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Language:English
Date:1905-1910
Contributor:Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885-
Subject:Railroads | Fishing | Clothing and dress | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Architecture | British Columbia--History | Manitoba--History | Alberta--History | Saskatchewan--History | Ontario--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: Norman Leonard Jacobs was an engineer and surveyor with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Canada. The collection consists of his correspondence with Bessie Frank (later Anathan), an acquaintance from Pittsburgh. Jacobs wrote of daily life in Canadian cities like Winnipeg and Edmonton, interactions with First Nations, and daily hardships encountered in the field (extreme cold, snowblindness, and lack of food), but also spoke of his work with pride and enthusiasm. In addition to the letters, Jacobs wrote twenty-eight pages of a "Diary of a Tenderfoot." Also included in the collection are two photobooks and various loose photographs, which display various aspects of camp life, details of work sites and the Canadian landscape, and First Nations peoples. Some of the photographs are extremely faded. Native peoples mentioned include Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Cree, "Surteau" (likely Saulteaux),"Bloods" (Kainai), "Stonies" (Nakoda, or "Stoney"), as well as Native people at Tete Jaune Cache who are likely Simpcw. The images include family groups; men, women, and children fishing; men (some apparently hired by Jacobs or his company to act as guides and carriers in the field) working with an infant in a cradleboard; Ojibwe graves; tepees [tipis]; "Sioux" warriors; a sweat bath; horse races; individuals like Joe KaeKwitch, Chief Handorgan, Chief Wingard, Muskowken, etc. Most of these materials have been digitized and are available through the APS's Digital Library. Also see the finding aid for more background information on Jacobs and detailed itemized lists for both Series I. Correspondence and Series II. Graphic Materials.
Collection:Anathan-Jacobs Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.13)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1885-1909
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | British Columbia--History | Northwest Territories--History | Nunavut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: This correspondence refers to Franz Boas' trips to Baffin Island (Nunavut, formerly the Northwest Territories) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected materials on Northwest Coast languages among the Aleut. From originals in possession of the Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Donor, Smithsonian Institution, April 1967.
Collection:Franz Boas correspondence, 1885-1909 (Mss.Film.372.3)
Culture:
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Date:1916-1950, 1959-1960, 1978-1979, 1983-1984
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Blackman, Margaret B. | Edwards, Elizabeth A., 1939- | Harrison, Charles | Norton, Helen H.
Subject:Alaska--History | British Columbia--History | Botany | Folklore | Linguistics | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Concordance | Correspondence | Conversations | Correspondence | Dissertations | Elicitation sessions | Songs | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:2005 pages
Description: The Haida materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Barbeau; Blackman, Edwards, Harrison, and Norton.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala
Date:circa 1923-1930
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Haeberlin, Herman Karl, 1890-1918 | Hunt, George
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | British Columbia--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drawings | Grammars | Maps | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies | Stories | Sketches
Extent:2,219 slips; 5 notebooks; 175 pages; 243 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk materials in the ACLS collection are located in the "Bella Bella" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. The majority of the materials were recorded or assembled by Franz Boas and George Hunt in the 1920s and consist predominantly of texts with interlinear translations (some in English only), linguistic notes, and lexical files. The item "Bella Bella notes" (item 4) by Herman Haeberlin contains color drawings of numerous Heiltsuk masks with accompanying commentary in English.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language:English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Latin
Date:1986, 1989-1990, 1994
Contributor:Compton, Brian D. | Harkin, Michael
Subject:British Columbia--History | Botany | Linguistics | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:265 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Compton and Harkin. Compton's material include 4 items relating to Heiltsuk botanical knowledge. Harkin's material is "Ethnohistory of the Heiltsuk," is described as "research...conducted in Bella Bella, British Columbia, 1986-1987, and involved eliciting ethnohistorical narratives, and ethnological and linguistic data, with elders from the Heiltsuk band, in order to record a Heiltsuk perspective of their own history. Consultants included Gordon Reid, Evelyn and Charles Windsor, Esther and Jimmy Lawson, Stanley George, Ed Martin, Margaret Campbell, and Clarence Martin."
