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Date:1928, 1936, 1943
Contributor:West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Carving | Dance | Health | Medicine | Rites and ceremonies | North Carolina--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: Part of the papers of Will West Long, Big Cove, Qualla Reservation, North Carolina, in hand of Long, Morgan Calhoun, Lawyer Calhoun, etc.; also pages in English relating to Indian masks and Indians and Snake Battle. List of dancers, 1936. This material is restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Cherokee medicinal and magical texts (Mss.497.3.C425)
Culture:
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Language:English
Date:1904 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Bibliographies
Extent:14 pages
Description: Item titled "Miscellaneous notes (Choctaw)." Includes one-page note with embossed Great Seal of the Choctaw Nation; 9 pages of bibliographical notes; 2 pages on Choctaw burial-1904; and 2 pages on Choctaw medicines. Some of these items are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
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Crow includes: Apsáalooke, Absaroka
Date:1967-1968, 1976, 1995-1996, 2000-2001
Contributor:Buchholtz, Debra | Merrill, William Lewis | Powers, William K.
Subject:Botany | Medicine | Montana--History | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:713 pages
Description: The Crow materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Buchholtz, Merrill, and Powers.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Date:1964-1965, 1969-1970, 1976, 1996-1998
Contributor:Anderson, Carolyn R. | Clemmons, Linda M. | Garner, Beatrice Medicine | Harbeck, Warren A. | Merrill, William Lewis | Powers, William K.
Subject:Botany | Linguistics | Medicine | South Dakota--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Field notes | Reports
Extent:162 pages
Description: The Dakota materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Anderson, Carter, Clemmons, Garner, Harbeck, Merrill, Powers.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Language:Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ) | English
Date:1950s
Contributor:Ellis, C. D. (Clarence Douglas), 1923- | McDonald, Angeline.
Subject:Linguistics | Medicine | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:9 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Denesuline materials in the Ilse Lehiste Papers consist of one audio recording: an "Elicitation of Dene numbers and phrases used in medical history interview," recorded in Uranium City in the 1950s with speaker Angeline McDonald. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Ilse Lehiste papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.62)
Date:1755-1788
Contributor:Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806 | Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795 | Kent, Benjamin, 1708-1788 | Timothy, Peter, 1725?-1782 | La Rochefoucauld-d'Enville, Louis-Alexandre, duc de, 1743-1792 | Morgan, George, 1743-1810 | Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Land transfers | Land claims | Medicine | Mounds | Kentucky--History | Québec (Province)--History | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:9 items
Description: Letters between various correspondents regarding Indian affairs. Topics include French intrigues during Seven Years' War era; sale of liquor to Indians and consequent disorders; relations with western Indians and action needed by Congress of Confederation in early national period; ancient fortifications discovered at the junction of Muskingum and Ohio, as well as in Kentucky; South Carolina governor's bad management of Indian affairs; discovery of root which cures gout; land sales and grants; Indians' title to lands, implications of papal decrees and Quebec Act.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
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Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1993
Contributor:Matthews, Maureen Anne, 1949-
Subject:Drums | Manitoba--History | Material culture | Religion | Medicine | Folklore | Rites and ceremonies | Anthropology | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Transcripts | Radio programs | Stories
Extent:1 volume
Description: Transcript of show "Ideas," copyright by the Canadian Broadcast Corp. Describes the drum ceremony created by Fairwind for the Ojibwa and A. Irving Hallowell's work on Fairwind's drum.
Collection:Fairwind's drum (Mss.970.3.M43f)
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Date:1880-1932
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Calhoun, Morgan, 1863?-1927 | West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Wolf, James | Witthoft, John
Subject:Botany | Ethnography | Medicine | Religion | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Diaries | Account books | Records | Ledgers | Vocabularies | Transcriptions
Extent:22 items
Description: The Frank Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee (syllabary) collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. These include several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms. Many of these items have been designated as culturally sensitive and may not be reproduced, nor photographed in the Reading Room.
Collection:Frank Gouldsmith Speck Cherokee Collection (Mss.572.97.Sp3L)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Language:English
Date:1933, 1984-1985
Contributor:Nooder, Gert | Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays | Photographs | Negatives
Extent:1 folder and 3 photographic negatives
Description: Two items in the Baruch Blumberg papers are identified as being from East Greenland. In Series XIV. Photographic Materials are three negatives of unidentified Greenlandic people fishing in Kûngmiut (Kuummiit) and Quarmiut, taken by Gert Nooder and from the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, Netherlands. In Series VI. Works by Blumberg is an essay titled "Hepatitis B Virus and Sex Ratio of Offspring in East Greenland".
Collection:Baruch S. Blumberg Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.144)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1952-1953
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958
Subject:British Columbia--History | Carving | Ethnography | Medicine | Material culture
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: A work intended as a sequel to Barbeau (1953) Haida myths. In addition to discussing Skidegate and Masset carvers and their work, the author presents material on carvers as medicine men, material on shamanism and witchcraft, classification of the subjects of statuettes (chiefs and illustration of myths). An appendix includes myths recorded by William Beynon among the Skidegate, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a, from 1952-1954.
Collection:Haida carvers in argillite (Mss.970.6.B23h)