Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

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Onondaga materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Date:1834-1888; 1938-1978

Subject:Religion | Folklore | Ethnography | Rites and ceremonies | Music

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Onondaga materials in the Lounsbury collection include a French-Onondaga from 1860 in Series II. There are numerous audio recordings including that of a Condolence Ceremony and the Feast of the White Dog (Guy-wee-oo) in Series VII. (These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.) The correspondence, in Series I, includes Harold Blau's mention of a recording in Onondaga of part of Handsome Lake's code, William Fenton's work with Howard Sky on the Goldenweiser version of the Great Law of Peace in Onondaga, Michael Foster's description of collecting versions of the Thanksgiving Address in Onondaga, Cara Richards on Onondaga recordings.

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

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Otomi materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu

Language:English | Spanish | Otomi, Temoaya

Date:1912-1950

Contributor:McQuown, Norman A. | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling

Type:Text

Genre:Dictionaries | Grammars | Reports | Vocabularies

Extent:2 slips, 80 pages

Description: The Otomi materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials mainly in the "Otomi" section of the finding aid. Key items includes Radin's "Grammatical sketch of Otomi" (item OtO.1) and "Otomi-English dictionary" (item OtO.2), based upon the Toluca dialect (Temoaya Otomi). Also in this section are the "Sintesis de la discusion en el consejo de lenguas indigenas sobre el alfabeto Otomi" (item OtO.3) and a brief vocabulary by Sapir (item OtO.4). In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Otomi vocabulary, and McQuown's “Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico” (AM3), which includes Otomi information.

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

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Ottawa materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Odawa includes: Ottawa

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Ottawa

Date:1948, 1994, 2014-2015

Contributor:Bernsten, Deborah | Ettawageshik, Jane, 1915-1996 | Morse, Stephanie Gamble | Pollak, Margaret | Wishart, Robert

Subject:Health | Kinship | Michigan--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs

Type:Text

Extent:711 pages

Description: The Ottawa materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bernstein, Morse, Pollak, Willets, and Wishart.

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

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Passamaquoddy materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet

Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki

Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati

Language:English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy

Date:1911-1922

Contributor:Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945 | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | New England--History | Maine--History

Type:Text | Still Image

Genre:Dictionaries | Stories | Photographs

Description: A 327-page Malecite-Passamaquoddy dictionary. Indian-English, arranged according to English alphabet; also, English-Indian. Based on 1911 collection of Passamaquoddy texts printed in Prince (1921). An undetermined number of photos in the collection (approximately 10 to 50?) identified as Penobscot are of Passamaquoddy people or include them.

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

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Patwin materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Language:English | Patwin

Date:1929; Circa 1932-1959;

Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959

Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Stories

Extent:572 pages

Description: The Patwin materials in the ACLS collection consist of 4 items in the "Patwin" section of the finding aid. Jaime de Angulo's "The Patwin language" (item P4b.1-4) consists of analyses phonology and morphology; semasiology (semantically arranged vocabularies), conversation, and autobiography, all relating to the Colusa dialect. Three items by Radin include a Patwin-English dictionary (item P4b.5), a set of ethnographic and folkloristic stories (item P4b.6-7), and a sketch of Patwin grammar (item P4b.8).

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

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Patwin materials, Harvey Pitkin Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Maidu

Language:English | Patwin | Wintu | Maidu (macrolanguage)

Date:1903-1957

Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Dance | California--History

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Patwin materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include notebooks, notes, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and tracings by A.M. Halpern, Paul Radin, A.L. Kroeber, T.T. Waterman, Donald Ultan, and Howard Wilson, along with pencil sketches by Patwin people in Subcollection I, Series I, Series I-A. There are two dictionaries, by Paul Radin and Donald Ultan in Subcollection I, Series I, Series I-B. Series I-C contains linguistic materials collected by Jaime de Angulo, Kroeber, and Waterman. Series I-D contains Pitkin's work with using a krmograph to create phonetic tracings. Subcollection I, Series II-A includes linguistic work done by Elizabeth Bright, Waterman. Subseries 4-C in Subcollection II includes fieldwork done by Pitkin comparing Patin to Wintu and Nomlaki as well as FIeld notes by Morris Swadesh, nineteen unpublished Vocabularies collected by Pitkin, Jaime de Angulo, Mary Haas, Sally McLendon, Mary Bright, Donald Ultan, and Radin. Subseries 5 contains an index to Radin's work on Patwin as well as Pitkin's work on Proto-Wintu and William Bright's worker wtih the speaker Minnie Bill.

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

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Penobscot materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Penobscot

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern

Date:1669; 1678; 1725-1796; 1809-1884; 1900-1995

Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text

Extent:12 linear feet; 3 hrs. (audio); 5 photographs

Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are concentrated in Series III. Siebert collected census material, treaties and treaty minutes, placenames, with a strong representation of songs, stories, and linguistic materials. There are detailed notes about Indian claims in Maine and genealogical information. There are also educational materials for the teaching of the Penobscot language as well as a wealth of information on Penobscot linguistics. Series V, Siebert's notebooks, have extensive grammatical, phonetic, and vocabulary of the Penobscot language. Both Series III and V reflect Siebert's deep interest in the history of Maine and the Eastern Abenaki including archaeological, pre-history, and colonial era documents such as the Eliot Bible, which Siebert owned a rare copy in his library, which was sold at auction. Series VI and VII contain various drafts of essays on Penobscot culture, language, and history. Series XI contains 5 related photos of Louis Lolar, taken in 1933. Series XII contains approximately 3 hours of Penobscot language recordings, primarily from the 1930s and 1950s.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)

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Penobscot materials, Mary R. Haas Papers

Culture:

Penobscot

Language:Abenaki, Eastern | English

Date:1936-1984

Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Gabriel, Newell | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Extent:f folders

Description: Mary Haas' short file of Penobscot includes a field notebook with consultant Newell Gabriel, focusing on prosody, as well as a draft of part of Frank Siebert's Penobscot dictionary, with correspondence. Most is found in Series 2 Subseries ‘Penobscot'.

Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)