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Kaska includes: Kaska Dena
Language:English
Date:1908-1921 (bulk 1916-1919)
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:British Columbia--History | Yukon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:21 letters
Description: The Kaska materials in the Franz Boas Papers consist of 21 letters among the correspondence between Boas and James Teit that mention Kaska people or language to some extent. The length of the mentions range from very brief to more substantial. Many relate to Teit's travels in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon region on ethnographic field trips or as a hunting guide. The majority of the letters date from 1916 to 1919. Other mentions of Kaska people or language may exist elsewhere in this collection but are not known.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Zulu includes: AmaZulu
Nak'waxda'xw includes: Nakoaktok, Nakwoktak, Nakwaxda'xw
Namgis includes: Nimkish, Nimpkish
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
K'ómoks includes: Comox
Dzawada'enuxw includes: Tsawataineuk
Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Gwatsinuxw includes: Quatsino
Date:1893-1951
Contributor:Homiskanis, Lucy | Francine, Tsukwani | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hunt, George | Averkieva, Julia | Bryan, Ruth | Leechman, J. D. (John Douglas), 1890- | Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Yampolsky, Helene
Subject:Architecture | British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Fishing | Food | Games | Human remains | Hunting | Kinship | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Medicine | Museum objects | Music | Orthography and spelling | Personal names | Place names | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Skulls | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Correspondence | Field notes | Dictionaries | Genealogies | Grammars | Maps | Musical scores | Notebooks | Photographs | Songs | Speeches | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:Approx. 10,000 loose pages, 10 notebooks, 7000+ cards, 10+ maps
Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw materials in the ACLS collection are located predominantly in the "Kwakiutl" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing of all materials (other relevant sections are "Northwest Coast", "Bella Bella (Heitsuk)", and item AfBnd.4 in "Non-American and non-linguistic material"). Some of the larger individual sets of materials listed within this section also have their own specific tables of contents (available upon request) detailing their often highly diverse contents. Overall, the vast majority of the material is made of of 1) manuscripts sent to Boas by George Hunt from the 1890s to the 1930s, frequently in both Kwak'wala and English, covering a very broad range of Kwakwaka'wakw history, culture, languages, customs, and traditions; and 2) field work materials recorded by Boas and Boas' own analyses of material sent by Hunt, covering a similar range of topics. Additional materials by other individuals focus especially on linguistic and ethnographic matters. Also see the guide entry "Kwakiutl materials, Franz Boas Papers" for information on the correspondence between Boas and Hunt, which gives additional context to the materials in the ACLS collection.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Language:English
Date:1893
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899 | Williams, Talcott, 1849-1928
Subject:British Columbia--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Correspondence about Boas' Kwakiutl [Kwak'wala] vocabulary, from Brinton's approval of its printing, Boas' comments on the proof, and Williams' request for a copy after publication. See also Boas (1893).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Language:English
Date:1934
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cranmer, Dan
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:18 letters
Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw material in the Boas-Rukeyser collection primarily consists of a series letters to and from Dan Cranmer written in 1934. These letters all been digitized and can be accessed via links the finding aid. Other correspondence files in this collection may contain some additional Kwakwaka'wakw-related content.
Collection:Boas-Rukeyser Collection (Mss.B.B61ru)
Culture:
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Date:circa 1947-1950 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Newman, Stanley S. (Stanley Stewart), 1905-1984 | Voegelin, F. M. (Florence Marie), 1927-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Wakashan languages | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays | Stories
Extent:7 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Kwakwaka'wakw culture and Kwak'wala language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Voegelin and his contemporaries designated both the culture and language as "Kwakiutl," which is reflected in the finding aid. All "Kwakiutl" materials are located in Subcollection II. They include "Kwakiutl" material in correspondence with Morris Swadesh in Series I. Correspondence; a "Kwakiutl" folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VIII. Undetermined Phylum Affiliation; a "Kwakiutl" folder and another folder containing reviews of Franz Boas' "Kwakiutl Grammar" (1948) in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works; a Kwakwaka'wakw story ("Cannibal-of-the-North-End-of-the-World") in the North Pacific Coast Tales category in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries II: American Indian Tales for Children; and Stanley S. Newman's review of Franz Boas' "Kwakiutl Grammar" and Florence M. Robinett's [i.e., F. M. Voegelin] "Tentative Kwakiutl Morpheme List, Based on Boas' Grammar in the Handbook of American Indian Languages." in Series IV. Works by Others.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)