Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Algonquian materials in the Lounsbury Papers include information about Indigenous place names, Delaware kinship terminology in Series II. Series III includes work on comparative linguistics, phonology, dialects. The correspondence in Series I contains letters on kinship systems from a diverse array of tribes.

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

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E. Adamson Hoebel Papers

Culture:

Yahi

Zia includes: Tsʾíiyʾamʾé, Keres, Sia

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe

Mandan includes: Nueta

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Laguna includes: Kʾáwáigamʾé, Keres, Kawaika

Hopi

Isleta includes: Tiwa

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Cheyenne

Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ

Arapaho includes: Arapahoe

Language:English

Date:1925-1993

Contributor:Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays | Photographs

Extent:11.75 linear feet

Description: Edward Adamson Hoebel (1906-1993) was an anthropologist and educator who studied legal systems, and the collection largely revolves around this work, especially in the Plains region of the US. This collection has not been fully analyzed for Indigenous content for the purposes of this guide. Materials relating to specific cultures in this entry are known to exist, but researchers will need to read the finding aid to identify prominent materials.

Collection:E. Adamson Hoebel Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.43)

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Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks

Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin

Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Maya

Natchez

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Inca

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág

Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri

Language:English

Date:1935-1937

Contributor:Singer, Ernestine H. Wieder

Subject:Anthropology | Archaeology | Economic conditions | Guatemala--History

Type:Text

Genre:Notes

Extent:2 volumes, 150 p.

Description: These items include notes on "primitive economics" (Incan) for A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (on Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (on problems of the Clovis site in New Mexico), and others at the University of Pennsylvania. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association of papers by various anthropologists in attendance, including Ruth Benedict, Frederica de Laguna, Waiter Dyk, William N. Fenton, Alfred V. Kidder, David G. Mandelbaum, George P. Murdock, Arthur C. Parker, Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys A. Reichard, William A. Ritchie, Linton Satterthwaite, Gene Weltfish, and others regarding Cree, Flathead, Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Kaingang (Southern Brazil), Kiowa, Mayan, Natchez, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Pueblos, Sahaptin, Saulteaux, Siouan, Tarascan, Tonawanda (Seneca), Zuni, etc.

Collection:Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes (Mss.970.1.Si6)

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Finding the Center

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Language:English | Zuni

Date:1965

Contributor:Tedlock, Dennis, 1939-2016

Subject:Folklore | New Mexico--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Stories

Extent:4 sound tape reels (4 hr., 46 min.)

Description: Field recordings made by Dennis Tedlock with Zuni storytellers. Consists of 9 traditional stories told in Zuni only, which were later published in Tedlock's "Finding the Center." These recordings may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

Collection:Finding the Center (Mss.Rec.93)

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General Native American materials, Eugenics Record Office Records

Culture:

Wichita

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Santa Clara includes: Kha'po Owingeh

Shawnee

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Pojoaque includes: P'osuwaege Owingeh

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu

Cheyenne

Chickasaw

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Apache includes: Inde

Arapaho includes: Arapahoe

Language:English

Date:1870-1934

Contributor:Estabrook, Arthur H. (Arthur Howard), 1885- | Koenig, Margaret W. Rhode, 1875- | McDougle, Ivan E. (Ivan Eugene)

