Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

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Salinan materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:

Salinan includes: Salinian, Te'po'ta'ahl

Language:Salinan | English | Spanish

Date:ca.1954-1996

Contributor:Jacobsen, William H. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Evans, Nancy | Mora, Joe | Mora, Dave

Subject:Linguistics

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:0.1 linear feet

Description: William Bright spent a “Salinan weekend” in Nipomo and Jolon, California, with Bill Jacobsen in 1954, discussed in correspondence with Nancy Evans alongside an original photograph of Dave Mora (Series 1). As a result of this and possibly other field trips, his Salinan materials consist of later correspondence with Bill Jacobsen (Series 1) and part of a field notebook with Joe Mora at Lockwood, California (Series 3 Subseries 1).

Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)

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San Felipe materials, Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Culture:

San Felipe includes: Katishtya, Keres

Language:English | Keres, Eastern

Date:1920

Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Subject:New Mexico--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Notebooks | Photographs

Extent:1 notebook, 1 photograph

Description: The San Felipe materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of 1 field notebook found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes" and 1 photography found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Photographs and Scrapbooks." Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.

Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)

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Santo Domingo materials, Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Culture:

Kewa includes: Keres, Dîiwʾamʾé, Santo Domingo

Language:English | Keres, Eastern

Date:1920-1923

Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Subject:Kinship | New Mexico--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Notebooks | Photographs

Extent:2 notebooks, 2 photographs

Description: The Santo Domingo materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of 2 notebooks found in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes": one labelled "San[to] Domingo" and another as "Isleta" notebook #2, which contains some information on Santo Domingo. In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Photographs and Scrapbooks," there are 2 "San[to] Domingo" prints. Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.

Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)

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Seneca materials, Ely Samuel Parker Papers

Culture:

Seneca includes: Onöndowága

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Seneca

Date:1794-1931

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:367 items

Description: A Sachem and Civil War adjutant to Ulysses Grant, Ely Samuel Parker was an important figure in the Seneca Indian nation during the first half of the nineteenth century. Trained as an engineer, Parker was deeply involved in the Senecas' land disputes with the Ogden Land Company and he played an important role in interpreting Seneca culture for a white audience, most notably as a consultant for Lewis Henry Morgan. Collected by Arthur C. Parker, the Ely Samuel Parker Papers include correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials relating primarily to Seneca affairs, history, language, and culture, as well as politics, education, engineering, and the Civil War. Several letters relate to Parker's service as engineer of public buildings in Galena, Illinois, and to his Masonic activities. Among the noteworthy items in the collection are several essays on Seneca history and culture, a fragment of Parker's diary, 1847, and a significant quantity of material on the Seneca language assembled by Asher Wright. Rich in information on Seneca history, culture, and language and on Parker's varied activities in both the Indian and white worlds, the collection is a major resource for examining the land and political struggles of the Seneca nation during the 1840s and early 1850s. Comprised of a mix of personal and professional correspondence augmented by a smaller quantity of printed materials, notes, and manuscripts, the collection is richest for the period 1845-1860, with only a few letters pertaining to Parker's Civil War service, and even fewer for the post-war period.

Collection:Ely Samuel Parker Papers (Mss.497.3.P223)

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Taos materials, Elsie Clews Parsons papers

Culture:

Taos

Language:English | Tiwa, Northern

Date:1922-1930, 1937

Contributor:Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956 | Johnson, Melville | Luhan, Mabel Dodge | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Subject:New Mexico--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Notebooks | Photographs

Extent:23 notebooks, 70+ photographs

Description: The Taos materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of materials found in multiple sections of the finding aid. In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", see items 7, 8, 9, and 11, which contain numerous field notebooks, item 27, which contains some photographs, and item 54, which contains corresondence and photographs on Taos dance. In Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence," see Melville Johnson's "Taos the Brilliant," and Mabel Dodge Luhan correspondence. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts", see "In the Southwest," "Taos Pueblo." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Taos - Notes." In Subcollection II, Series VIII, "Photographs and Scrapbooks," see Taos prints. Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.

Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)

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Tlaxcaltec Nahuatl materials, Jane M. Rosenthal Papers

Culture:

Nahua

Language:Nahuatl, Central | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | English | Spanish

Date:ca.1970-2002

Type:Text | Sound recording | Still Image

Extent:6 linear feet

Description: The majority of the Jane M. Rosenthal Papers centers on Nahuatl linguistic and anthropological research. Materials therefore appear extensively in every series. Rosenthal's own fieldwork on Tlaxcaltec (Acxotla del Monte, Tlaxcala, Mexico) spanned the 1970s and 1980s, involving the production of 17 field notebooks (Series 2 Subseries 1) with accompanying tapes (Series 10, available in the Digital Library), lexical slips (Series 7), photographs (Series 8) and much correspondence, in Spanish, with members of the Atonal and de Texis families (Series 1). Jane Hill also conducted research with many of the same consultants, works by whom (including interview transcriptions) can be found mostly in Series 5. Rosenthal also engaged with preexisting primary sources at archives in Mexico and the U.S., creating transcriptions and interlinearizations of texts (Series 2 Subseries 2), and produced several articles on Nahuatl grammar, Nahua culture and interactions with missions (Series 2 Subseries 3). Further to her own work, this collection contains much gathered material by others. In addition to that of Jane and Kenneth Hill, several drafts and publications by fellow University of Chicago student Kay A. Read on Nahua/Aztec religion appear in Series 5, and publications and commentary with other Uto-Aztecanists are scattered throughout Series 1 and 5. Rosenthal was heavily involved in the meetings of the Friends of Uto-Aztecan from its inception in 1973, many handouts from which (relating to a variety of Uto-Aztecan languages) can be found in Series 6. Her student notes, many produced by Norman McQuown (Series 3), and teaching notes (Series 4) may also be of interest.

Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)

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Tsuut'ina materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Tsuut'ina includes: Sarsi (pej.), Sarcee (pej.), Tsuu T'ina

Language:English | Tsuut'ina

Date:1922

Contributor:Onespot, John, 1882-1945 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Two-Guns, Mrs.

Subject:Alberta--History | Ethnography | Linguistics

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre:Drawings | Notebooks | Photographs | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:7 notebooks (approximately 100 pages each), 63 photographs, 17 drawings, 39 loose pages

Description: The Tsuut'ina materials in the ACLS collection consist of large body of material in the "Sarcee (Tsuut'ina)" section of the finding aid recorded by Edward Sapir in 1922. The bulk of this material consists of 7 field notebooks (item Na6.1) containing numerous texts on a variety of subjects with interlinear translations, as well as Vocabularies, and extensive grammatical notes, most of it given by the Tsuut'ina speaker, John Onespot. The material also includes 63 photographs (item Na6.2) of Tsuut'ina people, places, and activities, including games, camps, and horse roundups. The photographs and notebooks have all been digitized. Finally, at the end of the section there are also "Notes and drawings on Sarcee specimens" (item Na6.3), which consists of notes on 237 Tsuu T'ina items collected by Sapir during his fieldwork, with information on persons from whom items were bought and prices, probable museum catalog numbers, and 1-page notes on Mrs. Two-Guns comments on clay pots. Also includes drawings of 17 items.

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

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Tunica materials, Mary R. Haas Papers

Culture:

Timucua

Tunica

Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli

Natchez

Koasati includes: Coushatta

Chitimacha

Chickasaw

Choctaw includes: Chahta

Creek

Apalachee

Alabama includes: Alibamu

Atakapa includes: Atacapa

Avoyelles includes: Avoyel

Date:ca.1933-1960s

Type:Text | Still Image

Extent:3 linear feet

Description: Mary Haas conducted extensive fieldwork on Tunica with last speaker Sesostrie Youchigant, subsequently publishing a grammar as her PhD dissertation, and later texts and a dictionary. Fourteen field notebooks can be found in the dedicated subseries in Series 2, along with abundant grammatical and lexical notes and sheet music. Tunica was an integral part of Haas' comparative work on the Gulf hypothesis, so extensive comparisons can be found, especially in the lexical slip files of Series 9. Haas' Tunica work also contains more ethnographic notes than most of her files. Photographs of Sesostrie Youchigant are present in Series 11 and can be viewed at the Digital Library.

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

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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)