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Language:Abenaki, Western | English | French
Date:1846, circa 1920s, circa 1950s-1990s
Contributor:Laurent, Joseph | Laurent, Stephen | Marrault, Joseph | Fister, Margaret
Subject:Linguistics | New Hampshire--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Newspaper clippings | Poems | Prayers
Extent:3.75 Linear feet
Description: Papers of Stephen Laurent, son of Joseph Laurent (1839-1917), Chief of the St. Francis Abnakis and author of New Familiar Abenaki and English Dialogues (1884), and grandson of Joseph Laurent, also chief. Primarily contains outgoing letters from Stephen Laurent's wife, Margaret Fisher, to her family, and miscellaneous documentation relation to Laurent's activities as an interpreter of Abenaki history in New Hampshire. The main Abenaki language material in the collection is found in one catechism and prayer book in Abenaki from 1846 by Joseph Marrault, a Jesuit.
Collection:Stephen Laurent Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.118)
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Language:English
Date:January 30, 1798
Contributor:Sergeant, John, 1747-1824
Subject:Missions | Religion | Indian Removal, 1813-1903 | Migrations
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Jedidiah Morse regarding his return from Indian country; planning removal of his missionary Indians. Sends his journal.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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Date:1821; 1916; 1932
Contributor:Pitkin, Harvey | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Vallejo, Platón M.G. | Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe, -1842
Subject:Religion | Place names | Ethnography | Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Prayers
Extent:15 folders, card slips
Description: The Suisun materials in the Harvey Pitkin papers consist of numerous word lists that Pitkin compiled from various historical and linguistic sources. In Subcollection I, Series I-B, see John Alden Mason's "Suisun vocabulary" from 1916. In Subcollection II, Subseries 4-B, there are copies of vocabularies and versions of the Lord's Prayer in Suisun. In Subcollection II, Subseries 4-C, see "Section 6: Suisun" for Pitkin's typed-up versions of all Suisun vocabularies he compiled. In Subcollection II, Series 6, see 4 sections of card slips derived from Suisun vocabularies.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
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Language:English | Tiwa, Northern
Date:1922-1930, 1937
Contributor:Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956 | Johnson, Melville | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notebooks | Photographs
Extent:23 notebooks, 70+ photographs
Description: The Taos materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of materials found in multiple sections of the finding aid. In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", see items 7, 8, 9, and 11, which contain numerous field notebooks, item 27, which contains some photographs, and item 54, which contains corresondence and photographs on Taos dance. In Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence," see Melville Johnson's "Taos the Brilliant," and Mabel Dodge Luhan correspondence. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts", see "In the Southwest," "Taos Pueblo." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Taos - Notes." In Subcollection II, Series VIII, "Photographs and Scrapbooks," see Taos prints. Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
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Date:1911-1913 and undated
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Uto-Aztecan languages | Folklore | Rites and ceremonies | Religion
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Sheet music | Reports | Essays | Stories | Prayers | Vocabularies | Songs
Extent:7 items; photographs
Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest in and research on Tepecano language and culture. Items include 8 notebooks of field notes (1912-1913), containing a list of specimens purchased, texts, and notes on the language, ethnology, and archaeology, etc.; Mason's Preliminary Report as Fellow to the Escuela Internacional de Etnologia y Arqueologia Americanas (1912-1913), on continued investigations in linguistics, religion, ethnology, and mythology of the Tepecanos and in the archaeology of their region; Mason's Tepecano linguistic file, comprised of about 1000 cards with Tepecano words and sentences, with Spanish translations for most and English translations for some; Mason's "A Sketch of Tepecano Religion," which includes some comparison with religious beliefs of Huichols and Coras; a Tepecano Rain Festival Song, musical score with Tepecano lyrics; 6 pages of Tepecano verbal roots with English glosses; and Mason's miscellaneous notes on Tepecano regarding ethnology, linguistics, religion, Piman [Akimel O'odham] comparisons, etc., and including prayers with interlinear English translation (with note "work done for Boas").
