding archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic work in Mexico; genetic classification of languages of Central America and Mexico. Regarding internal strife in local (Durango) Indian tribe (including murders); archaeology in Durango; collection of specimens of material culture; work at Schroeder pyramid; cliff dwellings near Mezquital. Mentions Alex Krieger. Cave investigations in Durango and Coahuila, report on search conducted with Robert H. Merrill for traces of early man, particularly on the Folsom horizon. Written for Weitlaner volume. Includes description of three varieties of Cucurbita moschata; evidence in conflict with the theory that Cucurbita moschata was introduced into southern Arizona in late prehistoric or early historic times from the north and east. Regarding Maya pottery; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; archaeological work in Mexico and Guatemala; the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania); Vaillant's obituary. Includes correspondence between Mason and Sue Vaillant (Mrs. George C.) and between Mason and Charles Marius Barbeau. Linguistic materials: a list entitled, "Familias linguisticas de Mexico-idiomas y dialectos a ellas pertencientes," with the families with subdivisions: for Museo nacional de arqueologia, historia y etnologia, Anales. Includes lexical items in the various languages--Hokan, Oto-Manguren, Uto-Aztecan, and Maya-- arranged in columns; Spanish glosses. Regarding Mason's Subtiaba-Hokan-Caduveo-Mataco comparative vocabulary. Kroeber is not much impressed with the possible resemblances in Mason's list (included). Mexican linguistics, comparative vocabularies, etc., includes short comparative vocabularies for Comecrudo, Papago-Tepecano, Nahua, Huaxtec, Choctaw, Coahuiltec, Karankawa, Torkana, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica; notes on Sapir's classification; other miscellaneous notes. Comparative vocabulary, includes letter from Frederick Johnson to John Alden Mason; comparative vocabulary which is number-keyed to a list of twenty-two languages and arranged in columns headed by Spanish glosses. Words lacking in some languages for almost all items. Languages include Otomi, Mazahua, Matlatzinca, Ocuiltec, Pame, Chichimeca, Cuitlateco, Mazatec, Popoluca, Chochotec (Tlapanec), Ichcateco, Trique, Chiapanec, Manque, Mixtec, Cuicatec, Amuzgo, Zapotec, Chatino, Chinantec, Tarasco, and Tlapanec. Scholarly materials: two versions of a paper, entitled, "Los Cuatro Grandes Filones Linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica," for the International Congress of Americanists, August 1939, Mexico. Photographs: Unidentified photographs showing people, dwellings, terrain, etc. Images of temples, excavations, crypts, jade work, etc. Includes a photograph of John Alden Mason and Burton W. Bascom from Palenque. Entire series of photographs from the Mason papers. The bulk of the images are from Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, etc.). Also 3 contact sheets of images from Peru. From the Durango expedition, a list of photographs; "Informes hacera de la Sierro de la Candela:" notes from Tarayre, pages 184-185; "Ruins of an agricultural colony near Zape"; possible routes of migration into Mexico; Everardo Gamiz "La Raza Pigmea," Durango, April 1934; an incomplete set of numbered photos enumerated in above list (all duplicates from museum set). A linguistic realignment north of Mexico, which gives six phyla, one "broken phylum," and two uncertain languages (for presentation at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1940) and a detailed outline of five phyla plus several unaffiliated languages.

Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)

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Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian

Culture:

Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Timucua

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Tutelo includes: Yesan

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Shawnee

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Oceti Sakowin includes: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Sioux

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Sahtú includes: North Slavey

Mattaponi

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Karankawa

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Cherokee

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Apache includes: Inde

Caddo

Calusa

Language:English

Date:1939-1945; 1947-Circa 1961; 1951-1962;

Contributor:Gillespie, John Douglas | Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992

