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Date:circa 1969-1981
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Drafts | Notes | Reviews | Correspondence
Extent:23 folders
Description: These materials relate to James M. Crawford's interest in and research on the Mobilian trade language, particularly research and writing relating to his prize-winning book, The Mobilian Trade Language. The bulk of Mobilian materials in the Crawford papers are located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford—Other. These include 11 folders containing numerous typed drafts of the manuscript, with copious handwritten edits, some edits typed on cards and attached the relevant page, and page proofs. There are also 6 folders of research notes containing Crawford's notes on secondary sources from the fields of history, anthropology and linguistics; notes on primary documentary sources; typed early drafts of sections of the manuscript; linguistic notes and charts; typed and handwritten transcriptions from both primary and secondary sources; timelines; outlines; bibliographic lists; a bibliography of Mary Haas; a copy of Mary Haas' “What is Mobilian?”; and several loose-page pages of handwritten text apparently from the Bible translated into an indigenous language. A significant quantity of the research material is in French, transcribed or copied from French sources. In the same series are also two copies--one with penciled edits and one clean--of Crawford's “Mobile” essay in the "Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas" [1979]. In Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks—Other, there is a folder titled "Mobilian Forms Collected August 27, 1970 from Leonard Lavan by J.M. Crawford Near Elton, Louisiana" containing 8 pages of notes and Vocabularies, mostly typed. Other consultants mentioned (page 7) are Daisy Sickey at Elton, Louisiana, and Maggie Poncho (Alabama) and Phoebie Celestine (Koasati) interviewed at the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation in Texas, also in August 1970; and a folder titled “Mobilian Search—Notebook,” containing one of Crawford's field notebooks in which he kept a record of a research trip in August-September, 1976 to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Oklahoma in search of Mobilian words. Crawford took 36 pages of detailed notes regarding distances traveled; costs of hotels, camp grounds, meals, and other expenses; conversations with Native people about their own knowledge of languages and possible leads on Mobilian; addresses and phone numbers of other potential consultants; his conversations with people in Oklahoma and elsewhere about Title IV, bilingual language programs, the preparation of education materials for that purpose, grants, etc.; and other events of the trip such as his malfunctioning tape recorder (a serious problem because he needed to play the tape of Arzelie Langley speaking Mobilian) and his Volkswagen camper breaking down. He also included notes on words and linguistics he gathered, reminders to send Xeroxed copies of linguistic and ethnographic information (Swanton's Houma word list, Chitimacha materials in Freeman's APS list, Yuchi materials, etc.) back to people he'd met, sketch maps to help find the homes of potential consultants, what he spent on baskets and from whom he purchased, other ethnographic data he picked up, etc. Native individuals mentioned include Claude Medford, Ernest Sickey, Burley Celestine, Della Celestine, Jim Courteneaux, Edward Sylestine, Rosaline Langley Medford, Levi Fields, Sanville Johnson, Anderson Lewis, Clyde Jackson, Tom Dion, Annie Dion, Marie Dion/Dean, Rose Dean, Lillie Lewis, Jessie Lewis, Alvin and Freda Revere, Bill Crew, Lawrence Billiot, Alvin Cearley, Ken York, Barry Jim, and more. Native groups and languages mentioned include Houma, Natchez, Cherokee, Creek, Koasati, Choctaw, Chitimacha, Tunica, Biloxi, Yuchi, Chickasaw, Shawnee, etc. In other series, there is a file of largely positive reviews of The Mobilian Trade Language in Series II. Subject Files, and one box of card-sized paper slips, Mobilian-English and English-Mobilian, with penciled notes, in Series V. Card Files. Related materials include the folders titled “Columbus Museum” and “Reconnaissance of Southeastern Indian Languages—Notebook,” both of which also document Crawford's search for Mobilian, in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks—Other; and grant application materials that describe and give background for the project and give a narrative of his 1976 research trip (which greatly clarifies the notebook of the same trip) in “American Council of Learned Societies” in Series II. Subject Files. Finally, in Series I. Correspondence, there is a letter from Crawford to Miles Richardson submitting the manuscript for consideration for the James Mooney Award, which it went on to win (1976) and a marketing letter to the General L. Kemper Williams Prize committee from the University of Tennessee Press.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Language:English
Date:circa 1979-1981
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Mississippi--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 folders
Description: These materials consist of two copies--one with pencilled edits and one clean--of James M. Crawford's article on the Natchez in the "Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas" [1979]; and 3 drafts (with pencilled or penned edits), some handwritten notes, 2 sets of page proofs, and 1 set of tear sheets of Crawford's review of Charles D. Van Tuyl's "The Natchez: Annotated Translations from Antoine Simon le Page du Pratz's Histoire de la Louisiane and a Short English-Natchez Dictionary," published in Plains Anthropologist, Journal of the Plains Conference [1981]. Both folders located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu
