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Culture:
Chemakum includes: Chimacum, Aqokúlo, Čə́məq̓əm
Language:English
Date:circa 1910s-1920s
Contributor:Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Washington (State)--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:Approx. 10 letters
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. Frachtenberg letters include comments on Indian Shaker Church. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1910s-1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938 | Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993 | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Linguistics | Montana--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Schitsu'umsh includes: Coeur d'Alene, Skitswish
Language:Coeur d'Alene | English
Date:1908; Circa 1910; 1930s
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Religion | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:435 pages; 1 notebook
Description: The Coeur d'Alene materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of 3 items in the "Coeur d'Alene (Schitsu'umsh)" section of the finding aid. One is Reichard's "Coeur d'Alene Indian texts" (item S1g.1) containing 51 texts without translations. Two items (S1g.2 and S1g.3) recorded by James Teit consist of Coeur d'Alene vocabularies, some relating to material culture and religion. In the "Thompson (Nlaka'pamux)" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Field notes on Thompson and neighboring Salish languages" (item S1b.7) includes some Coeur d'Alene information, though the extent is undetermined as these notebooks are very complicated and have not yet been fully indexed. "Suffixes in Thompson, with variants in other Salish languages" (item S1b.12) contains some incidental Coeur d'Alene terms written in.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Schitsu'umsh includes: Coeur d'Alene, Skitswish
Language:English | Coeur d'Alene
Date:1910s-1940s
Contributor:Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Idaho--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Stories
Extent:.25 linear feet
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. The correspondences with Gladys Reichard and James Teit are the most extensive. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Plains
Date:1925; Circa 1935; 1948; 1949;
Contributor:Achenam, Harry | Achenam, Maggie | Ahenakew, Edward | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Constant, Jerry | Cook, Sam | Moostoos, James | Moostoos, Susan | Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 | Starblanket, Chief | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Genealogy | Folklore | Linguistics | Material culture | Religion | Saskatchewan--History | Treaties | Warfare | Windigo
Type:Text
Genre:Abstracts | Autobiographies | Correspondence | Drawings | Stories
Extent:830 pages
Description: The Cree materials in the ACLS collection are Plains Cree materials predominantly from Saskatchewan and are located in the "Cree" section of the finding aid. "Plains Cree texts, "Series Two: Syllabary Texts from Sweet Grass Reserve"" (item A1.1) recorded by Harry Achenam of Sweetgrass Reserve (and previously attributed to Leonard Bloomfield), contains 67 unpublished stories written in Cree syllabics. The other primary materials are several items (64-68 and 70) by Edward Ahenakew, written in English, concerning his family's genealogy, methods for tanning leather and building canoes, accounts of medicine practices and conjuring, and stories of little people, Wetikoo (or Wihtigo, Windigo), and other non-human beings. Many of these stories were given by various consultants such as Chief Starblanket of Ahtahkakoop, Jerry Constant, James Moostoos, and Susan Moostoos.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Language:Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | English
Date:circa 1910
Contributor:Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:12 pages
Description: The Dakelh (Carrier) materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Carrier" section of the finding aid: "Notes on various Athabaskan languages" (item Na.5), recorded by James Teit, which partially includes Carrier vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Kaska includes: Kaska Dena
Language:English
Date:circa 1908 and 1915-1921
Contributor:Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:British Columbia--History | Yukon--History | Music
Type:Text
Extent:2 maps and approx. 100 pages
Description: The Kaska materials in the ACLS Collection consists of two printed maps of British Columbia and adjacent regions with extensive handwritten annotations by James Teit, showing his understanding of Indigenous territories at the time. Kaska areas are noted among these. The two maps are titled, "Map showing as near as possible Location of the Shuswap Tribe and Divisions, with approximate Boundaries of neighboring Tribes" and Map (3) showing present or late and also former distributions of northern tribes. In addition, the item "Songs from the Salish area" contains typewritten and handwritten notes on 80+ songs recording on wax cylinders, collected for and sent to the National Museum of Canada, among which some are Kaska.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Kaska includes: Kaska Dena
