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Culture:
Nipmuc includes: Nipmuck
Language:English
Date:1926-1942
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | New England--History | Massachusetts--History | Place names | Basketry | Social life and customs | Personal names
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Newspaper clippings
Extent:1 folder
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Nipmuc language, history, and culture. Includes 3 pages concerning place and family names; a letter from Mrs. Ruth Allen, Medfield, Massachusetts, to Speck, concerning baskets owned by her family and transmitting 3 pages of extracts from printed works concerning Medfield and letters from Sarah M. Cisco Sullivan (Nipmuc) (Grafton, Massachusetts, Indian Reservation) concerning social activities, family news, place name data, historical data, etc. Images note: Newspaper clipping photographs of last survivor of the Nipmucs.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:New England--History | Massachusetts--History | Botany | Population | Botanical specimens | Genealogy
Type:Text | Three-dimensional object
Extent:21 pages
Description: Speck's notes on Pennacook and other Native peoples of New England. This 21-page notebook contains Pennacook, Mashpee, Gay Head, Cape Cod Indian genealogical and population notes; miscellaneous Pennacook notes; approximately 3 slips and 2 pages of loose notes; and botanical specimens.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1923-1928 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Bever, Marion G. | Perry, Leroy C. | Hammett, Frederick S. (Frederick Simonds), 1885- | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
Subject:New England--History | Massachusetts--History | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Politics and government
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Bibliographies | Correspondence | Maps | Photographs | Lantern slides
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of the peoples now often known collectively as Wampanoag, but who once comprised several tribal entities living in eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including Cape Cod (the Nauset) and islands such as Martha's Vineyard (the Aquinnah or Gay Head Indians). In Subcollection I, Series I, see item II(4B9c), "Mistassini Band -- c. Field Notes," which contains notes, some by Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning "Gay Head Indians." In this same series, see item III(14D11) "Wampanoag miscellaneous notes," which includes one postal card from Uncle Al to Speck, concerning an island; a letter from Rachelle T. Ryan to Speck reserving a cottage at Gay Head; Frederick S. Hammett (Wistar Institute) to Speck concerning his archaeological find at North Truro, Massachusetts; and a four-page letter from Chief Leroy C. Perry (Ousamequin or Yellow Feather, Wampanoag) concerning tribal and intertribal social activities. Item III(14D17), "Pennacook miscellaneous notes" contains a notebook with information on Wampanoag of Martha's Vineyard and Cape Cod areas, incuding genealogical and population notes. In Series I, Series II, see correspondence with Marion G. Bever. Finally, see the "Wampanoag" folder in Subcollection I, Series III, which contains 6 photographs. In Subcollection I, Series IV, there is one lantern slide of Mashpee Indians. In Series V, see the map "Maine, New England, Eastern Canada."
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)