Language:English
Date:1980
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Idaho--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of two copies--one with pencilled edits and one clean--of James M. Crawford's very brief review of "Nez Perce Texts" by Haruo Aoki [1980]. Located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:Undated
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Stories | Translations
Extent:1 folder
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Ojibwe (sometimes Ojibwa) language. These materials are located in an undated folder in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other, and consist of about 50 sheets of handwritten notes and outlines. Topics include sounds, morphology, and categories of inflection, but the majority of sheets comprise one set (numbered 1-44) that break a story down in Ojibwe on the left with English translation on the right. The story involves a young man who, fasting for a vision, dreamt of a mirror. Later in life, the mirror came to his aid by rendering him invisible when an enemy war party attacked him, allowing him to defeat the enemy warriors nearly single-handedly.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks
Language:English
Date:1977-1978
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Siouan languages | Caddoan languages
Type:Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of drafts, page proofs, and a tear sheet of James M. Crawford's joint review in "American Anthropologist" of "The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages" by Wallace L. Chafe; "A Grammar of Biloxi" by Paula Ferris Einaudi; "A Grammar of Pawnee" by Douglas R. Parks; and "Wichita Grammar" by David S. Rood. Located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Quapaw includes: Arkansas, Ugahxpa
Language:English
Date:circa 1979
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Anthropology | Arkansas--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of two copies--one with pencilled edits and one clean--of James M. Crawford's article on the Quapaw in the "Dictionary of Indian Tribes of the Americas" [1979]. Located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Date:1975
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Frank, Joe | Dudley, Ruth | Derrick-Mescua, Mary Tyler | West, John David
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Florida--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Notes
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of one of Crawford's field notebooks from a field methods class in Tampa, Florida during the summer of 1975, with only 24 pages filled in. The language consultant is identified as Joe Frank, age 21, from the Big Cypress Indian Reservation. Ruth Dudley, Mary Derrick, and David West were mentioned as students and occasionally elicited lingustic information from Joe Frank. Notebook contained in a folder titled "Mikasuki--Notebook" located in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1967-1968
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Liljeblad, Sven S. (Sven Samuel), 1899-2000 | Le Clair, Dorothy | Vallely, Lillian | Condit, Bea | Judson, Bessie | Gross, Joe | Devinne, Ernie | Weyley, Jon | Pocatello, Mr. | Racehorse, Mr. and Mrs.
Subject:Linguistics | Idaho--History | Folklore | Ethnography | Anthropology | Fieldwork
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Stories
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to James M. Crawford's interest in and study of the Shoshone (formerly Shoshoni) language. These materials are located in three folders in Series IV-D. Research Notes & Notebooks--Other. "Shoshoni Notebook #1" is a field notebook dated to 1967-1968 containing linguistic data. Language consultants and contacts mentioned include Mrs. Dorothy Le Clair, her sister Lillian Vallely who worked at the agency office, Mrs. Bessie Judson, Joe Gross, Ernie Devinne, Bea Condit, Jon Weyley, etc. "Shoshoni Notebook #2" is a continuation, picking up soon after #1 ends and going to May, 1968, and is only about a quarter full. This notebook contains work on a story (including a full English translation) about two brothers, the elder who disappeared while out hunting and the younger, Mosquito-Blood, who found the remains of the elder in the teeth of an infant; he buried the remains and the elder returned. The final folder, "Shoshoni Notes," is dated to 1967 and contains about 20 sheets of linguistic notes. Consultants mentioned include Mr. Pocatella and Mr. and Mrs. Racehorse, all audited with Swedish folklorist and linguist Sven Liljeblad.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
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Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Language:English
Date:circa 1984
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Anthropology | Arizona--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of 2 drafts (with pencilled edits), handwritten notes, and 2 sets of page proofs with edits relating to James M. Crawford's review of A Papago Grammar by Ofelia Zepeda [1984]. Located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1977-1978
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Siouan languages | Caddoan languages
Type:Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of drafts, page proofs, and a tear sheet of James M. Crawford's joint review in "American Anthropologist" of "The Caddoan, Iroquoian, and Siouan Languages" by Wallace L. Chafe; "A Grammar of Biloxi" by Paula Ferris Einaudi; "A Grammar of Pawnee" by Douglas R. Parks; and "Wichita Grammar" by David S. Rood. Located in Series III-D. Works by Crawford--Other.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)