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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Longbone, Willie | Witthoft, John | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Seaman, John Nelson, 1915- | Pearson, Kennth E. | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Peters, Nicodemus
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Migrations | Algonquian languages
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Notes | Stories | Maps | Essays | Drafts | Grammars
Extent:48 folders, 5 boxes
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain correspondence, card files, notes, notebooks, texts, translations, drafts, articles, maps, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Delaware (Lenape) language and culture. Many of these items pertain to Voegelin's "Walam Olum or Red Score: The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians," published by the Indiana Historical Society in 1954. Such materials are located in primarily in Subcollection I. There is relevant correspondence with Charles Hockett (with questions about Voegelin's article on Delaware and examples from other Algonquian languages), Eli Lilly (regarding various aspects of the Walam Olum, its interpretation and publication), Kenneth E. Pearson (regarding use of Delaware language in Boy Scout ceremonies), John N. Seaman (regarding language consultant Willy Longbone), Frank Siebert (regarding Walam Olum, Munsee materials, language consultants Willy Longbone, Nicodemus Peters, and Nicholas Powless), Morris Swadesh (including a brief Stockbridge vocabulary and a slip of Moravian Delaware), and John Witthoft (regarding Walam Olum) in Series I. Correspondence. Delaware materials also include 5 boxes of card files and 5 folders of document files (primarily vocabulary and linguistic notes, and including 1 box and 1 folder relating to specifically to Munsee and 1 box and 1 folder of Walam Olum vocabulary keyed to the Rafinesque translation) in Series II. 7 folders pertaining to Voegelin's work on the Walam Olum in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin; a folder on Delaware grammar in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; 3 articles on the Walam Olum by Constantine Rafinesque, Daniel G. Brinton, and Frank Speck in Series IV. Works by Others; 2 folders on Delaware and 1 on Delaware-Munsee (containing Vocabularies, notes, texts, translations, and various typed works by the Group for Delaware at the Linguistic Institute over multiple summers) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; 18 folders of unbound texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; Delaware materials in Blackfoot Folder #2 and Ojibwe Folder #24 in Series VI. Notebooks; an ink map of Delaware locations created for Voegelin's published translation of the Walam Olum in Series VII. Photographs; and a folder related to Voegelin's translation of the Walam Olum in the Oversized files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:Patwin | English | Maidu (macrolanguage)
Date:1936, 1955
Contributor:Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Pitkin, Harvey | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Shipley, William, 1921-2011 | Smith, Richard Alan, 1941-
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes
Description: The Maidu materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers consist of miscellaneous materials in Series III, A.M. Halpern's notebooks in Series III-A, Patwin-Maidu correspondences and research on proto-Maidu by William Shipley and Richard Alan Smith in subseries 5.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Date:1949 and undated
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swan, George | Caplanaho, Mollie
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Washington (State)--History | Politics and government | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:13 pages; 1 notebook; 750 cards
Description: The Makah materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Makah" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Makah lexicon" (item W2c.1) consists of 738 cards arranged in such categories as animals, parts of the body, natural objects, etc. Swadesh's "Makah field notes" (item W2c.2) from 1949 consists of 1 field notebook and some loose pages, and include vocabularies, ethnographic notes, and texts. One text on tribal councils, told by George Swan, is a transcript of a recording included in Swadesh's "Nootka and Makah songs and stories" audio collection (Mss.Rec.8), listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Language:Makah | English | Ditidaht | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:1931-1982
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Jacobsen, William H. | Miller, Wick R. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930
Subject:Linguistics | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' Makah file appears to be mostly derived from work by William Jacobsen, who frequently assisted Haas with developing her collection throughout her life. These include correspondence (Series 1 and 2) and parts of lexica, often compared with Ditidaht and Nuu-chah-nulth especially. The largest lexicon is in Series 9, from work by Leo Frachtenberg and Morris Swadesh, at around 1000 slips.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1933
Contributor:Attean, Mitchell | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:50 pages
Description: The Maliseet materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item in the "Malecite" section of the finding aid. Sapir and Swadesh's "Notes on Penobscot and Malecite" (item A1n.1) primarily consists of Penobscot, with additional Maliseet vocabulary. It contains a Penobscot alphabet, text, and carbon copy of texts from records with interlinear translations, and lexical items on slips. It was recorded in part with speaker Mitchell Attean.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Date:1937-1938
Contributor:Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Lawe, Jerome
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks; 20 pages
Description: The Menominee materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 items in the "Menonminee" section of the finding aid. One notebook (itemA1b.1) recorded by Leonard Bloomfield includes a summary of Menomini inflections prepared by Bloomfield for Morris Swadesh. A separate notebook recorded by Morris Swadesh (item A1b.2) includes field notes, vocabulary, and notes copied from notes of Leonard Bloomfield. There is also an additional set of grammatical notes by Swadesh (item A1b.3), including text "Making Hull Corn" by Jerome Lawe.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Miwok, Coast | Miwok, Lake | Miwok, Plains | Miwok, Southern Sierra | Ohlone, Northern | Ohlone, Southern | Wintu
Date:1923-1955
Contributor:Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Pitkin, Harvey | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Callaghan, Catherine A.
