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Date:1904-1947
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Giger, Leona E. | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Rolland, Ann | Ball, Carl | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Schultes, Richard Evans | McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Botany | Botany | Linguistics | Economic conditions | Orthography and spelling | Dance | Haskell Institute | Material culture | Clothing and dress | Folklore | Mythology | Music | Alabama--History
Type:Text | Three-dimensional object
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Drafts | Essays | Notebooks | Sheet music
Extent:14 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Creek history, language, and culture. Includes Speck's own notes and work, including "Notes on Social and Economic Conditions Among the Creek Indians of Alabama in 1941" (published as Speck 1947); an undated earlier version of that essay titled "Creek Indians Surviving in Alabama"; 115 pages of linguistic notes from Taskigitown, dated 1904-1905 and organized by categories; Creek and Yuchi songs; Creek and Yuchi Dance; 98 pages of Creek texts, including some interlineal translations, and related notes dated 1904-1905; and 35 pages of miscellaneous notes and letters on topics like dances, language, clothing, myths, handicrafts, and fieldwork. Also includes two botanical specimens--Coopti (Zamia floridana) used by Seminoles, 1941 and Ilex vomitoria Ait, used by Creeks--accompanied by letters to Speck from Richard Evans Schultes concerning Houma Botany; two letters from female students at the Haskell Institute in 1940 (Leona Giger writes of a Creek doll she is making and mentions the council house at Okmulgee, Oklahoma, while Ann Rolland offers to answer questions on Creek use of feathers); a letter from Morris Opler regarding Opler's work among the Creeks, as well as an essay by Opler about the organization, history, and social and political significance of Creek towns; a letter from Mario Gamio acknowledging the receipt of a Creek Indian pamphlet; and a letter from D'Arcy McNickle returning to Speck photographs of the Creek Indians of Atmore, Alabama to prevent them from getting lost and mentioning that his manuscript of the report is still being copied.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
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Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Language:Chippewa | English | Ojibwa, Northwestern
Date:1948, 1967-1968, 1985, 1993-1997, 2012-2015
Contributor:Beckett, Kristen M. | Ettawageshik, Jane, 1915-1996 | Gills, Bradley | Hele, Karl | Jackson, Deborah Davis | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Morse, Stephanie Gamble | Pollak, Margaret | Powers, William K. | White, Bruce | Wishart, Robert
Subject:Dance | Economic conditions | Botany | Manitoba--History | Michigan--History | Military service | Powwows | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Trade
Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Dictionaries | Dissertations | Essays | Film | Interviews | Maps | Newspaper clippings | Photographs | Reports | Songs | Stories | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:1883 pages, 72 photographs, 1 film
Description: The Ojibwe materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Beckett, Gills, Hele, Jackson, Kurath, Morse, Pollak, Powers, White, Willets, and Wishart.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Date:1994
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B.
Subject:Dance | Economic conditions | Linguistics | Medicine | Oklahoma--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:26 sound tape reels (12 hr., 21 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The collection consists of linguistic elicitations of different aspects of Shawnee grammar and vocabulary, and conversation, anecdotes, discussion, and personal narratives relating to Shawnee customs and history. The linguistic material includes elicitation of passive, imperative, hortative verbs, and other verb forrms, vocabulary for times of the day and year, weather, gender and age, color terms, and miscellaneous adjectives and full sentences. The other material includes a narratives given in Shawnee on on traditional roles of men and women and the use of eagle feathers in doctoring, and English anecdotes and conversation relating to topics such as: different types of dances, the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, the keeping of fire, how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, little people, the passing down of knowledge through elders, doctoring, the use of tobacco and peyote, and personal stories. Recorded in Oklahoma in 1994. (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:Shawnee language recordings (Mss.Rec.161)