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Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1885-1909
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | British Columbia--History | Northwest Territories--History | Nunavut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: This correspondence refers to Franz Boas' trips to Baffin Island (Nunavut, formerly the Northwest Territories) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected materials on Northwest Coast languages among the Aleut. From originals in possession of the Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Donor, Smithsonian Institution, April 1967.
Collection:Franz Boas correspondence, 1885-1909 (Mss.Film.372.3)
Culture:
Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh
Language:English
Date:ca. 1947-1948, 1950, ca. 1941-1976
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | McCloud, Red | Gillespie, John W.
Subject:Dance | Northwest Territories--History | Music
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Music | Correspondence | Songs
Extent:1 folder; 2 minutes of audio
Description: There are two Gwich'in items identified in the Floyd Lounsbury Papers. In Series VII, Audio Recordings, is a recording titled "Gwich'in Social Dance", recorded off of a played-back phonograph recording originally made in 1947 or 1948 by Red McCloud in Aklavik, N.W.T., and part of a wire recording sent to Floyd Lounsbury by John W. Gillespie. In Series I, correspondence with Mary Haas discusses wax cylinder recordings of Gwich'in.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Tłı̨chǫ includes: Dogrib
Language:English | Tlicho (Dogrib)
Date:1967, 1970, 1971
Contributor:Gillespie, Beryl C. | Howren, Robert
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Northwest Territories--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Maps | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:210 pages
Description: The Tlicho materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Gillespie and Howren.
Beryl Gillespie's materials are "Correspondence to the APS (1 p.); typeset manuscript "Athabaskans who have Cree for neighbors (51 p.); typeset manuscript "A few comments on the early records for the Mackenzie Basin- Slave, Dogrib, Mountain Indians" (7 p. including map). All xeroxes." Robert Howren's materials are "Copy of fieldnotes (151 p.). Consultants "VT" (possibly "Vital") and "AE". Sentence elicitations, some with interlinear glosses, and a mixture of phonetic and phonemic orthography. Fieldwork location is not mentioned, but likely in the Northwest Territories, Canada."
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)