Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: This entry covers materials not otherwise covered by other entries relating to the Anthony Wallace Papers. Researchers are advised to see also the other entries devoted to specific cultural groups, Of particular interest will be Series II. Research Notes and Drafts, particularly Subseries A. Indian Research, which contains correspondence, notes and drafts from Wallace's research among the Seneca and Tuscarora. Some overlapping Native American material is in Subseries B. Revitalization and Culture. Also of particular interest will be Series IX. Indian Claims, which contains Wallace's work (with his research assistant Michal Lowenfels Kane) as an expert witness for several Native American land claims, including those of Creek, Dakota (Sioux), Delaware, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), Iowa, Kickapoo, Meskwaki (Fox, Sac and Fox, or Sauk and Fox), Miami, Muckleshoot, Oto-Missouri, Pawnee, Shawnee, and Wyandot peoples. Another concentration of materials can be found in Series VII. Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute and pertain to Wallace's study of "arctic hysteria" (piblokto) among Greenland Inuit. Subseries B. U.S.-Soviet Commission on Anthropology of Series VI. Consulting and Committee Work also contains items on arctic populations. Materials related to Wallace's research on Native American and Indigenous topics can also be throughout Series I. Correspondence (several of Wallace's correspondents were anthropologists, historians, Native individuals, and other interested parties), Series III. Notecards, Series IV. Works by Wallace, Series V. Works by Others, Series VI. Consulting and Committee Work, Series VIII. University of Pennsylvania (to a lesser extent), Series XI. Maps, and Series XII. Graphics. Relevant correspondence files include those of the American Philosophical Society, James Axtell, Molly Nelson Archambaud (Molly Spotted Elk, Penobscot) Whitfield Bell, Robert F. Berkhofer, Carl Bridenbaugh, Edward C. Carter, Raymond Fogelson, Robert Grumet, Jeannette Henry, Stephen N. Kane, George F. Kearney, David H. Kelley, Nancy Lurie, J. T. S. McCabe, D'Arcy McNickle, Chief C. O. Nelson, Stanley Pargellis, Robert Prall, John E. Roth, Claude E. Schaefer, Donald Smith, John Tabor, Norman Tait, Morton I. Teicher, Ronald Thomas, and Katharine Young. The graphics series is also significant, containing images of pictographs, watercolor paintings by Ray Fadden's (Mohawk, aka Aren Akweks) son John (Mohawk, aka Ka-Hon-Hes), original drawings by Seneca Jesse Cornplanter and Tuscarora Nellie Gansworth, and photographs associated with Paul A.W. Wallace's fieldwork among the Indians of Pennsylvania, New York State, and Ontario as well as Anthony F.C. Wallace's research (1947-1985) on American Indians. Specific items not mentioned elsewhere include a folder on "Muckleshoot Tribe vs. the United States, Docket No. 98" and "Tee-Hit-Ton Indians vs. the United States" [the Tee-Hit-Ton are Tlingit] in Series IX. Indian Claims; a folder containing Frank Speck material on the Nanticoke in Series IV. Works by Wallace A. Professional; and a paper on the Nez Perce in Subseries 5. Student Seminar Papers of Series II. Research Notes and Drafts D. Rockdale.

Collection:Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.64a)

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Various materials, Bruce L. Pearson Papers

Culture:

Kwomtari

Wea

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Saponi includes: Saponny

Pamunkey

Miami includes: Myaamiaki

Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox

Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka

Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie

Nanticoke

Kalinago includes: Carib, Island, Kalhíphona

Catawba includes: Iswa

Algonquin

Date:1960s-2000s

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notes

Extent:ca. 15 folders

Description: The Bruce L. Pearson Papers includes files relating to various languages and/or peoples that were outside of his main research scope, primarily on linguistics topics. These are especially throughout Series VI. Other subject files, as well as in Series VII and Series VIII, and are just one or two files per language or culture listed in this guide entry.

