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Culture:
Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Shawnee | Meskwaki | Menominee | Miami-Illinois | Cree
Date:1929-1950; 1963-1982
Contributor:Rhodes, Richard A., 1946- | Johns, Alana | Kaye, J. D | Hockett, Charles Francis | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994 | Rogers, Jean H. | Todd, Evelyn Mary
Subject:Botany | Trade | Linguistics
Type:Text | Cartographic
Description: The Ojibwe materials in the Siebert Papers consists primarily of secondary sources located in Series IV and VII. Siebert's comparative linguistic work on Ojibwe can be found in Series V.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1834-1897; 1921-1929 1970-1991;
Contributor:Leavitt, Robert, 1944- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Alger, Abby Langdon | Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945 | Romagne, James | Vetromile, Eugene, 1819-1881 | Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | LeSourd, Philip S.
Subject:Demographics | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Education | Religion | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Censuses | Records | Stories | Transcriptions | Notes | Vocabularies
Description: The Passamaquoddy materials in the Siebert Papers include his research on census information from the 19th century, linguistics, education, and land ownership, all of which can be found in Series V. There are a significant number of secondary sources related to history, missionary efforts to conver the Passamaquoddy and linguistics in Series IV and VII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English
Date:1956
Contributor:Gordon, Eugene | Neptune, Arthur
Subject:Dance | Maine--History | Music
Type:Sound recording
Extent:1 sound tape reel (22 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Penobscot songs and dance, plus five untranslated spoken texts. Arthur Neptune, consultant. Recorded in June 1956, most likely in Maine. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Penobscot Indian language study (Mss.Rec.23)
Culture:
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1821
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume, 20 p.
Description: This bound volume includes approximately twenty pages of Abenaki words and their English translations compiled by Emma Gardiner of Gardiner, Maine in 1821. Although the origins of this document are not clear, it is possible that Gardiner worked with Abenaki Indians to compile this list. The document contains the annotations and other notes of Peter Du Ponceau.
Collection:Penobscot Indian vocabulary (Mss.497.3.G16)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English
Date:circa 1970s
Contributor:Dana, Susie | McKeough, Helen | Pritchard, Evan
Subject:Maine--History | Language study and teaching | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:1 folder; 12 audiocassettes (4 hr., 47 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recording of Penobscot Language Master Cards. Also contains the original list of 1255 English words and phrases used in the recordings (47 p,); a phonetic transcription of the corresponding Penobscot for the first 333 cards, made by Evan Pritchard (10 p.); and a letter from Sister Helen McKeough of the Indian Island School to members of the Penobscot Nation explaining the contents of the tapes and circumstances of their recording. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Penobscot Language Master Cards (Mss.SMs.Coll.14)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1933
Contributor:Attean, Mitchell | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:50 pages
Description: The Penobscot materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item in the "Malecite" section of the finding aid. Sapir and Swadesh's "Notes on Penobscot and Malecite" (item A1n.1) primarily consists of Penobscot, with additional Maliseet vocabulary. It contains a Penobscot alphabet, text, and carbon copy of texts from records with interlinear translations, and lexical items on slips. Recorded in part with speaker Mitchell Attean.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:circa 1930s-1960s
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Algonquian languages | Funeral rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Stories | Translations
Extent:4 folders, 1 box
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain correspondence, notes, texts, articles, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Penobscot language and culture. These are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II of the Voegelin Papers. Materials in Subcollection I include correspondence with Frank Siebert (regarding his Penobscot fieldwork, particularly mourning and mortuary customs); 1 box of Ojibwa [Ojibwe], Seneca, and Penobscot notes in Series II. and Penobscot material in Ojibwe Folder #24 in Series VI. Notebooks. In Subcollection II, there is Frank Siebert's "Bumole, The Air Sprite" (a story in Penobscot and in English, sent to Voegelin in 1939) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian; and a Penobscot file in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1908-1947
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927 | Day, Gordon M. | Gandy, Ethel | Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928 | Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921 | Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-1985 | Ranco, Dorothy | Princess Pretty Woman | Nelson, Roland E.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Social life and customs | Politics and government | Hunting | Religion | Linguistics | Art | Place names | Kinship | Material culture | Museums | Specimens | New England--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Essays | Drafts | Stories | Transcriptions
