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Nooksack includes: Noxws’áʔaq
Date:1934
Contributor:Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:11 pages
Description: The Nooksack materials in the ACLS collection consist of 1 item in the "Nooksack" section of the finding aid: Smith's "Vocabularies in Nooksack and other Coast Salishan languages" (item S.8), which includes a Nooksack-English word list and a comparative word list with multiple Coast Salish languages and dialects, including Nooksack.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:circa 1900-1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Williams, Frank
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Drafts | Vocabularies | Notes | Stories
Extent:2 reels
Description: These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). Originals at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Collection:Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials (Mss.Film.687)
Culture:
Date:1735-1900
Contributor:Moravian Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Subject:Moravians | Moravian Church | Missions | Linguistics | Religion | Social life and customs | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes | Church records
Extent:40 reels
Description: This collection contains correspondence, diaries, reports, letters, conference minutes, church registers and catalogs, and other papers documenting the work of Moravian missionaries among the Indians of North America. Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; and materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee. Materials cover New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Originals in the Archives of the Moravian Church, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Collection:Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records, 1735-1900 (inclusive), [microform] (Mss.Film.1279)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1928-1943; 1949-1954
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Migrations | Archaeology | Art
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:87 pages
Description: The North American materials, John Alden Mason collection include correspondence regarding Barbeau's work on the North Pacific coast and Eskimo art. Possible migration routes into North America from Asia; remains of early man in North America; Frederica de Laguna's archaeological work in Alaska; Edgar B. Howard's work on early man in North America.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Language:English
Date:1805-1838
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Townsend, John Kirk, 1809-1851 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:6 items
Description: Materials relating to Northwest Coast languages and cultures at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include APS support for John Kirk Townsend's expedition [to Oregon, with botonist Thomas Nuttall, the second western expedition of Boston entrepreneur Nathaniel J. Jarvis]; Captain Swift's [of Boston] observations of indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast; Lieutenant Sylvanus W. Godon's return from U.S. exploring expedition aboard the Peacock, a gift of vocabularies, and the gift of Northwest Coast Indian pipe to John Vaughan; a draft letter to Samuel G. Morton signed by Titian Peale regarding the division of materials from Townsend's expedition between American Philosophical Society and Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; a letter from Morton stating that the Academy of Natural Sciences didn't subscribe to Townsend's expedition and consequently has no claim on his collections; and Townsend's letter to John Vaughan transmitting Northwest Coast Indian vocabularies--the originals have been given to the APS and have also been rearranged and transcribed for Du Ponceau, and Nuttall has a copy of four or five vocabularies. Geological specimens and shells selected by Titian R. Peale also transmitted.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Language:Shoshoni
Date:2002
Contributor:Mixco, Mauricio J. | Pubigee, Leland
Subject:Linguistics | Utah--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations
Extent:2 audiocassettes (1 hr., 46. min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: A conversation in Northwestern Shoshone between Helen Timbimboo and Leland Pubigee, recorded in Salt Lake City on May 30, 2002. (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:Northwest Shoshone Grammar Project (Mss.Rec.276)
Culture:
Date:1951
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958 | Thomas, David | Ninham, Cassie
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: The volume consists of copies of 3 sets of fieldnotes in the following order. Onondaga verbs, possessive pronouns, nouns, Cartier's vocabulary, and compound pronouns, obtained August 5, 1951, at Ohsweken, Ontario, from Onondaga speaker David Thomas (49p.); Tuscarora word list, similar to above, but with equivalents for many items in Oneida, Mohawk, and Cayuga, obtained from multi-lingual speaker Cassie Ninham, August 10-21, 1951 (79p.); List of Mohawk suffixes obtained from Charles Cooke, August 21, 1951 (4p., one unnumbered).
Collection:Notes on Onondaga and Tuscarora; . . . Mohawk suffixes (Mss.497.2.B235)
Culture:
Date:1820-1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka
Date:1784
Contributor:Gurley, George | Kells, Richard
Subject:Linguistics | Virginia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Nottoway materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 47 and 49, which are two letters relating to collection of Nottoway vocabulary and "Remarks on Indian names still to be found," with etymology of "Tuckahoe" and other Nottoway words, tracing them to Arabic and Hebrew roots.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language:Nuu-chah-nulth | English
Date:2002
Contributor:Dick, Mary Jane | Kim, Eun-Sook
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:5 audiocassettes (1 hr., 56 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recordings of the Ahousaht dialect of the Nuu-chah-nulth language made by Eun-Sook Kim with consultant Mary Jane Dick on Vancouver Island in June and July of 2002. Consists of elicitations of words and phrases for the purposes of studying vowel lowering, vowel lengthening, lenition, delabialization, variable vowels, hiatus, and reduplication. (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:Nuu-chah-nulth (Ahousaht) language recordings (Mss.Rec.274)