Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: This volume contains extracts of Benjamin Smith Barton's "New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America" (Philadelphia, 1797), with additions by Peter S. Du Ponceau. The bulk of the volume is comprised of word list of 54 words with equivalents listed in a range of 50-70 languages. While Barton listed no authority, Du Ponceau cited sources. Languages with words listed include Chitimacha, Atakapa, Cherokee, Osage, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Nottoway, Kansa, Omaha, Dakota, Pawnee, Nanticoke, Gros Ventres, Miami, Mi'kmaq, Seminole, Quapaw, Yuchi, Delaware, Ojibwe, Shawnee, Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Tuscarora, Natches, Wyandot, Creek, Mahican, Mohegan, and many others. The word list includes the terms for God, heaven, and sky, as well as various terms relating to kinship, parts of the body, weather, and more. The volume also includes notes on sounds of the Otomi (Othomi) observations on declension; observations about the Omaha, Kansa, Oto, Arkansas, and Missouri languages; and notes on symbol and sound. Also includes a newspaper clipping of a review (in German) of Barton's "New Views" that appeared in "Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen," June 17, 1799.

Collection:A comparative vocabulary of Indian languages (Mss.497.B28)

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Benjamin Smith Barton journals; notebooks

Culture:

Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot

Susquehannock includes: Conestoga

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Mandan includes: Nueta

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Cherokee

Chickasaw

Language:Cayuga | English

Date:1785-1806

Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815

Subject:Archaeology | Geography | Treaties | Warfare | Graves

Type:Text

Genre:Vocabularies

Extent:0.5 Linear feet, 2 boxes; 2 volumes

Description: A manuscript compiled from originals in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by William L. McAtee. Concerns murder of John Armstrong by Indians; mentions Canestogae tribe, Cayahoga path, Cheerake, Chickasaw, Colonel Cresap; tuberculosis among Indians; Delawares; eloquence; Indian barrows, fortifications, and graves; Kash kask kunck; Mandan; Seneca, Six Nations (Haudenosaunee), and Captain White Eyes. Also Crave Creek mound; Wyandot, Indian sugar camp; war customs and war party; treaty of December 1784 at Fort McIntosh with Chippewa and Wyandots; Indian burning; Indian diseases. Teedyuscung; Penn's treaty with the Delaware (1682 and 1702); meaning of "Geneseo"; Seneca battle with Koghquangians (Caughnawaga); Chickasaw; specimen of a Cayuga vocabulary with same list as that used in Barton (1797).

Collection:Benjamin Smith Barton journals; notebooks (Mss.B.B284.1)

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Catawba materials, Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Shawnee

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Catawba includes: Iswa

Cherokee

Language:English

Date:1737-1751

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Instructions

Extent:19 items

Description: Correspondence between James Logan, other royal and propriety officials, and various Native groups regarding Native affairs. Topics include Catawba relations with Cherokees, Haudenosaunee, and other Native groups; Catawba relations with various colonies; efforts to preserve peace among Britain's Native allies; fears about effect of inter-Native warfare during King George's War; and efforts to arrange a peace treaty between the Catawbas and the Haudenosaunee. Individuals mentioned include Schermerhorn and Conrad Weiser.

Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)

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Cayuga materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cherokee

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Date:1946-1989

Subject:Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:1 linear foot

Description: The Cayuga materials in the Lounsbury Papers are located primarily in the "Cayuga" section of Series II, which contains extensive field notes and transcriptions made by both Lounsbury and Michael Foster of Cayuga stories and speeches given by Alexander General, Howard Skye, and Mrs. George Green, along with related discussions. See also Series VII, Audio Recordings, which includes some recordings featuring the Thanksgiving Address and the Condolence ceremony. See also correspondence in Series I, which includes Michael K. Foster's work on Cayuga Midwinter ceremonies, William Sturtevant's work with Oklahoma Seneca-Cayuga, and Marius Barbeau's materials on Cayuga and Tuscarora.

