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Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Natick includes: Massachusett, Nipmuc
Date:circa 1820s and undated
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:11 pages
Description: The Massachusett materials in this collection consist of manuscript Vocabularies listed in the finding aid as 20, 21, 22a, 22b, and 38. The first four of these item refer to the language as "Natick" and the final one as "Massachusett."
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Language:English
Date:1817-1899
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937 | Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Welsh, John, 1805-1886
Subject:New England--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:11 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Massachusett culture and language materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include John Eliot's publications, particularly the Eliot Indian Bible and Eliot's Indian Grammar (1666); possible republication of Eliot's works, particularly by the Smithsonian; Nuttall's Travels (1821); and Reland (1708). A recurring topic is the loan of the Eliot Indian Bible to A. J. Holman and Company for display at the Centennial Exposition. Other individuals mentioned include Benjamin H. Coates, Eli K. Price, George H. Horn, J. Peter Lesley; and Joseph Carson.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Date:1950
Contributor:Antone, Betsy | Antone, Billy | Antone, Harry | Antone, Rosa | Benedict, Charles | Benedict, Charles, Mrs. | Benedict, Ernest | Christian, Albert | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Curlyhead, Sadie | Cusick, Herbert | Dowdy, Lynn | Gansworth, Nellie | Henhawk, Floyd | Hickerson, Harold, 1923- | Homer, Pat | Jacobs, Elver | Jimerson, Laurence | Jimerson, Laurence, Mrs. | Johnny John, Amos | Johnny John, Colline | Johnny John, Richard | Jones, Albert | Lewis, Thomas | Lyons, Annie | Lyons, Louis | Mt. Pleasant, William | Owl, David | Owl, Jane | Redeye, Henry | Schanandoah, Chapman | Schanandoah, Chapman, Mrs. | Skye, Solon | Smith, Mr. | Smith, Mrs. | Smoke, Percy | Snow, Kenneth | Snow, Lena | Thomas, George, Jr.
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories
Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collections consists of texts in several Iroquoian languages (Cayuga, Cherokee, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora) recorded and played back to other speakers to test the mutual intelligibility of the languages for various speakers. The recordings comprise numerous texts in these languages, administered mutual intelligibility tests, stories, and conversations, all predominantly untranslated. Originally recorded on wire in the fall of 1950 at various locations in the United States and Canada. Later copied to sound tape reels. The Native speakers involved in these recordings are as follows. The Cayuga language speaker was Jane Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Cherokee speaker was David Owl, recorded at Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Mohawk speakers were Ernest Benedict and Sadie Curlyhead, recorded at Akwesasne (Saint Regis), and Ernest Benedict and Mr. & Mrs. Charles Benedict, recorded at Akwesasne (Cornwall, Ontario). The Oneida speakers were Harry Antone, Betsy Antone, Rosa Antone, Billy Antone, and Mr. & Mrs. Chapman Schanandoah, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and Albert Christian, recorded at Nedrow (N.Y.) The Onondaga speakers were Louis Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.), and George Thomas, Jr., Percy Smoke, Thomas Lewis, Pat Homer, and Floyd Henhawk, recorded at the Onondaga Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Seneca speakers were as follows: Annie Lyons, recorded at the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation (N.Y.); a Mr. & Mrs. Smith, recorded at the Oneida Nation of the Thames in southwestern Ontario; Richard Johnny John, Colline Johnny John, Amos Johnny John, Lena Snow, Kenneth Snow, Albert Jones, Hubert Cusick, Lynn Dowdy, Henry Redeye, Elver Jacobs, and Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Jimerson, recorded at the Allegany Indian Reservation (N.Y.); Jesse Cornplanter and Solon Skye, recorded at the Tonawanda Indian Reservation (N.Y.) The Tuscarora speakers were Nellie Gansworth and William Mt. Pleasant, recorded at the Tuscarora Indian Reservation (N.Y.) (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:Material on Iroquois Dialects and Languages (Mss.Rec.13)
Culture:
K’ásho Got’ıné includes: Hare
Language:English | Slavey, North
Date:1962-1963
Contributor:Hara, Hiroko, 1934-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: Microfilmed fieldnotes from Hiroko Sue Hara's 1962-1963 fieldwork at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories.
Collection:Materials collected among the Hare Indians, 1962-1963 (Mss.Film.1175)
Culture:
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:Spanish | Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Matlatzinca, Atzingo
Date:1940
Contributor:McQuown, Norman A.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:12 pages
Description: The Matlatzinca materials in the ACLS collection consists a single item located in the "Matlazinca" section of the finding aid. This is item is a 300-word Spanish-Matlazinca vocabulary (item Mt.1). The specific variety of Matlatzinca is not identified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:English | Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Spanish | Matlatzinca, Atzingo
Date:1967
Contributor:Bartholomew, Doris | Hernández, Ezequiel
Subject:Linguistics | Mexico (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:44 pages
Description: The Matlatzinca materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bartholomew. The materials may be in either variety of Matlatzinca.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Spanish
Date:1966
Contributor:Bartholomew, Doris | Hernández, Ezequiel
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 17 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Includes verb paradigms for past, present, and future tenses, and first, second, and third person singular forms; Text; translation of an Otomi primer. Consultant: Ezequiel Hernandez, age 14. (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:Matlazinca verbs (Mss.Rec.60)
Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Date:1907
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Linguistics | Place names | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Mattole materials in the ACLS collection consist of 2 notebooks in the "Mattole" section of the finding aid, titled "Mattole materials" (item Na20e.1). These notebooks, recorded by Goddard in 1907, include a detailed account in English of an unidentified Native American's explanation of topographical features connected with a Mattole settlement, a survey of Bear River sites, October 1907, and Mattole texts with interlinear translation. Also includes Vocabularies.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Language:English
Date:1928
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Currently, the only Mattole-related letters identified in this collection are 3 letters to and from Alfred Kroeber from July 23, December 4, and December 5, 1928. This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. The largest correspondence is that of George Hunt, which took place from 1894-1933 and runs around 1000 pages. A full index for this correspondence is available upon request, and includes cross references to the locations (in other APS collections) of fieldwork and other materials referred to in the letters. Other correspondences primarily about Kwakwaka'wakw matters are that of the Cadwalladers, Dan Cranmer, John Fillmore (concerning the transcription of Boas' cylinder recordings of Kwakiutl songs), Alfred I. Hall, and C. J. Nowell. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Date:undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Li, Fanggui | Miller, Wick R.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' Mattole materials appear to be derived from work by Fang-Luei Li. They consist of two lexical slip files, one of which has the “Bear River” variety distinct from Mattole (Series 9), historical linguistics exercises for students at the University of California, and phonology examples and notes with several Dene languages, both in Series 2.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)