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Date:1904-1947
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Giger, Leona E. | Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-1996 | Rolland, Ann | Ball, Carl | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Schultes, Richard Evans | McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Botany | Botany | Linguistics | Economic conditions | Orthography and spelling | Dance | Haskell Institute | Material culture | Clothing and dress | Folklore | Mythology | Music | Alabama--History
Type:Text | Three-dimensional object
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Drafts | Essays | Notebooks | Sheet music
Extent:14 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Creek history, language, and culture. Includes Speck's own notes and work, including "Notes on Social and Economic Conditions Among the Creek Indians of Alabama in 1941" (published as Speck 1947); an undated earlier version of that essay titled "Creek Indians Surviving in Alabama"; 115 pages of linguistic notes from Taskigitown, dated 1904-1905 and organized by categories; Creek and Yuchi songs; Creek and Yuchi Dance; 98 pages of Creek texts, including some interlineal translations, and related notes dated 1904-1905; and 35 pages of miscellaneous notes and letters on topics like dances, language, clothing, myths, handicrafts, and fieldwork. Also includes two botanical specimens--Coopti (Zamia floridana) used by Seminoles, 1941 and Ilex vomitoria Ait, used by Creeks--accompanied by letters to Speck from Richard Evans Schultes concerning Houma Botany; two letters from female students at the Haskell Institute in 1940 (Leona Giger writes of a Creek doll she is making and mentions the council house at Okmulgee, Oklahoma, while Ann Rolland offers to answer questions on Creek use of feathers); a letter from Morris Opler regarding Opler's work among the Creeks, as well as an essay by Opler about the organization, history, and social and political significance of Creek towns; a letter from Mario Gamio acknowledging the receipt of a Creek Indian pamphlet; and a letter from D'Arcy McNickle returning to Speck photographs of the Creek Indians of Atmore, Alabama to prevent them from getting lost and mentioning that his manuscript of the report is still being copied.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Date:1978-1986
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989 | Broadwell, George Aaron | Sturtevant, William C. | Ballard, W. L.
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Games
Type:Text
Description: The Muscogean materials in the Siebert Papers consist primarily of secondarty soureces located in Series IV and VII.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
Culture:
Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Date:1940s-1970s (bulk 1973-1974)
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Harjo, Alice | Harjo, Eula | Carbitchen, Nancy | Wolf, Kizzie | Harjo, Vera Mae | Harjo, Chief Floyd
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching | Ethnography | Rites and ceremonies | Religion
Type:Text | Still Image | Sound recording
Genre:Books | Photographs | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: This entry refers only to Seminole cultural materials. For linguistic materials, see Creek and Mikasuki entries. In 1973-1974, Mary Haas visited the Seminole Bilingual Project in Ada, Oklahoma, making extensive of audio recordings of the meetings of the project (Series 10, all available in the Digital Library), and attending and photographing ceremonies (Series 11). Haas also acquired a number of books from the Seminole Bilingual Project, and made notes on the language variety spoken in Seminole County, Oklahoma, from the same trip, all found in Series 2 Subseries 'Creek'. Additionally there are occasional offprints and drafts of others' papers on Florida Seminole.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)