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Date:1915, 1935
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence
Extent:10 pages
Description: The Wiyot materials in the ACLS collection consists of two items. In the "Algonkian" section, "Classification of Algonkin languages" (item A.1) provides a list of Algonquian languages and bands, showing which are dormant and which are extant and approximate number of speakers as of 1935. This item includes an attached note of Edward Sapir to Morris Swadesh on revision in classification of Wiyot and Yurok. In this same section there is also "Wiyot-Yurok and Algonkian comparisons" (item A.2), a list sent by Frank Speck to Edward Sapir to supplement information published by Sapir in 1913.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Language:English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Birds
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: "Malecite bird names," a list of bird names in Maliseet-Passamaquoddy with English glosses.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Date:1904-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Robinson, Roy H. | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Rolland, Ann | Allen, Ellen | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935 | Sexton, Charles Eli
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Peyote | Music | Dance | Social life and customs | Religion | Politics and government | Jewelry | Haskell Institute | Ethnomusicology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Reports | Musical scores
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Yuchi language, history, and culture. Includes three letters from Roy H. Robinson to Speck concerning persuading Yuchis to answer questions, Cayuga earrings, a Navajo beaded necklace, Osage buffalo hide shield, etc.; a 13-page report titled "Yuchi Ethnography" on political organization, diseases, mythology, etc., based on a 1904 field trip; a folder on Yuchi and Creek dances with sheet music for songs to accompany dance, choreography, and a few vocabulary items with a folder on Yuchi and Creek songs along with 12 vocabulary slips; and 17 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Yuchi notes and correspondence, including one page concerning Yalewi, a Yuchi Indian; one card concerning peyote among Yuchi; a one-page list of names of informants, 1941; a letter from Erich von Hornbostel to Speck, concerning Yuchi songs; a letter from Ellen Allen, a Yuchi Indian, recalling Speck's visit in 1904 and Boas' visit and effort to do a Yuchi grammar with her; a letter from Carl F. Voegelin concerning Yuchi linguistics; letters from Charles Eli Sexton to the University of Pennsylvania Museum concerning Speck's Yuchi ethnography, a Yuchi informant, and connection of Natchez and Hopewell to Yuchi; and letters from Ann Rolland (Haskell Institute) concerning Yuchi museum specimens and relics of the past.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1910s-1940s
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Alaska--History
Type:Still Image
Genre:Photographs
Extent:Approx. 33 photographs
Description: The Yup'ik and Cup'ig materials in the Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 4 folders of photographs in Subcollection I, Series III. Folders 3-1 to 3-4 contain 30+ photographs removed from an original folder labelled "Eskimo photos from E.W. Curtis Volumes, Presented by Stewart A. Eastwood, Los Angeles, Cal." Photos are from multiple locations, including Nunivak, Hooper Bay, Diomede, Cape Prince of Wales, King Island, Selvik, Noatak, and Kotzebue.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Zulu includes: AmaZulu
Language:English
Date:Undated
Subject:South Africa--History
Type:Still Image
Genre:Photographs
Extent:15 photographs
Description: The Zulu materials in the Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15 photographs, which appear to be all, or nearly all, from published sources. These are found in the "Series III: Photos" section of Subcollection I. (Use "Ctrl + F" or "Commnd + F" keyword search for "Zulu" to locate these items in the collection guide quickly.)
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)