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Culture:
Date:1792 and undated
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:14 pages
Description: The Nanticoke materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22a, and 22b. These are primarily manuscript Vocabularies in a variety of forms.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Date:1914-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Place names | Wampum | Folklore | Iroquoian languages | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:3 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Tuscarora language, history, and culture. Includes Speck's reading notes on New York State Tuscarora including an undated page of Mattawascheet notes and a 1930s letter to Speck from Alfred Irving Hallowell concerning Nanticoke and Tuscarora; four pages of geographical terms secured at Six Nations Reserve labeled "Canadian Tuscarora Words"; and a folder labeled "Notes on Canadian Tuscarora," which includes names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; and some Nanticoke vocabulary.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)