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Culture:
Wichí includes: Mataco (pej.)
Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca
Úza includes: Chichimeca-Jonaz
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Tlapanec includes: Me'phaa, Tlapaneco
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Pame includes: Xi'úi
Popoluca includes: Nundajɨypappɨc, Soteapanec, Popoloca
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Mazahua includes: Hñatho
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Mazatec includes: Ha Shuta Enima, Mazateco
Huastec includes: Téenek, Wastek, Huasteco, Huaxtec, Wasteko
Cuitlatec includes: Cuitlateco
Cuicatec includes: Cuicateco
Chatino includes: Kitse Cha'tño
Chinantec includes: Chinanteco, Yolox, Yetla
Amuzgo includes: Amochco, Amoxco, Ñuuñama
Language:English
Date:1913-1966;
Contributor:Brugge, David M. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | León, Nicolás, 1859-1929 | Weitlaner, Robert J., 1883-1968 | Howard, Agnes McClain | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945
Subject:Mexico--History | Archaeology | Mexico--Antiquities | Kinship | Linguistics | Architecture | Politics and government | Material culture | Architecture | Botany | Migrations | Pottery
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Reports | Essays | Notes | Photographs | Correspondence | Grammars | Vocabularies | Field notes
Extent:165 pages; Circa 300 items;
Description: The Mexico materials, John Alden Mason Papers include a log of a trip to Sonora, itinerary of pack trip from Yecora to Maicoba; lists of photographs; journal. Archaological materials: report on archaeological sites near Rancho Guiracoba, Sonora, Mexico with report on surface collections at six sites in southern Sonora. Notes on the Northern Extension of the Chalchihuites Culture, written for the Mexican Historical Congress, Zacatecas. Slayton Creek Excavation, regarding Mexico; the Papago [Tohono O'odham]; a dig at Slayton Creek, Delaware. Regarding archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic work in Mexico; genetic classification of languages of Central America and Mexico. Regarding internal strife in local (Durango) Indian tribe (including murders); archaeology in Durango; collection of specimens of material culture; work at Schroeder pyramid; cliff dwellings near Mezquital. Mentions Alex Krieger. Cave investigations in Durango and Coahuila, report on search conducted with Robert H. Merrill for traces of early man, particularly on the Folsom horizon. Written for Weitlaner volume. Includes description of three varieties of Cucurbita moschata; evidence in conflict with the theory that Cucurbita moschata was introduced into southern Arizona in late prehistoric or early historic times from the north and east. Regarding Maya pottery; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; archaeological work in Mexico and Guatemala; the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania); Vaillant's obituary. Includes correspondence between Mason and Sue Vaillant (Mrs. George C.) and between Mason and Charles Marius Barbeau. Linguistic materials: a list entitled, "Familias linguisticas de Mexico-idiomas y dialectos a ellas pertencientes," with the families with subdivisions: for Museo nacional de arqueologia, historia y etnologia, Anales. Includes lexical items in the various languages--Hokan, Oto-Manguren, Uto-Aztecan, and Maya-- arranged in columns; Spanish glosses. Regarding Mason's Subtiaba-Hokan-Caduveo-Mataco comparative vocabulary. Kroeber is not much impressed with the possible resemblances in Mason's list (included). Mexican linguistics, comparative vocabularies, etc., includes short comparative vocabularies for Comecrudo, Papago-Tepecano, Nahua, Huaxtec, Choctaw, Coahuiltec, Karankawa, Torkana, Atakapa, Chitimacha, Tunica; notes on Sapir's classification; other miscellaneous notes. Comparative vocabulary, includes letter from Frederick Johnson to John Alden Mason; comparative vocabulary which is number-keyed to a list of twenty-two languages and arranged in columns headed by Spanish glosses. Words lacking in some languages for almost all items. Languages include Otomi, Mazahua, Matlatzinca, Ocuiltec, Pame, Chichimeca, Cuitlateco, Mazatec, Popoluca, Chochotec (Tlapanec), Ichcateco, Trique, Chiapanec, Manque, Mixtec, Cuicatec, Amuzgo, Zapotec, Chatino, Chinantec, Tarasco, and