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Date:circa 1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject:Economic conditions | Folklore | Linguistics | North Dakota--History | South Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:8 folders
Description: The Dakota and Lakota materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of 8 items in Series III. Research materials & notebooks. Six of these items are listed under "Boas, Franz--Dakota" and pertain to various linguistic features, including an incomplete glossary. See also "The story of the beginning as told in the Wakan Wacipi of Dakota" (author unidentified) and "Deloria, Ella - Report for Dr. Boas, re: Capitalism and the Dakota-Sioux."
Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)
Language:English | Lakota | Omaha-Ponca
Date:1928-1930
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hahn, Frida | La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
Subject:Folklore | Kinship | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Notes | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:344 pages, approx. 1,600 cards and slips
Description: The Omaha and Ponda materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of four items located in the "Omaha" section of the finding aid. The earliest materials (items X7a.2 and X7a.3) are texts and grammatical notes recorded by Francis La Flesche, including texts with literal and free translations, and terms of relationship among the Omahas. Also includes correspondence with Franz Boas. The materials by Boas, which were based on prior sources, including La Flesche, consist of a word list comparing Omaha to Lakota (item X.2), and a lexicon of approximately 1600 word slips (iem X7a.1). In the "Iowa" section of the finding aid, Frida Hahn's manuscript grammar, "The Ponca Language," is found among Gordon Marsh's Iowa materials (parts #8-9 of item X4a.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)