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Date:circa 1948-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Venezuela--History | Guyana--History | Brazil--History | Suriname--History | French Guiana--History
Type:Text
Extent:19 folders
Description: Several items relating to Carib languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection I. They include extensive correspondence with Douglas MacRae Taylor (regarding his fieldwork and written work on Carib languages, including some stories, translations, and other linguistic materials) in Series I. Correspondence; Voegelin's "Black Carib Morphology" and "Central American Carib II: Morphology of the Verb" (with Douglas MacRae Taylor) in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; ten files of Taylor's work (including notes, outlines, and essays) on Black Carib, Central American Carib, and Island Carib in Series IV. Works by Others; a Carib file with data on Black, Central American, and Island Carib in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; and four folders of unbound Carib texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Breton, Raymond, 1609-1679 | Davies | Laet, Johannes de | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Grammatical study based on Breton (1667). Includes auxiliary-verb conjugation; extracts on men's vs. women's speech taken from Davies (1666). List of words from DeLaet (1633)
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Language:English
Date:April 1837
Contributor:Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Enclosed in letter to Charles Pickering. Head of fossil skeleton in Guadeloupe not Carib, but like Peruvian heads.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wonderly, William L. | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | Peeke, M. Catherine
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Colombia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Notes | Essays | Maps
Extent:12 folders
Description: There are many items relating to South American languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials that cover South American languages in general and might not show up in narrower searches. Researchers should also view the entries for specific languages (i.e., Quechua, etc.). In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with John H. Rowe and William L. Wonderly in Series I. Correspondence; a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages placed unexpectedly at the end of Ojibwa Folder #4 in Series II. "Ethnological Research Opportunities in Colombia," "Living Language Families," and "Peopling of the New World (South America After North America)" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; George P. Murdock's "Maps for South America" (Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture"), M. Catherine Peeke's "Divisive Criteria for Auca World Classes," and William L. Wonderly's "List of Central American Indian Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others; a file on "Amazon Indian Languages" (containing typed classifications of languages of the Amazon, Putomayo, and Caqueta regions of Brazil, with population numbers) and folder on South American and Other Latin American Languages (which includes Central America and Mexico and contains a list of languages and notes on some of them) in file in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes [see also the associated material in Oversized]; and a map of "South America and other Latin American languages" in Series VII. Photographs. Several references throughout the collection are made to "Island" and "Central American" Carib.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1833
Contributor:Van Heuvel, J. A. (Jacob Adrien), 1787-1874
Subject:Guyana--History | Demerara
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two letters to Rafinesque: (1) Asks for information on Charibs; has vocabularies of Guiana Indians: Arrowauk, Guaranos, Ackoway, Macoussie, Atoray. He may read paper before Albany Institute on history of Guiana. (2) Sends vocabularies of Guaranos. Ackoways, Atorays, and Macoussies. Explains how he acquired them. Mentions Charibs [Caribs?]. Describes living quarters of Warrows (i.e., Juarros or Guaranos in Demerara).
Collection:C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Saponi includes: Saponny
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Catawba includes: Iswa
Language:Meskwaki | Algonquin | Mohawk | Naskapi | Catawba | Pamunkey | Carib | Miami-Illinois | Tuscarora | Seneca | Nai | English
Date:1960s-2000s
Contributor:Dixon, Heriberto | Goddard, Ives, 1941- | Henderson, Thomas S. T. | Beatty, John | Price, John A. | Rudes, Blair A. | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948- | White, John K. | White, Ellanor P. | Wright, Roy | Hamlin, Newton Burgess | Pearson, Bruce L., 1932-
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notes
Extent:ca. 15 folders
Description: The Bruce L. Pearson Papers includes files relating to various languages and/or peoples that were outside of his main research scope, primarily on linguistics topics. These are especially throughout Series VI. Other subject files, as well as in Series VII and Series VIII, and are just one or two files per language or culture listed in this guide entry.
Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)
Culture:
Language:English | Mapuche | Quechua | Poqomam | Carib | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Wampanoag | Wyandot
Date:1822
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 vol., 35 p.
Description: This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine vocabularies of Indigenous languages of the Americas, such as "Aztec" (Nahuatl), Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources, of South and North American languages: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.]
Collection:Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum (Mss.498.R27)