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Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1967-1968
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Liljeblad, Sven S. (Sven Samuel), 1899-2000 | Le Clair, Dorothy | Vallely, Lillian | Condit, Bea | Judson, Bessie | Gross, Joe | Devinne, Ernie | Weyley, Jon | Pocatello, Mr. | Racehorse, Mr. and Mrs.
Subject:Linguistics | Idaho--History | Folklore | Ethnography | Anthropology | Fieldwork
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Shoshone (formerly Shoshoni) language. These materials are located in three folders in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. "Shoshoni Notebook #1" is a field notebook dated to 1967-1968 containing linguistic data. Language consultants and contacts mentioned include Mrs. Dorothy Le Clair, her sister Lillian Vallely who worked at the agency office, Mrs. Bessie Judson, Joe Gross, Ernie Devinne, Bea Condit, Jon Weyley, etc. "Shoshoni Notebook #2" is a continuation, picking up soon after #1 ends and going to May, 1968, and is only about a quarter full. This notebook contains work on a story (including a full English translation) about two brothers, the elder who disappeared while out hunting and the younger, Mosquito-Blood, who found the remains of the elder in the teeth of an infant; he buried the remains and the elder returned. The final folder, "Shoshoni Notes," is dated to 1967 and contains about 20 sheets of linguistic notes. Consultants mentioned include Mr. Pocatella and Mr. and Mrs. Racehorse, all audited with Swedish folklorist and linguist Sven Liljeblad.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Date:ca.1975-2007
Contributor:Kentta, Verna | Ben, Archie
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Oregon--History | Powwows
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Photographs | Leaflets
Extent:2 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall's Siletz materials consist of a photograph of Archie Ben at a Pow-wow in Siletz, Oregon (Series 9), and a large folder gathered by Verna Kentta containing newspaper clippings, Siletz tribal histories, official tribal leaflets, copies of photographs and more.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Treaties | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: One of three manuscript copies in Hawkins' hand, the other two being in the Georgia Department of Archives and History [see Pound (1951):251]. A listing of towns and villages of Muskhogee and especially Creek Indians, together with a discussion of customs, the Busketau, and answers to queries proposed to an old Creek Indian. Addenda on war parties, 1813, and treaties, 1773-1796.
Collection:Sketch of the Creek country in the years 1798 and 1799 (Mss.970.3.H31)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1826
Contributor:McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | Lewis, James Otto, 1799-1858 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Subject:Michigan--History | Wisconsin--History | Treaties | Diplomacy | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Memoirs | Watercolors | Sketches
Extent:3 volumes, 29 watercolor illustrations
Description: A record of a journey undertaken by Thomas L. McKenney and Lewis Cass, from Washington, D.C., to Fond du Lac, Wisc., to negotiate a treaty with the Chippewa and other Indians. McKenney, the Superindenant of Indian Affairs, includes an account of travel on the Great Lakes and a description of the "character" and customs of the Chippewa Indians, an account of the treaty of Fond du Lac, and a vocabulary of the Algic or Chippewa language. The manuscript, a fair copy of the original sent to a London publisher, is illustrated throughout with watercolor sketches of scenes and persons. It was originally published in Baltimore in 1827. Schoolcraft-Gallatin Chippewa vocabulary appears at beginning, but the manuscript lacks appendices found in the printed text. Watercolors are different in small details, superior in color to printed text.
Collection:Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes (Mss.917.7.M19)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Snunueymuxw 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 1886 #4.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wonderly, William L. | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | Peeke, M. Catherine
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Colombia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Notes | Essays | Maps
Extent:12 folders
Description: There are many items relating to South American languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials that cover South American languages in general and might not show up in narrower searches. Researchers should also view the entries for specific languages (i.e., Quechua, etc.). In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with John H. Rowe and William L. Wonderly in Series I. Correspondence; a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages placed unexpectedly at the end of Ojibwa Folder #4 in Series II. "Ethnological Research Opportunities in Colombia," "Living Language Families," and "Peopling of the New World (South America After North America)" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; George P. Murdock's "Maps for South America" (Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture"), M. Catherine Peeke's "Divisive Criteria for Auca World Classes," and William L. Wonderly's "List of Central American Indian Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others; a file on "Amazon Indian Languages" (containing typed classifications of languages of the Amazon, Putomayo, and Caqueta regions of Brazil, with population numbers) and folder on South American and Other Latin American Languages (which includes Central America and Mexico and contains a list of languages and notes on some of them) in file in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes [see also the associated material in Oversized]; and a map of "South America and other Latin American languages" in Series VII. Photographs. Several references throughout the collection are made to "Island" and "Central American" Carib.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Language:English
Date:July 6, 1936
Contributor:Britten, Marian Hale
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Speck written from Washington regarding Speck's reappointment to Committee on Survey of South American Indians, National Research Council.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English | Ute-Southern Paiute
Date:1959-1962 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Jake, Vernon E. | Jake | Vivian | Voegelin, F. M. (Florence Marie), 1927-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Uto-Aztecan languages | Folklore | Ethnography | Genealogy
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Stories | Field notes | Drafts
Extent:18 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Southern Paiute language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. In Subcollection I, there is a typed invitation in Paiute and English from Vivian Jake and Florence Voegelin inviting friends to dinner after "the Navaho Show" in Series I. Correspondence; five "Paiute, Southern" folders dating to 1959-1961 and containing field notes made with Vivian Jake (along with references to associated tapes/reels throughout, and genealogical information in #4) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; and four unbound Southern Paiute texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts. In Subcollection II, there is a letter to Vernon E. Jake, Chairman of the Kaibab Paiute Tribal Council, regarding a proposed language speaker census (with particular interest in discerning how well children really know the language) in Series I. Correspondence; and a Southern Paiute folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. Finally, Southern Paiute is also one of the languages Voegelin considered in a grammatical analysis of Uto-Aztecan languages. Drafts of seven chapters of this work can be found in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III: Uto-Aztecan book.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Date:1886, 1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Squamish 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 1886 #4 and Field notes 1888 #1.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
St'at'imc includes: Stl’atl’imx, Lillooet
Language:English | St'at'imcets
Date:1910-1921
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Museum objects | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:200+ pages
Description: The St'at'imc materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of materials in the "Lillooet" section of the finding aid. These include ethnographic notes and multiple word lists recorded by Sapir, Boas, and Teit, including both Upper and Lower Lillooet. In the "Salish" section, Teit's "Salish (and Dene) ethnographic notes" (item 60) includes information on St'at'imc objects sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) includes notes on 80 songs (some of which are St'at'imc) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In the "Thompson" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Salish ethnographic materials" (item 61) includes some St'at'imc ethnographic information of undetermined extent.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)