Collection:Bruce L. Pearson Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.265)

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Virginia materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Language:English

Date:1920-1947

Type:Text | Three-dimensional object | Still Image

Extent:40 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in the various Virginia- or Chesapeake-area peoples sometimes collectively lumped as Powhatans, including the Chickahominy, Mattaponi, Nansemond, Pamunkey, and Rappahannock peoples, from the early contact period into the mid-twentieth century. The Cherokees, Seminoles, Tuscaroras, and Penobscots are also mentioned. Correspondence includes Speck's correspondence with Chickahominy consultants like Chief George L. Nelson, Mrs. S. P. Nelson, Chief James H. Nelson, and E. P. Bradby; Pamunkey consultants like Paul L. Miles and Chief O. W. Adkins; Charles Edgar Gilliam, a Petersburg, Virginia, attorney and amateur historian, etymologist, and ethnologist; and a letter from Werner Müller in Berlin to the University of Pennsylvania inquiring whether Speck's book on the Nansamond and Chickahominy Indians was published and mentioniong Speck's publications on the Rappahannock and Powhatan. Other materials, largely arranged by topic, were compiled by Speck as well as by some his students, particularly those who participated in a field research group between 1939 and 1942, such as Mary Rowell Carse, Edmund Carpenter, Royal Hassrick, John "Jack" Kremens, Maurice A. Mook, Robert Solenberger, and Theodore Stern. Of particular interest might be a folder of 1941-1946 correspondence (42 letters) and copies of various documents relating to the efforts of Speck, James R. Coates, and others to overcome the practice of Virginia draft boards to classify indigenous peoples as "Negroes" for Selective Service. Other materials include a folder on Chickahominy efforts to gain recognition, including chartering the tribe as an incorporation; two of Speck's field notebooks on the Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Cherokee, and Chickahominy; Speck's reading notes on topics like gourds and the bow and arrow in early contact days; a description of "Pamunkey Town" in 1759, based on Andrew Burnaby, Travels (1760); a 1940 newspaper article titled "Virginia Indians Past and Present"; notes on Virginia Indian populations in 1668, based on figures obtained from a regulation requiring certain numbers of wolves be killed by various Indian groups; Charles Edgar Gilliam's "Historical sketch of Appomatoc Indians, 1607-1723"; and Gilliam on Powhatan Algonquian birds, etc., in colonial times. Other folders are devoted to topics such as Pamunkey hunting and fishing, Pamunkey games and amusements, Pamunkey celestial and meteorological phenomena, Pamunkey contemporary technology, Pamunkey emergency foods, Pamunkey fish, amphibians, shellfish, and reptiles, Pamunkey reptiles, Pamunkey animals, Pamunkey birds, Pamunkey mensuration, Pamunkey miscellaneous notes and correspondence, Pamunkey social organization, Pamunkey pottery, Pamunkey plants and agriculture, Pamunkey foods, Pamunkey medicines and poisons, Pamunkey folklore and language, Rappahannock field notes, Rappahannock contemporary technology, Rappahanock taking devices, Rappahannock miscellaneous notes and correspondence, Mattaponi miscellaneous notes and correspondence, Chickahominy miscellaneous notes and correspondence, field notes on Western Chickahominy, Nansemond miscellaneous notes and correspondence, and miscellaneous notes and correspondence on Virgina Indians.

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

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Wakashan materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Language:English | Kwak'wala | Nuu-chah-nulth

Date:1963

Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Klokeid, Terry J.

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Wakashan languages

Type:Text

Genre:Essays

Extent:2 folder

Description: Two items relating to Wakashan languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are both in Subcollection II. There is a Mosan folder with Voegelin's note "Mosan = Salish + Wakashan + Chimakuan = Quileute" in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VIII. Undetermined Phylum Affiliation; and Terry J. Klokeid's essay "Wakashan Linguistic History: A contribution to Northwest Coast Prehistory" (1963) in Series IV. Works by Others. Researchers should also view the entries for specific Wakashan languages (i.e., Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka'wakw.)

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

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Walter Dyk Collection

Culture:

Wasco-Wishram

Language:English | Wasco-Wishram

Date:1906-1956

Type:Text

Extent:0.5 linear feet

Description: The Walter Dyk Collection consists of 16 folders relating to Dyk's dissertation research on Wishram, 1930-1933, donated to the APS by Dell Hymes in the 1980s (with additions transferred from the Dell H. Hymes Papers in 2019). It includes copies of his masters thesis (Chicago, 1931) and dissertation (Yale, 1933), papers and notes sent to Dell Hymes in the mid-1950s when Hymes was working on the language, including two field notebooks, Hymes' plans for use of these and other materials, and a small but important set of correspondence. The correspondence includes letters to Dyk from Philip Kahclamet, who was Dyk's primary consultant for "Kikct" (which Kahclamet identifies as a broad term for several related varieties), and who later worked with Hymes; from Edward Sapir to Dyk, including a very long and detailed letter commenting on phonology in Dyk's dissertation; and a series of letters to Sapir from Peter McGuff, Sapir's Wishram consultant at Fort Simcoe, Washington, 1906-1908. Sapir described him in Sapir (1909), and Michael Silverstein discussed him in Natural Histories of Discourse (1996), a volume co-edited by Silverstein and Greg Urban. See finding aid for related material and an itemized list of contents.

