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Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1926-1956; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sandoval, Chic
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Extent:7 items
Description: Various materials relating to the study of Navajo language, including 11 notebooks of Navajo songs; 5 notebooks on the Navajo Night Chant in phonetic transcription, with notes in English on language and ceremony; Navajo conversations; Navajo stories; manuscript of Hoijer's Navajo lexicon published in the University of California Publications in Linguistics series (no. 78, 1974); notes on various aspects of Navajo grammar and phonology, with comparisons with other Athapascan languages and reconstructions for Proto-Athapascan; and notes and letters regarding Chic Sandoval's fieldwork on Navajo. Some materials may be restricted to due potential cultural sensitivity, and are noted as such in the guide to the collection.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Hupacasath includes: Hupač̓asatḥ, Opetchesaht
Language:English | Makah | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:1949
Contributor:Gallic, Seymour | Kishkish, Peter | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swan, Charlie | Williams, Frank
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Music | Social life and customs | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Extent:3 sound tape reels (2 hr., 46 min) : DIGITIZED
Description: Nuu-chah-nulth songs and stories, and Makah stories, recorded by Morris Swadesh on 5 wire spools in Port Alberni and Neah Bay in 1949. Includes Nuu-chah-nulth (primarily Tseshaht) music, group singing, historical stories, and stories in Makah. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Nootka and Makah songs and stories (Mss.Rec.8)
Culture:
Language:Pima Bajo | Spanish | Tepehuan, Northern
Date:1951, 1956, 1958
Contributor:Aguilar, Gerónimo | Bascom, Burton William, 1921- | Brugge, David M. | Carrillo, Andrés | Carrillo, Antonio | Carrillo, Dolores | Carrillo, Juan | Coyote, Nacho Lucero | Carrillo, Lorenzo | Carrillo, Carolina Chaparro de | Onteveros, Catalina Carrillo de | Estrella, Julio | Jimenez, Lorenzo | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Molina, Dolores
Subject:Folklore | Material culture | Music | Pottery | Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Sonora (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs | Speeches | Stories
Extent:3 sound tape reels (2 hr., 9 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Northern Tepehuan songs and stories originally recorded on wire by John Alden Mason in 1951, 1956, and 1958. Numerous short songs, folkloric and unidentified stories, description of pottery-making, conversation in Spanish on indigenous peoples, and texts and speech in the Macoba dialect of Pima Bajo. Recorded in Baborigame (Chihuahua,) Hermosillo, and Onavas (Sonora.) Tepehuan consultants are Gerónimo Aguilar, Andrés Carrillo, Antonio Carrillo, Celestina Carrillo, Dolores Carrillo, Juan Carrillo, Lorenzo Carrillo, Carolina Chaparro de Carrillo, Catalina Carrillo De Onteveros, Dolores Molina, and Julio Estrella. The Pima Bajo consultant is Nacho Lucero Coyote. Some material was recorded by David M. Brugge or Burton Bascom. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Northern Tepehuan language material (Mss.Rec.12)
Culture:
Ucluelet includes: Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ
Tla-o-qui-aht includes: Clayoquot
Pentlatch includes: Puntlatch, Puntledge
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
K'ómoks includes: Comox
Kyuquot includes: Ka:'yu:'k't'h'
Hupacasath includes: Hupač̓asatḥ, Opetchesaht
Cheklesahht includes: Che:k:tles7et'h'
Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:1895-1952 (bulk 1910-1914, 1931-1935)
Contributor:Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bob, Tyee | Hunt, George | George, Hamilton | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sayachapis, Tom | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | William
Subject:Architecture | British Columbia--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Orthography and spelling | Personal names | Place names | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Drawings | Essays | Grammars | Maps | Musical scores | Notes | Photographs | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:5600+ loose pages, 66,000+ slips, 29 notebooks
Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the ACLS collection consist of a large body of various materials primarily collected by Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, George Hunt, and Morris Swadesh. The majority of the content pertains to Hupacasath and Tseshaht people in the Alberni Valley area, with the exception of the Hunt materials, which were recorded in the Yuquot area, Mowachaht territory. All of these materials are found in the "Nootka" section of the finding aid, which contains a full, detailed listing. The Boas materials consist of a lexicon of 1500+ word slips dating from the 1890s (item W2a.3). Hunt's "Nootka Tales" (item W2a.5) consist of large body of traditional stories written in English and later typed up by Sapir with additional notes. Sapir's materials comprise the bulk of this section overall. See especially his extremely voluminous "Miscellaneous Nootka material" (item W2a.18), the final item in the "Nootka" section, for which a detailed table of contents is available upon request. This set of materials includes 24 field notebooks with extensive stories (some unpublished or untranslated) and ethnographic notes, as well of 80 folders of typed up notes from the notebooks, arranged into categories. It also includes some photographs, censuses of Nuu-chah-nulth "bands" (1920-1921), and 10 folders notes derived by Sapir (and Swadesh?) from "NW Coast Sources and Archives," pertaining to the region more broadly, including information on Coast Salish culture and history. Finally, Swadesh's materials in this section include some additional ethnographic and linguistic field work, as well as extensive bodies of linguistic analysis of materials recorded by Sapir and himself. Brief passages on Comox and Pentlatch in Sapir's notes in loose folders. Detailed guide available upon request.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish
