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Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Atikamekw includes: Têtes-de-Boules, Têtes de Boules, Tete de Boule
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English | Abenaki, Western | French | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1914-1930
Contributor:Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Day, Gordon M. | Laurent, Bernedette | Masta, Henry Lorne | Nolet, Beatrice | Obomsawin, Louis Napoleon | Panadis, Theophile | Reynolds, Beatrice | Ritzenthaler, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1911-1980 | Watso, William
Subject:Dance | Architecture | Ethnography | Clothing and dress | Hunting | Psychology | Agriculture | Animals | Personal names | Kinship | Music | Botany | Material culture | Folklore | Medicine | Religion | Genealogy | Economics | Linguistics | Québec (Province)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Maps | Notes | Rorschach tests | Vocabularies | Drawings | Bibliographies | Biographies | Stories
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: The Abenaki materials in the Hallowell Papers are mostly located in Series V, Research Files, in folders labled "Abenaki" and Series VI, Photographs, Subseries E "St. Francis Abenaki Album." These include linguistic, ethnographic, ethnobotanical, ceremonial knowledge, information on political organization, and historical materials. Of particular interest are a sketch of Abenaki history from 1600-1930 accompanied by detailed notes from secondary sources on 17th century Abenaki history. The linguistic materials include an analysis of how the language changed after contact with Catholic missionaries, Abenaki vocabulary related to body parts, Abenaki phonetics, and religious, medical, and kinship terminology. The ethnobotanical materials include a manuscript labled "Identity of animals and plants," and information concerning herbal medicine and its practitioners. There is a wealth of ethnographic materials that include drawings of pipes, descriptions of games, basketry and birch bark mats. There are descriptions of Abenaki music and diagrams of dances, as well as detailed descriptions of hunting techniques. Some of the genealogical materials contain lists of community members names and descriptions of marriage. Interspersed throughout the folders labled "Abenaki" in the Research Files are interlinear translations of stories such as "Man who could Find Lost Objects," "Woman and Bear Lover" and numerous other stories. The materials on hunting include topics such as the use of snow shoes, preparation of moose hide, and techniques and drawings of trapping. The collections contain important information designation hunting territories and family names. Four folders contain detailed informaiton on kinship terms. Two folders on Measurements and Genealogical data contain lists of names. The folders labled "Linguistics" in Series V contain scattered information about Abenaki grammar. In Series VI, of 160 photographs taken at St. Francis, Odanak in the Centre-du-Québec region. The Abenaki people in the photographs are identified, in most cases, and also include depictions of traditional dress, buildings, clothing, baskets, and a wide variety of material culture. The correspondence, in Series I, includes letters from Théophile Panadis; Gordon Day describing his collection of stories, recordings, vocabularies, and hunting territories. Henry Lorne Masta, one of Hallowell's Abenaki consultants, writes about culture and language. Additional correspondents may contain other Abenaki-related information.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Date:1907, 1931-1935
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Carmony, Willard | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:California--History | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Linguistics | Boarding schools
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:615 pages
Description: The Achumawi materials in the ACLS collection are primarily located in the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, with some also in the "Atsugewi" section (specifically item H1a.2, "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts"). They include a word list from the Pit River area; autobiographies of Willard Carmony, an Achumawi speaker, whose stories refers to being sent to Fort Bidwell Indian Boarding School; linguistic analysis of Achumawi's relationship to the Hokan language family; conversational texts in the Achumawi language; free English translations; and grammars. Also included are notes on dialectical differences between Atwamdzini, Hammawi, and Adzumawi.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Acoma includes: Áakʾùumʾé, Keres
Language:English | Keres, Western
Date:1957-1963, 1969
Contributor:Davis, Irvine | Maring, Joel M.
Subject:Linguistics | Music | New Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Stories | Transcriptions
Extent:261 pages
Description: The Acoma materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Irvine Davis and Joel Maring.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Alabama includes: Alibamu
Date:1973
Contributor:Bullock, Matthew | Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Poncho, Maggie
Subject:Linguistics | Music
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:3 sound tape reel (5 hr., 51 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The Alabama material in James Crawford's "Recordings of Native American languages" collection consist of numerous stories and songs located in "Series 1: Alabama." (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:James Crawford Recordings of Native American languages (Mss.Rec.184)
Culture:
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Date:1949-1952, 1962, 1967-1968, 1973-1974, 1976-1977, 1992, 1995-1996, 2000-2001
Contributor:C'Hair, William James | Cleveland, Edna | Cowell, Andrew | Goggles, John B. | Hatton, Orin T., 1953- | Hopper, Edward G. | Merrill, William Lewis | Moss, Alonzo | Powers, William K. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Salzmann, Zdeněk | Shakespeare, William | Underwood, Merry Kate | Weigel, William F.
