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Language:English
Date:April 29, 1688
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Birds | Zoology | Wampum | Material culture | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from S. P., perhaps to Robert Boyle of the Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge. Sends dead hummingbird and a sample of Indian wampum which Indians measure by cubits, varying with each person. Original at the Royal Society of London.
Collection:Royal Society (Great Britain) miscellaneous correspondence and documents (Mss.Film.460)
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Language:English
Date:1819-1859
Contributor:Browne, Peter A. (Peter Arrell), 1782-1860 | Curson, S. (?) | Bloomfield, Joseph E. | Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Antiquities | Linguistics | Pottery | Material culture | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Essays
Extent:5 items
Description: Items relating to Quechua materials. Items include Peter A. Browne's letter regarding microscopic examination of hair of ancient Peruvians and modern Indians; S. Curson's report concerning Arequipa, Peru, including a climb of Mount Yachi, Quechua concepts of oxygen deficiency, and local Indians' attitude toward revelation of mine locations; Joseph E. Bloomfield's letter to John Vaughan concerning Peruvian vases taken from Temple of the Sun by Pizarro's men, received in Spain and now deposited with the American Philosophical Society for inspection; Samuel G. Morton's letter to Vaughan regarding a collection of antique Peruvian vessels "from ruins near Truxillo" deposited in his care for the APS by Marmaduke Burrough (a memoir by Dr. Burrough to follow); and Peter S. du Ponceau's letter to Johann S. Vater concerning Indian languages, especially those of Peru, requesting Vater's addenda so Du Ponceau can publish a translation of Vater's book, and information received from Don Pedro Perez, half-breed Quechua, regarding the "I am that I am" problem in linguistics, and regarding Basque and South American-Malay comparisons.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Date:1900-1928, 1974
Contributor:Bertz, Dietrich | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Music | Museum objects | Social life and customs | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1000+ pages
Description: The Secwepemc materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials found in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Shuswap (Secwepemc)" section of the finding aid, there are vocabularies recorded by Boas (item S1c.1) and Teit (item S1c.2) which include names of tribes and other information. In the "Thompson" section, Teit's "Salish ethnographic materials" (item 61) includes some Secwepemc notes, as does Teit's notebooks that make up "Field notes on Thompson and neighboring Salish languages" (item S1b.7). (The extent of Secwepemc material in these notebooks is undetermined as the material does not yet have a detailed contents listing.) In the "Chinook Jargon" section of the finding aid, "Indian legends of the North Pacific coast of North America" (item 74) includes some Secwepemc legends. In the "Kutenai" section, there are some Secwepemc stories in Teit's "Folkloristic tales from the Salish area" (item 12). In the "Lillooet" section, Teit's "Lillooet vocabulary" (item S1a.1) includes some comparative Secwepemc words. In the "Salish" section, Teit's "Salish (and Dene) ethnographic notes" (item 60) includes information on Secwepemc artifacts sent to museums, and "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) includes notes on 80 songs (some of which are Secwepemc) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:Bulk 1930s-1990s
Contributor:Abrams, George H. J. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Gibson, Simeon | Hauptman, Laurence M. | Heron, George D. | Jimerson, Dan M. | Lamb, Gerald | Lazarus, Arthur, Jr. | Ledsome, Thelma | Preston, Jack | Printup, Maribel | Printup, Wayne | Redeye, Clara | Redeye, Sherman | Seneca, Cornelius B. | Seneca, Martin | Seneca, Pauline | Seneca Nation of Indians | Seneca-Iroquois National Museum | Sonosky, Marvin J. | Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2004 | Waters, Somerset R. | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Johnny John, Chauncey
Subject:Botany | Kinship | Material culture | Medicine | Museums | New York (State)--History | Ontario--History | Place names | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Wampum | Music
Type:Text | Still Image | Sound recording
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Genealogies | Maps | Speeches | Songs
Extent:15+ linear feet
Description: Seneca materials make up the majority of the Fenton papers and can be found throughout all sections of the collection. Series I contains correspondence with numerous people on Seneca matters. Noteworthy Seneca correspondents include Simeon Gibson, Clara Redeye, Sherman Redeye, and other individuals such as those listed above. The largest body of material is in Series V, which includes Fenton's notebooks and other documentation from field work at Allegany, Cattaraugus, Tonawanda, and Grand River, beginning in the 1930s through late in his career. This section also includes extensive card files on "Materia Medica" or ethnobotanical information, and Seneca place names. Series VI consists of over 1000 photographs, the majority of which are from Seneca communities in the 1930s-1950s. Series VII contains one audio recording of Seneca songs. Series VIII includes additional field notes and other materials derived mainly from his 1930s fieldwork. Significant portions of these materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity, as Fenton's materials frequently pertain to areas of sacred traditional knowledge.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
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St'at'imc includes: Stl’atl’imx, Lillooet
Language:English | St'at'imcets
Date:1910-1921
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Museum objects | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:200+ pages
Description: The St'at'imc materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of materials in the "Lillooet" section of the finding aid. These include ethnographic notes and multiple word lists recorded by Sapir, Boas, and Teit, including both Upper and Lower Lillooet. In the "Salish" section, Teit's "Salish (and Dene) ethnographic notes" (item 60) includes information on St'at'imc objects sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) includes notes on 80 songs (some of which are St'at'imc) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In the "Thompson" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Salish ethnographic materials" (item 61) includes some St'at'imc ethnographic information of undetermined extent.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Tolowa includes: Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’
