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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)
Language:Abenaki, Western | English | French
Date:1846, circa 1920s, circa 1950s-1990s
Contributor:Laurent, Joseph | Laurent, Stephen | Marrault, Joseph | Fister, Margaret
Subject:Linguistics | New Hampshire--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Newspaper clippings | Poems | Prayers
Extent:3.75 Linear feet
Description: Papers of Stephen Laurent, son of Joseph Laurent (1839-1917), Chief of the St. Francis Abnakis and author of New Familiar Abenaki and English Dialogues (1884), and grandson of Joseph Laurent, also chief. Primarily contains outgoing letters from Stephen Laurent's wife, Margaret Fisher, to her family, and miscellaneous documentation relation to Laurent's activities as an interpreter of Abenaki history in New Hampshire. The main Abenaki language material in the collection is found in one catechism and prayer book in Abenaki from 1846 by Joseph Marrault, a Jesuit.
Collection:Stephen Laurent Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.118)