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Language:English
Date:1903-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Poole, Earl L. | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Social life and customs | Pennsylvania--History | Moravians | Clans | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Art | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Newspaper clippings | Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Shawnee language, history, and culture. Includes an essay on Speck's visit to an excavation site at Fort Hill, Pennsylvania in July 1903 in which he identifies the site as Shawnee; a letter from Carl Voegelin and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin transmitting lists of Shawnee dances to Speck; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin concerning field data on Shawnee use of false faces; an undated report by Wheeler-Voegelin on general burial traits, including a brief account of field experiences and an 8-page outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure; a letter from Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning Shawnee legends, asking about silk applique techniques, and enclosing news clippings; and 16 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Shawnee notes and correspondence, including two letters from Earl L. Poole (Reading Museum), together with a transcript of a 1747 letter of Conrad Weiser taken from American German Review: 12: 4, 18-19, April 1946, regarding meeting of Shawnees and Count Zinzendorf; a postal card from "C" on grasshopper war; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin; a letter from War Eagle concerning Bread Dance; 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; and notes on Shawnee clans.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English | Ojibwe | Abenaki, Eastern | Shawnee | Meskwaki | Menominee | Miami-Illinois | Cree
Date:1935-1987
Contributor:Pearson, Bruce L., 1932- | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Ballard, W. L. | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Subject:Linguistics | Economics | Place names | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Essays | Bibliographies | Vocabularies | Grammars
Description: The Shawnee material in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of ethnographic and linguistic materials. Siebert's research can be found in Series V. Research done by C.F. Voeglin and Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin is located in Series IV and VII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:August 4, 1748
Contributor:Weiser, Conrad, 1696-1760
Subject:Warfare | Diplomacy | Treaties | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748 | Missions
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Richard Peters reporting that Shawnees and praying Indians have helped kill some whites. Discusses negotiations with 55 Indians at Lancaster.
Collection:Indian and Military Affairs of Pennsylvania, 1737-1775 (Mss.974.8.P19)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:August 14, 1780
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Subject:Missions | Moravians | Warfare | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter from Moravian missionary John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder to Daniel Brodhead concerning Shawnee Indians and the war. From original at Harvard University.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters and papers, 1789-1796 (Mss.Film.805.2)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:January 11, 1821
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Tecumseh, 1768-1813 | Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet
Subject:Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Will send copy of his Narrative to Du Ponceau. Regarding his German edition. Data on the Prophet and Tecumseh.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Date:1934-1978
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Davis, Inez | Tiger, Benjamin | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Original Shawnee materials in the Mary Haas collection focus around her fieldwork in Oklahoma in the 1930s, with Inez Davis, captured in a field notebook in Series 2. There is also correspondence with both Carl and Erminie Voegelin (Series 1), and many short (around 2-50 cards) lexica and notes on historical linguistics, mostly within Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Date:1964, 1972, 1993-1995
Contributor:Norcross, Amoena B. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Schutz, Noel W., Jr.
Subject:Dance | Linguistics | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:315 pages
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Norcross, Roark-Calnek, and Schutz.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1708-1754
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Penn, William, 1644-1718 | Newcheconner | Thomas, George, 1695?-1774 | Croghan, George, 1720?-1782 | Tostee, Peter | Dinnen, James
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Mines and mineral resources | Diplomacy | Warfare | United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Depositions | Reports
Extent:8 items
Description: Six letters regarding a mine Indians have discovered and are working; Shawnees "performing business" for Colonel Evans; Shawnees allegedly guilty of murdering colonists and Logan's efforts to treat with Newcheconner about it; Newcheconner's instistence on Shawnee innocence in the matter; a pass for Shikellamy to come to Philadelphia. A 1754 deposition by George Croghan and two other traders complaining that they were robbed and detained by pro-French Shawnees led by Peter Chartier at Shawneetown on the Allegany, and that their (enslaved?) African American servant was set free. A 1737 report by George Miranda titled "A true account of all the men in the three towns in Allegania of the Shawnese nation, " containing names and total population figures for French Town, Peter Chartier Town, Kiscomonetta's Town.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:n.d.; July 7, 1756; July 10, 1756
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Horsfield, Timothy, 1708-1773 | Kolapecka | Parsons, William, 1701-1757 | Paxinos
Subject:Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 letters
Description: In sections 2:517 and 1:199. Concerning friendship; trip to Philadelphia. Four Indians have arrived, including son of Paxino (Paksino). Manuscript note on back by John G. E. Heckewelder. Encloses governor's letter and Horsfield's speech to Indians intended for the four visiting Indians at Bethlehem, and states his intentions about provisions and ammunition for them. Contains short note by John G. E. Heckewelder, identifying one as Kolopacka, son of Paxino.
Collection:Timothy Horsfield Papers (Mss.974.8.H78)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1936, 1953, 1958
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Dance | Ohio--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Shawnee materials in the Fenton papers can be found in several sections. Series I includes correspondence with Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin. In Series III, see papers by Wheeler-Voegelin and Anthony F. C. Wallace.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)