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Date:1820-1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau regarding the Nottoway language. Includes three letters to Thomas Jefferson regarding Nottoway as Iroquoian language, numbers, Onondaga and Mohawk, Nottoway-Naudowesie-Huron, Heckewelder's letter on Powhatan being Delaware (#1153), Carver's Naudowessit, Wilson's Nottoway vocabulary, Pickering's essay on orthography, and his search for Mattapony and Pamunkey Vocabularies; letter to Friedrich von Adelung, thanking him for publications and forwarding membership certificate and books on Indian languages, including Nottoway vocabulary manuscript; letter to John G. E. Heckewelder concerning Indians and their languages, especially Naudowessie, Sioux, Huron, Nottoway [Reply to July 15 letter (#1713)].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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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)
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Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1819-1821
Contributor:Dencke, J. (Jeremiah), 1725-1795 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Sargeant, John, 1710-1749 | Pickering, John, 1737-1805 | White, Samuel | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Concerning the printing and distribution of his Dencke was retired from Upper Canada for drinking; Heckewelder can't ask him to do a grammar of the Chippewa using Zeisberger as a model. Discusses Indian vocabularies being collected by Du Ponceau. Sends vocabulary compiled from Carver (C) and Samuel White (S), a Nanticoke. Heckewelder has little knowledge of the Mahicanni [Mohican]; suggests missionary, Sargeant.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
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Taíno includes: Arawak
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Lokono includes: Arawak
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1818-1888
Subject:Linguistics | Iroquoian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent:4 items
Description: Materials relating to Onondaga language and culture at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include David Zeisberger's "Essay on an Onondaga grammar" in the Pennsylvania Magazine of universal languages; the destruction (according to Heckewelder) of part 1 of Zeisberger's Onondaga dictionary, his grammar of Onondaga, and Schuman's [i.e., Schulz's] Arruwak [Arawak] dictionary (variety unidentified); request from W.S. Hayward for Zeisberger's works on the Onondaga Hayward's grammar of the Iroquois in English; and du Ponceau forwarded Onondaga Indian vocabularies [to Johann S. Vater?]
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Language:English
Date:March 11, 1818; July 29, 1818
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: Forwards Zeisberger's book and a brief biography of him to the American Philosophical Society. Will send the Historical and Literary Committee papers dealing with Indian affairs, in the hands of Franklin, Weiser, Parsons, and Horsfield. Concerning an article by Zeisberger. Last half of an Onondaga dictionary done approximately 1764. Corrections for his publications. Is forwarding a dictionary, by Zeisberger, of the Indian languages. Part 1 of the dictionary has been found. It is to be returned, and the grammar too. Concerning Heckewelder's attitudes towards Indian cruelty and towards Du Ponceau's rewriting the book.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
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Osage includes: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘
Language:English
Date:January 13, 1826; March 13, 1958
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Anderson, James
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Du Ponceau to Marc Antoine Jullien de Paris regarding Cass' article in the North American Review exposing John D. Hunter as a fraud; had stated privately that this was the case in 1822. Encloses news clipping of anonymous letter (by Du Ponceau) of 1822 which exposes Hunter on linguistic grounds. [N.B. Du Ponceau had been fooled by Hunter in New York, but had found he lacked knowledge of Osage in later visit to Philadelphia.] Anderson to Carl P. Russell regarding plan of Fort Osage in original of Clark's diary [#2607] and location of other Clark items dealing with Fort Osage.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
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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)
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Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1821
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 20 p.
Description: This bound volume includes approximately twenty pages of Abenaki words and their English translations compiled by Emma Gardiner of Gardiner, Maine in 1821. Although the origins of this document are not clear, it is possible that Gardiner worked with Abenaki Indians to compile this list. The document contains the annotations and other notes of Peter Du Ponceau.
Collection:Penobscot Indian vocabulary (Mss.497.3.G16)
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Language:English
Date:1821
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters regarding Penobscot language materials at the American Philosophical Society. First item is Du Ponceau to Johann S. Vater requesting publications from Germany concerning Indian languages and mentioning his own manuscript vocabularies, including the Penobscot. Second item is Emma (Tudor) Hallowell Gardiner to William Tudor, transmitting her Penobscot vocabulary, transcribed according to Pickering's orthography, excepting marking to show duplication of l, m, and n.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Language:English
Date:1781-1844
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 | Coodey, William Shorey, 1806-1849 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:.5 linear feet
Description: A pioneer in ethnographic and linguistic studies of the American Indian and one of the most active members of the American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau helped to establish the American Philosophical Society's reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for the study of American Indians and their languages. The Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Collection consists of correspondence on legal matters, Indian linguistics, silk culture, maritime law, the American Philosophical Society, and various publications of the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes several essays by Du Ponceau, most of which deal with maritime law. Materials in this collection that relate explicitly to Native peoples include a letter from Du Ponceau to John Vaughan discussing the merits of John Heckewelder's "Account...of the Indian Nations" (1818); a letter from John Adams informing Du Ponceau that his and Heckewelder's studies on Native Americans have diminished certain prejudices he (Adams) had against them, and mentioning certain works which might be of interest in Du Ponceau's study of universal language (1819); another letter from Adams relative to lost languages in general and Adams' desire to see Heckewelder's account of his missionary labors with Indians (1819); a letter from Du Ponceau to Marc-Antione Jullien de Paris mentioning the imposture John Dunn Hunter, who claimed to have been captured by Kickapoo Indians and raised among the Kickapoo, Kansa (Kaw), and Osage (1826); another letter to Jullien de Paris mentioning a review of his Delaware grammar (1828); a letter from William Shorey Coodey (Cherokee) forwarding a book in the Cherokee language translated by S.A. Worcester and Elias Boudinot (1836); and a letter from William Hickling Prescott thanking Du Ponceau for his work on Indian languages and mentioning John Vaughan and John Pickering (1839). There are also two letters from linguist Albert Gallatin, one that informs Du Ponceau of his progress on the Indian vocabularies and another that includes a newspaper clipping defending Gallatin against those who assailed his reputation. See the finding aid for an itemized list of the collection.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Collection (Mss.B.D92p)