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Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1926-1956; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sandoval, Chic
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Extent:7 items
Description: Various materials relating to the study of Navajo language, including 11 notebooks of Navajo songs; 5 notebooks on the Navajo Night Chant in phonetic transcription, with notes in English on language and ceremony; Navajo conversations; Navajo stories; manuscript of Hoijer's Navajo lexicon published in the University of California Publications in Linguistics series (no. 78, 1974); notes on various aspects of Navajo grammar and phonology, with comparisons with other Athapascan languages and reconstructions for Proto-Athapascan; and notes and letters regarding Chic Sandoval's fieldwork on Navajo. Some materials may be restricted to due potential cultural sensitivity, and are noted as such in the guide to the collection.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Culture:
Tsuut'ina includes: Sarsi (pej.), Sarcee (pej.), Tsuu T'ina
Date:1966; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 items
Description: Items relating to the study of the Tsuut'ina language. These include Hoijer's Sarsi slip file containing about 900 slips: typed index cards illustrating postpositions; handwritten slips with examples of verbal data, including negation, progressives, iteratives, etc. Taken from Sapir's notebooks. Slips are keyed to notebook and page. Also Sapir's "Tales of the Sarcee Indians," Sarsi tales in phonemic transcription, one or more copies of the typescript, with English glosses written in Sapir's hand. Some tales contain only the typed transcription, no English glosses. More information can be found in the guide to the Harry Hoijer Collection.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)