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Language:Chinook Jargon | English
Date:1951
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:5 pages
Description: William Bright's only Chinook Jargon item is a 5-page list of morphemes that he derived from publications by Boas and Jacobs, found in Series 4.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:English
Date:1835; 1837
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Mounds | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Letter from John Warren Collins including a list of American Indian skulls in his collection: Chinook, Mound Builder, and Algonquian. Has cast of Guanche skull from Canary Islands. Two letters from John Kirk Townsend on September 20, 1835 concern Chinook and Klickitat ancestors' remains he is sending to Morton from Philadelphia, including disturbing descriptions of grave-robbing and the destruction of sacred sites in the midst of epidemic disease.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English | Kathlamet | Chinook, Lower | Chinook, Upper | Chinook
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Oregon--History | Chinookan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to the Chinookan languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II, and consist of a folder with information on "Miscellaneous languages"--including Inuit ("Eskimo"), Takelma, Siouan, Maidu, Chinook, Tsimshian, Haida, Coos, and Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua)--in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries I. Eskimo-Aleutian; a folder on "Chinookan: Chinook, Wishram, Kathlamet" in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque; and a Chinook folder in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:Chinook | Kathlamet | English | Chinook Jargon
Date:ca.1976-1994
Contributor:Johnson, Samuel | Hymes, Dell H. | Kendall, Daythal | Tarpent, Marie-Lucie
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Gender
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Daythal Kendall's Chinookan languages file is entirely works collected from others, most notably Dell Hymes, Samuel Johnson and Marie-Lucie Tarpent, the latter of which includes a paper with over 200 comparisons between Chinookan and Tsimshian languages. There are also some Chinook Jargon Essays scattered throughout the collection, mostly by Samuel Johnson. These can mostly be found in Series 5.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1835-1848
Contributor:Lee, Jason, 1803-1845 | Bangs, Nathan, 1778-1862
Subject:Missions | Methodists | Oregon--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 reel
Description: Letters, principally of Rev. Jason Lee to Dr. Nathan Bangs, pertaining to the conduct of the Methodist Mission at Willamette, Oregon, for Flat Head [Salishan or Chinookan peoples], Kalapooya [Kalapuya], and other Indians (the Oregon Mission of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church). From originals held by the Board of Missions, Methodist Church, Philadelphia.
Collection:Documents relating to the Oregon Mission, 1835-1848 (Mss.Film.889)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1829-1839
Contributor:Hildreth, Samuel P. (Samuel Prescott), 1783-1863 | Troost, Gerard, 1776-1850 | Drake, Daniel, 1785-1852 | Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 | Sullivant, Joseph, 1809-1882 | Tappan, Benjamin, 1773-1857 | Clemens, James W. | Wood, William | Powell, W. Byrd (William Byrd), 1799-1866 | Peirson, A. L. (Abel Lawrence), 1794-1853
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Anthropometry | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Antiquities | Mounds | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Lectures
Extent:21 items
Description: Letters mostly discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains and Morton's phrenological work. Topics include human and animal crania and skeletons that correspondents have and/or have sent to Morton; phrenological anaylsis of Indigenous ancestors' remains, attributing traits to various peoples based on skull formation; Native American burial sites and mortuary customs; excavation of Native mounds and descriptions of the objects and human remains found inside; discovery of mastadon skeletons; and speculation about Native American origins. Several letters relate to Ohio, Illinois, and the Upper Mississippi Valley. Peru and Mexico also mentioned.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Date:1890-1895
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:4 notebooks; approx. 2,600 slips
Description: The Kathlamet materials in the ACLS collection consist of items in two sections of the finding aid. In the "Chinook" section, Boas' notebooks 1, 2, and 4 of Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (item Pn4b.5) contain texts, ethnographic information, and grammatical notes. In the same section, Boas' "Miscellaneous notes on Chinookan languages" (item Pn4.1) includes a text in an unidentified language and fragmentary slips of Chinook-Kathlamet comparisons. In the "Kathlamet" section, there is an additional field notebook by Boas (item Pn4a.8), and two large, separate lexicons derived in part from his fieldwork (items Pn4a.2 and Pn4a.3).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Tsimshian includes: Ts'msyan, Ts'msyen, Zimshian
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Catawba includes: Iswa
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Catawba includes: Iswa
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Date:1904-1950
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881- | Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940 | Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 | Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-1963 | Gusinde, Martin, 1886-1969 | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hiller, Wesley R. | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Nelson, Dorothy M. | Norton, Jeannette Young | Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928 | Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977 | Ball, Carl | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Chase, Fannie S. | Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907- | Dunnack, Henry E. | Field, Clark | La Rue, Mabel G: Myres, John Linton, Sir, 1869-1954 | Oak, Liston M., 1895-1970 | Staub, Peter | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Burgesse, J. Allan | Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956 | Raynolds, Frances R. | Eskew, James W. | Meier, Emil F. | Turner, Geoffrey
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Social life and customs | Hunting | Motifs | Specimens | Wampum | Material culture | Birch bark | Religion | Museums | Art | Masks | Basketry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Bibliographies | Essays | Reports | Drafts | Maps
Extent:46 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's research and other professional activities. Items include Speck's notes taken during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for his own anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania; Speck's miscellaneous notes comprising circa 500 bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work [other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to tribe]; correspondence concerning exhibits and specimens for the Chicago World's Fair and for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in New York City; two letters from Boas regarding the work of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; correspondence regarding topics such as the double-curve motif, family hunting areas, indigenous foods and cooking methods, wampum, silverwork, birch-bark technique, baskets, Speck's research and publications, the research and publications of others, obtaining indigenous material cultural specimens for Speck, purchases of indigenous material culture specimens (baskets, masks, etc.) from Speck, Speck's identification of items in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, Speck's bibliography, and Speck's obituary; letters requesting copies of Speck's publications, or acknowledging the transmission of publications between Speck and others; copies and/or drafts of several of Speck's presentations and publications, including "Lectures on Primitive Religion," "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas," "Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," and "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonquian Art"; a bibliography of Speck's publications through 1942; rough drafts of miscellaneous papers, 1928-1948; Speck's notes on topics such as crane posture; Birket-Smith's 1946 "Plan for Circumpolar Research"; ten distribution maps for circumpolar culture traits, colored in with crayon to show distribution of traits including divination and miracle shamanism, sweat bath, turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept, bone divination, bear veneration, curative power of mystic words and formulae, dog-ancestor myth, dog as soul leader, curvilinear patterns, and confession to cure taboo violation; and a prepublication manuscript of Hallowell's "The nature and function of property as a human institution" with additions and corrections.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)