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Navajo materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

Date:1966-1977, 1992-1996, 2012-2015

Type:Still Image | Text | Moving Image

Extent:2588 pages, 2 photographs, 13 DVDs

Description: The Navajo materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of numerous items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bsumek, Chamberlain, Chee, Fernald, Field, Garrison, Gill, Hahn, Hammond, Hill, House, Kaufman, Kibrik, Kroskrity, McDonough, Perkins, Pollak, Roberts, Schepers, Shepardson, Shetter, Taptto, Weisiger, and Werner.

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

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Nez Perce materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Nez Perce includes: Niimíipu

Language:English | Nez Perce

Date:1987-1991, 1996-1998

Contributor:Ackerman, Lillian A. (Lillian Alice) | Axtell, Horace | Baksi, Shila | James-Stern, Elizabeth | Jones, Judy A.

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:708 pages, 3 photos

Description: The Nez Perce materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 4 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Ackerman, Baksi, James-Stern, and Jones.

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

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Nuu-chah-nulth materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Tla-o-qui-aht includes: Clayoquot

Toquaht

Tseshaht

Uchucklesaht

Ucluelet includes: Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ

Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast

Pentlatch includes: Puntlatch, Puntledge

Mowachaht

Muchalaht

Kyuquot includes: Ka:'yu:'k't'h'

K'ómoks includes: Comox

Ehattesaht

Hesquiaht

Hupacasath includes: Hupač̓asatḥ, Opetchesaht

Huu-ay-aht

Cheklesahht includes: Che:k:tles7et'h'

Ahousaht

Language:English | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1895-1952 (bulk 1910-1914, 1931-1935)

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:5600+ loose pages, 66,000+ slips, 29 notebooks

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the ACLS collection consist of a large body of various materials primarily collected by Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, George Hunt, and Morris Swadesh. The majority of the content pertains to Hupacasath and Tseshaht people in the Alberni Valley area, with the exception of the Hunt materials, which were recorded in the Yuquot area, Mowachaht territory. All of these materials are found in the "Nootka" section of the finding aid, which contains a full, detailed listing. The Boas materials consist of a lexicon of 1500+ word slips dating from the 1890s (item W2a.3). Hunt's "Nootka Tales" (item W2a.5) consist of large body of traditional stories written in English and later typed up by Sapir with additional notes. Sapir's materials comprise the bulk of this section overall. See especially his extremely voluminous "Miscellaneous Nootka material" (item W2a.18), the final item in the "Nootka" section, for which a detailed table of contents is available upon request. This set of materials includes 24 field notebooks with extensive stories (some unpublished or untranslated) and ethnographic notes, as well of 80 folders of typed up notes from the notebooks, arranged into categories. It also includes some photographs, censuses of Nuu-chah-nulth "bands" (1920-1921), and 10 folders notes derived by Sapir (and Swadesh?) from "NW Coast Sources and Archives," pertaining to the region more broadly, including information on Coast Salish culture and history. Finally, Swadesh's materials in this section include some additional ethnographic and linguistic field work, as well as extensive bodies of linguistic analysis of materials recorded by Sapir and himself. Brief passages on Comox and Pentlatch in Sapir's notes in loose folders. Detailed guide available upon request.

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

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Nuu-chah-nulth materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast

Language:Ditidaht | English | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1970, 1972, 1991-1998, 2000-2005; 2015

Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Text | Sound recording

Extent:733 pages, 1 USB flash drive

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bessell, Davidson, Harkin, Kim, Klokeid, Nakayama, Wojdak, and Woo.

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

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Ojibwe materials, Paul Radin papers

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Odawa includes: Ottawa

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Chippewa

Date:Undated

Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Pontiac, Jim

Type:Text

Genre:Essays | Interviews | Stories

Extent:3 items

Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Ojibwe culture and history. Includes a discussion of the origin and spread of the medicine dance; notes from informants and excerpted from published sources: clan names and religion, ceremonial organization, magical rites, magic and witchcraft, war customs, migration tale of the Mississauga, naming and names, lists of personal names with 4 pages, outline of monograph; two outlines for works on Odawa culture and a comparative and contrastive discussion of "The Two Boys" and "Twin Myth"; text of an interview with Jim Pontiac including the description of thirty-two Ojibwe villages of the Upper Peninsula in English or French and Ojibwe; etc.

Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)

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Ojibwe materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Language:Chippewa | English | Ojibwa, Northwestern

Date:1948, 1967-1968, 1985, 1993-1997, 2012-2015

Type:Moving Image | Still Image | Text

Extent:1883 pages, 72 photographs, 1 film

Description: The Ojibwe materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Beckett, Gills, Hele, Jackson, Kurath, Morse, Pollak, Powers, White, Willets, and Wishart.

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

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Onondaga materials, William N. Fenton papers

Culture:

Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Onondaga

Date:1891-1901, 1908, 1936-1949, 1951-1952, 1968-1971, 1986, 1992, 1995

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Speeches

Extent:.5 linear feet

Description: The Onondaga materials in the Fenton papers include multiple correspondents in Series I, such as Onondaga Nation, Howard Skye, and James Skye. In Series III, see ""Concerning the League: a motif analysis of the Gibson-Goldenweiser version of the Deganawidah Epic," "The Funeral of Tadodaho: Onondaga of Today," and "Sir William Johnson Carries the Ritual of Condolence over the Path to Onondaga, 1756." In Series IV, see articles by Bradley, Kurath, and Woodbury. Series VI includes "Onondaga Longhouse Food Spirit Festival." Series VIII-A, Series VIII-B, and Series VIII-F, include several folders of Onondaga-related materials. Some of these materials are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.

Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)

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Ottawa materials, Paul Radin papers

Culture:

Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway

Odawa includes: Ottawa

Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek

Language:English | Ottawa

Date:1926 and undated

Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Shomin, Joe | Miskwanda | Pontiac, Jim

Type:Still Image | Text

Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Odawa culture and history, with some Ojibwe material as well. Several items are headed "Ojibwa-Ottawa notes," though it is unclear from the descriptions provided what might be Odawa and what might be Ojibwe. Topics include Midewewin, religion, war and warfare, medicine and magic, death and burial, life cycle, games, ceremonialism, social organization, disease, dreams, and material culture. Items include a Nanabojo text concerning White Feather; ethnographic notes from published sources; 23 pages of male and female names; photographs (1926) with explanatory notes; typed slips and field notes on slips, most of them later transcribed for typed slips; and a 1-page letter signed Ake Sulkrantz and dated Stockholm, December 2, 1950. Two items are of particular note: 1) an unfinished manuscript relating 20 dreams of Miskwanda and 10 of Jim Pontiac, together with analysis. Chapters on legend and fact in the history of L'Arbre Croche and an ethnohistoric account based on the Jesuit Relations. Not included is a proposed account of "The culture of L'Arbre Croche as illustrated by Miskwanda's drawings." Interesting narrative of Radin's field work and methods and 2) 154 original drawings by Miskwanda--traced, arranged and commented on by Radin--intended to illustrate culture of L'Arbre Croche.

Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)

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Pamela Wallace papers

Culture:

Yuchi includes: Euchee

Muscogee includes: Muskogee, Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek

Language:English | Yuchi

Date:1986-2003

Contributor:Cahwee, Bill | Cahwee, Mose | Wallace, Pamela S.

Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text

Extent:20.5 linear feet; 3,000+ photographs; 170 hours

Description: The Pamela Wallace Papers include the full range of professional correspondence, research files including extensive copies of historical documents, works by Wallace, and a sizeable portion consisting of tapes recording Yuchi language classes, genealogical interviews, and tribal matters. The collection includes over 3,000 images of the social and ceremonial dances of the Yuchi people, consisting of 350 color slides, 1,300 color and black and white photographs with 1,400 color negatives.

Collection:Pamela Wallace papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.130)

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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

Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati

Penobscot

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Mohegan

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho

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)