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Paiute materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Paiute, Northern includes: Numu

Paiute, Southern

Language:English | Ute-Southern Paiute

Date:1976, 1979, 1981, 1986-1990, 2012-2013

Contributor:Bunte, Pamela Ann | Knack, Martha C. | Ramsay, Violeta | Thornes, Tim | Toosarvandani, Maziar

Subject:California--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Nevada--History

Type:Text

Extent:1407 pages, 10 CDs

Description: The Paiute materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 6 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bunte (based on fieldwork on the Kaibab Paiute Reservation), Knack, Ramsay (based on fieldwork on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation), Thornes, and Toosarvandani (recordings of Mono Lake Northern Paiute).

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

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Penobscot materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet

Zuni includes: A:shiwi

Tutelo includes: Yesan

Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki

Penobscot

Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Mohegan

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern

Date:1908-1947

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:27 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Penobscot language, history, and culture, and his preparation of his book Penobscot Man. This includes several folders of Speck's field notes, notes organized around specific topics (including data not used in Speck's published works), copies and drafts of lectures and essays, correspondence, etc. Topics include Penobscot social organization, calendar system, house furnishings, hunting morality, animal lore, religion, art, sayings, alphabet, counting and measuring, canoe-making, face-painting, texts with interlineal translations, and "Bird Lore of the Northern Indians" (a faculty public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania). Additionally, significant correspondence concerns the preparation, expenses, dissemination, and reception of his Penobscot publications. Other topics of correspondence include Ethel Gandy's monograph on Penobscot art; names of chiefs and their clans; "clown" performances outside of the southwest among the Penobscot, Iroquois [Haudenosaunee], Abenaki, and Delaware; place names; the relationship of Penobscot-Mohegan and Mahican; a comparison of Zuni-Navajo and Red Paint; Tutelo. There is a particularly large folder of Speck's miscellaneous Penobscot notes containing both a variety of notes and correspondence from Penobscot consultants as well as non-Native colleagues. These include letters from Roland E. Nelson (Needahbeh, Penobscot) concerning drum for exhibit; letters from Nelson, Franz Boas, John M. Cooper, William B. Goodwin, E. V. McCollum, and J. Dyneley Prince, all concerning Penobscot Man; Clifford P. Wilson concerning moosehair embroidery; Edward Reman concerning Norse influence on Penobscot; Carrie A. Lyford concerning moose-wool controversy and Ann Stimson's report; Ann Stimson, letter of thanks; Henry Noyes Otis concerning genealogy of Indians named Sias on Cape Cod (Speck marked this Penobscot); Princess Pretty Woman (Passamaquoddy) concerning her dress (apparently at the Penn Museum); Dorothy Ranco (Penobscot) concerning Princess Pretty Woman's dress; Roland W. Mann, concerning site of Indian occupancy according to Penobscot tradition; Ryuzo Torii, letter of introduction. Other miscellaneous items include a 5-page transcript of agreements between Indians of Nova Scotia and the English, August 15, 1749; 2 pages, transcript of agreement of July 13, 1727 (letter of transmittal, Lloyd Price to Miss MacDonald, September 24, 1936); Ann K. Stimson, Moose Wool and Climbing Powers of the American Mink; miscellaneous field notes on topics like songs, kinship, totem, medicine, and social units; and 4 pages of Penobscot words and their cultural use.

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

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Pomo materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Pomo

Language:English | Pomo, Central

Date:1920-1935;

Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Benson, William Ralganal

Subject:Hokan languages | Linguistics | California--History

Type:Text

Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:860 pages

Description: The Pomo materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials by Jaime de Angulo are primarily found in the "Pomo" section of the finding aid. This section includes 4 items, including "The reminiscences of a Pomo chief" (item H5.3), which contains an autobiography of William Ralganal Benson, dictated in the Yukaya dialect, along with grammatical notes. Additional items (H5.1, H5.2 and H5.4) include grammatical and other linguistic studies by de Angulo. In the "Achumawi" section, the first two items (H.1 and H.2) contain comparisons of Pomo with Achumawi to determine their relationship and clarify the theoretical Hokan language family.

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

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Sahaptin materials, Virginia D. Hymes Papers

Culture:

Tenino

Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin

Language:Tenino | English

Date:1950s-1980s, bulk 1970s-1980s

Type:Text

Extent:10 linear feet

Description: The majority of the Virginia D. Hymes Papers relate to her work on the Warm Springs Reservation. This includes all or most of Series I, II, III and V. Series V (Card Files) contains around 35000 lexical files compiled by Hymes as well as David and Kay French and an unidentified researcher. Series III (Research Files) contains fieldnotes, texts and dictionary files. Series I (Correspondence) and IV (Works by Others) also mostly relate to Sahaptin research by others, including Bruce Rigsby (Yakima and Umatilla Sahaptin), Virginia Beavert, and Eugene Hunn.