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Cayuga materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Nanticoke

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Language:English | Cayuga

Date:1914-1947

Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Dodge, Ernest S. (Ernest Stanley), 1913-1980

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notebooks | Notes | Vocabularies

Extent:10 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Cayuga history, language, and culture. This includes Speck's correspondence with indigenous consultants such as Deskaheh and Alexander General (who became known as Deskaheh after the other's death in 1925) on topics such as museum specimens, games, religion, politics, land claims, stories, etc.; correspondence with other anthropologists such as Ernest Dodge about Cayuga war medicine [see also Speck and Dodge (1945)] and William N. Fenton concerning Cayuga winter rituals and suggestions for Speck's Cayuga manuscripts [see also Speck (1945b)]; and a notebook of Cayuga material containing ethnographic data and mentioning consultants John L. Buck, Mrs. John L. Buck, and Jerry Aaron as well as Deskaheh.

Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)

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Ceremonial Songs of the Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (manuscript)

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Language:English | Seneca

Date:1936-1952

Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch

Subject:Ethnography | Music | Religion

Type:Text

Genre:Musical scores | Essays

Extent:1 volume

Description: Musicological analysis, attempt to relate musical patterns to "present ritual functions," and some consideration of speculative questions of chronology and individual creativity. This material is restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.

Collection:Ceremonial Songs of the Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (Mss.497.3.K965st)

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Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (audio)

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Seneca

Date:1936

Contributor:Randle, Martha Champion | Black, Edward | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Shanks, Robert

Subject:Dance | Music | Religion | Rites and ceremonies

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Songs | Speeches

Extent:4 sound tape reels (4 hr., 10 min.)

Description: Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse, recorded by Martha Champion Randle on phonograph discs in 1936. These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.

Collection:Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (Mss.Rec.17)

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Cherokee materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Cherokee

Language:English | Cherokee

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)

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Cherokee materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Cherokee

Creek

Catawba includes: Iswa

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Language:English | Cherokee

Date:1920-1951

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:17 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Cherokee history and culture. This includes 24 pages of correspondence with Cherokee collaborators like Will West Long and Allen W. Long; 47 pages of field notes; notes and drafts relating to the preparation of Speck's manuscript on Cherokee music, dance, and drama; correspondence with colleagues such as George Herzog and Leonard Broom on Cherokee music, dance, and drama; correspondence with Franz Boas concerning copying of his Catawba texts and the Cherokee field work of Frans Olbrechts; correspondence with Will West Long about museum specimens; a biographical sketch of Will West Long; a postcard to Marian Godfrey regarding Cherokee Museum specimens; a letter to E. B. Norvell regarding silver trade goods and European imitations sold by the Cherokee; a bibliography of Cherokee sources, Publication 68650, listing 48 items, 1775-1922, prepared by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs; a copy of a 1566-1567 letter (7 pages in English, with introduction by Speck) written by Juan Pardo relating early Spanish contact with the Cherokee; an account of the Cherokee and Delaware alliance given by Witapanóxwe (War Eagle and James Webber); a transcription of an 1818 letter written by Charles Hicks on the manners and customs of the Cherokees; correspondence about Cherokee basketry; correspondence regarding the accuracy of material in Robert Strange, Eoneguski, or the Cherokee Chief (1939); and 27 pages of miscellanous notes. Also includes 100+ photographs.

Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)

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Collection of Iroquois folklore, 1912-1918

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no

Language:English

Date:1912-1918

Contributor:Waugh, F. W. (Frederick Wilkerson), 1872-1924

Subject:Folklore | Ontario--History | New York (State)--History

Type:Text

Genre:Stories

Extent:Approx. 900 p.

Description: This collection was gathered by Waugh at Six Nations Reservation from Cayuga and Onondaga informants, with a scattering of Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Includes 157 different items of fiction, folklore, and history. With this is a description of the Collection by Martha Champion Randle, May 1953, which contains a detailed Index. - taken from APS Proceedings, vol. 97, 5, 1953, 611-633. The original notebooks from which these typescripts were made are housed at the Canadian Museum of History, which also holds a typescript likely produced at the same time as the APS typescript.

Collection:Collection of Iroquois folklore, 1912-1918 (Mss.398.2.W353)