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Culture:
Lokono includes: Arawak
Date:1803
Contributor:Schultz, Theodor
Subject:Astronomy | Guyana--History | Linguistics | Moravians | Suriname--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:2 volumes, 795 p.
Description: Theodor Schultz was a Moravian missionary in British Guiana at the turn of the nineteenth century. This collection contains two items: "Aruwakkisch Deucthes Wörterbuch," a dictionary with German equivalents and examples, as well as alphabetical Arawak index, and "Grammatische Sätze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache," a grammatical treatise based upon a Latin model, with Latin terms used throughout, though most of the text is German.
Collection:Arawak manuscripts (Mss.498.3.Sch8)
Culture:
Haisla includes: Xa'islak'ala
Date:1993-1994
Contributor:Compton, Brian D.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Field notes | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:575 pages
Description: The Haisla materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Compton, of which 4 of the 5 partially concern Haisla botanical knowledge.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Latin
Date:1986, 1989-1990, 1994
Contributor:Compton, Brian D. | Harkin, Michael
Subject:British Columbia--History | Botany | Linguistics | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:265 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Compton and Harkin. Compton's material include 4 items relating to Heiltsuk botanical knowledge. Harkin's material is "Ethnohistory of the Heiltsuk," is described as "research...conducted in Bella Bella, British Columbia, 1986-1987, and involved eliciting ethnohistorical narratives, and ethnological and linguistic data, with elders from the Heiltsuk band, in order to record a Heiltsuk perspective of their own history. Consultants included Gordon Reid, Evelyn and Charles Windsor, Esther and Jimmy Lawson, Stanley George, Ed Martin, Margaret Campbell, and Clarence Martin."
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Date:1840
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Kampman, Christian Frederick, 1708-1808 | Turner, Edie | Wood, John, ca. 1775-1822
Subject:Botany | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 11 p.
Description: This small manuscript volume contains a brief vocabulary written down by John Wood "from an old Indian Woman of the name of Edie Turner the 4th of March 1820"; together with newsclipping, Petersburg, Virginia, March 17, identifying informant and relating Nottoway, Powhatan and Welsh. The vocabulary is listed by semantic categories "Of the Universe; Of the Human Species; Of Animals; Vegetable Kingdom; Division of Time; Domestic Essays; Adjectives; Verbs." Marginal comparisons with Tuscarora, Onondaga, Wyandot, Delaware, etc., probably by Peter S. Du Ponceau. [See also letters of Jefferson to Du Ponceau, July 7, 1820; Du Ponceau to Jefferson, July 12, 1820.] This item is bound with a list of the Latin and botanical names of the plants, prepared by Christian Frederick Kampman, and with John Wood, "Vocabulary of the language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians..." (1820).
Collection:Nottoway, Lenape, and Algonquian vocabularies (Mss.497.3.W85)
Culture:
Wuikinuxv includes: Ooweekeno, Northern Kwakiutl
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Latin
Date:1989-1990, 1993-1994
Contributor:Compton, Brian D.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:690 pages
Description: The Wuikinuxv materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Compton, of which 3 of the 5 partially concern Wuikinuxv botanical knowledge.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)