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:5 folders

Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Of particular interest might be Folder "A:9770-1-118 Indians from Oklahoma (Work Sent in by Mr. Paul Roofe)" (1926), containing 118 pages of Individual Analysis Cards containing personal and family information about students at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. There is also "Folder A:9770 #1. Indian Photographs, Bureau of American Ethnography" (1870-1912), containing 23 photographs of Native individuals, all men, most with both front and profile shots, and identifying information on the back. Cultures represented include Kiowa, Brule (Dakota), Apache, Delaware, Papago (Tohono O'odham), Arapaho, Wichita, Zuni, Santa Clara (Pueblo), Shawnee, Pojoaque (Pueblo), Cheyenne, and Bannock. Folder "A:9770 #3. American Indians" (1920-1934) contains material about Bolivia Indians, Chippewas (Ojibwe) in Michigan, and from Dr. Margaret W. Koenig of the Nebraska Medical Women's League regarding the family history of Permela Palmer (Chicksaw), who married a Choctaw and then a white man, and who was of particular note because of her supernumerary mammary glands and the similarly abnormal breast development of some of her daughters. Folder "A:974 x 7. Caucasian x Indian" (1920-1925) contains trait charts of mixed families, including charts of a French-Cree and Choctaw family and a French-Cree and Scotch-Cree family sent by Mrs. L. M. William of Battleford, Sask.; a three-page typed essay, "For a Universial Marriage Law," advocating the prohibition of mixed marriages, also attributed to Mrs. William; and a magazine article, intended to be humorous, titled "Indian Wives and White Husbands" by Josiah M. Ward. Folder "A:976 x 70. American Indian - Negro" (1919-1928) contains charts, anecdotal data, notes, etc. regarding the traits of mixed children of Native and African American parents, several examples of which are stamped State Normal School, Montclair, NJ; a letter from the state registrar of Virginia to the Census Bureau concerning the efforts of people trying to gain recogition as Chickahominy, Rappahannock, and other groups despite having been previously been designated as "mullatoes," fear about such people having "broken into the census as Indians," and from there "have gotten across into the white race," and hopes to clarify matters for the 1930 Censuses; and materials (interviews, family trees, forms, notes) from a study directed by A. H. Estabrook and I. E. McDougle of the Sociology Department of Sweet Briar College--with fieldwork (such as interviews) performed by Sweet Briar students--titled "The Isshys, An Indian-Negro-White Family Group Near Amherest, Virginia."

Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)

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Hopi materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Nahua

Hopi

Language:English | Hopi | Tohono O'odham | Nahuatl, Tetelcingo

Date:1975-1977 and undated

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Humor | Ethnography

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays

Extent:25 folders

Description: There are several items relating to the Hopi language in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Items are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with Kenneth L. Hale (regarding passivity, clowning, and comparisons to Papago [Tohono O'odham] and Walbiri) and Dennis Tedlock (regarding Tedlock's Zuni consultants' dealings with Hopi) in Series I. Correspondence; a "Papago and Hopi" file in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; and 6 folders of Hopi material (mostly consisting of handwritten linguistic notes in pencil) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. In Subcollection II, there is Hopi-related correspondence with Francis X. Grolling, S.J. (brief note mentioning two-hearted people and kachinas), Kenneth Hale (regarding Voegelin's Hopi research), Jerome Kirk (Voegelin mentions that his Hopi consultants prefer to use English directional terms), Ekkehart Malotki (regarding Hopi fieldwork and language), Joel M. Maring (regarding Eastern and Western Keresan and Hopi parallels), Raven I. McDavid, Jr. (brief note mentioning his enjoyment of Hopi fieldwork), Alice Schlegel (regarding teasing/humor), Morris Swadesh (mentions Charles Loloma), Unidentified (miscellaneous Hopi linguistic notes), and Gary Witherspoon (the world view problem, work of LaVerne Masayesva at MIT) in Series I. Correspondence. Also in Subcollection II, there is Hopi-Tewa material in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VII. Kiowa-Tanoan; and two Hopi-related files in Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. These include a general "Hopi" folder and another folder of Edward A. Kennard's Hopi Texts, consisting of 5 typewritten texts in Hopi and English accompanied by two letters, Kennard to Voegelin, 1976-1977. There is also a copy of C. F. and F. M. Voegelin's "Hopi Number in Respect to Idiosyncracy" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries I: General works; Helmut Gipper's "The conception of time and space in Hopi: Some necessary corrections to the views of B.L. Whorf" in Series IV. Works by Others; and a file for Tetelcingo Nahuatl (with Hopi comparison) in Series V. Card Files.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

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Maya materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tzeltal includes: Winik Atel, Batzil’op