Tlapanec. Scholarly materials: two versions of a paper, entitled, "Los Cuatro Grandes Filones Linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica," for the International Congress of Americanists, August 1939, Mexico. Photographs: Unidentified photographs showing people, dwellings, terrain, etc. Images of temples, excavations, crypts, jade work, etc. Includes a photograph of John Alden Mason and Burton W. Bascom from Palenque. Entire series of photographs from the Mason papers. The bulk of the images are from Mexico (Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora, etc.). Also 3 contact sheets of images from Peru. From the Durango expedition, a list of photographs; "Informes hacera de la Sierro de la Candela:" notes from Tarayre, pages 184-185; "Ruins of an agricultural colony near Zape"; possible routes of migration into Mexico; Everardo Gamiz "La Raza Pigmea," Durango, April 1934; an incomplete set of numbered photos enumerated in above list (all duplicates from museum set). A linguistic realignment north of Mexico, which gives six phyla, one "broken phylum," and two uncertain languages (for presentation at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, 1940) and a detailed outline of five phyla plus several unaffiliated languages.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1885-1891, 1915-1916
Subject:Archaeology | Arizona--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Notebooks | Photographs | Reports | Stories
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Navajo materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of items in multiple sections of the finding aid. In Subcollection I, Series I, "Correspondence", see Parsons' "Project report for Navajo archaeology." In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", see Stephen's "Navaho Notebook" (item 42). In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Zuni - Notebook" 1915-1916, which contains some Navajo information. Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Pennsylvania Indians materials, United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1886-1948
Contributor:Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Fisher, G. S. | Cresson, Francis C. | Gilmore, Raymond M. (Raymond Maurice), 1907-1983 | Jones, Robert W. | Schoff, Harry L. | Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997 | Witthoft, John | Augustine, Edgar E. | Butler, Mary, 1903-1970 | Cadzow, Donald A. | Smith, Charles M.
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology | Mounds | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Field notes | Photographs | Maps | Correspondence | Drafts | Drawings | Newspaper clippings | Reports | Surveys
Extent:25 items
Description: Materials relating to archaeological sites in Pennsylvania, many excavated through the Works Progress Administration. Includes site reports, site notes, photographs, photograph albums, maps, geological surveys, drawings, blueprints, news clippings, article and manuscript drafts, and other materials pertaining to sites throughout Pennsylvania. Sites mentioned include the 28th Street site and Wesleyville site (Erie County), the Guyasutha Mound (Allegheny County), Sugar Run sites, Phillips, Fort Hill, and Martin sites, Book Mound (Tuscarora Creek, Juniata County), Clemson's Mound (Susquehanna River, Dauphin County), Brock Village site (Muncy Creek Township), Nelson Mound, Williams Mound, the Sick site (South Towanda, Bradford County), Spartansburg Mound, McKees Rock Mound, and Crall Mound (Washington County). Drafted or completed manuscripts include Fisher's "Southwest Pennsylvania Materials," Cresson's "Archaeological survey of Somerset County, Pennsylvania," Gilmore's "Identification of faunal remains from southwestern Pennsylvania archaeological sites...and report...of animal remains," Schoff's "McFate site report on archaeological excavations," Stewart's "Skeletal remains from Fayette and Somerset counties, Pennsylvania," and Cadzow's "Archaeological explorations in western Pennsylvania," and Augustine and Butler's "Miscellaneous reports on Johnson, Miller, Jacobs, Hooks Run, Logan, Jimerson sites," a survey of northwestern Pennsylvania sites on Seneca-owned property in Warren County. Among the archaeological cultures and aspects mentioned are Adena, Hopewell (or Hopewellian), Woodlands culture, Monongahela aspect, Owasco, Point Peninsula aspect, and Algonquian.
