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Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Omushkego includes: Cree, Swampy, Mushkegowuk, Omushkigowack
Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie
Nipissing includes: Nbisiing
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1912-1941 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Bailey, Alfred Goldsworthy | Weitzner, Bella
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Zoology | Divination | Population | Ethnography | Folklore | Basketry | Birch bark | Hunting | Archaeology | Ontario--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Abstracts | Sketches | Notebooks | Photographs | Stories
Extent:7 items
Description: Materials relating to both Algonquin and related Algonquian peoples, cultures, and languages. Includes Speck's notes on artifacts found near Lake Abitibi and in the Nipissing district; his Seven Islands field notes, including texts with interlinear translations, house data, names of animals, and a letter in French from Marie Louise Ambroise; sketches and comments on shoulder blade divination (scapulimancy), including notes on deer drives (including an undated note from A. Irving Hallowell) and the distribution of artifacts among Algonquin, Naskapi, and Mistissini peoples; two field notebooks containing (1) linguistic notes and informant and population data for Waswanipi, Abitibi, Temiskaming [Timiskaming], Nipissing, Algonquian and (2) Temiskaming ethnography, Wisiledjak (Wiskyjack) [Wisakedjak, a manitou] text (in English), Temagami ethnology and texts (in English), and one Iroquois legend; general information on birch-bark containers, including 37 photographs and 40 pages of notes relating to Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe and Ktunaxa specimens, and a letter from Bella Weitzner; and a letter from A. G. Bailey sending Speck a copy of his book on Algonquians.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679 | Davies | Laet, Johannes de | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Grammatical study based on Breton (1667). Includes auxiliary-verb conjugation; extracts on men's vs. women's speech taken from Davies (1666). List of words from DeLaet (1633)
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Language:English | French | Haitian Creole
Date:1910s-1920s
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Subject:Folklore | Anthropology | Caribbean Area--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Stories | Prayers | Correspondence
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: The Caribbean materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist predominantly of Afro-Caribbean folklore-related materials found in her field notebooks, and notes and works derived from them. See especially Subcollection I, Series II, for materials described especially as "Antilles" and Subcollection II, Series IV for notebooks from additional Caribbean nations, territories, and islands. Places noted in the source materials include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Ricl, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, and Trinidad. Additional relevant materials may be located in other series.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko
Date:1815-1834
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Translations
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Numeral list; mentioned in extract from Clavigero (1787).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Language:English | Innu-aimun | French
Date:1925-1937; 1982
Contributor:Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Clarke, Sandra | MacKenzie, Marguerite | Ford, Alan | Martin, Pierre, 1947- | Gunner, Andrew | Cowan, William | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Hunting
Type:Text
Description: The Innu materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are predominantly linguistic materials, with one story and ethnographic study. Original notes by Siebert can be found in Series V: Notebooks, under notebooks labelled "Lake St. John" and "Scribble-in Book." Secondary sources, which use the term "Montagnais," can be found in Series IV and VII
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Date:1787; April 9, 1822; September 21, 1827
Contributor:Clavigero, Francesco Saverio, 1731-1787 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Bibliographies
Extent:9 notebooks; 2 letters
Description: Includes list of languages, bibliography of languages, compound verbs, numerals, excerpt from Clavigero (1787), notes, comments of Wilhelm von Humboldt (letters to Du Ponceau, April 9, 1822 and September 21, 1827).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Date:1787; 1815-1834
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Numeral list; mention of Otomi in extract from Clavigero (1787).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Mention in extract from Clavigero (1787).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Language:French
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Brief comment, La langue du Perou; extract.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Laet, Johannes de
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Includes Lengua del Chile, extracted from Molina (1788). Notes, vocabulary, and comparisons from De Laet (1633) on languages of Guiana. Discussion of 184 dialects found in the Orinoco region, extracted from Humboldt (1814).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)