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Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English
Date:1885-1909
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | British Columbia--History | Northwest Territories--History | Nunavut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:2 reels
Description: This correspondence refers to Franz Boas' trips to Baffin Island (Nunavut, formerly the Northwest Territories) and British Columbia, during which he studied and collected materials on Northwest Coast languages among the Aleut. From originals in possession of the Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. Donor, Smithsonian Institution, April 1967.
Collection:Franz Boas correspondence, 1885-1909 (Mss.Film.372.3)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | Greenlandic
Date:1936
Contributor:Kleinschmidt, Samuel, 1814-1886 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:150 pages
Description: The Greenlandic Inuit materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Eskimo" section of the finding aid: Swadesh's "Greenlandic materials" (item E1a.100), consisting of rough notes used by the author in preparing his discussion of South Greenlandic (Eskimo). This material is based on Samuel Kleinschmidt's "Grammatik der Groenlandischen Sprache" (1851) and "Groenlandsk Ordbog" (1871).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Greenlandic includes: Kalaallit, Eskimo (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | Greenlandic
Date:1930, 1969, 1979-1981, 19985, 1995-1996
Contributor:Berge, Anna | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Gunther, Erna
Subject:Archaeology | Greenland--History | Linguistics | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Interviews | Reports | Stories
Extent:573 pages
Description: The Greenlandic materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Berge, de Laguna, and Gunther.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Yup'ik includes: Yupik, Yupiit, Yup'ik, Central Alaskan, Eskimo (pej.)
Deg Xit'an includes: Deg Hit'an, Deg Hitan, Degexit'an, Kaiyuhkhotana, Ingalik (pej.)
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Iñupiat includes: Инупиаты, Iñupiaq
Language:English | Yupik, Central | Deg Xinag | Koyukon | Inupiatun, North Alaskan | Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
Date:1976 and undated
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Linguistics | Alaska--History | Jesuits | Missions | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Grammars | Hymns | Sermons
Extent:28 reels
Description: These texts, produced in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, include dictionaries, vocabularies, grammars, and religious materials (hymns and sermons, etc. primarily Christian) of the Central Alaskan Yupik, Deg Xit'an (formerly known as Ingalik or Ingalit), Iñupiaq, and Koyukon languages. From originals on deposit by the Oregon Province Archives of the Society of Jesus at the Pacific Northwest Indian Center, Spokane, Washington. Guide book included.
Collection:Indian language collection: the Alaska native languages, 20th century (Mss.Film.1364)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Aivilingmiut includes: Aivilik
Date:1883-1929
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Comer, George | Mutch, James | Thalbitzer, William, 1873-1958
Subject:Ethnography | Food | Labrador--History | Linguistics | Music | Nunavut--History | Social life and customs | Stories
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Drawings | Notebooks | Shorthand | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:184 pages; 2900 slips; 18 drawings
Description: The Inuit materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items in the "Eskimo" section of the finding aid. The core materials are Boas' fieldwork materials from Baffinland in 1883, his first fieldwork trip. "Eskimo ethnographic notes from Baffinland" (item 26) includes vocabulary, texts, and ethnographic notes. "Eskimo texts" (item E1a.1) includes several text written in syllabic script, and includes other texts as well, some with interlinear translations, and additional vocabulary lists. This material comes from Hamilton Inlet (Labrador), Hudson Bay, and Cumberland Sound. "Eskimo interlinear texts" (item E1a.2) includes brief additional texts. Boas' "Eskimo lexicon" (item E1a.3) consists of an extensive German-Inuit vocabulary file of over 2900 slips. Boas' "Eskimo Songs" (item E1a.4) consists of song texts with translations. Lastly, "Eskimo folklore" (item 32) consists of materials on stories, customs, and cooking and building methods, sent to Boas by George Comer, largely from the Southampton Island and Repulse Bay region. A table of contents of the Comer materials is available upon request.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:August 17, 1887
Contributor:Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Henry Phillips requesting permission to examine the American Philosophical Society's Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] manuscripts for the Bureau of American Ethnology's planned series on North American languages. Transmits copy of volume on Eskimo [Inuit].
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English | Greenlandic
Date:circa 1950-1973 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bergsland, Knut, 1914- | Minn, Eeva Kangasmaa | Peterson, Richard L.
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays | Drafts
Extent:4 folders
Description: Four items relating to Inuit (Eskimo) languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. In Series I. Correspondence, there is correspondence wtih Richard L. Peterson about "Eskimo pictographic writing." In Series II. Research Notes, Subseries I. Eskimo-Aleutian, there are two folders labeled "Eskimo-Aleutian." Folder 1 includes information on Greenlandic, letters from Knut Bergsland (1950-1951), and "Presentation of 'A Grammar of the West Greenland Language' by Schultz-Lorensen," by Eeva Kangasmaa, 1952. Folder 2 includes brief information on Unaaliq [Yupik], Maidu, Miwok, and Yokuts, and the finished typescript of "Sketch of Eskimo." The third folder in the subseries, "Miscellaneous languages," contains Inuit material, among other languages.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | German | Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
Date:1883-1884
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Nunavut--History | Personal names
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Diaries | Drawings | Field notes | Notebooks | Personal names | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks, 1 folder
Description: The Inuit materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic and ethnographic notes, some in German shorthand, as well as sketches, found in his "Baffinland diary" and "Baffinland notebook" from his first fieldwork trip in 1883-1884. See also his "Inuit Vocabularies and proper names," located in box 3.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
Date:1905; 1931-1937
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | König, Herbert, 1911-1991 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies
Description: The Inuit materials in the Siebert Papers are primarily composed of secondary sources located in Series IV and VII, labelled as "Eskimo."
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | German | Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
Date:1883-1884
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Comer, George | Weike, Wilhelm, 1859-1917
Subject:Linguistics | Nunavut--History | Place names | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Diaries | Drawings | Maps | Notebooks | Photographs | Sketchbooks | Sketches
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: The Inuit materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of approximately 11 folders, 3 diaries, 2 sketchbooks, and numerous maps and illustrations. Most of this material surrounds Boas' first fieldwork trip of his career to Baffin Island ("Baffinland") in 1883-1884. Under "Boas, Franz," most of this materials are labelled under "Arctic Expedition" or "Baffinland." These include Boas' diaries and sketchbooks, as well as typed translations of them. See also materials listed under "Weike, Wilhelm" for the diary of Boas' assistant during the expedition. The correspondence file for "Comer, George" contains additional information, as may other correspondence files.
Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)