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Language:Natchez | Chickasaw | Choctaw | Muscogee | Mikasuki | Apalachee | Alabama | Koasati | Tunica | Atakapa | Chitimacha | English
Date:ca.1934-1960s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Sam, Watt | Raven, Nancy | Leaf, Peggy
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Genealogy
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts | Field notes | Notebooks | Stories | Dictionaries | Songs
Extent:5 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' Natchez file is one of her largest, and relatively little was published from it during her lifetime. She conducted fieldwork with Watt Sam, Nancy Raven and Peggy Leaf, captured in twelve field notebooks in Series 2. A large volume of texts were elicited here and later typeset, with different versions also present in Series 2. Particularly extensive is Haas' set of Natchez lexical slips, amounting to 7 boxes (likely over 10,000 slips), including (in addition to full alphabetizations) grammatical analyses and comparisons with other languages. There are some sound recordings in Series 10. Haas' fieldwork on Natchez and other neighboring languages was used as partial evidence for the Gulf hypothesis, for which comparisons are abundant also in Series 9. Additionally, Haas corresponded with a large number of linguists (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1976-2007
Contributor:O'Donnel, Meghan | Vitelli, Anthony | Kendall, Daythal | Saville-Troike, Muriel | Milne, Derek | Dinwoodie, David W., 1961-
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:4 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall discussed Navajo materials, at the American Philosophical Society and in private collections, with Meghan O'Donnel and Anthony Vitelli (Series 1) and possessed some Essays from the American Anthropological Association (Series 7).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Language:English
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Landar, Herbert | Lesser, Alexander, 1902-1982
Subject:Ethnography | Calendars | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Description: The Navajo materials in the Lounsbury Papers are limited to notes on ceremonial calendars and ethnography in Series II. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Herbert Landar's analysis of Navajo syntax, Alexander's study of bilingual education with regard to Navajo.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1926-1956; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sandoval, Chic
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Extent:7 items
Description: Various materials relating to the study of Navajo language, including 11 notebooks of Navajo songs; 5 notebooks on the Navajo Night Chant in phonetic transcription, with notes in English on language and ceremony; Navajo conversations; Navajo stories; manuscript of Hoijer's Navajo lexicon published in the University of California Publications in Linguistics series (no. 78, 1974); notes on various aspects of Navajo grammar and phonology, with comparisons with other Athapascan languages and reconstructions for Proto-Athapascan; and notes and letters regarding Chic Sandoval's fieldwork on Navajo. Some materials may be restricted to due potential cultural sensitivity, and are noted as such in the guide to the collection.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Culture:
Date:1921, 1947, undated
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Simango, Columbus Kamba | Rumberger, Joseph Paul | Hunt, George
Subject:Linguistics | Mozambique--History | Food | Children | Crafts | Witchcraft | Religion | Death--Philosophy | Personal names | Marriage customs and rites | Games | Ethnography | Kinship | Music | Biography
Type:Text
Genre:Theses | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Stories | Songs | Illustrations | Sketches
Extent:218 p., ca. 1850 slips and 39 notebooks
Description: All Ndau materials in the ACLS collection are by C. Kamba Simango working with Franz Boas in the 1920s, or are derived from this. Three sets of texts (items AfBnd.4, AfBng.1 and AfBng.2) written by Simango describe topics including general home life, food, childrearing, marriage, religion and beliefs about death, and some autobiography. Some texts appear to have been later published as "Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa" (1922). The text items also include lexica, marginalia by Boas, a song, kinship terms and an illustration, and item AfBnd.4 "Texts on Ndau culture" also includes description of George Hunt's Kwak'wala language work. Item AfBnd.3 "Ndau lexica and ethnographic slips" contains ethnographic notes of mostly unidentified topics, but especially witchcraft, and 39 short notebooks of mostly Chindau lexica. The two main Chindau lexica (both "Chindau lexicon", items AfBnd.1 and AfBnd.2) total around 1700 slips. Zulu culture is also sporadically referenced in the above items. Finally, "An Analysis of Chindau, A Bantu Language of South East Africa" (item AfBnd.5) is an MA thesis by Joseph Rumberger derived from these materials. Boas published "Ethnographische Bemerkungen über die Vandau" in Zeitschrift Für Ethnologie 55(1), 1923 (in German) describing his work with Simango.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Nipmuc includes: Nipmuck
Language:English
Date:1926-1942
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | New England--History | Massachusetts--History | Place names | Basketry | Social life and customs | Personal names
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:1 folder
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Nipmuc language, history, and culture. Includes 3 pages concerning place and family names; a letter from Mrs. Ruth Allen, Medfield, Massachusetts, to Speck, concerning baskets owned by her family and transmitting 3 pages of extracts from printed works concerning Medfield and letters from Sarah M. Cisco Sullivan (Nipmuc) (Grafton, Massachusetts, Indian Reservation) concerning social activities, family news, place name data, historical data, etc. Images note: Newspaper clipping photographs of last survivor of the Nipmucs.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Date:Circa 1930;
Contributor:Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Extent:529 pages
Description: The Nisenan materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Maidu" section of the finding aid. One is a set of 71 "folkloristic texts" (item P2.1) recorded by Hans Uldall with interlinear translations and accompanying linguistic and ethnographic notes. (Some of this material is potentially culturally sensitive and may be restricted.) The second item is Uldall's "Maidu grammar" (item P2.2), which includes verb morphology, suffixes expressing concrete relations, anaphoric stems, verbal theme, grammatical processes, the verb, gender, and cases.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Nisga'a includes: Nass, Nisgha, Nishga, Nishka, Niska, Nisqa'a
Date:1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Nisga'a materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1888 #1.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Nlaka'pamux includes: Nlakapamuk, Nłeʔkepmx, Ntlakyapamuk, Thompson
Language:English | German | Nlaka'pamuctsin
Date:1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Nlaka'pamux materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1888 #2.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Nlaka'pamux includes: Nlakapamuk, Nłeʔkepmx, Ntlakyapamuk, Thompson
Language:English | Nlaka'pamuctsin
Date:1885, 1898-1918
Contributor:Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Antko | Tetlenitsa, Chief | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Basketry | Botany | Ethnography | Kinship | Linguistics | Material culture | Medicine | Music | Religion | Warfare | British Columbia--History
Type:Text | Cartographic | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Drawings | Essays | Field notes | Grammars | Maps | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1000+ loose pages, 500+ slips, 23 notebooks, 1 map
Description: The Nlaka'pamux materials in the ACLS collection are located primarily in the "Thompson" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. They consist predominantly of ethnographic, historical, linguistic, and botanical materials recorded and assembled by James Teit from the 1890s to the 1910s and sent to Boas. Many of the material listed in the finding aid, especially those of larger size, are composed of many shorter, distinct individual manuscripts on specific topics that were gathered together into the large sets of manuscripts and assigned general titles such as "Thompson materials" or "Salish ethnographic materials". Many additional Nlaka'pamux materials can also be found in the "Salish" section of the finding aid, often intermixed among information on neighboring Interior Salish peoples. In both of these sections there are also some additional materials, generally linguistic, by Franz Boas and others.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)