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Alternate forms: Malecite
Language(s): Malecite-Passamaquoddy | English | Abenaki, Eastern | Innu-aimun
Date: 1907; 1914-1917; 1934-1935; 1971-1991
Contributor: Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921 | Mechling, William Hubbs, 1888-1953 | Nicholas, Andrea Bear | Sands, Donald B. | Sherwood, David | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject: Folklore | Ethnography | Architecture | Hunting | Fishing | Linguistics
Type:Text
Description: The Maliseet materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondary sources in Series IV and VII . Siebert's work can be found in Series V. Of special interest are a collection of Maliseet tales from 1914 collected by William Mechling.
Collection: Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture: Mi'kmaq | Passamaquoddy | Maliseet | Beothuk | Cherokee
Alternate forms: Micmac, Malecite
Date: 1909-1949
Contributor: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Butler, Eva L. | Mechling, William Hubbs, 1888-1953
Subject: Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Specimens | Orthography and spelling | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Hunting | Wampum | Music | Missions | Dance | Social life and customs | Birch bark | Religion
Type:Text
Genre: Notes | Essays | Stories | Correspondence | Field notes | Maps | Drafts | Newspaper clippings | Pictographs
Extent: 8 folders
Description: Materials relating to Mi'kmaq history, language, and culture. Includes Speck's field notes on topics such as wampum, hunting territories, Cape Breton texts, Newfoundland traditions, the Passamaquoddy, etc., as well as a map with names of Bear River Band members and one piece of birch bark with pictographs inscribed; Speck's miscellaneous notes and correspondence on topics such as consultants, specimens, hieroglyphics, linguistics, fieldwork, Mi'kmaq and Cherokee, and the Mi'kmaq mission newspaper; a text on Mi'kmaq dance with interlinear translation, notes, and a musical score; 10 pages of linguistic notes and vocabulary collected along the Miramichi River, along with 6 pages of typed copy by John Witthoft; correspondence with Mechling concerning linguistic research on the Mi'kmaq, Malecite [Malecite-Passamaquoddy], and Oaxaca languages, Mi'kmaq burials, and historic materials on Beothuk and Mi'kmaq; a brief article on a traveler's account of the Mi'kmaq in 1822; an incomplete article or set of reading excerpts taken after 1922 by Speck from John G. Millais (1907); and extracts concerning the sweat house taken by Butler from the Jesuit Relations.
Collection: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture: Zapotec
Language(s): English
Date: February 1, 1912
Contributor: Mechling, William Hubbs, 1888-1953
Subject: Linguistics | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence
Extent: 2 leaves
Description: Letter to Speck discussing his forthcoming article on Oaxaca language map, Mechling (1912).
Collection: Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)