Subject:Linguistics | Montana--History | Music | Oklahoma--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Grammars | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:814 pages
Description: The Arapaho materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Andrew Cowell, Orin T. Hatton, William Lewis Merrill, Willam K. Powers, Sue Roark-Calnek, Z. Salzmann, and William Weigel. These materials pertain to both Northern and Southern Arapaho. The materials by Cowell and Weigel relate to linguistic fieldwork for which there are accompnaying audio recordings, listed separately in this guide. Salzmann's material is also linguistic, containing a draft grammar of the language. The material by Hatton also relates to an extensive audio collection, "Ghost Dance-Era Songs of the Arapaho Crow Dance," also listed separately in this guide.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Date:2000-2001
Contributor:Cowell, Andrew
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Powwows
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:11 audiocassettes (8 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recordings of speakers of the Arapaho language, primarily focusing on conjunct order verb forms and aspectual material. Also includes a long autobiographical text, conversation, brief stories, rabbit dance songs, and pow-wow-songs. Recorded at Wind River Indian Reservation (Wyo.), Lander (Wyo.), and Boulder (Colo.) in 2000 and 2001. (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:Arapaho Verbal Morphology (Mss.Rec.278)
Culture:
Cahuilla includes: Ivilyuqaletem, ʔívil̃uqaletem, Táxliswet
Date:ca.1950s-2004
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Saubel, Katherine Siva
Subject:Linguistics | Music | Ethnography | Folklore | California--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Books | Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: William Bright's most significant Cahuilla materials consist of audio recordings of Cahuilla songs and wordlists made between the 1950s and 1980s. Katherine Siva Saubel is identified as a speaker on some, while others contain singing from an unidentified male. These can be found in Series 6 and the Digital Library. In addition are Bright's own interlinear glosses of Cahuilla songs and notes on J. P. Harrington's Cahuilla materials (Series 4), a lexical slip file comparing several Takic languages (Series 5), correspondence (Series 1) and copies of several small publications on Cahuilla language and culture, including a lexicon by Saubel (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Date:1716; 1803; ca. 1925-1931; 1951-1997
Contributor:Alexander, Edward Porter, 1907-2003 | Blumer, Thomas J., 1937- | Lieber, Oscar Montgomery, 1830-1862 | Pickens, A. L. (Andrew Lee), 1890-1969 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948- | Watson, Ian M. | Gordon, Sally
Subject:Linguistics | Archaeology | Pottery | Architecture | Place names | Music | Zoology | Games | Hunting | Trapping | Fishing | Medicine | Religion | Dance | Genealogy | Diseases | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Witchcraft | Animals--Folklore
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Bibliographies | Photographs | Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Grammars | Notes | Field notes | Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Genealogies | Censuses | Songs | Autobiographies
Extent:7 boxes
Description: The Catawba materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are primarily concentrated in Series II. These consist of copies of secondary sources such as an "Indian Vocabulary from Fort Christanna, 1716, Catawba census notes, 1830-1929, land claim agreements, and a dictionary of Place names in South Carolina. Original materials include hundreds of pages of Siebert's FIeld notes and a Catawba vocabulary / dictionary done with Wes Taukchiray. There are also 14 sound recordings made with Sally Gordon in Series XII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:English | Cup'ik, Chevak
Date:1977-1978
Contributor:Moses, Leo | Teve, Gregory | Chimiralrea, Mary | Imgalrea, Rose | Imgalrea, Tom | Kokrak, Mary | Moses, Thomas | Nash, Jacob | Sylvester, Rosemary | Woodbury, Anthony C.
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Warfare
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories
Extent:7 audiocassettes (9 hr., 56 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings of the Chevak Cup'ik language made in Chevak, Alaska by Anthony C. Woodbury. Includes autobiographical stories and historical accounts, including a story of the Yukon Wars, tales, accounts of traditional ways, and recordings made in Chevak's Qaygiq, containing conversation, songs, and stories. (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:Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Chevak dialect (Mss.Rec.113)
Culture:
Date:1941-1946; 1951-1952
Contributor:French, Will | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958 | Reyburn, William D. | Sequoyah, Molly | Witthoft, John
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Music | North Carolina--History | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs | Boarding schools | Games | Ethiopia--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Transcriptions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1,652 pages, 920 slips, 59 phonograph discs, 4,500 cards
Description: The Cherokee materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 sets of material located in the "Cherokee" section of the finding aid. The smallest item is Frans Olbrechts' brief essay comparing Cherokee and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) syllabaries (item I2.1). Zellig Harris and John Witthoft's "Cherokee materials" (item I2.4) was conducted in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of grammatical Vocabularies and utterances, extensive grammatical notes and analyses, and numerous ethnographic and autobiographical stories, plus some songs, recorded on phonograph discs with Molly Sequoyah (mainly) and Will French. A small number of texts are written in the Cherokee syllabary as well. A second linguistic study by William Reyburn (item I2.3), conducted in Cherokee, North Carolina, consists of 1000+ pages of linguistic notes, transcriptions of recordings, and analyses, plus an extensive lexical file organized according to morpheme class. Reyburn's accompanying recordings are cataloged as Mss.Rec.16, "Cherokee materials gathered...on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C.," listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)