Maya

Mixe includes: Ayuukjä'äy

Language:English | French | Yucateco | Spanish | Mayan, Classical

Date:1963-1995

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Maya materials in the Lounsbury Papers are extensive. The correspondence in Series I includes a Motul (Mayan) dictionary, discussion about translating Maya glyphs and calendrical calculations, the Popol Vuh. Series II consists of articles and manuscripts from a project identified as "Maya kinship unfin. project." Much of this work is focused on interpreting Maya hieroglyphs. In Series VII there are a number of recordings of Yucatec Maya made in the 1960s focused on vocabulary. The correspondence, in Series I, includes a dictionary by Rene Acuna, Lloyd Anderson's Etymologies of Mayan calendrical and astronomical terms, Anthony Aveni's interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, Brent Berlin's decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs, Gordon Brotherston's comments on FGL's manuscript on Maya dates, Lyle Campbell's bibliography of Mayan linguistics, Wallace Chafe on how FGL got into the study of Maya hieroglyphics, Michael Coe's report that Soviets were successful in using a computer to translate Maya hieroglyphs, R. David Drucker's comparison of Aztec and Maya calendars, Dieter Dutting on Maya hieroglyphs; transformational analysis of Yucatec.

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

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Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian

Culture:

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

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Timucua

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Tutelo includes: Yesan

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Shawnee

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Oceti Sakowin includes: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Sioux

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Sahtú includes: North Slavey

Mattaponi

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Karankawa

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh

Cherokee

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Apache includes: Inde

Caddo

Calusa

Language:English

Date:1939-1945; 1947-Circa 1961; 1951-1962;

Contributor:Gillespie, John Douglas | Marriott, Alice, 1910-1992

Type:Text | Still Image

Genre:Grammars | Musical scores | Newspaper clippings | Photographs

Extent:Circa 350 volumes; 75 photographs; 75 newspaper clippings; 70 manuscripts

Description: This collection pertains principally to the Cherokees of North Carolina and Oklahoma and to their language, ethnography, folklore, archeology, history, music, etc. Includes Indian studies and correspondence by Gillespie, notes on Indian dances and linguistics, bibliographies, publications of the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University, and newspaper clippings. Also comprised of materials on: Apache, Calusa, Chippewa, Choctaw, Delaware, Eskimo, Fox, Haudenosaunee, Karankawa, Gwich'in, Mattaponi, Muskogee, Navajo, Onondaga, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Slave, Timucua, Tuscarora, Tutelo, Wyandot, and Zuni. Contains: Gillespie, "A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family," 1949-1954 (131 pages); "Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language"; "Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian."

Collection:Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian (Mss.497.3.G41)

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Penobscot materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet

Tutelo includes: Yesan

Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki

Penobscot

Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Mohegan

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern

Date:1908-1947

Type:Still Image | Text

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)

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Penutian materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Yokuts

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Wasco-Wishram

Tsimshian includes: Ts'msyan, Ts'msyen, Zimshian

Tzeltal includes: Winik Atel, Batzil’op

Takelma includes: Rogue River

Modoc

Miwok

Kathlamet includes: Cathlamet

Klamath

Maidu

Chinook

Date:1952 and undated

Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Francescato, Giuseppe | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967

Type:Text

Genre:Notes | Essays

Extent:14 folders

Description: Several items relating to the Penutian language family have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Of particular interest is Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque, of Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes. The contents of this subseries includes folders of materials under the following headings: Chinookan-Chinook, Wishram, Kathlamet; Klamath-Modoc; Maidu; Maya (Tzeltal); Miwok; Penutian; Sahaptin; Takelma; Tsimshian; Yokuts; and Zuni. There are also Penutian materials in Subcollection II, Series IV. Works by Others. These include Leonard Bloomfield's "Penutian" sketch; Giuseppe Francescato's masters thesis, "A Structural Comparison of the Californian Penutian" (1952); and Morris Swadesh's "Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian." Researchers should also view the individual entries for distinct Penutian languages.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)