Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: Materials relating to Speck's research and other professional activities. Items include Speck's notes taken during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for his own anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania; Speck's miscellaneous notes comprising circa 500 bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work [other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to tribe]; correspondence concerning exhibits and specimens for the Chicago World's Fair and for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in New York City; two letters from Boas regarding the work of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; correspondence regarding topics such as the double-curve motif, family hunting areas, indigenous foods and cooking methods, wampum, silverwork, birch-bark technique, baskets, Speck's research and publications, the research and publications of others, obtaining indigenous material cultural specimens for Speck, purchases of indigenous material culture specimens (baskets, masks, etc.) from Speck, Speck's identification of items in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, Speck's bibliography, and Speck's obituary; letters requesting copies of Speck's publications, or acknowledging the transmission of publications between Speck and others; copies and/or drafts of several of Speck's presentations and publications, including "Lectures on Primitive Religion," "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas," "Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," and "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonquian Art"; a bibliography of Speck's publications through 1942; rough drafts of miscellaneous papers, 1928-1948; Speck's notes on topics such as crane posture; Birket-Smith's 1946 "Plan for Circumpolar Research"; ten distribution maps for circumpolar culture traits, colored in with crayon to show distribution of traits including divination and miracle shamanism, sweat bath, turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept, bone divination, bear veneration, curative power of mystic words and formulae, dog-ancestor myth, dog as soul leader, curvilinear patterns, and confession to cure taboo violation; and a prepublication manuscript of Hallowell's "The nature and function of property as a human institution" with additions and corrections.

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

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Mohegan materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Mohegan

Language:English

Date:1983, 1990

Contributor:Simmons, William S. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Weinstein-Farson, Laurie

Subject:Connecticut--History

Type:Text

Genre:Bibliographies | Essays | Interviews | Reports | Transcriptions

Extent:97 pages

Description: The Mohegan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Simmons and Weinstein-Farson.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Nahua materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Nahua

Date:1912-1924, 1928, 1930, 1940, 1949-1950, 1953

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | Orthography and spelling | Stories

Type:Text

Genre:Bibliographies | Essays | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:359 pages, Circa 750 slips, 1 notebook (314 pages), 1 volume (168 pages)

Description: The Nahua materials in the ACLS collection consist of numerous items in the "Nahuatl" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Prominent materials include texts recorded by Boas from Milpa Alta speakers, including Doña Luz Jiménez, in 1912 (item U7b.4). There are also additional texts, recorded by Miguel Barrios Espinosa in 1950 San Juan Tlilhuacan, Delegacion de Azcapotzales, Mexico City (item U7b.9). Mason (and possibly also Boas') "Nahuatl vocabulary" (item U7b.3) contains 750+ word slips based upon work by Simeón and Mason. "Vocabularies Nawatl" (item U7b.12) by Leon and Swadesh consists of vocabulary of 3 Nahuatl dialects (identified as Telina, Ilamalan, and San Pedro [Atocpan?]) based on field work in 1939 with 4 speakers. There are additional grammatical studies and linguistic treatments by Whorf, Barlow, Croft, and Ripley. Some Nahuatl vocabulary can also be found in comparative Uto-Aztecan materials in the "Uto-Aztecan" section of the finding aid.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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Nez Perce materials, Virginia D. Hymes Papers

Culture:

Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu

Language:Nez Perce | English

Date:1970s-1980s

Contributor:Zwicky, Arnold M. | Schrager, Sam | Rigsby, Bruce | Rude, Noel

Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Bibliographies

Extent:10 folders

Description: The majority of the Nez Perce materials in the Virginia D. Hymes Papers are found in Series IV (Works by Others), under Noel Rude, Bruce Rigsby, Sam Schrager, and Arnold Zwicky. These are mostly linguistic analysis. There is also a folder "Presbytarian Missionary Historical Society Notes" in Series III (Research Files).