Language:English
Date:1908-1921 (bulk 1916-1919)
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:British Columbia--History | Yukon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:21 letters
Description: The Kaska materials in the Franz Boas Papers consist of 21 letters among the correspondence between Boas and James Teit that mention Kaska people or language to some extent. The length of the mentions range from very brief to more substantial. Many relate to Teit's travels in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon region on ethnographic field trips or as a hunting guide. The majority of the letters date from 1916 to 1919. Other mentions of Kaska people or language may exist elsewhere in this collection but are not known.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Language:Chinook Jargon | English | Kutenai | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1891, 1894, 1913-1927, 1947
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Canestrelli, Phillippo | Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, 1865-1914 | Garvin, Paul L. | Post, John | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Chiqui, Mary | Francis, Simon | Morigeau, Mary | Francis, Nick | Ernest, Louis | Andrew, Pete | Jackson, Catherine | Stanley, Joe | Pierre, Sam | Pierre, Catherine
Subject:Anthropometry | British Columbia--History | Clothing and dress | Folklore | Idaho--History | Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Essays | Grammars | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:19 notebooks, 66 bluebooks, 1052 loose pages, approx. 5600 word slips
Description: The Ktunaxa materials in the ACLS collection are extensive and concentrated primarily in the "Kutenai" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing of all contents. The earliest materials in this section linguistic manuscripts by Jesuit missionaries such as Phillippo Canestrelli (item Ku.15) and John Post (item Ku.11), as well as extensive linguistic and anthropological field notes by Alexander Chamberlain (items Ku.9 and Ku.10), all from the 1890s. Subsequently, James Teit's "Traditions and information regarding the Tonaxa" (item Ku.16) from 1913 includes ethnographic and historical information, recorded in part at Tobacco Plains. The most voluminous amount of material overall is that of Franz Boas, recorded in the 1910s, which includes numerous field notebooks, lexical files, and related notes (items Ku.1, Ku.2, Ku.3, Ku.4, Ku.5, Ku.6, Ku.7, Ku.8, and Ku.17). Finally, see also Paul Garvin's field notes from 1947, containing Lower Kutenai recorded at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho; Cranbrook, B.C.; Creston, B.C.; and Elmo, Montana (item Ku.14 for the notebooks, and Ku.13 for slips).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Zulu includes: AmaZulu
Nak'waxda'xw includes: Nakoaktok, Nakwoktak, Nakwaxda'xw
Namgis includes: Nimkish, Nimpkish
K'ómoks includes: Comox
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Dzawada'enuxw includes: Tsawataineuk
Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Gwatsinuxw includes: Quatsino
Date:1893-1951
Contributor:Homiskanis, Lucy | Francine, Tsukwani | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hunt, George | Averkieva, Julia | Bryan, Ruth | Leechman, J. D. (John Douglas), 1890- | Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Yampolsky, Helene
Subject:Architecture | British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Fishing | Food | Games | Human remains | Hunting | Kinship | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Medicine | Museum objects | Music | Orthography and spelling | Personal names | Place names | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Skulls | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Correspondence | Field notes | Dictionaries | Genealogies | Grammars | Maps | Musical scores | Notebooks | Photographs | Songs | Speeches | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:Approx. 10,000 loose pages, 10 notebooks, 7000+ cards, 10+ maps
Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw materials in the ACLS collection are located predominantly in the "Kwakiutl" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing of all materials (other relevant sections are "Northwest Coast", "Bella Bella (Heitsuk)", and item AfBnd.4 in "Non-American and non-linguistic material"). Some of the larger individual sets of materials listed within this section also have their own specific tables of contents (available upon request) detailing their often highly diverse contents. Overall, the vast majority of the material is made of of 1) manuscripts sent to Boas by George Hunt from the 1890s to the 1930s, frequently in both Kwak'wala and English, covering a very broad range of Kwakwaka'wakw history, culture, languages, customs, and traditions; and 2) field work materials recorded by Boas and Boas' own analyses of material sent by Hunt, covering a similar range of topics. Additional materials by other individuals focus especially on linguistic and ethnographic matters. Also see the guide entry "Kwakiutl materials, Franz Boas Papers" for information on the correspondence between Boas and Hunt, which gives additional context to the materials in the ACLS collection.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)