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Culture:
Yurok includes: Pueleekla’, Puliklah
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dene includes: Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athabascan, Athapaskan
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Language:English
Date:1911-1934
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Material culture | Specimens | Kinship | Art | Motifs | Migrations
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Questionnaires
Extent:4 folders
Description: Materials relating to linguistics. Includes an undated 4-page list of 34 questions on culturally patterned aspects of language attributed to Hallowell; correspondence with Boas relating to the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Research in American Native Languages, principally consisting of reports on grants and their progress (1927-1934); and two folders containing 30 letters from Sapir (1911-1924). The Sapir letters cover a range of topics including Northeast material-culture specimens;s of Speck;s of Sapir; linguistic field work among the Montagnais [Innu], Cree, Delaware, Seneca, Mohawk, and Penobscot; relation of Algonquian and Wiyot-Yurok; on Yana (with Ishi); Arapaho-Cheyenne; Sapir's paper on Levirate marriage; Yurok kinship; a scheme to test response of anthropologists to an Indian design; work on his grammar of Paiute; reduction of language stocks to 6 (1920); his work on Subtiaba; relationships in and around Hokan-Coahuiltecan, and some discussion of migrations, seeing Athabaskan as late arrival. Discussion of colleagues: Mechling, Barbeau, Heye, Radin, Dixon, Skinner, Goldenweiser, Gifford, Frachtenberg, Reichard, Goddard, Boas, Hawkes.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:January 20, 1823
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Describes poem; discusses Indian languages.
Collection:George William Featherstonhaugh Papers (Mss.B.F31)
Language:English
Date:October 22, 1818
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Concerning women's dialect.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Unangax̂ includes: Aleut, Unangas, Unangan, Алеу́ты, Унаӈан, Унаӈас
Scaticook includes: Scatticook, Schaghticoke
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Language:English
Date:April 11, 1803; November 1, 1953
Contributor:Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Linguistics | Moravians | Missions | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 items
Description: Item 1: Letter from Humboldt to William Smith asking for a copy of Barton (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1797), and any other works pertaining to North and Middle American languages. Item 2: Witthoft's "Preliminary listing of resources in American Indian languages in the Archives of the Moravian Church." Includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century materials described as "Algonquin, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Onondaga, Eskimo, Cherokee, Checameca, Mahican, and Scatticook". Compilers include Zeisberger, Pyrlaeus, Dencke, Heckewelder, Gambold, Ettwein, etc.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Language:English
Date:1993-1996
Contributor:Thorne, Tanis C. | Weiner, Diane
Subject:California--History | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports
Extent:440 pages
Description: The Luiseño 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 Thorne and Weiner.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:ca.1991-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Elliott, Eric | Golla, Victor | Hill, Jane H. | Munro, Pamela | O'Neil, Stephen
Subject:Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Books | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright corresponded with several linguists on the Luiseño language, including on Spanish loanwords, vocabulary and prosody (Series 1). Comparison between various Takic languages forms a lexical slip file (Series 5), and there is also a small publication (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1940-1941
Contributor:Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject:North Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:7 letters
Description: The Lumbee materials in the Franz Boas Papers that have been identified thus far consist of letters from Ella Deloria to Franz Boas in 1940-1941. These letters relate to Deloria's time in Pembroke, North Carolina, where she was commissioned by the Farm Security Administration and the Office of Indian Affairs to write and direct a pageant, performed in December 1940 and December 1941, telling the history of the Lumbee of Robeson County. Any additional materials relating to Lumbee that may exist in this collection have not yet been identified.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Language:Maidu, Northeast | Maidu, Northwest | Maidu, Valley | English | Maidu (macrolanguage)
Date:1930s-1960s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Hedrik, Roberta
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas documented a small amount of Maidu (unidentified variety) in a field notebook in the 1930s, with Roberta Hedrick of Susanville, California (Series 2). Besides this is correspondence with Russell Ultan concerning Konkow (Series 1) and several short comparative lexica, some of which are unverified to be a Maiduan language, mostly in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Language:English
Date:November 3, 1925
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Charles E. Bond, White Plains, New York regarding references for information on the Indians of Maine. Mentions Chief Frances and Alfred V. Kidder.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Language:English
Date:1910s-1920s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Description: 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. 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)