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Language:English
Date:1834; 1839
Contributor:Powell, W. Byrd (William Byrd), 1799-1866 | Barabino, Joseph
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Skulls | Phrenology | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letters discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Letters from Joseph Barabino and William Byrd Powell regarding American Indian skulls and phrenology. Barabino informs Morton that he will visit Atakapas to secure skulls for Morton; he cannot identify the late Dr. Lebair's skulls. Powell compares Atakapa and Natchez skulls, criticizes Morton's use of single examples from each tribe, discusses his desire to take 500 specimens on a phrenological speaking tour in England, criticizes Combe's comments in Crania Americana, and alludes to a professional dispute.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Atikamekw includes: Têtes-de-Boules, Têtes de Boules, Tete de Boule
Date:1915-1931
Subject:Québec (Province)--History | Kinship | Linguistics
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders, 28 photographs
Description: The Atikamekw materials in the Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 2 folders in Subcollection I, Series I. Item II(4B9a) concerns hunting territories of Mistassini, Waswanipi, "Tête de Boule", and Chicoutimi, with ethnographic data on childbirth and chiefs. Item II(2H1) includes notes on Atikamekw consultalts and a word list. Includes notes on reverse of 2p. letter of W. C. Orchard (Heye Foundation) to Speck, Dec. 10, 1931. In Series III, see "10-24(a-z, aa-bb) Tetes de Boule," which contains 28 photographs, and photo 6-12-e.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English | Ahtna | Tutchone, Southern | Tanana, Upper
Date:1960-1968
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Guédon, Marie Françoise
Subject:Alaska--History | Botany | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Interviews | Microfilms
Extent:2 reels
Description: These reels contain materials relating to Ahtna, Upper Tanana, and Southern Tutchone communities. Included are lists of plants, and transcripts of interviews. Detailed table of contents pending.
Collection:Atna of the Copper River Valley (Mss.Film.1278)
Date:1929 and undated
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972
Subject:California--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:126 pages
Description: The Atsugewi materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items found primarily in the "Atsugewi" section of the finding aid. Most are by Jaime de Angulo: "Conversational text in Atsugewi" (item H1b.2), "Mythological text in Atsugewi" (item H1b.3), and "The Atsugewi Language" (item H1b.1, a a manuscript grammar by Jaime de Angulo intended for comparison with the his study of "the Achumawi language," similar also to his grammar of Shasta in item H1c.1), and "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi Texts" (item H1a.2, in the Achumawi section). A separate "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi Texts" (item H1a.2) by Lucy Shepard Freeland is in the Atsugewi section.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Atsugewi includes: Pit River
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Hokan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders, 1 box
Description: Three items relating to the Atsugewi language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. They consist of a folder of Achumawi & Atsugewi material and a folder containing a comparative vocabulary of California tribes (with words from from Hupa, Wiyot, Karuk, Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Konkow, Yana, Wintu, Maidu, and Modoc) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries V. Hokan; and a box of notes in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Atsugewi includes: Pit River
Date:1900
Contributor:Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Description: The Atsugewi materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers are limited to occassional information in A.M. Halpern's notebooks and A.L Kroeber's notebooks in Series I-A.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Language:Spanish
Date:circa 16th century
Contributor:Guatemala. Audiencia | Jimenez Núñez, Alfredo
Subject:Guatemala--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms
Extent:129 reels
Description: This is a collection of documents relating to post-conquest social, cultural, and legal processes in Guatemala, which were culled from the Archivo General de Indias in Seville by the Hispanic-Latin American Research Project beginning in 1967. There is a 65-page guide to the collection, Guide to the Documents from the Archivo General de Indias pertaining to the Audiencia de Guatemala. Originals in the Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain. Donor, Ruben E. Reina, December 1974.
Collection:Audiencia de Guatemala, 16th cent. (Mss.Film.1337)
Date:1950-1972
Contributor:Albó, Xavier, 1934- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Zuidema, R. Tom, (Reiner Tom), 1927-2016 | Farfán, José M. B. | Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | American Bible Society | Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001 | Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939-
Subject:Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography | Archaeology | Folklore | South America--History | Religion
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Grammars | Vocabularies | Notes | Sketches
Description: The Aymara materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of comparative linguistics and studies of kinship in Series II. Of particular interest are the audio recordings in Series VII on the folklore of the Ayar Incas. The correspondence, in Series I, contains information of the geographic distribution of the language, Lounsbury's analysis of the language and its relationship to Quechua, Christian scriptures in Aymara, Morris Swadesh's work on genetic classification of Native American languages, and geographic distribution of Aymara population.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Aymara includes: Aimara
Date:1970, 1982
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Davidson, Joseph | Yapita, Juan de Dios | Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001 | Hardman, Martha James
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Notebooks | Correspondence | Stories | Transcriptions
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Haas' original Aymara material appears to all derive from a field methods class at Ohio State University in 1970. It consists of notebooks containing lexica, paradigms, texts, phonological notes, comparisons to Jaqaru and more (Series 2), which referenc tapes (Series 10), and possibly developed into index card lexica in Series 9. Correspondence with Hardman, Martha James (Series 1) also mentions Aymara and Quechua.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Aymara includes: Aimara
Date:1988, 1991
Contributor:Briggs, Lucy Therina | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Aymara item is correspondence with Lucy Briggs on a Spanish-language Aymara grammar (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)