Date:1912
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Castillo, Andrea | Pastor, Pedro Marcelino | Castillo, Ignacio | Vásquez, Ines | Vásquez, Manuel | Avesilla, Eleuteria | Trinidad, María | Martinez, Sabina | Ramos, Gil | Raquel, Mauricia | Feliciana | Réz, Joaquina | Nicha, Paula | Pina, Estanislao | Pina, Epifanio | Peñafiel, Antonio | Vásquez, Ezéquiel | Castillo, Iguario | María, José
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Field notes | Notebooks | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:November 16, 1830; February 25, 1836; June 29, 1847; August 12, 1898; May 10, 1912; 1956
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Maness, Edwin | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Kidder, Homer H. (Homer Huntington), 1874-1950 | Copway, George, 1818-1869 (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh)
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Receipts | Transcriptions | Songs | Stories
Extent:6 items
Description: Relavent materials can be found in the finding aid under the specific dates listed. Nineteenth-century correspondence from Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway) regarding Chippewa education efforts; Schoolcraft's work on "Indian tales," a vocabulary of the Algic requested by James Barbour, and biographical sketches of chiefs; Kidder obtained tales from Charley Bawgam and Jack LaPique on murder of trader, Aitken, 1837, and on mermaid tradition among Ojibwe. Under May 10, 1912, there is a 2-page "A Story of Turtle and His Brother'' in Ojibwe and English, told by Edwin Maness of Sarnia Reserve, Ontraio, and recorded by Edward Sapir. Also 1956 transcription of the Ojibwe songs from Lac du Flambeau by Willie Catfish, cataloged in Mss.Rec.75.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | Chinook Jargon | English | French
Date:1961, 1966, 1971
Contributor:Abel, Joe | Abel, Mary | Armstrong, Willie | Gabriel, Louise | Gregoire, Tommy | Holding, Margaret | Lezard, George | Pierre, Larry | Pierre, Selina | Watkins, Donald
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Music | Religion | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Stories | Prayers | Songs | Conversations | Vocabularies
Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 4 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Syilx (Okanagan Salish) stories with English free conversation on dialectical variations in Okanagan and borrowing from French and English; elicitation sessions covering animal names, fish names, body parts, and words containing fricatives; Catholic hymns in Okanagan and Chinook. Recorded in Penticton, Spectacle Lake, and head of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, in 1961, 1966, and 1971. Project report, letter to APS Librarian, and detailed tape contents available in Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4). (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Okanagan Salish stories and songs (Mss.Rec.101)
Culture:
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Nlaka'pamux includes: Nlakapamuk, Nłeʔkepmx, Ntlakyapamuk, Thompson
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1980-1981
Contributor:Robinson, Harry | Wickwire, Wendy
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent:16 hr., 46 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Audio recordings of traditional and autobiographical Okanagan stories, recorded by Wendy C. Wickwire in Hedley and Merritt, British Columbia in 1980-1981. May contain occasional Nsyilxcən words. Otherwise predominantly in English. Access to these recordings is currently restricted, as of November 2020, while they are reviewed for which materials can be made available for general research access.
Collection:Okanagan Stories (Mss.Rec.116)
Culture:
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:English | Otomi, Mezquital | Spanish
Date:1971
Subject:Folklore | Hidalgo (Mexico : State)--History | Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920 | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:2 sound tape reels (3 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collection consists of numerous recordings of Otomi stories, primarily folklore, along with a number of unidentified, untranslated stories, and story about the Mexican Revolution. There is also one recording of various songs sung by children. Includes Spanish, English, and Otomi version of "Frère Jacques." (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Otomi songs and stories (Mss.Rec.86)
Culture:
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1947-1948
Contributor:Chingwa, Joe | Cooper, Victoria | Ettawageshik, Jane, 1915-1996 | Ettawageshik, Fred, 1896-1969
Subject:Dance | Folklore | Hunting | Michigan--History | Music | Nanabush (Legendary character) | Puberty rites | Social life and customs | Trials
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Interviews | Conversations | Stories | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:21 sound tape reels (8 hr., 28 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collection consists of Ottawa songs, interviews, Vocabularies, legends, Nanabojo stories, autobiographical stories, and information on Ottawa history. Some of the material is given in both Ottawa and English, some in Ottawa only. Recordings in Series 1 made by Jane Ettawageshik in Philadelphia in 1947, and Series 2 in Michigan in 1948. Transcriptions and translations of some of the collection can be found in Mss.SMs.Coll.20, "Anishinaabe Language Tape Transcriptions of Anishinaabe Language Recordings by Anishinaabe People from the Traverse Area of Michigan During the 1940s". (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Ottawa material (Mss.Rec.1)