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Date:1820-1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Taíno includes: Arawak
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Lokono includes: Arawak
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1818-1888
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent:4 items
Description: Materials relating to Onondaga language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include David Zeisberger's "Essay on an Onondaga grammar" in the Pennsylvania Magazine of universal languages; the destruction (according to Heckewelder) of part 1 of Zeisberger's Onondaga dictionary, his grammar of Onondaga, and Schuman's [i.e., Schulz's] Arruwak [Arawak] dictionary (variety unidentified); request from W.S. Hayward for Zeisberger's works on the Onondaga Hayward's grammar of the Iroquois in English; and du Ponceau forwarded Onondaga Indian vocabularies [to Johann S. Vater?]
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1928-1930
Contributor:Every, George V. | George, Lucenda | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958 | Williams, George | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics | Medicine | New York (State)--History | Religion
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Essays | Newspaper clippings | Photographs | Vocabularies
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: The Onondaga materials in the Frans Olbrechts Papers consist of numerous items, primarily concentrated in "Series II: Onondaga." Noteworthy materials in this section include several voluminous notebooks (listed as items 2-4 in the series) containing Onondaga word and phrases lists and stories. For the notebooks that make up item 3, "Langauge and Grammar," pages 694-798 contain traditional names, with translations, organized according to clan and gender. Other items in this series include notes on midwinter ceremonies, as well as 3 boxes containing a lexical file of several thousand vocabulary slips derived from the content of the notebooks. In Series I, see Item "4: Handsome Lake materials," which includes several photograpsh of Onondaga people. Item 5, "Schoon Meer," includes one newspaper clipping on Chief Albert Schanandoah of the Onondaga, dated December 8, 1929. Item"6: Comparative relative pronouns," includes Onondaga vocabulary, as does item "10: Iroquoian languages lexical files." Finally, in Series III, see items 11 and 13.
Collection:Frans M. Olbrechts papers (Mss.497.3.OL2)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Language:English
Date:March 11, 1818; July 29, 1818
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Forwards Zeisberger's book and a brief biography of him to the American Philosophical Society. Will send the Historical and Literary Committee papers dealing with Indian affairs, in the hands of Franklin, Weiser, Parsons, and Horsfield. Concerning an article by Zeisberger. Last half of an Onondaga dictionary done approximately 1764. Corrections for his publications. Is forwarding a dictionary, by Zeisberger, of the Indian languages. Part 1 of the dictionary has been found. It is to be returned, and the grammar too. Concerning Heckewelder's attitudes towards Indian cruelty and towards Du Ponceau's rewriting the book.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Date:1966, 1969
Contributor:Chafe, Wallace L. | Pia, J. Joseph
Subject:Linguistics | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:187 pages
Description: The Onondaga 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 Chafe and Pia.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1891-1901, 1908, 1936-1949, 1951-1952, 1968-1971, 1986, 1992, 1995
Contributor:Bradley, James W. | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Skye, Howard | Skye, Hubert | Skye, James | Skye, Mabel | Van Every, George | Woodbury, Hanni
Subject:Kinship | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Speeches
Extent:.5 linear feet
Description: The Onondaga materials in the Fenton papers include multiple correspondents in Series I, such as Onondaga Nation, Howard Skye, and James Skye. In Series III, see ""Concerning the League: a motif analysis of the Gibson-Goldenweiser version of the Deganawidah Epic," "The Funeral of Tadodaho: Onondaga of Today," and "Sir William Johnson Carries the Ritual of Condolence over the Path to Onondaga, 1756." In Series IV, see articles by Bradley, Kurath, and Woodbury. Series VI includes "Onondaga Longhouse Food Spirit Festival." Series VIII-A, Series VIII-B, and Series VIII-F, include several folders of Onondaga-related materials. Some of these materials are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
Culture:
Date:1946-1991
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Greene, Elton | Mithun, Marianne | Rudes, Blair A. | Crouse, Dorothy | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Kenohenyo, Nora Carrier | Printup, Marjorie | Smith, Dan | Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Gansworth, Nellie
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Folklore | Ethnography | New York (State)--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Description: The Tuscarora materials in the Lounsbury Papers include a dictionary by Chief Elton Greene, J.N.B. Hewitt's Tuscarora version of the Seneca Cosmology, and Blair Rudes's notes as he was developing his Tuscarora Dictionary in Series II. The recordings in Series VII include Lounsbury's work with Tuscarora speaker and teacher Marjorie Printup, which includes work on grammar, stories with explanations, Christian phrases, pedagogy, and reminiscences, etc. Also included are a significant number of tapes Lounsbury made with Tuscarora speaker Nellie Gansworth, many unidentified.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Date:1914-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Place names | Wampum | Folklore | Iroquoian languages | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Tuscarora language, history, and culture. Includes Speck's reading notes on New York State Tuscarora including an undated page of Mattawascheet notes and a 1930s letter to Speck from Alfred Irving Hallowell concerning Nanticoke and Tuscarora; four pages of geographical terms secured at Six Nations Reserve labeled "Canadian Tuscarora Words"; and a folder labeled "Notes on Canadian Tuscarora," which includes names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; and some Nanticoke vocabulary.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
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Language:English
Date:1931-1942
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | John, Samuel | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Nash, George | Ruck, Mrs. John
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Music | Museums | Specimens | Religion | Adoption
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Drafts | Notebooks
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Tutelo language, history, and culture. These include three letters from Canadian (Grand River, Ontario) Delaware Samuel John concerning John's Tutelo background and Speck's visit to Canadian Delawares; Speck's field notes from Grand River, Ontario on recordings of Tutelo and Onondaga songs and noting the order of rites [see also Speck (1942)]; Speck's Tutelo field notes from Ohsweken including a notebook of 53 pages of ceremonials, an account of Tutelo ceremonial procedure, a note on the Cayuga burial and redressing ceremony, and letters from indigenous consultants George Nash and Mrs. John Ruck concerning museum specimens; 12 pages of miscellaneous notes and correspondence, including a 1-page list of Tutelo names, 2 pages on Longhouse religious ceremonies, 1 note card and 4 pages of reading notes on adoption rites, two letters from John R. Swanton to Speck citing Byrd's History of the Dividing Line for Sappony-Tutelo references and concerning Tutelo linguistic forms and relationships, a letter from William N. Fenton to Speck concerning Tutelo songs and difficulties of attending Seneca longhouse ceremonies, and a letter from H. W. Dorsey (Smithsonian Institution) transmitting a photo of a Tutelo adoption necklace; and an 11-page draft of an essay on Tutulo ceremonies focusing on the adoption rite. (NOTE: portions of these materials pertaining to Tutelo ceremonies may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.)
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)