Collection:United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948 (Mss.913.748.Un3)
Culture:
Language:English | Spanish | Pima Bajo | Tepehuan, Northern | Tepehuan, Southeastern | Tepehuan, Southwestern
Date:1953-1965
Contributor:Brugge, David M. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Uto-Aztecan languages | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Sonora (Mexico : State)--History | New Mexico--History | Archaeology | Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Basketry | Material culture | Religion | Economic conditions
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Drafts | Essays | Reports | Photographs
Extent:12 items
Description: Materials relating to Pima Bajo language and culture. Most items are attributed to David M. Brugge, though some include notes or comments by John Alden Mason. Materials include 10 pages of Lower Pima [Pima Bajo] notes, part of Brugge's contribution to an article co-authored with Mason; 85 pages of notes, drafts, letters, etc. relating to the same article, including bibliographic items and a linguistic map of northwestern Mexico; a file of correspondence, draft reports on, and expenses for a 1953 Nevome [aka Lower Pima, Pima Bajo] or Lower Pima Expedition, a research trip to Sonora, Mexico (correspondents include Dale S. King, James McConnell, Edward H. Spicer, Fernando Pesqueira, David Lopez Molina, Robert J. Weitlaner, John E. Heimnick, and Robert J. Drake); 13 pages of Nevome [Pima Bajo] Vocabularies, with notes from three informants at Santa Ana rancheria near Onavas, Sonora; 2 pages of Nevome [Pima Bajo] grammatical notes, primarily a listing of locative particles and adverbs, from an unspecified source; circa 1,000 cards of Pima Bajo linguistics notes (alphabetically arranged), most with English translation and some keyed to informant, along with three letters between Brugge and Mason discussing the language and Brugge's work; 25 pages of notes on Yaqui and Northern Tepehuan recordings to be sent to Indiana University, including the contents of Southern Tepehuan recordings (in hand of John Alden Mason), two Pima Bajo texts, Spanish translations for four texts, and a phonetic key for Pima Bajo; and Brugge's "History of the Pima Bajo of the mountains" (1960) a ten-page essay discussing information from historical and archaeological sources regarding the Pima in the villages of Yecora and Maicoba, Sonora, and Yepachic and Moris, Chihuahua. Three items, all written from Gallup, New Mexico, are described as "Brugge-Annon trip to Sonora-Log, itinerary, list of photos, journal. Letter to John Alden Mason." Dated February 1956, #4670 gives identification for two photographs showing pottery and baskets and for two showing terrain near Rancho Los Tepalcates; #4671 (March 1956) gives information about baskets shown in four photos (two photos lacking); and #4672 (June 1958) concerns mistreatment of Maicoba Pimas by whites, i.e., the taking of land, cattle, church offerings, etc. A Brugge-Annon trip is also mentioned in #4668, Brugge's correspondence with Mason 1955-1960, which totals 175 pages and concerns Brugge's work on Pima Bajo and Navajo; problems arising from mistreatment of Maicoba Pimas by whites; log, itinerary, list of photographs, and journal of Brugge-Annon trip to Sonora; correspondence with the Wenner-Grenn Foundation and Paul Fejos; and an essay on distribution, religion, fiestas, social structure, economy, houses and furnishings, handicrafts, etc., of the Pima Bajo.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1929-1947
Contributor:Schoff, Harry L. | Cadzow, Donald A. | Skinner, Dorothy P.
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology | Mounds | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Reports | Notes | Photographs | Negatives | Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items relating to the excavation of Seneca-associated sites in New York and Pennsylvania under the Works Progress Administration. Skinner's 1929 "Reports of Pennsylvania Archaeological Survey," concerns the ethnological work of Dorothy P. (Mrs. Alanson) Skinner among Senecas at Quaker Bridge and Cornplanter Reservation, New York, with discussions of Frank G. Speck's field work among the Delawares and archaeological work at Clemson's Island, Pennsylvania. Schoff and Cadzow's collection of materials on the Irvine Mound Group in Warren County, Pennsylvania, consists of 100 photographs, 48 negatives, and 86 pages describing the excavations and artifacts, particularly of the Buckaloons site and the Nathaniel mound, and some letters to Edmund Carpenter from Frank M. Setzler, William N. Fenton, A. Wetmore, and Richard G. Morgan.
Collection:United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948 (Mss.913.748.Un3)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1950
Contributor:Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997 | Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997
Subject:Archaeology | Human remains | Mounds | Pottery
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Diagrams | Photographs | Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: A report to the American Philosophical Society, summarizing archaeological data on Pennsylvania tumuli contained in manuscripts deposited in its library (i.e., site reports in Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania [913.748 Un3]). All but essays, earlier theories, the position of the Iroquois; his conclusions; summaries of the Irvine Mounds group, the Sugar Run mounds; and essays on Sugar Run pottery and skeletal remains by James B. Griffin and T. Dale Stewart have been printed.
Collection:The ancient mounds of Pennsylvania (Mss.913.748.C223)