Subject:Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Field notes
Description: The Miwok materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include linguistic and comparative materials of Coast, Plains, Lake, and Southern Sierra Miwok languages. Alfred Kroeber's notebooks on Lake Miwok can be found in Subcollection I, Series IA. Pitkin's "introduction" to Plains, Coast, and Lake Miwok is located in Subcollection I, Subseries 4-C; Pitkin's California-Oregon comparative Vocabularies of Lake, Plains; and Southern Sierra Miwok is in Subcollection II, Series 2, Subseries 5 along with Morris Swadesh's "Glottochronologic Tests Lists," which include Mariposa Miwok and Clear Lake Miwok. Catherine Callaghan field work, Plains Miwok dictionary, and reconstruction of Proto Miwok is in Subcollection II, Series 2, Subseries 5.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Mixtec includes: Mixteco, Ñuù savi
Language:English | Spanish | Mixtec, Atatláhuca | Mixtec, Apasco-Apoala | Mixtec, Jamiltepec | Mixtec, Juxtlahuaca | Mixtec, Southeastern Nochixtlán | Mixtec, Tacahua | Mixtec, Tidaá
Date:1916; 1922; 1940
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Belmar, Francisco, 1859-1910 | McQuown, Norman A. | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Maps | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:41 pages, 300 cards
Description: The Mixtec materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of three items in the "Mixtec" section of the finding aid. Radin's "Mixtec and Chinantec lexicon" (item MiM.2) is based on his own fieldwork and other published work by Belmar. See separate guide entries for the Paul Radin Papers (Mss.497.3.R114), which contain his original fieldwork. There is also an analysis of Mixtec tones and those of other neighboring language families by Jaime de Angulo (item MiM.1), and a Spanish-Mixtec vocabulary assembled by McQuown and Swadesh (item MiM.3). In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Mixtec vocabulary, and McQuown's “Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM3), which includes Mixtec information. In the “Zapotec” section of the finding aid, see de Angulo's “Estudio gramatical de las lenguas de la familia zapoteca” (item Z.1), which includes Mixtec information and ten ink sketches of maps showing linguistic groups, and de Angulo's “Zapotecan texts” (item Z.3) which includes Mixtec texts. Specific Mixtec languages identified above are based upon languages located in Radin's fieldwork.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Language:Mahican | English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:1795; 1937-1944
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945
Subject:Linguistics | Wisconsin--History | New York (State)--History | Religion | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Prayers | Catechisms | Field notes | Biographies | Stories
Extent:1 notebook, 286 loose pages, and approx. 6100 slips
Description: The Mohican materials in the ACLS Collection consists of 4 sets of material in the "Mahican" section of the collection. These materials were recorded by Morris Swadesh at the Stockbridge-Munsee community in Wisconsin and are predominantly focused on linguistic matters. A set of original field notes ("Mohican field notes", item A1k.4) contains lexical items obtained from Wisconsin Stockbridge community; a folder of miscellaneous historical material; lexical lists, and a narrative biography in English. "Mohican lexical file" (item A1k.2) consists of approximately 6100 slips arranged phonetically, derived from items from liturgical literature as well as books used in the translation of the same (some are Nuu-chah-nulth and have not been separated out). "Mohican lexical materials" (item A1k.1), based on Swadesh's field work, contains a discussion of historical sources, phonetics, morphophonology, historical phonology, as well as vocabulary of letter "W" in Mohican compiled from printed and field sources. "Interlinear translations of Mohican liturgical literature" (item A1k.3) includes catechism, prayers, and copies of printed material on Stockbridge and Hudson River Indians published in 1903 and 1905 by J. Dyneley Prince.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek
Date:1934
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:2 pages
Description: The Muscogee (Creek) materials in the ACLS collection are found in the "Koasati" section of the finding aid among "Alibamu-Koasati and Creek vocabulary and texts" (item G8b.1). They include a Creek vocabulary given by speaker Nannie Scott.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)