Extent:27 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Penobscot language, history, and culture, and his preparation of his book Penobscot Man. This includes several folders of Speck's field notes, notes organized around specific topics (including data not used in Speck's published works), copies and drafts of lectures and essays, correspondence, etc. Topics include Penobscot social organization, calendar system, house furnishings, hunting morality, animal lore, religion, art, sayings, alphabet, counting and measuring, canoe-making, face-painting, texts with interlineal translations, and "Bird Lore of the Northern Indians" (a faculty public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania). Additionally, significant correspondence concerns the preparation, expenses, dissemination, and reception of his Penobscot publications. Other topics of correspondence include Ethel Gandy's monograph on Penobscot art; names of chiefs and their clans; "clown" performances outside of the southwest among the Penobscot, Iroquois [Haudenosaunee], Abenaki, and Delaware; place names; the relationship of Penobscot-Mohegan and Mahican; a comparison of Zuni-Navajo and Red Paint; Tutelo. There is a particularly large folder of Speck's miscellaneous Penobscot notes containing both a variety of notes and correspondence from Penobscot consultants as well as non-Native colleagues. These include letters from Roland E. Nelson (Needahbeh, Penobscot) concerning drum for exhibit; letters from Nelson, Franz Boas, John M. Cooper, William B. Goodwin, E. V. McCollum, and J. Dyneley Prince, all concerning Penobscot Man; Clifford P. Wilson concerning moosehair embroidery; Edward Reman concerning Norse influence on Penobscot; Carrie A. Lyford concerning moose-wool controversy and Ann Stimson's report; Ann Stimson, letter of thanks; Henry Noyes Otis concerning genealogy of Indians named Sias on Cape Cod (Speck marked this Penobscot); Princess Pretty Woman (Passamaquoddy) concerning her dress (apparently at the Penn Museum); Dorothy Ranco (Penobscot) concerning Princess Pretty Woman's dress; Roland W. Mann, concerning site of Indian occupancy according to Penobscot tradition; Ryuzo Torii, letter of introduction. Other miscellaneous items include a 5-page transcript of agreements between Indians of Nova Scotia and the English, August 15, 1749; 2 pages, transcript of agreement of July 13, 1727 (letter of transmittal, Lloyd Price to Miss MacDonald, September 24, 1936); Ann K. Stimson, Moose Wool and Climbing Powers of the American Mink; miscellaneous field notes on topics like songs, kinship, totem, medicine, and social units; and 4 pages of Penobscot words and their cultural use.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1669; 1678; 1725-1796; 1809-1884; 1900-1995
Contributor:Alger, Abby Langdon | Aubéry, Joseph, 1673-1755 | Aubin, George F. | Dana, Carol | Dana, Susie | Day, Gordon M. | Goddard, Ives, 1941- | Laurent, Joseph | Lolar, Louis | Neptune, Arthur | Rasles, Sebastien, 1657-1724 | Seeber, Pauleena MacDougall | Snow, Dean R., 1940- | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Treaties | Warfare | Education | Archaeology | Population | Genealogy | Politics and government | Religion | Hunting | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Maine--History | Music | Calendars | Land claims | Court cases | Material culture | Basketry | Architecture | Place names | United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 | Social life and customs | Marriage customs and rites | Divination | Pictographs | Hunting | Trade | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Animals | Folklore | Kinship | Proto-Algonquian languages
Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Photographs | Songs | Stories | Censuses | Charts | Newspaper clippings | Legal documents | Maps | Records | Correspondence | Transcriptions | Translations | Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dialogues | Lessons | Sketches
Extent:12 linear feet; 3 hrs. (audio); 5 photographs
Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are concentrated in Series III. Siebert collected census material, treaties and treaty minutes, placenames, with a strong representation of songs, stories, and linguistic materials. There are detailed notes about Indian claims in Maine and genealogical information. There are also educational materials for the teaching of the Penobscot language as well as a wealth of information on Penobscot linguistics. Series V, Siebert's notebooks, have extensive grammatical, phonetic, and vocabulary of the Penobscot language. Both Series III and V reflect Siebert's deep interest in the history of Maine and the Eastern Abenaki including archaeological, pre-history, and colonial era documents such as the Eliot Bible, which Siebert owned a rare copy in his library, which was sold at auction. Series VI and VII contain various drafts of essays on Penobscot culture, language, and history. Series XI contains 5 related photos of Louis Lolar, taken in 1933. Series XII contains approximately 3 hours of Penobscot language recordings, primarily from the 1930s and 1950s.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1935
Contributor:Nelson, Roland | Nicholas, Louis | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Thibodeau, Joe
Subject:Dance | Hunting | Maine--History | Marriage customs and rites | Music | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Extent:38 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of 18 recordings of songs for various occasions, including wedding songs, hunting songs, social dances, "Micmac" songs, lullabies, and hymns. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)