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Date:1821-1822
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent:3 items
Description: Notes concerning Indian nations given to Peter S. Du Ponceau by Mr. Darby, giving locations of Caddo, Inies [?], Natchitoches, Apalachicolas, and Biloxi; a letter from Du Ponceau to John Sibley seeking Caddo and Natchez vocabularies of 150 words each and giving classes (from Jefferson word list?); and a letter from Du Ponceau to Friedrich von Adelung transmitting two of Sibley's manuscript vocabularies, Caddo and Adayes [Adai], and noting that his brother, Le Chevalier Du Ponceau, has prepared a translation of Heckewelder (1819).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679 | Davies | Laet, Johannes de | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Grammatical study based on Breton (1667). Includes auxiliary-verb conjugation; extracts on men's vs. women's speech taken from Davies (1666). List of words from DeLaet (1633)
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Language:English | French | Haitian Creole
Date:1910s-1920s
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Subject:Folklore | Anthropology | Caribbean Area--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Stories | Prayers | Correspondence
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: The Caribbean materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist predominantly of Afro-Caribbean folklore-related materials found in her field notebooks, and notes and works derived from them. See especially Subcollection I, Series II, for materials described especially as "Antilles" and Subcollection II, Series IV for notebooks from additional Caribbean nations, territories, and islands. Places noted in the source materials include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Ricl, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, and Trinidad. Additional relevant materials may be located in other series.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Date:1929-1930
Contributor:Hill, Ezechiel | Henry, Job | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958
Subject:Linguistics | Medicine | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:120 pages
Description: The Cayuga materials in the Frans Olbrechts Papers consist of 3 items found in Series I. These items are: "1-A: Cayuga paradigms and text," which includes a 20-page word and phrase list, and a story about Red Jacket, given by Ezekiel Hill; "1-B: Notes on Cayuga," recorded with consultant Job Henry; and "6: Comparative relative pronouns," a notebook containing word comparison tables with other Iroquoian languages.
Collection:Frans M. Olbrechts papers (Mss.497.3.OL2)
Culture:
Language:French | Chinook | Chinook Jargon
Date:Undated
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Penutian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Hymns | Translations
Extent:3 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This item, by an unknown author, contains hymns in French and Chinook (unidentified Chinookan language and/or Chinook Jargon). Includes a comment of Charles Marius Barbeau: "Probablement de la Cote Nord-Ouest. Il semble avoir des mots du jargon chinook; potlatch, makumak. Peut-etre des missionaires Demers et Blanchet." Original in Universite Laval. Seminaire de Quebec, Archives, Polygraphie XIX no. 38.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
Culture:
Language:Chitimacha | French
Date:1802
Contributor:Duralde, Martin
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as Item 11: Martin Duralde's "Vocabulaire de la langue des Chatimachas et Croyance des Chetimachas," which includes commentary on Chitimacha religion.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:1 volume (80 pages) on microfilm
Description: The Cree materials in the Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials include Dictionnaire cris par un missionaire, O.M.I., negative in possession of Catholic University of America. Original manuscript in Archives, Provinciales O.M.I., Edmonton, Alberta. Includes 51 page dictionary, alphabetical by the Cree, and 29 page text concerning life of Jesus in Cree.
Collection:Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials (Mss.Film.1008)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:French
Date:1691
Contributor:Lindeström, Peter Mårtensson, 1632-1691
Subject:Colonies | Expeditions | New Sweden | Place names | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Extent:20 pages
Description: Copy, of chapter 5 only, made from the original Swedish manuscript in the Royal Archives. Gives place names and description of settlements along the Delaware and adjoining creeks; Place names and some historical information, as well as the fabulous. Meant to accompany Lindestrom's map, a copy of which was presented with this manuscript.
Collection:New Sweden Records (Mss.974.8.Sw2)
Culture:
Dene Thá includes: Slave, Slavey
Language:French | Slavey, South
Contributor:Delroi, J., O.M.I.
Subject:Linguistics | Personal names
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Grammars
Extent:4 volumes on microfilm
Description: Dene Thá materials in the Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials include Dictionnaire francais-esclave. Negative in possession of Catholic University of America. Lists vowels, consonants, and French-Slave dictionary. Grammaire esclave, O.M.I. Negative in possession of Catholic University of America. A French grammar, organized by parts of speech. Petite grammaire esclave. Negative in possession of Catholic University of America. Part I: Verb Conjugations. Part II: Categories of Verbs. Dictionnaire de langue esclave. Negative in possession of Catholic University of America. French-Slave dictionary, with parts of verbs listed in parallel columns. Also, 2 pages of names of Slave bands near Fort Nelson and Fort Simpson. 10 pages of phrases.
Collection:Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials (Mss.Film.1008)
Culture:
Dene Thá includes: Slave, Slavey
Language:French | Slavey, South
Date:1930
Contributor:Gouy, Père Edouard
Subject:Linguistics | Dene languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Translations
Extent:192 pages
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. This particular item is a French-Slavey dictionary attributed to Father Edouard Gouy. This dictionary was mimeographed in 15 copies in 1931. From original in possession of Angus Sherwood, Norman Wells, North West Territories, Canada.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)