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Language:German | English | German, Walser
Date:1917-1962
Contributor:Susman, Amelia, 1915- | Schultz, Elias | Amacher, Werner | Schild, Martha | Huggler, Viktor | Thoeni, Gertrude | Aman, Reinhold | Knetschke, E. | Moulton, William G. (William Gamwell), 1914-2000 | Statistisches Bureau des Kantons Bern
Subject:Linguistics | Switzerland--History | Economic conditions | Religion | Education | Childbirth | Marriage customs and rites
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Field notes | Correspondence | Censuses | Government documents | Newspapers | Drafts
Extent:2.5 linear feet
Description: Between around 1948 and 1950, Amelia Susman did fieldwork in Brienz, Switzerland, documenting the local variety of Highest Allemanic German as well as the social and economic organization of the village and surrounding areas. This is all contained within Series I. Of particular note are a reel-to-reel tape and some associated transcriptions, a set of 13 field notebooks, a lexical file, topically-arranged ethnographic notes, some correspondence with consultants (scattered throughout), and preparatory materials for several publications.
Collection:Amelia Susman Schultz Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.171)
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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1820
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Vaughn, John, 1756-1841
Subject:Childbirth | Ethnography | Marriage customs and rites | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Corrections
Extent:1 volume
Description: Six editorial corrections to Heckewelder's Account...(1819), with page references, "in case a new edition ever is made." Concerns religion, warfare, marriage and family life, childbirth, swimming, and fears. Never printed. Prepared. for John Vaughan; should be compared with Heckewelder's suggestions in his correspondence with Du Ponceau.
Collection:Notes, amendments, and additions to Heckewelder's account of the Indians (Mss.970.1.H35n)