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Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Date:1951
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject:Dance | Ethnography | Music | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Essays
Extent:1 volume, 200 p.
Description: Analysis of music; scores of songs; choreography. This item is restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Seneca music and dance style: songs and ceremonies of Coldspring longhouse (Mss.497.3.K965s)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1948
Subject:Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Extent:2 sound tape reels (48 min.)
Description: Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony and Chant of Handsome Lake, given by Sherman Redeye, and an origin of the False Faces, given by Clara Redeye. Recorded in September 1948 at Coldspring Longhouse, Allegany Reservation, New York. These tapes are identified by William Fenton as "originals or copies of recordings made for the Library of Congress: Nos. 21322, 21324." These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony; An origin of the False Faces (Mss.Rec.128)
Date:1727
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862
Subject:Guatemala--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Sermons
Extent:1 volume, 338 leaves.
Description: Sermons for holy days, the title of the whole manuscript is derived from the title of the first volume. Written in Kaqchikel with Spanish marginalia. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Culture:
Date:1994
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B.
Subject:Dance | Economic conditions | Linguistics | Medicine | Oklahoma--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:26 sound tape reels (12 hr., 21 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The collection consists of linguistic elicitations of different aspects of Shawnee grammar and vocabulary, and conversation, anecdotes, discussion, and personal narratives relating to Shawnee customs and history. The linguistic material includes elicitation of passive, imperative, hortative verbs, and other verb forrms, vocabulary for times of the day and year, weather, gender and age, color terms, and miscellaneous adjectives and full sentences. The other material includes a narratives given in Shawnee on on traditional roles of men and women and the use of eagle feathers in doctoring, and English anecdotes and conversation relating to topics such as: different types of dances, the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, the keeping of fire, how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, little people, the passing down of knowledge through elders, doctoring, the use of tobacco and peyote, and personal stories. Recorded in Oklahoma in 1994. (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:Shawnee language recordings (Mss.Rec.236)
Culture:
Language:German
Date:May 14, 1806
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Witchcraft | Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet | Religion | Moravians | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Photocopy of letter to Johanna Maria (Polly) Heckewelder. Original in Darlington Library, University of Pittsburgh. Mentions Shawano [Shawnee] Indian witchcraft proceedings, burning of Indian Tetepackki and one Joshua and his two sisters. Mentions Hackingponiskam and Indian girl Caritas.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder papers (Mss.B.H35)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1976, 1981, 1987-1990, 1994
Contributor:Clemmer, Richard O. | Knack, Martha C. | Kreitzer, Matthew E., 1957- | Merrill, William Lewis | Mixco, Mauricio J. | Pubigee, Leland | Timimboo, Helen
Subject:Botany | Idaho--History | Linguistics | Nevada--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Interviews | Notebooks | Reports | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1192 pages
Description: The Shoshone materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Clemmer, Knack, Kreitzer, Merrill, and Mixco.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Yupik, Siberian includes: Yupighyt, Юиты, Eskimo (pej.)
Yukaghir includes: юкаги́ры, одул, деткиль
Tofa includes: Tofalar, Karagas, тофа
Soyot includes: сойоты
Nivkh includes: Gilyak
Sakha includes: Саха, Yakuts
Koryak includes: Коряки, нымыланы, чавчувены, алюторцы
Evenki includes: Эвэнкил
Chukchi includes: Chukchee, Чукчи, ԓыгъоравэтԓьат
Date:1924, ca. 1928
Contributor:Maniagit, Khoibo | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Solovyev, D. K., 1886-1931 | Jochelson, Waldemar, 1855-1937 | Spiridonoff, N. V.
Subject:Religion | Clothing and dress | Russia--History | Railroads | Animals
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Essays | Inventories | Catalogs
Extent:27 p., 24 photographic prints, 2 sketches
Description: This guide entry only describes broad Siberian materials. Chukchi and Nivkh materials in the ACLS collection have their own dedicated guide entries. "Catalogue of phonograph records from the Jesup North Pacific Expedition" (item AsPa.2) briefly details Waldemar Jochelson and Waldemar Bogoras' documented phonograph recordings during the Jesup expedition, which may include those housed at the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana. "The Study of Paleoasiatic and Tunguse languages in the USSR for the last ten years (1918-1928)" (item AsPa.1) describes programs of institutions in the USSR that included bringing students from various areas of Siberia to Leningrad. "Photographs and brief essays on "Paleoasiatic tribes of the hills of Uryankai" and "The Manegher"" (item 36) contains brief descriptions by Bogoras of Soyot, Karagass (Tofa?) and Manegher/манегры (Evenki) peoples, based on descriptions of expeditions by D. K. Solovyev in 1913 and 1915-1916 to the Amur River and the Sayan mountains. It includes several sets of photographs, assumed to be from these expeditions, and mentions the existence of hundreds of other photographs, artifacts and film reels.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1798-1799
Contributor:Jackson, Halliday, 1771-1835
Subject:Missions | Religion | New York (State)--History | Social life and customs | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Journals | Diaries | Travel narratives
Extent:181 pages
Description: This manuscript, entitled “An account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people,” was compiled by Halliday Jackson, a Quaker missionary, during his yearlong residence with the Seneca Nation in New York. Jackson's chronicle is well-written, detailed, and often fascinating. It includes descriptions of daily life, weather, customs, and minutes of councils. Another copy of this journal, worded differently, was edited by Anthony F. C. Wallace and published in Pennsylvania History 19 (1952): 177, 325.
Collection:Some account of my journey to the Seneca Nation of Indians, and residence amongst that people, 1798-1799 (Mss.970.3.J25)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1953-1955
Contributor:Kenosha, David | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Shagonaby, Susan | Shalifoe, Thomas | Albert, Whitney | Thomas, Albert | Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 | Peters, Jim | Sprague, Selkirk | Soney, William | Soney, Fred | Thomas, Eli | Pamp, Betty | Joan Pamp | Rickard, Glenna
Subject:Michigan--History | Religion | Music | Social life and customs | Methodists | Catholic Church
Type:Sound recording
Extent:3 hr., 32 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Traditional and Christian songs in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages, recorded with numerous singers in multiple communities in Michigan in the mid-1950s. Recorded as part of Gertrude Kurath's broader study of contemporary religion and music among Anishinaabe communities in Michigan. Includes traditional songs, Catholic hymns, and Free Methodist revival meetings. Also includes one talk entitled, "Longfellow's Use of Michigan Indian Tales." (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:Songs and Dances of the Rural Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Mss.Rec.20)
Culture:
Language:English | Mi'kmaq | Innu-aimun | Naskapi
Date:1797
Contributor:Pierronet, Thomas | Gabriel
Subject:Picture-writing | Orthography and spelling | Religion | Quebec--History | Newfoundland--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Pictographs | Prayers | Sketches
Extent:41 pages
Description: This is a comparative vocabulary of the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Innu-aimun (Montagnais, "Mountaineer"), and Naskapi ("Skoffie") languages. It includes Mi'kmaq prayers and a dictionary of Mi'kmaq pictographs. The latter includes 288 ink sketch pictographs of the Mi'kmaq language presented by Gabriel, an Innu man ("Mountaineer Indian,") and transcribed by Thomas Pierronet in 1797. Includes three Christian prayers in pictorial sentences.
Collection:Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797 (Mss.497.3.P61s)