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Culture:
Tarahumara includes: Rarámuri
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko
Date:1802-1899
Contributor:Beher, D. | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884 | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 | Snider, Jacob | Valentini, Philipp J. J. (Philipp Johann Josef), 1828-1899 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899 | Vaughan, John, 1756-1841 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Parry, Francis | Rosengarten, J. G. (Joseph George), 1835-1921 | Phillips, Henry, 1838-1895 | Rich, O. (Obadiah), 1777-1850 | Walz, W. G. | Beebe, William Sully, 1841-1898 | Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de
Subject:Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Receipts
Extent:22 items
Description: Materials relating to the indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico. Includes requests to view or borrow materials at APS, particularly in the Poinsett Collection; introductions of scholars who wish to view Mexican materials to the Librarian or other appropriate official of the time (including John Vaughan and George Ord); solicitations for donations of Mexican materials, particularly from Joel R. Poinsett; donation of linguistic and other materials from Jose Joaquin de Ferrer;s relating to indigenous cultures and languages of Mexico, particularly Brinton's papers on Nagualism and on Fuegian languages [Brinton (1892) and Brinton (1894)], Valentini's manuscript on Mexican calendar stone, and linguistic work by Albert Gallatin; Mexican antiquities at other institutions such as the Academy of Natural Sciencies, Princeton, and the Peabody Museum; and Samuel Morton's offer to George Ord to exchange books for a Mexican skull he used for a plate in his Crania Americana (1839), and which he now wishes to add to his collection. Specific cultures or languages mentioned include Huastec, Otomi, Tarascan, Tarahumara, and Mexican. Individuals mentioned include Ephraim G. Squier, Bishop Anders, Mr. Frank, Professor Matile, Mr. Bagely, Thomas Sully, Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, and Lord Kingsborough.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Date:1831-1886
Contributor:Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874 | James, Edwin, 1797-1861 | Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899 | McKenney, Thomas Loraine, 1785-1859 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Dance | Ethnography | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Dictionaries
Extent:10 items
Description: Materials relating to Ojibwe language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include George Antoine Belcourt's French-Ojibwe dictionary, particularly plans for its the presentation of Belcourt's memoir by the Smithsonian; a recent fire at the Smithsonian requiring $200,000 in repair work; Edwin James' Chippewa New Testament and his desire to publish a Chippewa grammar under the auspices of the APS; Walter James Hoffman's work at White Earth, Minnesota, where observed the Grand Medicine (Medawin) dance in detail and collected pictographic records of same on birch bark; Thomas L. McKenney's donation of a manuscript of McKenney (1827), out of respect to John Vaughan and the APS. Other individuals mentioned include Stephen H. Long, Ferdinand V. Hayden, J. Peter Lesley, Pliny E. Chase, and Judge William C. Frazer (Superior County, Wisconsin Territory).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Date:1939-1940
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Lathrop, Maxwell D. | Leon, Adrian F. | Quintana, Frances Leon | Swadesh, Frances | Velásquez Gallardo, Pablo
Subject:Agriculture | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent:5 notebooks, 26 loose pages, 1000 slips
Description: The Tarascan materials in the ACLS collection consists of items found in the "Tarascan" section of the finding aid. "Tarascan ethnologic and linguistic notes" (item Ta.2) contains linguistic forms, terms for parents, vocabulary of 600 items, list of names of natural and cultural objects, and interviews and material on land division and agriculture. There is also a Purépecha-Spanish lexical file of over 1000 word slips (item Ta.1), plus brief additional writings (items Ta.3 and Ta.4), including a handbook for writing the language. In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Purépecha vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1818-1850
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Ferris, Benjamin | Strong, Nathaniel T.
Subject:New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Missions | Diplomacy | Iroquoian languages | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters regarding Seneca materials. Topics include Quakers' work with Indians, particularly Mrs. Deborah Logan's references to Quaker work at Allegany and to records at half-yearly meeting; Nathaniel T. Strong's return of a borrowed book along with his offer to send copies of all books published in the Seneca language to the American Philosophical Society and his mention of a visit of chiefs to Washington; and Benjamin Ferris' offer of 7 works, 1846-1850, principally accounts of Quaker missionary activity at Cattaraugus and Buffalo Creek, among the New York Senecas.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)