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

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Seneca materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Penobscot

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Cherokee

Language:English | Seneca

Date:circa 1930s-1960s

Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Preston, W. D. | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Cooper, Leroy

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Iroquoian languages

Type:Text

Extent:12 folders, 1 box

Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain notes, texts, articles, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Seneca language and culture. These are located primarily in Subcollection I of the Voegelin Papers. Materials in Subcollection I include relevant correspondence with Floyd Lounsbury (regarding Oneida, Seneca, and Cherokee work) in Series I. Correspondence; 1 box of Ojibwa [Ojibwe], Seneca, and Penobscot notes in Series II. "Seneca I" with W.D. Preston in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; a folder of Seneca linguistic notes in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; 7 folders of unbound Seneca texts and grammatical notes in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; and 2 folders of Seneca notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. Each of the latter two folders contains one of Voegelin's field notebooks, only partially full, and identify Leroy Cooper as his consultant.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

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Shawnee materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Shawnee

Language:English | Shawnee | Miami-Illinois

Date:circa 1925-1967

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Algonquian languages

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Extent:95 folders, 12 boxes, 1 reel

Description: There is a significant amount of Shawnee material in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Materials are in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II. In Subcollection I, there are 4 boxes of Shawnee note cards (mostly vocabulary) and 2 folders of document notes (mostly linguistic notes, regarding transitive verbs, stems, phonology, etc.) in Series II. Card Files. Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin of Series III. Works by Voegelin contains two Shawnee texts that were translated and/or linguistically analyzed by Voegelin and which served as the basis of publications by Voegelin in the early 1950s: "Shawnee Episodes" (5 folders) and "Shawnee Laws" (44 folders of material) [see the finding aid for detailed descriptions of these materials]. Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin (also of Series III) contains files labeled "Basic Shawnee" and "Shawnee Morphology." There is a folder of linguistic notes (including a story in English) in "[Shawnee?]" and a list of tribal names in "Shawnee" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A. Language Names. There is a file of "Unique Shawnee Texts" containing Mary Williams' responses to "English Through Pictures" in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts. There are 37 Shawnee notebooks in Series VI. Notebooks. The notebooks date to 1934 and primarily contain texts, including many about the life of consultant Frank Daugherty., "the way it used to be," and the way life was more recently in 1934 in Oklahoma. Most of the notebooks are accompanied by handwritten notes and typescripts of transcriptions in Shawnee and translations in English. Shawnee is also represented on the language maps created for Voegelin's publications on Algonquian languages in Series VII. Photographs, and there is a reel of Shawnee audio recording (a reading of the transcript of "Shawnee Laws") in Series VIII. Recordings [This item has been digitized and is available through the APS Digital Library]. In Subcollection II, there is relevant correspondence with Leonard Bloomfield (regarding Shawnee work with Mary Williams) in Series I. Correspondence; 2 folders of Shawnee grammatical notes made by working with Mary Williams, a folder of miscellaneous Shawnee notes, and 2 folders of Shawnee texts (26 texts in Shawnee and English, and additional material) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian; and 8 boxes of Shawnee linguistic materials in Series V. Card Files.

Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)

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Shipibo materials, John Alden Mason Papers

Culture:

Shipibo-Conibo

Language:English | Shipibo-Conibo

Date:1940-1941

Contributor:Lauriault, Erwin

Subject:Peru--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Panoan languages

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Stories | Essays

Extent:31 pages

Description: Materials relating to Shipibo [Shipibo-Conibo] myths. Includes Erwin Lauriault's correspondence with John Alden Mason; Shipibo myths with interlinear English translation; and grammatical analysis of the myths.

Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)

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Shoshone materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Shoshone includes: Shoshoni, Newe

Language:English | Shoshoni

Date:1976, 1981, 1987-1990, 1994

Subject:Botany | Idaho--History | Linguistics | Nevada--History | Religion

Type:Text

Extent:1192 pages

Description: The Shoshone 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 Clemmer, Knack, Kreitzer, Merrill, and Mixco.

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

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Stoney materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Stoney includes: Nakoda

Language:English | Stoney

Date:1969-1972

Contributor:Good, Willie | Harbeck, Warren A. | Simeon, Carl | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-

Subject:Folklore | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:90 pages

Description: The Stoney 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 Harbeck and Taylor.

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