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Language:English
Date:1806-1892
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Smith, Rev. T. W. | Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 | Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887
Subject:Linguistics | Expeditions | Missouri Territory | Rocky Mountains--History | Material culture | Sign language
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:7 items
Description: Correspondence regarding Plains Indian materials. Includes Thomas Jefferson's letter to John Vaughan transmitting a copy of his "communications to Congress of the information respecting Louisiana..." [Jefferson (1806)]; Du Ponceau's request for a copy of the first two pages of Journal historique from original in Department of State; Du Ponceau to Johann S. Vater concerning Indian vocabularies brought in by Major Long, which are being copied into his book, where he now has 25 vocabularies (notes that Long lost others when baggage men deserted to the Indians); John C. Calhoun's instructions for Long's Missouri expedition (Long urged to pacify and conciliate Indians, get information as to their number and character, fill in vocabulary forms, and follow Jefferson's instructions to Lewis [Printed (in part), James (1823): 3-5]; Ferdinand V. Hayden's observations on the Indian history of the Colorado region, including use of stone arrow points by the Pawnees, earth huts of Indians along Missouri River, use of stone implements, and other topics. [Printed, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 10: 352-353]; Daniel G. Brinton's letter to Henry Phillips desiring a copy of Hayden's article on Missouri Tribes for Horatio Hale; and Rev. T.W. Smith's inquiry about a paper on Sign language [See also Dunbar (1809)]. Other Native American groups mentioned include Ho-Chunk, Shoshoni, Upsaroko or Crow, Wahtoktatas, Kanzas, Omahas, Yankton Sioux, Pawnee (Panis), Minnetaree (Gros Ventre), and Sioux.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1950-1954 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Miller, Wick R. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Uto-Aztecan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Maps | Notes | Essays
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to Shoshone language and culture have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II, and consist of correspondence with Morris Swadesh (regarding Shoshoni, "Shoshonean" languages, and Uto-Aztecan in general) in Series I. Correspondence; a folder containing a "Shoshone dialect and informant distribution map" in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi; and Wick R. Miller's "Western Shoshoni Speech Communities" in Series IV. Works by Others. Researchers might also be interested in the general Uto-Aztecan entry for the Voegelin Papers.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe
Date:1976, 1981, 1987-1990, 1994
Contributor:Clemmer, Richard O. | Knack, Martha C. | Kreitzer, Matthew E., 1957- | Merrill, William Lewis | Mixco, Mauricio J. | Pubigee, Leland | Timimboo, Helen
Subject:Botany | Idaho--History | Linguistics | Nevada--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Interviews | Notebooks | Reports | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1192 pages
Description: The Shoshone 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 Clemmer, Knack, Kreitzer, Merrill, and Mixco.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)