Type:Text | Still Image

Genre:Grammars | Musical scores | Newspaper clippings | Photographs

Extent:Circa 350 volumes; 75 photographs; 75 newspaper clippings; 70 manuscripts

Description: This collection pertains principally to the Cherokees of North Carolina and Oklahoma and to their language, ethnography, folklore, archeology, history, music, etc. Includes Indian studies and correspondence by Gillespie, notes on Indian dances and linguistics, bibliographies, publications of the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University, and newspaper clippings. Also comprised of materials on: Apache, Calusa, Chippewa, Choctaw, Delaware, Eskimo, Fox, Haudenosaunee, Karankawa, Gwich'in, Mattaponi, Muskogee, Navajo, Onondaga, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Slave, Timucua, Tuscarora, Tutelo, Wyandot, and Zuni. Contains: Gillespie, "A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family," 1949-1954 (131 pages); "Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language"; "Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian."

Collection:Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian (Mss.497.3.G41)

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Miscellaneous materials, Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Culture:

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cherokee

Language:English

Date:1788-1789; February 3, 1808; circa 1809; June 23, 1819; July 5, 1819; May 29, 1826; August 11, 1834; February 9, 1835; March 14, 1839; December 31, 1882; 1926; Undated;

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Abstracts | Essays

Extent:13 items

Description: Relavent materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Various materials pertaining to miscellaneous American Indian peoples. Topics include Indian songs; Du Ponceau's "Memoir on the Indian Languages"; ancient and lost Indian languages; Heckewelder's missionary efforts among Indians; the book collection of John and Anna R. Gambold, missionaries to the Cherokees; questionable Snake Creek artifacts; busts of Indians; mineral and shell specimens; speculations on the origin of American Indians; Gallatin's documents for collections of vocabularies forwarded to E. Lincoln, John Pickering, S. Wood, Ebenezer Harris, James Rochelle, and Peter S. Du Ponceau; grizzly bears captured by Indians; Schoolcraft's projected volumes on Indians; Barton's "An essay towards a natural history of the North American Indians"; and Nuttall's Summary of paper "Fresh Light on Ancient American Civilizations and Calendars."

Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)

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Miscellaneous materials, Paul Radin papers

Culture:

Maya

Language:English

Date:1939 and undated

Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941

Type:Text

Genre:Essays

Extent:2 items

Description: Two items: Radin's undated "Aboriginal history of North America," an outline considering physical and archaeological evidences for various waves of migration to North America, and Whorf's "Remarks on Utaztecan and Macro-Penutian," a discussion of Utaztecan, Penutian, and Mayan and probable linguistic relationship.

Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)

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North American materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Language:English

Date:1928-1943; 1949-1954

Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969

Subject:Linguistics | Migrations | Archaeology | Art

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence

Extent:87 pages

Description: The North American materials, John Alden Mason collection include correspondence regarding Barbeau's work on the North Pacific coast and Eskimo art. Possible migration routes into North America from Asia; remains of early man in North America; Frederica de Laguna's archaeological work in Alaska; Edgar B. Howard's work on early man in North America.

Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)

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Penobscot materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Penobscot

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern

Date:1669; 1678; 1725-1796; 1809-1884; 1900-1995

Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text

Extent:12 linear feet; 3 hrs. (audio); 5 photographs

Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are concentrated in Series III. Siebert collected census material, treaties and treaty minutes, placenames, with a strong representation of songs, stories, and linguistic materials. There are detailed notes about Indian claims in Maine and genealogical information. There are also educational materials for the teaching of the Penobscot language as well as a wealth of information on Penobscot linguistics. Series V, Siebert's notebooks, have extensive grammatical, phonetic, and vocabulary of the Penobscot language. Both Series III and V reflect Siebert's deep interest in the history of Maine and the Eastern Abenaki including archaeological, pre-history, and colonial era documents such as the Eliot Bible, which Siebert owned a rare copy in his library, which was sold at auction. Series VI and VII contain various drafts of essays on Penobscot culture, language, and history. Series XI contains 5 related photos of Louis Lolar, taken in 1933. Series XII contains approximately 3 hours of Penobscot language recordings, primarily from the 1930s and 1950s.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)