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Date:1792-1897
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Turner, George, 1750-1843 | Thorburn, John | Townsend, Thomas | Morris, J. Cheston (James Cheston), 1831-1923 | Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820 | Smith, Charles | Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888 | Turner, George, 1750-1843 | Miller, Samuel | Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 | Cutler, Manasseh, 1742-1823 | Forshey, Caleb Goldsmith, 1812-1881 | Hullihen, S. P. (Simon P.), 1810-1857 | Short, Charles Wilkins, 1794-1863 | Thomas, Isaiah, 1773-1835
Subject:Linguistics | Missions | Mounds | Inscriptions | Petroglyphs | Archaeology | Funeral rites and ceremonies
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Memoranda | Sketches
Extent:28 items
Description: Items relating to materials about the Native peoples of Eastern North America. Topics include papers and articles, particularly those considered for publication (on the relation of pentagonal dodecahedron found near Marietta, Ohio, to shamanism; memoir on aboriginal monuments; memoir of Dr. Charles D. Meigs on bones and burial customs; multiple items regarding a letter from S. P. Hullihen to Dr. Richard Harlan regarding inscription on a stone found at Grave Creek near Wheeling, and Thomas Townsend's claim to prior publication rights to Grave Creek inscription; Caleb Forshey's paper describing a great mound in Adams County, Mississippi; Cushing's publication on exploration of ancient key dwellers' remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida; a response to Henry Phillips' article on supposed runic inscriptions at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia); requests for information or materials (Samuel Miller's request for copies of designated Indian vocabularies of Delaware, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Osage, for training missionaries of United Foreign Missionary Society); donations to APS ("curiosities" taken from Indian grave near Cincinnati; relics and fossil shells found in Huntingdon County, West Virginia;"western productions"); Peter S. du Ponceau's work on Southern Indian languages and customs (including Creek, Natchez, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Yuchi), Indian vocabularies, and for APS; information from Judge William C. Frazer (Wisconsin Territory, Superior County), concerning discovery of burned bricks in Aztalan Mound, Jefferson County, Wisconsin; Cutler's estimation of age of Ohio mounds referred to in Barton (1787) using tree-ring dating; sketch of the plan of an ancient work three miles southeast of Lexington (Kentucky); American Antiquarian Society's plans to publish a volume on mounds based on Caleb Atwater's data; and comparative vocabularies of British Columbia tribes. Other individuals mentioned include Murray, Duralde, Colonel Smith, Benjamin Hawkins, Robley Dunglison, Isaac Lea, Benjamin W. Richards, George M. Wharton, Nathaniel Ware, General Wayne, Dr. Tolmie, George M. Dawson, and Abelard Tomlinson.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Woodhouse, S. W. (Samuel Washington), 1821-1904
Subject:Expeditions | Linguistics | Natural history | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John L. LeConte describing cave with Indian hieroglyphs and other comments on an exploring expedition [possibly the Sitgreaves Expedition (1851)].
Collection:John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers (Mss.B.L493)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English | Delaware | Powhatan | Susquehannock | Quiripi | Mohegan-Pequot | Carolina Algonquian | Dutch | Swedish
Date:1859-1860
Contributor:Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862
Subject:Linguistics | Geography | Place names | Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History | Delaware--History | Maryland--History | New York (State)--History | North Carolina--History | Virginia--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Dictionaries | Maps | Place names
Extent:1 dictionary (820 p.); 8 maps
Description: A completed dictionary, based on various printed authorities (Zeisberger, Heckewelder, etc.). Contains a separate dictionary of place names organized by states. Maps of portions of Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and New York. Maps beyond Lenape territory may contain Powhatan, Susquehannock, Mohegan-Pequot, Quiripi-Unquachaog, Carolina Algonquian, and Pamlico place names.
Collection:English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (Mss.497.33.H39)
Culture:
Language:Lushootseed | Twana | Chehalis, Upper | English
Date:ca. 1935-1936, n.d.
Contributor:Aginsky, Ethel G. (Ethel Gertrude), 1910-1990 | Adams, Mary | Allen, Henry | Hawk, Emily | James, Annie | James, Anthony | Sherwood, Nancy | Sherwood, Kimball | Sparr, Joseph | Wilbur, Annie | Wilbur, Jimmy | Wilbur, Willy | Wilbur, Willy, Mrs. | Williams, Marcel
Subject:Linguistics | Genealogy | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Classroom notes | Oral histories | Stories | Conversations | Elicitation sessions
Extent:13 notebooks
Description: 13 notebooks recorded by Ethel Aginsky. The first 11 notebooks document Aginsky's research with mostly Puyallup people between November 1935 and January 1936. Puyallup (Washington) is the only location identified - the location is thought to be Tacoma. Consultants include: Mary Adams, Henry Allen, Emily Hawk, Annie James, Anthony James, Nancy Sherwood, Kimball Sherwood, Joseph Sparr, Annie Wilbur, Jimmy (or Jimmie) Wilbur, Willy Wilbur, Mrs. Willy Wilbur, and Marcel Williams. The notebooks include texts (histories, conversations, etc.) and wordlists. In addition to Lushootseed, there is Chehalis and Twana language identified, and one text in notebook 10 is of Klallam cultural origin (but in Lushootseed). Notebooks 12-13 are Aginsky's unrelated classroom notes.
