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Culture:
Schitsu'umsh includes: Coeur d'Alene, Skitswish
Language:English | Coeur d'Alene
Date:1910s-1940s
Contributor:Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Idaho--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Stories
Extent:.25 linear feet
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. The correspondences with Gladys Reichard and James Teit are the most extensive. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1979-1982, 1987-1991
Contributor:Ackerman, Lillian A. (Lillian Alice) | Bessell, Nicola | Gabourie, Sophie | Arcasa, Isabel
Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Essays | Notebooks | Interviews | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:267 pages
Description: The Colville materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Ackerman and Bessell.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Language:English
Date:July 20, 1846
Contributor:Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Subject:Botany | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John L. Le Conte. Author has been to Washington studying Comanche and southwest Indian phonology, now has collected thirteen specimens of Indian languages, and made a talking machine that produces sounds. Also references Leidy and botany.
Collection:John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers (Mss.B.L493)
Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:ca.1935-1960s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Casagrande, Joseph | Conworp, Eleanor | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Haas' materials on Comanche are few but contain original items of particular interest. Series 1 contains a discussion with anthropologist Joseph Casagrande of a register used with and by young children, and correspondence with Benjamin Whorf concerning comparative work of Uto-Aztecan languages. There is a lexicon recorded with consultant Eleanor Conworp in a field notebook of various languages, located in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages', and a small amount of comparative work in the index cards of Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:1994-1997, undated
Contributor:Anderton, Alice J. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Charney, Jean Ormsbee
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright's Comanche language materials are in correspondence with Alice Anderton and Jean Charney (Series 1), including Comanche language lessons, floppy disks that may contain relevant material, and a 174-page lexicon from Casagrande's work “Comanche Linguistic Acculturation”.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Coos includes: Hanis, Miluk
Date:undated
Contributor:Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Sokolow, Jane | Kendall, Daythal
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Daythal Kendall created several lexical slip files out of the Coos linguistic data collected by Leo Frachtenberg, including his own linguistic analysis, which can be found in Series 8. The other item of significance is a manuscript by Jane Sokolow on Coos phonology, found in correspondence with William Shipley (Series 1).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Cora includes: Naáyarite
Language:Cora, Santa Teresa | Cora, El Nayar | English
Date:1988-1992
Contributor:Casad, Eugene | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Cora materials consist of correspondence with Eugene Casad (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1783-1817
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | McAtee, William L.
Subject:Botany | Health | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:107 pages
Description: These letters authored by Benjamin Barton Smith to various correspondents discuss Indian vocabulary words for birds, earthquakes, and animals of their domestic economy. Smith solicits information about Indian beliefs about health, nursing, menstration, animal sacrifice, Indian Bible, origins of Indian tribes, white race, Orthography and spelling, chief's political power, and comparative linguistic analysis between Indian and Asiatic languages.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English | Cree, Plains
Date:1925; Circa 1935; 1948; 1949;
Contributor:Achenam, Harry | Achenam, Maggie | Ahenakew, Edward | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Constant, Jerry | Cook, Sam | Moostoos, James | Moostoos, Susan | Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925 | Starblanket, Chief | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922
Subject:Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Genealogy | Folklore | Linguistics | Material culture | Religion | Saskatchewan--History | Treaties | Warfare | Windigo
Type:Text
Genre:Abstracts | Autobiographies | Correspondence | Drawings | Stories
Extent:830 pages
Description: The Cree materials in the ACLS collection are Plains Cree materials predominantly from Saskatchewan and are located in the "Cree" section of the finding aid. "Plains Cree texts, "Series Two: Syllabary Texts from Sweet Grass Reserve"" (item A1.1) recorded by Harry Achenam of Sweetgrass Reserve (and previously attributed to Leonard Bloomfield), contains 67 unpublished stories written in Cree syllabics. The other primary materials are several items (64-68 and 70) by Edward Ahenakew, written in English, concerning his family's genealogy, methods for tanning leather and building canoes, accounts of medicine practices and conjuring, and stories of little people, Wetikoo (or Wihtigo, Windigo), and other non-human beings. Many of these stories were given by various consultants such as Chief Starblanket of Ahtahkakoop, Jerry Constant, James Moostoos, and Susan Moostoos.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Language:English | Cree | Innu-aimun
Date:1911-1931, 1936, 1938-1948
Contributor:Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909- | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Schaeffer, Claude E. | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Wallace, Paul A. W.
Subject:Alberta--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Museum specimens | Québec (Province)--History | Saskatchewan--History
Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Photographs | Pictographs
Extent:6+ folders; 60+ photographs; 1 film
Description: The Cree material in the Frank Speck papers are scattered around multiple sections of the finding aid, mostly in Subcollection I, Series I. In this series, see item II(2A5), containing correspondence from P.G. Downes to Speck regarding Cree in Quebec. See item II(2F3), which includes notes from A. irving Hallowell to Speck regarding field work visiting Sweet Grass Cree, mentioning attitude of Cree to Leonard Bloomfield. Item II(4B9c) contains Speck's field notes on the Mistassini band, including notes on relationship between Cree and Montagnais languages, as well as museum specimens. Item II(2G1) includes Naskapi names in Cree syllabary; the Lord's Prayer in Cree; miscellaneous syllabary Cree words, and images of 79 pictographs. In Subcollection I, Series II, see correspondence with Claude Schaeffer regarding Rocky Boy Cree, and correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace regarding Cree tales (Wissakutchek) collected by Edward Ahenakew in Alberta. In Subcollection I, Series III, there are 4 "Cree" photograph folders containing approximately 60 photographs. See also "Naskapi films," located in Subcollection II, Series IV, Photographs and Video, which includes some footage of some Cree people.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)