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Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Language:Chontal, Highland Oaxaca | Spanish
Date:1968
Contributor:Flores, Damian | Flores, Porfirio Nicolas | Turner, Paul R., 1929- | Zárate, Clemente
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Stories
Extent:4 sound tape reels (2 hr., 58 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in San Matias Petacaltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in the September of 1968, with consultants Damian Flores (age 25), Clemente Zarate (47), and Porfirio Nicolas Flores (90). Folkloric, ethnohistorical, and autobiographical stories and discussions, some in Spanish only, some in Highland Chontal only. (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:Highland Chontal ethnohistory materials (Mss.Rec.66)
Culture:
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Date:1908-1930 and undated
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Blowsnake, Sam
Subject:Linguistics | Siouan languages | Anthropology | Medicine | Religion | Social life and customs | Folklore | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Warfare | Personal names | Clans | Rites and ceremonies | Peyote | Origin | Wisconsin--History
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Notes | Drafts | Essays | Stories | Dictionaries | Autobiographies | Speeches
Extent:49 items
Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) history, culture, and language. Some items are written in Ho-Chunk, with and without English translations. This large collection includes 34 original field notebooks; numerous short and long stories (Hare cycle, Aleck Linetree [probably Alec Lone Tree], the origin of the Buffalo clan, the story of the holy one, the boy who wished to be immortal, etc.); several longer pieces, such as a typed manuscript titled "The legend of Mother-of-all-the-Earth," speeches of Charlie Houghton, multiple versions of "How Blowsnake joined the medicine dance," "Origin myth of the medicine dance," etc.; several published secondary sources; over 3,000 slips for an English-Winnebago [i.e. Ho-Chunk] dictionary and other items relating to Ho-Chunk phonetics, lexicon, linguistics, etc.; several phonetic texts, some with English translation; and a variety of other items with ethnographic, historical, and linguistic data pertaining to ceremonies, tales, clans, medicine, origins, dance, burial, peyote, names, and sweat-baths. Individuals mentioned (some as ) include: Jacob Russell, Charlie Houghton, Oliver LaMere, Sam Blowsnake, John Rave, Thomas Clay, Robert Lincoln, James Smith, Tom Big Bear, and George Ricehill.
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)
Culture:
Date:1883-1892, 1920-1924, 1929-1932, 1936, 1938-1940
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | Cochise, George | Crow-wing | Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 | Forde, C. Daryll | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Stephen, Alexander M. | White, Leslie A. | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Arizona--History | Folklore | Kinship | Material culture | Museums | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Diaries | Notebooks | Photographs | Stories
Extent:24 notebooks, 300+ pages
Description: The Hopi materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of a large amount of material found in several different section of the collection. In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", item 18 includes the notebooks of Alexander Stephen from 1885-1892; item 51 includes a significant number of photographs from Hopi communities from the period of 1918-1926; and items 46 and 61 also contain briefer manuscript materials relating to Hopi ceremonies. In Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence", a number of Correspondences pertain to Hopi matters, particularly Parsons' correspondence with Franz Boas, Ruth Bunzel, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Daryll Forde, Robert H. Lowie, Leslie White, and Benjamin Whorf. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts", there are proofs and drafts related to Parsons' publication of Alexander Stephen's "Hopi Journal." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes" there is a large number of Parsons' field notebooks from multiple visits to different Hopi communities. Some portion of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Date:1960, 1963, 1965-1970, 1973, 1976-1978, 1988-1989, 1994, 2006
Contributor:Black, Robert A., 1927- | Cameron, Catherine M. | Hodge, C. T. (Carleton Taylor), 1917-1998 | Jeanne, LaVerne M. | Kealiinohomoku, Joann W. | Masayesva, LaVerne | McChesney, Lea S. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Schepers, E. M. | Seaman, P. David | Swanson, Richard Alan, 1947- | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Subject:Arizona--History | Dance | Folklore | Linguistics | Material culture | Music | Pottery | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Stories
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Dictionaries | Dissertations | Essays | Interviews | Photographs | Reports | Stories | Transcriptions
Extent:1286 pages, 11 photographs
Description: The Hopi materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 18 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Black, Cameron, Hodge, Jeanne, Kealiinohomoku, Masayesva, McChesney, Schepers, Seaman, Swanson, and Voegelin. Some of these materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitvity or privacy considerations.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1973
Subject:Dance | Folklore | Food | Material culture | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | New York (State)--History | Plants | Sullivan's Campaign of 1779 | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Stories
Extent:11 sound tape reels (29 hr., 41 min.)