Collection:Ethel Aginsky Notebooks Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.127)
Culture:
Date:ca.1930s
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Correspondence | Biographies
Extent:1 folder
Description: Haas appears to have been preparing in the 1930s for a fieldtrip to Alaska that never materialized. She collected information on Eyak phonology and on several speakers of Eyak in Cordova, Alaska, details of which can be found in Series 2 Subseries ‘Eyak' and possibly also Series 1 correspondence with Frederica de Laguna. There are also comparisons with Tlingit and other Dene languages in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Mattole includes: Bear River
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Language:English | Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ)
Date:1928-1982
Contributor:Li, Fanggui | Mandeville, François | Ferrier, Baptiste | Thompson, Laurence C. | Thompson, M. Terry
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Dene languages | Folklore | Alberta--History | California--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Vocabularies | Transcriptions | Stories | Interviews | Oral histories
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: The heart of the Fanggui Li Collection is comprised of ten notebooks kept by the linguist Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li relating to his research on the Denesuline "Chipewyan" language in 1928. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from François Mandeville in Denesuline, and, in one instance, Baptiste Ferrier) in July 1928, with interlinear English translations. The topics of these stories include myths, folklore, and tribal history as well as activities like fishing, tanning a moose hide, or making a canoe. The balance of the collection consists of an extensive slipfile for Denesuline language, and two audio cassettes of oral history interviews conducted by Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson in 1982, concerning Li's memories of Edward Sapir and other colleagues in linguistics. Interview topics include Li's early education, experience at the University of Chicago, Leonard Bloomfield, Edward Sapir's influence on his course of study, Li's fieldwork on the Mattole language in Northern California in the late 1920s, discrimination against Chinese in that region at that time, Li's work with Sapir on the Hupa reservation, and various aspects of linguistic methodology of the times, including recording with wax cylinders. See the finding aid for more information, including more details on the contents of each notebook and the two audio cassettes, and for related material.
Collection:Fanggui Li Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.119)
Culture:
Language:English | Cup'ik, Chevak
Date:1978
Contributor:Woodbury, Anthony C.
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories
Extent:9 microfiche cards
Description: Field notes accompanying linguistic field recordings made in Chevak, Alaska. The notes are contained in three notebooks, and include Yupik words, phrases, and texts.
Collection:Field notes, 1978, for Central Alaskan Yupik, Chevak dialect (Mss.Fiche.13)
Culture:
K’ásho Got’ıné includes: Hare
Language:English | Slavey, North
Date:1961
Contributor:Hara, Hiroko, 1934-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Dene languages | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: This item consists of 4 field notebooks (109 pages) of Hiroko Sue Hara. The notebooks contain primarily linguistic notes, principally also a 43-page vocabulary, organized by ethnographic categories such as animals, fish, clothing, tools, etc.; 36 pages of phrases and vocabulary notes; and a slip file. This material is related to Recording 38, reels 1-6. Originals in possession of Hiroko Sue Hara.
Collection:Field notes of the Hare Indians, 1961 (Mss.Film.1115)
Date:circa 1930s
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:9 pages
Description: The Fijian materials in the ACLS collection consists of two items, "Social organization of the Namuavoivoi" (item 39) and "Namuavoivoi" (item PoNa.1), located in the "Non-American and non-linguistic material" section of the finding aid. The first is a comparison of social structure among the Namuavoivoi (Namuaivoivoi) of Fiji with Polynesian and Maori, and the second is a basic description of the language and its social use.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Date:1880-1932
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Calhoun, Morgan, 1863?-1927 | West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Wolf, James | Witthoft, John
Subject:Botany | Ethnography | Medicine | Religion | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Diaries | Account books | Records | Ledgers | Vocabularies | Transcriptions
Extent:22 items
Description: The Frank Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee (syllabary) collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. These include several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms. Many of these items have been designated as culturally sensitive and may not be reproduced, nor photographed in the Reading Room.
Collection:Frank Gouldsmith Speck Cherokee Collection (Mss.572.97.Sp3L)