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Language:English | Miwok, Central Sierra
Date:circa 1970-1985
Contributor:Berman, Howard | Newman, Stanley S. (Stanley Stewart), 1905-1984 | Kelly, John | Wessell, Viola
Subject:Linguistics | Penutian languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Fieldwork
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:58 pages
Description: This collection includes a 1985 cover letter from Howard Berman to Stephen Catlett of the American Philosophical Society donating two letters from Stanley Newman (1981 and 1984), a manuscript entitled "Central Sierra Miwok Vocabulary," and an offprint of Berman's article "Some California Penutian Morphological Elements." The letters are Newman's reply to Berman's queries regarding the former's sources for certain elements of the Chukchansi [Yokuts] language--which Berman cited in his article--and Newman's comment on that article. The Miwok manuscript is based on Berman's fieldwork in 1970, working primarily with Miwok speaker John Kelly and to a lesser extent Viola Wessell. Berman notes that this was his first fieldwork and that his inexperience led to some inaccuracies: "I believe that in the instances where Freeland and I disagree, Freeland's recordsings are to be preferred." Note that the offprint has been moved to printed materials.
Collection:Central Sierra Miwok vocabulary (Mss.497.9.B45c)
Culture:
Nuxalk includes: Bella Coola, Bellacoola
Date:1937 and undated
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics | Stories
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drawings | Notebooks | Shorthand
Extent:approx. 150 pages, and 1 notebook
Description: The Nuxalk materials in the ACLS collection consist of items in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Bella Coola" section, there are Boas' working ethnographic notes with some linguistic information, with page references to other unidentified documents, and Newman's "grammatical summaries" giving analysis of different aspects of the Nuxalk language. In the "Chinook" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat], Molala, and Masset," notebook 3 includes Nuxalk vocabulary and ethnographic notes, partially written in German shorthand. Finally, in the "Kwakiutl" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Kwakiutl ethnographic notes" (item 29) includes pencil sketches of Bella Coola houses, and Boas & Hunt's "Kwakiutl ethnographic materials" (item 31), includes an origin story of the "Naxalkem" (presumably Nuxalk), written in English by Hunt.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:circa 1938-1970
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Trager, George L. (George Leonard), 1906-1992 | Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 | Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016 | Newman, Stanley S. (Stanley Stewart), 1905-1984
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Penutian languages | Tanoan languages | Ethnography | Fieldwork
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Maps
Extent:5 folders
Description: Five items relating to the Zuni language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Subcollection I contains relevant correspondence with Dennis Tedlock (regarding Tedlock's Zuni consultants' dealings with Hopi) in Series I. Correspondence. In Subcollection II, materials include correspondence with George L. Trager (regarding Tanoan, Picuris, Zuni, and Taos) and Stanley Newman (regarding his fieldwork at Laguna and Zuni and subsequent publications) in Series I. Correspondence; and a Zuni folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque. Zuni is also represented on Harry Tschopik's map of "Indian Languages in New Mexico, A.D. 1600" (1938) in Subseries V: American Indian Languages. This item has been digitized and is available through the APS's Digital Library.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)