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Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:circa 1825
Subject:Social life and customs | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Reports
Extent:1 reel
Description: This is a forty-eight page report on Delaware culture and language, with selected words and phrases and their meanings, by C. C. Trowbridge in response to a 1823 questionnaire distributed by Lewis Cass. In part a criticism of Heckewelder and DuPonceau. Originals at the University of Michigan.
Collection:Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa Indians: traditions of the Lenee Lenaupee or Delawares: and, language of the Delawares, [ca. 1825] (Mss.Film.883)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Weer, Paul | Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 | Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
Subject:Anthropology | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Bibliographies | Biographies
Extent:24 pages
Description: This bibliography is a guide to writings about a chronicle of the Lenape, first studied by Constantine S. Rafinesque, and subsequently by Ephraim G. Squier and Daniel G. Brinton. It is divided into four sections: Rafinesque, with four sources on the man; Walam Olum, listing all known Anthropological Studies; and References, to the Walam Olum. [Note that the Walam Olum has since been discredited as a fraud perpetuated by Rafinesque. See, for instance, David M. Oestreicher, "Unmasking the Walam Olum: A 19th-Century Hoax," Archaeological Society of New Jersey, Bulletin, no. 49 (1994, 1-44); and Oestreicher, "Unraveling the Walam Olum," Natural History, October 1996, 14-21.] From original loaned by Paul A. W. Wallace, 1952.
Collection:Bibliography, of the Walam Olum (Mss.Film.585)
Date:1590-1976
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Diaries | Dictionaries | Grammars | Maps | Reports | Theses | Field notes | Stories
Extent:26 reels
Description: This collection includes field notes and reports, diaries of expeditions, texts, grammars, dictionaries of Indian languages, theses and research papers collected by members of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago in connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Research Program as well as various Central American governmental agencies. A microfilm publication of the University of Chicago, 1946-1957. Table of contents. Originals at theUniversity of Chicago.
Collection:Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976 (Mss.Film.297)
Culture:
K’áshogot’ıné includes: Hare
Language:English | Slavey, North
Date:1961
Contributor:Hara, Hiroko, 1934-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Dene languages | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: This item consists of 4 field notebooks (109 pages) of Hiroko Sue Hara. The notebooks contain primarily linguistic notes, principally also a 43-page vocabulary, organized by ethnographic categories such as animals, fish, clothing, tools, etc.; 36 pages of phrases and vocabulary notes; and a slip file. This material is related to Recording 38, reels 1-6. Originals in possession of Hiroko Sue Hara.
Collection:Field notes of the Hare Indians, 1961 (Mss.Film.1115)
Culture:
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:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1845-1881
Contributor:Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881 | Howitt, A. W. (Alfred William), 1830-1908 | Fison, Lorimer, 1832-1907
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Geology | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Great Law of Peace | New York (State)--History | Kinship | Clans | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Journals | Notes | Reports | Notebooks | Speeches
Extent:2 reels
Description: Materials of ethnologist and anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. Reel 1: Lorimer Fison and Alfred W. Howitt to Morgan, 1865-1881, 455 pages. Materials pertaining to geology, etc., 194 pages. Materials pertaining to Morgan's secret society, Grand Council of the Iroquois, by Morgan, 156 pages, by others, 105 pages. Rules, Constitutions, etc., 44 pages. Volume 1 of Morgan manuscript journals, 394 pages. Reel 2: Volumes 2-6 of Morgan manuscript journals, 453, 532, 385, 456, and 552 pages. The journal includes notes on travels to New York and Michigan, conversations, and Indian councils. Record of Indian letters [i.e., Record of the inquiry concerning the Indian system of relationship...], volume 1, letters sent, 230 pages; volume 2, letters received, 279 pages. (Includes related correspondence). Printed table of contents (1936). [See also, for descriptive contents, Rochester Historical Society Publication Fund Series 2: 83-97; and White (1959).] Originals in the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester.
Collection:Lewis Henry Morgan journal and correspondence, 1845-1876 (Mss.Film.582)
Culture:
K’áshogot’ıné includes: Hare
Language:English | Slavey, North
Date:1962-1963
Contributor:Hara, Hiroko, 1934-
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: Microfilmed fieldnotes from Hiroko Sue Hara's 1962-1963 fieldwork at Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories.
Collection:Materials collected among the Hare Indians, 1962-1963 (Mss.Film.1175)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:circa 1900-1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Williams, Frank
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Drafts | Vocabularies | Notes | Stories
Extent:2 reels
Description: These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). Originals at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Collection:Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials (Mss.Film.687)
Language:English | Chehalis, Lower | Quileute | Quinault | Blackfoot
Date:1925-1927
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: These linguistic materials include field notes taken by Ronald L. Olson pertaining to the Quinault and Quileute Indians, and a vocabulary of the Blackfoot language assembled by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, as well as a comparative vocabulary of Indians of the United States. From originals in the University of Washington Libraries.
Collection:Ronald L. Olson microfilm collection, 1925-1927 (Mss.Film.1276)
Culture:
Tillamook includes: Nehalem, Nehelim, Nekelim
Date:1890-1939
Contributor:Edel, May M. (May Mandelbaum), 1909-1964
Subject:Linguistics | Salishan languages | Folklore | Fieldwork | Ethnography | Anthropology | Ethnology | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Notes | Vocabularies | Notebooks | Field notes
Extent:4 reels
Description: These materials include notes and vocabularies of Salish languages and dialects, manuscripts concerning the Tillamook language and folk tales, and notebooks containing information from various interviews. From originals in the University of Washington Libraries.
Collection:Mary M. Edel microfilm collection (Mss.Film.1275)