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Language:Salish, Straits | English
Date:1974
Contributor:Bowman, Elizabeth | Charles, Al | Demers, Richard A.
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Fishing | Folklore | Food | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories | Conversations | Speeches | Elicitation sessions
Extent:20 sound tape reels (21 hr., 29 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings, recorded in Whatcom County, Washington, June - August 1974, with consultant Al Charles. Includes stories relating to Lummi history, descriptions of social customs, descriptions of museum artifacts, descriptions of how to prepare various kinds of traditional foods, and elicited sentences. Majority of material given in Lummi and later reviewed and translated. (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:Lummi recordings (Mss.Rec.105)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | Delaware | English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1916-1949 (bulk 1916, 1945‐1948)
Contributor:Adney, Edwin Tappan | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Webster, J. Clarence
Subject:Dance | Botany | Ethnography | Folklore | Hunting | Linguistics | New Brunswick--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Correspondence | Drafts | Maps | Photographs | Musical scores | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Maliseet materials in the Frank Speck Papers include vocabulary lists, unpublished notes from Speck's work on hunting territories, a comparative analysis between Maliseet and Lenape ("Delaware") conceptions of the Celestial Bear, and notes on Maliseet dance and songs. Of particular value is a map depicting Maliseet villages along the St. John's River. This material is found primarily in the “Malecite” section of Subcollection I, Series I, Research Material, section III: Northeast, with additional materials in correspondence series, photographs, and maps. Some Maliseet information may be located among Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, or other materials from the same region. Note: most entries in this collection use the spelling "Malecite."
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Tanacross includes: Koxt'een
Tanana, Upper includes: Kohtʼiin
Ahtna includes: Atna, Ahtena
Language:Ahtna | English | Tanacross | Tlingit | Tutchone, Northern | Tanana, Upper
Date:1960
Contributor:Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Sanford, Frieda | Sanford, Mary | Sinyone, Jim
Subject:Alaska--History | Dance | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:9 sound tape reels (6 hr., 22 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in Chistochina and Copper Center, Alaska in 1960. Includes potlatch songs, love songs, Christmas tree songs, sorry songs, dance songs, and others. Some songs Yakutat Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross. Also includes some Ahtna vocabulary. (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:Materials Recorded at Copper Center and Chistochina, Alaska (Mss.Rec.41)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Date:1909-1949
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Butler, Eva L. | Mechling, William Hubbs, 1888-1953 | Barlow, Steve
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Specimens | Orthography and spelling | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Hunting | Wampum | Music | Missions | Dance | Social life and customs | Birch bark | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Essays | Stories | Correspondence | Field notes | Maps | Drafts | Newspaper clippings | Pictographs | Photographs
Extent:8 folders
Description: Materials relating to Mi'kmaq history, language, and culture. Includes Speck's field notes on topics such as wampum, hunting territories, Cape Breton texts, Newfoundland traditions, the Passamaquoddy, etc., as well as a map with names of Bear River Band members and one piece of birch bark with pictographs inscribed; Speck's miscellaneous notes and correspondence on topics such as consultants, specimens, hieroglyphics, linguistics, fieldwork, Mi'kmaq and Cherokee, and the Mi'kmaq mission newspaper; a text on Mi'kmaq dance with interlinear translation, notes, and a musical score; 10 pages of linguistic notes and vocabulary collected along the Miramichi River, along with 6 pages of typed copy by John Witthoft; correspondence with Mechling concerning linguistic research on the Mi'kmaq, Malecite [Malecite-Passamaquoddy], and Oaxaca languages, Mi'kmaq burials, and historic materials on Beothuk and Mi'kmaq; a brief article on a traveler's account of the Mi'kmaq in 1822; an incomplete article or set of reading excerpts taken after 1922 by Speck from John G. Millais (1907); and extracts concerning the sweat house taken by Butler from the Jesuit Relations.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:Mi'kmaq | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy | Miami-Illinois | Abenaki, Eastern | Ojibwe
Date:1856-1857; 1913-1915; 1938-1955; 1974-1985
Contributor:Fidelholtz, James L., (James Lawrence), 1941- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Hewson, John, 1930- | Metallic, Alphonse | DeBlois, Albert D.. | Pacifique, père, 1863-1943 | Alger, Abby Langdon | Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Vetromile, Eugene, 1819-1881 | Denny, J. Peter | Morrison, Alvin Hamblen | Perro, Peter | Perro, Sophie | Proulx, Paul
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | Dance
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies | Interviews | Photographs | Essays | Stories | Songs
Description: The Mi'kmaq materials in the Siebert Papers contains a wide range of materials located in Series I, III, V, VII, and XII. The items include historical wars from the early 17th century to linguistic studies to recordings of Mi'kmaq songs and dances.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Oceti Sakowin includes: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Sioux
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Sahtú includes: North Slavey
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Apache includes: Inde
Language:English
Date:1939-1945; 1947-Circa 1961; 1951-1962;
Contributor:Gillespie, John Douglas | Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992
Subject:Archaeology | Dance | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Medicine | Music | Rites and ceremonies
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)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1933-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Lazore, Margaret C. | Carse, Mary, 1919- | Jones, Louis C. (Louis Clark), 1908-1990 | Akweks, Aren | Cook, Donald (Muzzy) | Cook, Julius
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Social life and customs | Hunting | Politics and government | Folklore | Basketry | Masks | Dance | Government relations | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Reports
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Mohawk language, history, and culture. Includes miscellaneous Mohawk field notes on topics such as Caughnawaga traps, St. Regis mask data obtained from Julius Cook, dance, addresses, etc., as well as a letter from Ray Fadden congratulating Speck on his Iroquois study (1945); Speck's review of "Listen for a Lonesome Drum" by Carl Cramer; a brief (circa 1945) by St. Regis Mohawks concerning Indian rights against New York and federal government after 1924, along with a letter from Muzzy Cook, Julius Cook, and Ray Fadden (Aren Akweks, Tehanetorens, of the Akwesasne Counselor Organization); a letter from former student Mary Rowell (married name Carse) regarding her summer experiences among the St. Regis Mohawk, including her general impressions of the culture and her concern about the dangers of false traditions being taught; a letter from Margaret Lazore concerning the sale of baskets at the Allentown Fair and mentioning the visit of Mary Rowell (Carse) and Ray Fadden; and two letters from Louis C. Jones returning Speck's manuscript "the Mohawk Folk Tale" and relating to Speck serving on the Handbook Committee of the American Folklore Society.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
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)
Culture:
Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Language:Muscogee
Date:1935
Subject:Alabama--History | Dance | Music | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs
Extent:2 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Muscogee (Creek) materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of 2 recordings, "Stomp Dance" and "Two Hymns," sung by Matty Alexander. (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:Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)
Culture:
Date:1937-1962
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Basehart, Harry W. | Sturtevant, William C. | Ballard, W. L.
Subject:Linguistics | Dance | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notebooks | Vocabularies | Grammars | Songs
Description: The Muscogee materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist primarily of linguistic materials, with some songs in Series VII. Of special interest are the field notebooks of Mary Haas in Series II. The correspondence, in Series I, Includes William Sturtevant's recording of Creek songs.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)