Collection:Walter Dyk Collection (Mss.497.3.H998m)

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Warao materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Culture:

Warao

Language:English | Warao

Date:circa 1949-1968

Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986

Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Venezuela--History | Guyana--History | Suriname--History

Type:Text

Genre:Notes | Essays

Extent:2 folders

Description: Two items relating to the Warao (formerly Yao) language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They consist of an undated essay "Notes on Warao Verbs" in Subcollection I, Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; and a Warao minor phoneme inventory in Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi.

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

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Wenatchi materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Wenatchi includes: Wenatchee, Columbia-Wenatchi, šnp̓əšqʷáw̓šəxʷ

Language:Columbia-Wenatchi | English

Date:1965-1966, 1987-1991, 1997-1998

Contributor:Bessell, Nicola | Kinkade, M. Dale (Marvin Dale), 1933-2004 | Miller, Agnes | Miller, Jerome

Subject:Linguistics | Washington (State)--History

Type:Text

Extent:455 pages

Description: The Wenatchi 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 Bessell and Kinkade.

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

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Western Apache materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Apache, Western includes: Apache, San Carlos

Language:Apache, Western | English

Date:1980-1987, 1995-1998

Contributor:Dawson, John | Greenfeld, Philip J. | Potter, Brian

Subject:Dene languages | Linguistics | New Mexico--History | Arizona--History

Type:Text

Extent:212 pages

Description: The Western Apache materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Philip Greenfield and Brian Potter. The Greenfield material consists of a project report and a copy of an article published through APS-funded research on color terms, collected at Fort Apache and San Carlos reservations. The Potter material consists of multiple items, including comparative studies of Western Apache and Tsuut'ina, various articles on Western Apache linguistics, and transcriptions related to 2 accompanying audio collection-- listed separately in this guide--that were recorded with speaker John Dawson.

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

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Wintu materials, Harvey Pitkin Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Takelma includes: Rogue River

Patwin includes: Southern Wintun

Maya

Miwok

Klamath

Date:1888-1953

Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording

Description: The Wintu materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers are extensive. Subcollection I, Series I, contains notes, notebooks, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and phonetic tracings by Jeremiah Curtin in the late 19th century, Roland Dixon, and A.M. Halpern. Series I-B contains Pitkin's grammar slip files and vocabularies collected by Curtin. Series I-C includes Jaime de Angulo's manuscript on the Patwin language, S.A. Barrett's transcriptions and translations of speech and song recordings, Radin's "Grammatical Sketch" and Waterman's notes on Patwin phonetics. Series II-A is rich in materials collected by A.L. Krober. In Subcollection II, Pitkin's field notes are located in Series 2, Subseries 1. Subseries 2 includes Pitkin's extensive notes on his Wintu dictionary, grammar, texts, stories, and music. The manuscript of the dictionary is located in Subseries 3. There is an unpublished 416 page manuscript of stories written in both English and Wintu, songs, and transcriptions in Subseries 4. This section also includes copies of all the extant linguistic material with works by noted linguists such as Curtin, Albert Gatschet, Radin, Halpern, Morris Swadesh, Victor Golla, and J.P. Harrington. Series 6 is comprised of card file slips with comparative analyses by Pitkin of the four languages of the Wintun family.

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

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Wintu materials, Mary R. Haas Papers

Culture:

Wintu includes: Northern Wintun

Language:Wintu | English

Date:1950s-1978

Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Pitkin, Harvey | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Radin, Doris

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Essays

Extent:3 folders

Description: Mary Haas' Wintu materials consist mainly of a “thumbnail” sketch grammar assignment from student Harvey Pitkin, and later correspondence with him (Series 1 and 2). Wintu is also mentioned in correspondence with Paul and Doris Radin, on Paul Radin's field notes (Series 1).

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