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Culture:
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Language:English
Date:May 27, 1816; April 13, 1817; March 21, 1819; October 16, 1821; October 11, 1821; October 9, 1821; October 13, 1821; October 18, 1821; October 25, 1821
Contributor:Bartram, William, 1739-1823. | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Pickering, John, 1737-1805 | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:9 letters
Description: Concerns Indian linguistics including the Algonquian language family, translations, names of Indians, and a paper on "Indian linguistics" (the language has not been identified).
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Natick includes: Massachusett, Nipmuc
Date:circa 1820s and undated
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:11 pages
Description: The Massachusett materials in this collection consist of manuscript Vocabularies listed in the finding aid as 20, 21, 22a, 22b, and 38. The first four of these item refer to the language as "Natick" and the final one as "Massachusett."
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Language:English
Date:1817-1899
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eames, Wilberforce, 1855-1937 | Price, Eli K. (Eli Kirk), 1797-1884 | Welsh, John, 1805-1886
Subject:New England--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:11 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Massachusett culture and language materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include John Eliot's publications, particularly the Eliot Indian Bible and Eliot's Indian Grammar (1666); possible republication of Eliot's works, particularly by the Smithsonian; Nuttall's Travels (1821); and Reland (1708). A recurring topic is the loan of the Eliot Indian Bible to A. J. Holman and Company for display at the Centennial Exposition. Other individuals mentioned include Benjamin H. Coates, Eli K. Price, George H. Horn, J. Peter Lesley; and Joseph Carson.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak
Omaha includes: Umoⁿhoⁿ
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English | Narragansett
Date:1770-1784; 1879
Contributor:Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Massachusetts--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes
Description: The Narragansett materials in the Siebert Papers consist on very early materials including vocabulary lists from the 18th and 19th centuries in Series IV. Siebert's notes on the Narragansett can be found in Series V.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:English | Mapuche | Quechua | Poqomam | Carib | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Wampanoag | Wyandot
Date:1822
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 vol., 35 p.
Description: This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine vocabularies of Indigenous languages of the Americas, such as "Aztec" (Nahuatl), Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources, of South and North American languages: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.]
Collection:Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum (Mss.498.R27)
Culture:
Wampanoag includes: Wôpanâak
Massachusett includes: Massachuseuk
Date:1634-1879, 1983, 1999-2000
Contributor:Bragdon, Kathleen Joan | Bruening, Benjamin | Simmons, William S.
Subject:Linguistics | Massachusetts--History
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Databases | Reports | Stories | Disks
Extent:4 pages, 1 CD
Description: The Wampanoag materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bragdon, Bruening, and Simmons.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)