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Date:1941-1946; 1951-1952
Contributor:French, Will | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958 | Reyburn, William D. | Sequoyah, Molly | Witthoft, John
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Music | North Carolina--History | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs | Boarding schools | Games | Ethiopia--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Transcriptions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1,652 pages, 920 slips, 59 phonograph discs, 4,500 cards
Description: The Cherokee materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 sets of material located in the "Cherokee" section of the finding aid. The smallest item is Frans Olbrechts' brief essay comparing Cherokee and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) syllabaries (item I2.1). Zellig Harris and John Witthoft's "Cherokee materials" (item I2.4) was conducted in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of grammatical Vocabularies and utterances, extensive grammatical notes and analyses, and numerous ethnographic and autobiographical stories, plus some songs, recorded on phonograph discs with Molly Sequoyah (mainly) and Will French. A small number of texts are written in the Cherokee syllabary as well. A second linguistic study by William Reyburn (item I2.3), conducted in Cherokee, North Carolina, consists of 1000+ pages of linguistic notes, transcriptions of recordings, and analyses, plus an extensive lexical file organized according to morpheme class. Reyburn's accompanying recordings are cataloged as Mss.Rec.16, "Cherokee materials gathered...on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C.," listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:Circa 1943-1944
Contributor:Smith, Dorothy | Smith, Kenneth | Rose, Lillian
Subject:Education
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Drawings
Extent:46 drawings
Description: The Cherokee materials in the A. Irving Hallowell Papers consist of 46 drawings made by Cherokee school children that Hallowell obtained from a teacher at Lac du Flambeau who previously taught on a Cherokee reservation. The correspondence, in Series I, includes letter from Ray Fogelson about conjuring, Rorschach tests, census information, and the Green Corn Dance.
Collection:Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture:
Date:1818-1899
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Meigs, Josiah, 1757-1822 | Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Butrick, D. S. (Daniel Sabin), 1789-1847
Subject:Education | Missions | Linguistics | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent:8 items
Description: Items relating to Cherokee materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include a memorandum and letters written by Peter Stephen du Ponceau regarding Native languages, especially Cherokee; Du Ponceau, Abbe Correia da Serra, and John Vaughan's visit with two Cherokee boys being sent to school in Connecticut. One (Leonard Hicks) referred du Ponceau to Butrick's Cherokee grammar; D. S. Butrick's plan to prepare a Cherokee grammar modeled on Zeisberger's Delaware grammar, and other information on Cherokee language that he sent to du Ponceau upon the latter's request; Butrick's hope that these studies will aid the Cherokees, and his plea for attention to Cherokees seeking Christ; Frank Cushing's inquiries about a William Bartram manuscript once in possession of Samuel G. Morton according to notes of Ephraim G. Squier, and about a John H. Payne manuscript on Cherokees; and James Mooney's request about the location of John Howard Payne's manuscript on the Cherokee which was cited in Ephraim G. Squier's Serpent Symbol (1851). Other individuals mentioned include Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs, John Gambold, Isaac Minis Hays, and Rev. Samuel Worcester.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Date:circa 1784, 1800, 1818
Contributor:Butrick, D. S. (Daniel Sabin), 1789-1847 | Campbell, David | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Gambold, John | Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Linguistics | North Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:42 pages
Description: The Cherokee materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 2, 5, 6, 38, 39, 41, 42. These include Vocabularies in various forms, some comparing Cherokee to other languages, as well as correspondence discussing Cherokee linguistics features, and one complaining of white harassment of Cherokees to be removed.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1979 and undated
Contributor:Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015 | Fogelson, Raymond D.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Masks | Material culture
Type:Text
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers are a vast collection of materials relating to Wallace's work at the intersection of anthropology, psychology, and history. See the finding aid for a detailed discussion of Wallace's long and varied career, and for an itemized list of the collection's contents. Though further research might yield more results, five items directly relating to Cherokees have been identified. In Series I. Correspondence, see folders for Edward C. Carter, Paul Kutsche, and Jean Laub. In Series II. B. Revitalization and Culture, there is a folder of 38 items relating to Raymond Fogelson's "Cherokee Booger Mask Tradition" (1979). In Series IV. Works by Wallace A. Professional, there is an undated folder titled "Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture."
Collection:Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64a)
Language:English
Date:1757-1787
Contributor:Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824 | Sevier, John, 1745-1815 | Price, George
Subject:Indians Wars, 1759-1761 | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Pennsylvania--History | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Correspondence to Benjamin and William Franklin regarding Cherokee War, Cherokee relations with Creeks, British and U.S. relations with Cherokees and Creeks, Indian activities and Pennsylvania's relations with Indians during the Seven Years' War era, Constitution Convention, and U.S. relations with Indians during early national period.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Date:circa 1946-1953 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Reyburn, William D. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Iroquoian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to the Cherokee language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with Floyd Lounsbury (regarding Oneida, Seneca, and Cherokee work) in Series I. Correspondence. In Subcollection II, there is a Cherokee folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IV. Macro-Siouan; and William D. Reyburn's "Cherokee Verb Morphology" (circa 1953) in Series IV. Works by Others.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Language:English
Date:undated
Subject:Georgia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 page
Description: "The cause of the Indians." Opposes Indian removal; criticizes Georgia for evicting Creek and Cherokee from their lands. Signed "Veritas."
Collection:C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124)
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Date:1974-2008
Contributor:Kendall, Daythal | King, Duane H.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:4 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall's few Cherokee materials include an article by Duane King presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings of 1977, and correspondence with several others that briefly mentions Cherokee, mostly in Kendall's capacity at the American Philosophical Society.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)