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
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Language:English | Spanish | Tepecano | Tepehuan, Northern | Tepehuan, Southeastern | Tepehuan, Southwestern
Date:1916-1967
Contributor:Dolores, Juan | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Weigand, Phil C. | Bascom, Burton William, 1921- | Hart, Brete R. | Hobgood, John
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Kinship | Uto-Aztecan languages | Folklore | Rites and ceremonies | Religion | Jalisco (Mexico)--History
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Stories | Transcriptions | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies | Reports | Essays | Maps
Extent:21 items; photographs
Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest in and research on Tepehuan language and culture. Northern Tepehuan is most prominently represented in this collection, though references to "Southern Tepehuan" indicate the presence of data on what are now distinguished as the Southeastern Tepehuan and Southwestern Tepehuan languages. Items focused on Northern Tepehuan include Mason's report from the Northern Tepehuan Linguistic Expedition, Baborigame, Chihuahua, Mexico (1951); his Northern Tepehuan linguistics file, containing circa 350 cards with words, phrases, and sentences with Spanish glosses and occasionally some Tepecano and Papago [Tohono O'odham] cognates; two 1936 notebooks on Northern Tepehuan linguistics with vocabulary and texts with Spanish glosses based on work with consultant Pedro Valencia; two 1951 notebooks on Northern Tepehuan linguistics with grammatical notes and texts from wire recordings; 20 pages of Northern Tepehuan texts with interlinear Spanish translation; 20 pages of texts relating to myths, official speeches, settling marital difficulties, etc. with interlinear Spanish 14 pages on Northern Tepehuan morphology concerned primarily with suffixes, taken from the files of Burton W. Bascom; 5 pages of Northern Tepehuan miscellaneous notes including verb conjugation labeled "Bascom" and a map; and two copies of "The Sacred Case" in Northern Tepehuan with English translation, attributed to Juan Dolores. There is one item focused on Southern Tepehuan, comprised of seven notebooks of Southern Tepehuan field notes containing grammatical notes, texts, and some transcriptions and translations of recordings at the American Philosophical Society (see also #3738). More general or comparative materials include Mason's "The Primitive Religions of Mexico" (1916), a paper read at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Tepecano prayers to accompany the paper lacking); Mason's "Notes on the Linguistic and Cultural Affiliations of the Tepehuan and Tepecano," written for the Mexican Historical Congress, Zacatecas (1948); Mason's "Tepehuan of Northern Mexico" (1958), regarding observations on the culture which were made incidental to linguistic fieldwork (includes original and two copies with maps); lists of perdones Tepehuanes and notes on same; comparative lists from Southern and Northern dialects of Tepehuan, with English glosses and comments, by Burton W. Bascom and based on his work in 1943-1944 under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics; 14 pages of kinship terms in Southern Tepehuan, Northern Tepehuan, and Tepecano with English glosses; and a notebook containing a digest of Rinaldini's Tepehuane taken from the book in the Ayer Collection, Newberry Library. Correspondence includes letters from Burton W. Bascom regarding Northern Tepehuan with some mention of Tepecano, Pima [Akimel O'odham], Papago [Tohono O'odham], and Southern Tepehuan, and including a short paper by Bascom on the Northern Tepehuan possessive -ga, a Northern Tepehuan verb list for comparison with Mason's Tepecano list, and a discussion of noun plural formation with examples; Brete R. Hart regarding receipt of material on Utaztecan, work on alphabet for Southern Tepehuan, and a brief description of Fiesta for the Dead observed at Xoconoxtle, Durango, Mexico; Phil C. Weigland regarding acculturation, history, and relations with whites in San Sebastian and Azqueltan; and a report and correspondence from John Hobgood concerning events transpiring during a visit by John Hobgood and Carroll L. Riley to Santa Maria Ocotlan: their presentation of letters, request for permission to study the Tepehuan language and customs of the village, and interactions with the villagers. Hobgood mentions Agnes McClain Howard as well as Carroll L. Riley.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
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Tesuque includes: Tetsuge Owingeh
Language:English | Keres, Eastern
Date:1923, 1925
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:3 notebooks
Description: The Tesuque materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of 3 notebooks found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes." Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
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Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:Seneca
Date:November 10, 1933
Contributor:Cornplanter, Edward, 1856-1918 | Cornplanter, Jesse J.
Subject:New York (State)--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:102 pages
Description: "The Code of Handsome Lake." From a manuscript by Edward Cornplanter. Copy is from a document in possession of Edna (Mrs. Nick) Bailey, Tonawanda Reservation. In the hand of and signed by Jesse J. Cornplanter. Reproduction of the item is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:The code of Handsome Lake (Mss.970.6.H19.c)
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Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Language:Mohawk
Date:1981
Contributor:Deer, Louise | Hopkins, Alice W.
Subject:Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Speeches
Extent:21 min.
Description: A reading by Louise Deer of a Mohawk version of part of the first day of the recitation of the Handsome lake Code, written down at the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario in 1880 by Seth Newhouse. Recorded by Alice Hopkins in Brooklyn, New York, in 1981.
Collection:"The Good Message": A reading by Louise Deer of translation of the Handsome Lake Code (Mss.Rec.117)
Language:English
Date:1728
Contributor:Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Trist, Nicholas Philip, 1800-1874
Subject:Botany | Folklore | Geography | Health | Religion | North Carolina--History | Travel | Virginia--History | Warfare | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Maps | Travel narratives
Extent:1 volume
Description: A finished copy, probably earlier than the Westover manuscript, from which this varies slightly. Byrd interpolated into the narrative of his tour remarks on Indian customs, religion, warfare, trade, in addition to observations on his Saponi guides. Several pages added in 1817 in hand of Nicholas Trist. Printed (from Westover manuscript) in Boyd (1929). See also Woodfin (1944).
Collection:The history of the dividing line between Virginia and North Carolina (Mss.975.5.B99h)