Collection:Virginia D. Hymes Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.189)

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Shawnee materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Shawnee

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

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)

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Wintu materials, Harvey Pitkin Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Takelma includes: Rogue River

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Maya

Miwok

Klamath

Date:1888-1953

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Wintu materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers are extensive. Subcollection I, Series I, contains notes, notebooks, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and phonetic tracings by Jeremiah Curtin in the late 19th century, Roland Dixon, and A.M. Halpern. Series I-B contains Pitkin's grammar slip files and vocabularies collected by Curtin. Series I-C includes Jaime de Angulo's manuscript on the Patwin language, S.A. Barrett's transcriptions and translations of speech and song recordings, Radin's "Grammatical Sketch" and Waterman's notes on Patwin phonetics. Series II-A is rich in materials collected by A.L. Krober. In Subcollection II, Pitkin's field notes are located in Series 2, Subseries 1. Subseries 2 includes Pitkin's extensive notes on his Wintu dictionary, grammar, texts, stories, and music. The manuscript of the dictionary is located in Subseries 3. There is an unpublished 416 page manuscript of stories written in both English and Wintu, songs, and transcriptions in Subseries 4. This section also includes copies of all the extant linguistic material with works by noted linguists such as Curtin, Albert Gatschet, Radin, Halpern, Morris Swadesh, Victor Golla, and J.P. Harrington. Series 6 is comprised of card file slips with comparative analyses by Pitkin of the four languages of the Wintun family.

Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)

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Yana materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Yahi

Yana

Language:English | Yana

Date:1970-1971

Contributor:Nevin, Bruce E.

Subject:California--History | Folklore | Linguistics

Type:Text

Extent:91 pages

Description: The Yana materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items listed under "Nevin, Bruce" concerning Yana and Yahi linguistics, including papers and interlinear glosses of the text "Rolling Skull."

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Yuman materials, James M. Crawford Papers

Culture:

Yavapai

Piipaash includes: Maricopa

Kumeyaay includes: Kumiai, Diegueño, Kamia, Tipai-Ipai

Chimariko

Cocopah includes: Cocopa, Cucapáh, Cucapá, Kwapa, Kwii Capáy

Language:English | Cocopa | Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai

Date:circa 1962-1988

Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Arizona--History | Yuman languages

Type:Text

Extent:10 folders

Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's research specifically on the Yuman languages as a whole. The materials described here are all of Series III-C and all of Series IV-C. Items in Series III-C. Works by Crawford—Yuman include "Account of Reconnaissance Among Several Languages of the Yuman Family in Arizona" [1962], a typed narrative of a research trip including itinerary, names of people, and many personal and ethnographic observations, but focusing on finding language consultants for Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Maricopa, and Cocopa and mentions Jimmie Yazzi, Willie Walker, Elmer Watahomigie, Lorenzo Sinyella, “Old Man” Sinyella, William Littlejim, Ernest Larson, etc., (and also describes a surprise encounter with Carl Voegelin where Crawford learned that graduate students at Indiana were already working on Havasupai, Yavapai, and Walapai and heard Voegelin expound on the merits of tape recorders in linguistic work); "Bibliography of the Tribes and Languages of the Yuman Family" [n.d.], one page of handwritten notes and a 45-page typed document compiled largely from George Peter Murdock's “Ethnographic Bibliography of North America” (1950); notes, drafts, and page proofs of Crawford's review of Cochimi and Proto-Yuman: Lexical and Syntactic Evidence for a New Language Family in Lower California by Mauricio J. Mixco—Review [1980]; handwritten notes, edited drafts, and page proofs of Crawford's essay "A Comparison of Chimariko and Yuman" [1976]; a typed copy, handwritten notes, and other materials (including homework exercises and a preliminary draft) relating to Crawford's "Proto-Yuman: Reconstructed from Cocopa, Diegueño, Maricopa, and Yavapai" [1964]; and handwritten notes and charts and typed drafts of Crawford's "Some Cognate Sets from Chimariko and Several Yuman Languages" [n.d.]. Items in Series IV-C. Research Notes & Notebooks—Yuman include a folder of miscellaneous, mostly handwritten “Notes” [n.d.]; a folder of “Notes on Possible Informants among Speakers of the Yuman Language” [n.d]., including Crawford's observations and experiences during his research trip looking for consultants for Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Cocopa, and Maricopa (see also the more formal, typed narrative in "Account of Reconnaissance Among Several Languages of the Yuman Family in Arizona" [1962]), and a rough handwritten draft of “The Reconstruction of Proto Yuman from Cocopa, Maricopa, Diegueño and Yavapai”; four pages of copied text on “Phonemes of Four Yuman Languages” [1962], focusing on Havasupai, Yavapai, Maricopa, and Cocopa; and about 30 pages of notes on linguistics and language consultants in “Yuman Reconnaissance—Notebook” [1962]. See also related materials in the Cocopah entry of the Crawford Papers, and Series VII. Photographs.

Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)