Date:1902-1903
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:California--History | Linguistics | Material culture | Museums | Music
Type:Text
Extent:20 notebooks
Description: The Tolowa materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of 18 field notebooks with information from informants from Burnt Ranch and Smith River Island, California. Includes lexical items, paradigms, songs, museum specimens, texts, historical narratives, ethnological data, and names for material-culture objects. These can be found in the "Tolowa" section of the finding aid as item Na20f.1. There are also some stories in "Field notes in California Athabascan languages" (item Na.2), located in the "Athapaskan" section of the finding aid.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:1940
Contributor:Neitzel, Robert S. | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Hunting | Social life and customs | Dance | Linguistics | Specimens | Tanning | Rites and ceremonies | Material culture | Louisiana--History
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Reports | Field notes | Sketches
Extent:4 folders, 50 photos
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Tunica language, history, and culture. Letters and notes from Robert Stuart Neitzel comprise the bulk of this assemblage, and include a two-page report about Tunica tanning of deer hides, together with a one-page letter of transmission and a two-page drawing; 28 pages on Tunica dances, including the green corn ceremony, along with letters about concerning field work among the Tunica and Caddo archaeology with a sketch of the digging; and 16 pages of miscellaneous notes, sketches, and correspondence on topics such as archaeology at Marksville, Louisiana (with sketches), Tunica museum specimens, phonetic transcriptions of dance names, a sketch of a Tunica scraper and hide drying frame, traps (with a sketch), Tunica tools, etc. There is also a letter to Speck from Frank Siebert concerning the linguistic field work of Mary Haas and publication of Speck's Penobscot texts. Lastly, there are about 50 photos sent to Speck by Robert Stuart Neitzel.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
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Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:circa 1869
Subject:Arctic regions | Greenland--History | Ethnography | Architecture | Social life and customs | Material culture | Kayaks | Clothing and dress | Boats
Type:Still Image
Genre:Photographs
Extent:1 volume
Description: This volume is a companion to Dalton Dorr's “Notes of travel made from memoranda in old diaries,” a hand-written account of recollections of his excursions written in the winter of 1897-1898. Among his various journeys was "A Pleasure cruise in Greenland,” taken aboard the "Panther" in the summer of 1869 with marine painter William Bradford, Massachusetts photographers John Dunmore and George Critcherson, and arctic explorer and physician Dr. Isaac I. Hayes. Dr. Hayes' published work, The Land of Desolation (1872), gives a full description of the Panther's voyage north along Greenland's west coast. This companion volume contains albumen prints taken by William Bradford and others aboard the Panther during that cruise. It is a bound folio of 92 albumen prints, from 16 x 21 cm. to 29 x 40 cm. Images are primarily landscapes of icebergs, glaciers, and rock formations. Thirty-five of the prints are ethnographic in nature, portraying aspects of Inuit social life and customs, including dwellings, encampments, kayak, oomiak, and portraits in native attire. Images reflect settlements in Krakortok, Sermitsialik, and Upernavik along the west coast of Greenland in 1869. See the finding aid for more information and related materials.
Collection:Under the midnight sun (Mss.919.8.D73u)
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Willapa includes: Kwalhioqua, Willoopah
Language:English | Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai
Date:1909-1924
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Linguistics | Material culture | Museum objects
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:29 pages
Description: The Willapa materials in the ACLS collection mostly consist of materials in the "Willapa" section of the finding aid. Teit's "Notes to Willapa" (item Na9.2) includes comparative notes, based on a missing list of 139 Willapa terms, and a list of museum specimens desired. A subsequent "Willapa word list" (item Na9.1) by Boas was created from Teit's materials. In the "Carrier" section of the finding aid is "Notes on various Athabaskan languages" (item Na.5), recorded by James Teit, which partially includes vocabulary in the Suwal dialect of Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Date:1904-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Robinson, Roy H. | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Rolland, Ann | Allen, Ellen | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935 | Sexton, Charles Eli
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Peyote | Music | Dance | Social life and customs | Religion | Politics and government | Jewelry | Haskell Institute | Ethnomusicology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Reports | Musical scores
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Yuchi language, history, and culture. Includes three letters from Roy H. Robinson to Speck concerning persuading Yuchis to answer questions, Cayuga earrings, a Navajo beaded necklace, Osage buffalo hide shield, etc.; a 13-page report titled "Yuchi Ethnography" on political organization, diseases, mythology, etc., based on a 1904 field trip; a folder on Yuchi and Creek dances with sheet music for songs to accompany dance, choreography, and a few vocabulary items with a folder on Yuchi and Creek songs along with 12 vocabulary slips; and 17 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Yuchi notes and correspondence, including one page concerning Yalewi, a Yuchi Indian; one card concerning peyote among Yuchi; a one-page list of names of informants, 1941; a letter from Erich von Hornbostel to Speck, concerning Yuchi songs; a letter from Ellen Allen, a Yuchi Indian, recalling Speck's visit in 1904 and Boas' visit and effort to do a Yuchi grammar with her; a letter from Carl F. Voegelin concerning Yuchi linguistics; letters from Charles Eli Sexton to the University of Pennsylvania Museum concerning Speck's Yuchi ethnography, a Yuchi informant, and connection of Natchez and Hopewell to Yuchi; and letters from Ann Rolland (Haskell Institute) concerning Yuchi museum specimens and relics of the past.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)