Description: Interviews and discussions with the Seneca artist Ernest Smith on his paintings of Seneca customs, stories, ceremonies, crafts, food preparation, and other traditional ways. Smith was a Seneca from the Tonawanda Reservation in New York state. The paintings were done in the 1930s and are presently in the Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, New York. The recordings were made by William N. Fenton and his student, Jeanette Collamer, in 1973 at the museum in Rochester. The paintings are referred to on the recordings by the museum's catalog numbers for the paintings. Some of the paintings do not have assigned titles. Sound quality is fair overall, with severe distortion and prominent background noise on the final tape. Some of the recordings are restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:Interviews concerning the paintings of the Seneca artist Ernest Smith (Mss.Rec.126)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:c. 1930-1937
Subject:Folklore | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Dance | Food | Clothing and dress | Hunting | Music | Religion | Warfare | Social life and customs | Ethnography
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Notes | Bibliographies | Stories
Extent:3 folders
Description: The Inuit materials in the Hallowell Papers include notes on ethnographic materials, analyses of myths, shamanism, property, racial identification, anthropometry, and somaltology. There are newspaper clippings, one entitled "Artic Adventure" by Peter Freuchen and reading notes from secondary sources.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Date:1900-1951
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Cooke, Charles, 1870-1958
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | New York (State)--History | Pennsylvania--History | Ontario--History | Québec (Province)--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Personal names | Essays | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:1380 pages
Description: This manuscript is an alphabetical list of about 6200 Iroquoian names, collected over 5 decades by Charles Cooke (Thawennensere), a Mohawk scholar from Wahta. Each entry includes the name in its Mohawk rendering, with phonetic spelling, gender, tribe, location, date, and clan. The name is then analyzed by radicals, with historical information about its bearer (where relevant). Cross reference to variants and from English names of Indians. Preface by Cooke, edited by C. Marius Barbeau, classifies names and gives numbers and sex. This item has been fully digitized and can be viewed online. See also an accompanying audio collection (Mss.Rec.10), listed separately in this guide, in which Cooke reads the majority of the names.
Collection:Iroquois personal names (Mss.497.3.C772)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Date:1985-1993
Contributor:Rementer, James
Subject:Folklore | Pennsylvania--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Stories
Extent:144 pages
Description: These papers consist of letters from James A. Rementer to John Bierhorst (1990-1993) and Christmas letters (1985-1992) concerning Delaware language and culture. Christmas letters contain Delaware stories. A long-time student of Delaware history, language, and culture, Rementer was appointed by the Delaware Tribe of Indians to be the director of the Lenape Language Project in 1997 and continued to work in various tribal offices thereafter.
Collection:James A. Rementer papers (Mss.497.3.R281)
Culture:
Date:1915-1930
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Kenoy, Louis
Subject:Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Music | Oregon--History | Personal names | Religion | Social life and customs | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:430 pages
Description: The Kalapuya material in the ACLS collection is concentrated primarily in the "Kalapuya" section of the finding aid, which contains several manuscripts relating to Kalapuya language, folklore, and ethnology, primarily recorded by Leo Frachtenberg and Jaime de Angulo. Additional materials can also be found in the "Tualatin" (also known as Atfalati/Wapato Lake) section of the finding aid, which includes autobiographical stories and linguistic analyses.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1980-1990
Contributor:Aitken, Larry | Jackson, Jim | Boyd, Raining
Subject:Folklore | Health | Minnesota--History | Psychology | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Speeches | Stories
Extent:27 audiocassettes (21 hr., 27 min.)
Description: This collection consists of audio recordings of Larry Aitken (Bezhigoogahbow), a distinguished Ojibwe elder, teacher, and traditional knowledge keeper of Leech Lake, Minnesota. The recordings include numerous public speeches, classroom lectures and discussions, and interviews on Anishinaabe spiritual teachings, health, psychology, cultural strength, history, and language. A number of recordings were made with Aitken's teacher, Jim Jackson, a medicine man and traditional knowledge keeper with whom Aitken worked for 17 years.
Collection:Larry Aitken audio recordings (Mss.SMs.Coll.135)