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Language:English
Date:1927-1943
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Rehnstrand, Jane, 1884- | Hudson's Bay Company | Sargent, R. W.
Subject:Birch bark | Basketry | Canoes and canoeing | Boats | Art
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:10 pages
Description: Correspondence relating to Speck's dealings in Canada (particularly his efforts to acquire birch-bark canoes and baskets) and to indigenous peoples, cultures, and material cultures of Canada that are not identified specifically. Materials include 1 letter from Speck to Foster Bennett regarding the purchase of and shipping instructions for three birch-bark canoes and two pairs of paddles; 3 letters from the Hudson's Bay Company regarding the unavailability of birch-bark articles at Longlac, Ontario, and Pointe Bleue, Lake St. John, Quebec as well as the availability of five baskets and one canoe for purchase at Montreal; 1 letter from R.W. Sargent regarding Indian birch-bark baskets with scratched floral and geometric designs available for purchase from R. S. Sargent, Ltd.; and 4 letters from Jane Rehnstrand regarding Speck's writing of an article on Indian Crafts of Canada for School Arts Magazine.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:1961-1966
Contributor:Wallace, Paul A. W.
Subject:Biography | Canada--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:52 pages
Description: Correspondence of Paul A. W. Wallace regarding biographies of indigenous peoples for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, with Wallace's comments on Native biographies. Wallace's correspondents include George W. Brown, Andre Vachon, Francess G. Halpenny, and Elizabeth W. Loosley.
Collection:Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64b)
Culture:
Date:1976-1984
Contributor:Keesing, Roger M., 1935- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Crocker, William H. | Schilling, Carol S.
Subject:Kinship | Place names | Sociology | Ethnography | Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:ca. 360 p.
Description: The main Canela materials in the Lounsbury Papers are located in Series II, in the Kinship - South America subseries: 2 folders of notes, charts, correspondence and drafts under "Canella" and a paper with correspondence by Roger Keesing titled "Formal and Sociological Analysis of Ramkokamekra Kinship". See also Carol Steffens Schilling's "Social Structure of the Eastern Timbira", which may describe the Canela. Series I contains correspondence with William Crocker regarding his work on Canela kinship. Some information about kinship terminology within the Canela language is likely to be included.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Date:circa 1948-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Venezuela--History | Guyana--History | Brazil--History | Suriname--History | French Guiana--History
Type:Text
Extent:19 folders
Description: Several items relating to Carib languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection I. They include extensive correspondence with Douglas MacRae Taylor (regarding his fieldwork and written work on Carib languages, including some stories, translations, and other linguistic materials) in Series I. Correspondence; Voegelin's "Black Carib Morphology" and "Central American Carib II: Morphology of the Verb" (with Douglas MacRae Taylor) in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; ten files of Taylor's work (including notes, outlines, and essays) on Black Carib, Central American Carib, and Island Carib in Series IV. Works by Others; a Carib file with data on Black, Central American, and Island Carib in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; and four folders of unbound Carib texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Language:English | French | Haitian Creole
Date:1910s-1920s
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Subject:Folklore | Anthropology | Caribbean Area--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Stories | Prayers | Correspondence
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: The Caribbean materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist predominantly of Afro-Caribbean folklore-related materials found in her field notebooks, and notes and works derived from them. See especially Subcollection I, Series II, for materials described especially as "Antilles" and Subcollection II, Series IV for notebooks from additional Caribbean nations, territories, and islands. Places noted in the source materials include Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Dominica, Grenada, Guadaloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Puerto Ricl, St. Croix, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, and Trinidad. Additional relevant materials may be located in other series.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona
Language:English
Date:April 1837
Contributor:Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Enclosed in letter to Charles Pickering. Head of fossil skeleton in Guadeloupe not Carib, but like Peruvian heads.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Cashibo includes: Kashibo, Carapache
Language:English | Cashibo-Cacataibo
Date:1951 and undated
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Peru--History | Panoan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Essays | Drafts
Extent:3 folders
Description: Three items relating to the Cashibo people and language of Peru have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection I. There is a 1951 letter from Olive A. Shell in Series I. Correspondence; Shell's "Cashibo" in Series IV. Works by Others; and extensive notes and drafts relating to Shell's work on Cashibo (Pano Family) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Catawba includes: Iswa
Language:English
Date:1941
Contributor:McDavid, Raven Ioor
Subject:Anthropology | Linguistics | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: In Subcollection II, Series, I, see letter from Raven McDavid to Voegelin detailing Catawba fieldwork and reporting his impression of the language and community at that time.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Date:1914-1947
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Milling, Chapman J. (Chapman James), 1901-1981 | Rights, Douglas L. (Douglas LeTell), 1891-1956 | Speck, Florence I. | Weitluner, R. J. | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 | Cadwalader, John | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Newsome, Albert Ray, 1894-1951 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Broom, Leonard | Schaeffer, Claude E. | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Red Thunder Cloud, 1919- | Blue, Samuel Taylor, 1872-1959 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Keiser, Albert | Blue, Leola | West Long, Will, 1870-1947 | Climbing Bear | Harris, Mrs. Nettle O. | Harris, Mrs. R. L.
Subject:Ethnography | Anthropology | Linguistics | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notes | Bibliographies | Notebooks | Charts | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:21 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Catawba history, language, and culture. This includes Speck's correspondence with indigenous consultants such as Red Thunder Cloud, Chief Sam Blue, and Leola Blue (Catawba) and Will West Long and Climbing Bear (Cherokee); correspondence with other anthropologists and linguists, such as John Reed Swanton, William N. Fenton, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, C.F. Voegelin, Morris Swadesh, A. I. Hallowell, Mary Haas, and others; genealogies of twentieth-century Catawba consultants; a Catawba bibliography; notes on topics including Catawba division of time, travel and expedition, food resources, racial status in the South, and notes, possibly for a lecture, titled "The Catawba-A Small Nation Deflated"; a University of Pennsylvania student's essay on Catawba tribal correspondence with J. Walter Fewkes about Speck's Catawba field trips; field notebooks devoted to ethnologic notes, vocabulary, texts, songs, and other linguistic and cultural data; and collections of notes devoted to Catawba language and texts, general ethnological notes, and miscellaneous notes. Some of the notes and notebooks and much of the correspondence mentions other indigenous groups as well.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Date:1716; 1803; ca. 1925-1931; 1951-1997
Contributor:Alexander, Edward Porter, 1907-2003 | Blumer, Thomas J., 1937- | Lieber, Oscar Montgomery, 1830-1862 | Pickens, A. L. (Andrew Lee), 1890-1969 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Taukchiray, Wes, 1948- | Watson, Ian M. | Gordon, Sally
Subject:Linguistics | Archaeology | Pottery | Architecture | Place names | Music | Zoology | Games | Hunting | Trapping | Fishing | Medicine | Religion | Dance | Genealogy | Diseases | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Witchcraft | Animals--Folklore
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Bibliographies | Photographs | Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Grammars | Notes | Field notes | Newspaper clippings | Correspondence | Genealogies | Censuses | Songs | Autobiographies
Extent:7 boxes
Description: The Catawba materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are primarily concentrated in Series II. These consist of copies of secondary sources such as an "Indian Vocabulary from Fort Christanna, 1716, Catawba census notes, 1830-1929, land claim agreements, and a dictionary of Place names in South Carolina. Original materials include hundreds of pages of Siebert's FIeld notes and a Catawba vocabulary / dictionary done with Wes Taukchiray. There are also 14 sound recordings made with Sally Gordon in Series XII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)