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Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1798-1897
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899 | Barbour, James, 1775-1842 | Collin, Nicholas, 1746-1831
Subject:Linguistics | Social life and customs | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | United States Exploring Expedition (1838-1842)
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports | Catalogs
Extent:34 items
Description: Items relating to linguists and languages of the Americas. Bulk is the correspondence of Peter S. du Ponceau with Thomas Jefferson, Friedrich von Adelung, John Quincy Adams, John Vaughan, Johann S. Vater, John G. E. Heckewelder, Albert Gallatin, George Ord, and others regarding topics such as linguistics; Native languages and customs; acquiring publications for the American Philosophical Society Library; forwarding publications to others; philological essays; legal essays; Europeans' study of American Indian languages; the efforts of the Historical and Literary Committee and its pursuit of languages, especially comparative grammars; his own collection of Vocabularies; his work as an editor and linguist, including his addition to Barton (1797); Long's expedition and western vocabularies now in print; the origin of the American Indian; Byrd's manuscript of the North Carolina-Virginia boundary; the importance of comparative grammars instead of mere word-hunting; the Lewis and Clark journals; his search for Southern languages; Adelung's comment that Jefferson knew of a Mexican manuscript at New Orleans, and that Washington and others had supplied vocabularies to Catherine the Great; and plans for William Penn papers. Other items of interest include APS reports, including "Catalogue of historical manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society," Du Ponceau's "Report upon philology...and Report upon ethnography," and a letter to Mahlon Dickerson discussing objectives and scientific methods to be used on U. S. exploring expedition.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Unangan includes: Aleut, Unangas, Unangax̂, Алеу́ты, Унаӈан, Унаӈас
Scaticook includes: Scatticook, Schaghticoke
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Language:English
Date:April 11, 1803; November 1, 1953
Contributor:Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Linguistics | Moravians | Missions | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 items
Description: Item 1: Letter from Humboldt to William Smith asking for a copy of Barton (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1797), and any other works pertaining to North and Middle American languages. Item 2: Witthoft's "Preliminary listing of resources in American Indian languages in the Archives of the Moravian Church." Includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century materials described as "Algonquin, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Onondaga, Eskimo, Cherokee, Checameca, Mahican, and Scatticook". