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Culture:
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1926
Subject:Folklore | Indian captivities | Missions | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Lectures | Microfilms
Extent:1 reel
Description: Read before the Northampton Historical Society on January 28, 1926, this typescript essay presents the life of a man who was raised by Oneida Indians, missionary and interpreter James Dean (1748-1823) of Westmoreland, New York. It contains a version of the Oneida creation myth. Original in possession of Benjamin D. Meritt, Princeton, N.J.
Collection:A New England pioneer among the Oneida Indians, 1926 (Mss.Film.1101)
Language:English
Date:December 1956-1957
Contributor:Leland, Marine
Subject:Indian captivities | Captivity narratives
Type:Text
Genre:Lectures
Extent:20 pages
Description: "Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity," a talk for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation based on Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity by the Abenaki in 1754-1758.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Apinayé includes: Apinajé
Date:1957-1971
Contributor:Hymes, Dell H. | Schilling, Carol S. | Schneider, David Murray, 1918- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Nimuendajú, Curt
Subject:Linguistics | Brazil--History | Ethnography | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Lecture notes | Notes | Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:over 400 pages
Description: The Apinayé materials in the Lounsbury collection consist of materials in two sections. Series I contains correspondence with Dell Hymes, concerning a manuscript in German on the Apinayé by Curt Nimuendajú, and with Carol Schilling and David Schneider. In Series II, in the "South America" sub-series, there are four folders beginning "Apinayé" by Lounsbury, mainly on kinship terminology.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Date:1959-2006
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Ihromi-Simatupang, Tapi Omas | Benda, Henry J. | Bruner, Edward M. | Scheffler, Harold W. | Wolfart, H. Christoph | Kokot, Daisy Hilse | Taylor, Paul M.
Subject:Kinship | Fieldwork | Indonesia--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Disks | Correspondence | Reports | Diagrams | Charts | Notes | Lecture notes | Lectures | Transcripts | Essays
Extent:17 folders and 1 CD-R
Description: The majority of the Batak materials in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers are in Series II, Kinship subseries, under the title "Batak Kin Classification and Behavior", which documents the proceedings and results of a graduate school seminar on the structural analysis of systems of Toba Batak kin classification and behavior, held at Yale University in 1966. This includes transcripts and resultant papers. In Series I, correspondence with Benda and Bruner also discusses Batak kinship, dictionaries, fieldwork, and the M.A. thesis of Ihromi-Simatupang (who was Batak).
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Date:1970-1976
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Arizona--History | Hokan languages | Yuman languages
Type:Text
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Chimariko language, particularly in comparison to Yuman languages. Chimariko materials in the Crawford Papers are located in Series III-C, Works by Crawford--Yuman and consist of typed drafts (with penned edits) and page proofs of his "A Comparison of Chimariko and Yuman," published in Margaret Langdon and Shirley Silver, editors, Hokan Studies (1976); and handwritten notes and drafts, typed drafts with penned edits, and handwritten cognate sets comparing Chimariko, Cocopa, Yavapai, Havasupai, Mohave, Maricopa, and English, all for the preparation of "Some Cognate Sets from Chimariko and Several Yuman Languages," a paper presented at the Hokan Conference, University of San Diego, 1970.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1829-1839
Contributor:Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863 | Troost, Gerard, 1776-1850 | Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852 | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sullivant, Joseph, 1809-1882 | Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857 | Clemens, James W. | Wood, William | Powell, W. Byrd (William Byrd), 1799-1866 | Peirson, A. L. (Abel Lawrence), 1794-1853
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Anthropometry | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Antiquities | Mounds | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Lectures
Extent:21 items
Description: Letters mostly discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains and Morton's phrenological work. Topics include human and animal crania and skeletons that correspondents have and/or have sent to Morton; phrenological anaylsis of Indigenous ancestors' remains, attributing traits to various peoples based on skull formation; Native American burial sites and mortuary customs; excavation of Native mounds and descriptions of the objects and human remains found inside; discovery of mastadon skeletons; and speculation about Native American origins. Several letters relate to Ohio, Illinois, and the Upper Mississippi Valley. Peru and Mexico also mentioned.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Yurok includes: Pueleekla’, Puliklah
Yuki includes: Huchnom
Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Mojave includes: Mohave, Aha Macav
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Dene includes: Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athabascan, Athapaskan
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Chukchi includes: Chukchee, Чукчи, ԓыгъоравэтԓьат
Atikamekw includes: Têtes-de-Boules, Têtes de Boules, Tete de Boule
Cahuilla includes: Ivilyuqaletem, ʔívil̃uqaletem, Táxliswet
Language:English
Date:1920-1958
Contributor:Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974
Subject:History | Ethnography | Linguistics | Basketry | Textiles | Population | Botany | Tools | Architecture | Clothing and dress | Marriage customs and rites | Tobacco | Material culture | Religion | Art | Hunting | Animals | Physical anthropology | Psychology | Mounds | Art | Painting | Cartography | Sculpture | Material culture | Canoes and canoeing
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Lecture notes | Charts | Newspaper clippings | Drawings | Reading notes | Postcards
Description: Materials from a wide range of indigenous cultures around the world are scattered throughout Series V of the A. Irving Hallowell Papers. Hallowell was interested in comparative ethnology on a number of topics including Bear Ceremonialism, textiles, artistic representations of Native people, basketry, kinship, pre-history, the development of language, family and marriage, nets and netting, etc. Much of this material constitutes Hallowell's reading notes on secondary sources and his research for very broad-based studies of humanity. Geographic regions represented in Series V include Australia, Africa, Pacific Islands, Polar regions California, Northwest coast, Southwest, and Southeast. The correspondence, in Series I, includes a very interesting, brief description of Franz Boas' first visit to the Kwakwaka'wakw community of Fort Rupert by the daughter of George Hunt in a folder labled Ronald Rohmer. There is also a letter from Edward Sapir detailing Nuu-chah-nulth bear hunting and face painting as well as sketches of netting needles.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1920-1939
Contributor:Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Subject:Population | Folklore | Material culture | Hunting | Architecture | Pottery | Music | Drums | Clans | Politics and government | Social life and customs | Kinship | Religion | Animals | Games | Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography
Type:Still Image
Genre:Lecture notes | Bibliographies | Notes | Charts
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Hallowell papers are located in Series V. There are postcards of museum exhibits featuring Iroquois culture in the "American Indian" series of folders. The rest of the materials are concentrated in the folder labled "Eastern Woodlands." These items include information on material culture, the social organization of the confederacy, a chart of relational systems of clans, kinship, and genealogy. Specific topics includ Huron Mythology, Oneida magic, Seneca secret societies and genealogy. Some of this material is culturally sensitive and may be restricted.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Blackfoot includes: Niitsítapi, Blackfeet
Language:English
Date:1920-1965
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W. | Lingelbach, William E. (William Ezra), 1871-1962 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Medicine | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays | Lectures | Notes
Extent:4 items
Description: Materials on miscellaneous or general topics relating to Paul A. W. Wallace's interest in Native North American histories and cultures. Items include Wallace's correspondence with Francisco Guerra and R. Jerrel Williams regarding references pertaining to Indian medicine; notes on and different versions of a talk titled "Debt We Owe the Indian" given by Wallace at Farmers' Forum, York, Pennsylvania, the Madison Historical Society, New Jersey, etc.; Wallace's correspondence with William Ezra Lingelbach regarding Wallace's research on John Heckewelder, the Muhlenberg family, Indians of Pennsylvania, the Haudenosaunee, collections in the Library of the American Philosophical Society, Cree, Blackfoot, etc.; and Wallace's correspondence with Charles Marius Barbeau concerning a wide range of topics such as French-Canadian folklore, Edward Ahenakew's Manebogo manuscript, Conrad Weiser and the Delawares, the American Philosophical Society, Barbeau's Huron-Wyandot work, filming of the Contrecoeur papers and Huron grammars at Seminaire de Quebec, and Richard Pilant and the founding of an international Institute of Iroquoian Studies.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1953-1955
Contributor:Kenosha, David | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Shagonaby, Susan | Shalifoe, Thomas | Albert, Whitney | Thomas, Albert | Thompson, Stith, 1885-1976 | Peters, Jim | Sprague, Selkirk | Soney, William | Soney, Fred | Thomas, Eli | Pamp, Betty | Joan Pamp | Rickard, Glenna
Subject:Michigan--History | Religion | Music | Social life and customs | Methodists | Catholic Church
Type:Sound recording
Extent:3 hr., 32 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Traditional and Christian songs in the Ottawa and Chippewa languages, recorded with numerous singers in multiple communities in Michigan in the mid-1950s. Recorded as part of Gertrude Kurath's broader study of contemporary religion and music among Anishinaabe communities in Michigan. Includes traditional songs, Catholic hymns, and Free Methodist revival meetings. Also includes one talk entitled, "Longfellow's Use of Michigan Indian Tales." (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:Songs and Dances of the Rural Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Mss.Rec.20)