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Date:1936-1947
Contributor:Marsh, Gordon H. | Small, Julia | Small, Robert | Whitman, William | Small, Jack | Small, David | Durand, Venie | Barnes, Gertrude | Small, Ed (Elwood) | Bassett, Anna | Springer, Wiley | Green, Rachel
Subject:Dhegihan languages | Ethnography | Iowa--History | Language families | Linguistics | Siouan languages
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Grammars | Photographs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1,000+ pages, 18 photographs, 4,000 cards, 75 bluebooks (4-8 pages each)
Description: The Iowa materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of materials collected by Gordon Marsh in the late 1930s, all located in the "Iowa" section of the finding aid. Marsh's materials (item X4a.2, "Materials for a study of the Iowa Indian language"), recorded with the assistance of Iowa speakers, especially Robert Small and Julia Small, include numerous texts on a variety of subjects, which are in the manuscripts in both initial handwritten form (in bluebooks) and in later typescript form, with both interlinear translations and free translations, of which some of the latter were made by Robert Small. This material is divided into 22 parts. This material also includes a draft version of a grammar of the Iowa extensive lexical files including Iowa-English, English-Iowa, and comparisons to related languages (Osage, Dakota, Lakota, Omaha-Ponca, Kansa, and Ho-chunk); and other linguistic notes, with related correspondence. There are also 18 photographs of Iowa people with whom Marsh worked. In this same section, there is also a brief descriptive grammar by William Whitman (item X4a.1) based on field work with an Iowa speaker and an Oto speaker.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English | Omaha-Ponca
Date:1935 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Warfare | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Omaha language, history, and culture. One folder contains 11 pages of miscellaneous notes including 1 page of Sioux [Dakota] or Omaha words, 3 pages of Omaha lexical items, Sioux song text, 4 pages of Omaha text and paradigms, vocabulary, ethnological notes, and 3 pages of Omaha verb conjugations. The second folder contains five pages of material relating to a Plains Indian shield, including one card of bibliographic notes, a letter from Chicago dealer Albert G. Heath to Speck concerning a Pawnee shield sent as specimen, and a letter from F. T. Thunder to Speck concerning an Omaha shield he is making.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English | Lakota | Omaha-Ponca
Date:1928-1930
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hahn, Frida | La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
Subject:Folklore | Kinship | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Notes | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:344 pages, approx. 1,600 cards and slips
Description: The Omaha and Ponda materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of four items located in the "Omaha" section of the finding aid. The earliest materials (items X7a.2 and X7a.3) are texts and grammatical notes recorded by Francis La Flesche, including texts with literal and free translations, and terms of relationship among the Omahas. Also includes correspondence with Franz Boas. The materials by Boas, which were based on prior sources, including La Flesche, consist of a word list comparing Omaha to Lakota (item X.2), and a lexicon of approximately 1600 word slips (iem X7a.1). In the "Iowa" section of the finding aid, Frida Hahn's manuscript grammar, "The Ponca Language," is found among Gordon Marsh's Iowa materials (parts #8-9 of item X4a.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)