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Date:1909-1917, 1952
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:45 pages
Description: The comparative Penutian materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials in the "Penutian" section of the finding aid. Each of these items (P1.2, P1.3 and P1.4) are comparative vocabularies of Coos and Takelma vocabulary based upon earlier fieldwork by Sapir, Boas, Dixon, and Frachtenberg. See separate entries for individual languages grouped under the "Penutian" label.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Chinook | Wasco-Wishram | Klamath-Modoc | Maidu, Northeast | Tzeltal | Takelma | Tsimshian | Yokuts | Zuni
Date:1952 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Francescato, Giuseppe | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Penutian languages | Shahaptin languages | Mayan languages | Chinookan languages | California--History | Oregon--History | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Extent:14 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Penutian language family have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Of particular interest is Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque, of Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes. The contents of this subseries includes folders of materials under the following headings: Chinookan-Chinook, Wishram, Kathlamet; Klamath-Modoc; Maidu; Maya (Tzeltal); Miwok; Penutian; Sahaptin; Takelma; Tsimshian; Yokuts; and Zuni. There are also Penutian materials in Subcollection II, Series IV. Works by Others. These include Leonard Bloomfield's "Penutian" sketch; Giuseppe Francescato's masters thesis, "A Structural Comparison of the Californian Penutian" (1952); and Morris Swadesh's "Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian." Researchers should also view the individual entries for distinct Penutian languages.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English | Potawatomi
Date:1937
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:12 pages
Description: The Potawatomi materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Potawatomi" section of the finding aid: item A1f.1, a Potawatomi vocabulary with 220 English equivalents and 20 in an unidentified language.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin
Date:1955
Contributor:Pitkin, Harvey | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Inventories
Description: The Sahaptin materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include just three items. A Nez Perce and Northern Sahaptin comparison, a word list, and Morris Swadesh's work on the language are located in Subcollection II, Series 2; Subseries 5.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Nuxalk includes: Bella Coola, Bellacoola
Duwamish includes: Dkhʷ'Duw'Absh, Dxʷ'Dəw?Abš
Schitsu'umsh includes: Coeur d'Alene, Skitswish
Language:English | Nuxalk | Salish, Southern Puget Sound | Coeur d'Alene
Date:circa 1936-1950
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Ransom, Jay Ellis, 1914- | Siddle, Julia | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Collins, June M. | Kinkade, M. Dale (Marvin Dale), 1933-2004 | Newman, Stanley S. (Stanley Stewart), 1905-1984 | Ransom, Jay Ellis, 1914-
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Salishan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays
Extent:9 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Salishan languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Nearly all are located in Subcollection II. There is relevant correspondence with M. Dale Kinkade (regarding a comparative work on color and anatomical terms in Salish, Navajo, and English), Stanley Newman (mentioning his recent work on Bella Coola and comparative Salish), and Jay Ellis Ransom (his work on Salish languages, Duwamish, Aleut, Flathead) in Series I. Correspondence. Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VIII. Undetermined Phylum Affiliation. These materials are in folders labeled as follows: "Mosan" [Voegelin originally labeled this folder "Mosan = Salish + Wakashan + Chimakuan = Quileute"]; "Salish"; "Salish: Bella Coola (Nuxalk), Coeur d'Alene"; "Salish: Duwamish" [these materials are attributed to Jay Ellis Ransom and include texts in Salish and English, with linguistic analysis, recorded from Mrs. Julia Siddle on the Muckleshoot Reservation in 1936]; and "Salish problem." This last folder contains correspondence compiled by Voegelin revolving around the "Salish Problem," including letters from Morris Swadesh (on analysis of Salish material by Boas and James Teit in the ACLS Collection, Mss.497.3.B63c), June Collins, Melville Jacobs. This folder also includes draft of a paper on Salish languages based upon the discussion in these letters. The final Salish item is located in Series IV. Works by Others and consists of Jay Ellis Ransom's "Pronomial System in Duwamish Salish" (1945). Researchers should also view the entries for specific Salishan languages.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Date:1950-1995
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Chafe, Wallace L. | Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Michelson, Karin | Pirie, M. C. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Cooper, Leroy | Gillespie, John W. | Young, Norman | Curry, Ed | Dowdy, Herb | Jones, Albert
Subject:Folklore | Ethnography | Linguistics | Archaeology | Art | Psychology | Kinship | Cosmology | Rites and ceremonies | Music
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes | Notebooks | Grammars | Dictionaries | Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies | Songs | Stories
Description: The Seneca materials in the Lounsbury Papers include his extensive work on kinship. Linguistic materials in Series II include work done by Karin Michelson, Morris Swadesh, and Wallace Chafe. Recordings in Series VII include songs from the Cold Spring Longhouse on the Allegany Indian reservation (NY). There are a large number of unidentified songs.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1950-1954 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Miller, Wick R. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Uto-Aztecan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Maps | Notes | Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to Shoshone language and culture have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II, and consist of correspondence with Morris Swadesh (regarding Shoshoni, "Shoshonean" languages, and Uto-Aztecan in general) in Series I. Correspondence; a folder containing a "Shoshone dialect and informant distribution map" in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi; and Wick R. Miller's "Western Shoshoni Speech Communities" in Series IV. Works by Others. Researchers might also be interested in the general Uto-Aztecan entry for the Voegelin Papers.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Date:1936-1958
Contributor:Pitkin, Harvey | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Silverstein, Michael, 1945-2020
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Lecture notes
Description: The Takelma materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include linguistic and comparative studies in Subcollection II, Series 2, Subseries 5 and Subcollection II, Series 4, Subseries 3 featuring work by linguists Morris Swadesh, Mary Haas, Michael Silverstein, and Edward Sapir.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Language:English | Spanish | Tohono O'odham
Date:1940 and undated
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Ethnography | Hunting | Linguistics | Music | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Songs | Speeches | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:12 pages
Description: The Tohono O'odham materials in the ACLS collection consist of two brief items in the "Papago" section of the finding aid. One is a Spanish-O'odham vocabulary with 118 words (item U8.3), recorded by Morris Swadesh. The other, "Papago phonetics and texts" (item U8.1), by an unidentified author, includes a brief discussion of phonetics, texts relating to hunting rabbit and deer, with interlinear and free translations, songs, and a speech.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Tonkawa includes: Tickanwa-tic
Date:1964
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Gursky, Karl-Heinz
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Bibliographies | Drafts | Dictionaries
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Tonkawa features in several lexica, including a Swadesh list and comparisons with other languages. Most prominent of these is a dedicated lexical slip file of between 450 and 900 slip files (Series 9) and correspondence with Karl-Heinz Gursky that includes comparisons with Yana and Karuk (Series 1). Other items of note include an index of Harry Hoijer's "An Analytical Dictionary of the Tonkawa Language" from 1949, with corrections in marginalia, and comparative phonology between neighboring languages by Morris Swadesh, both in Series 2.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)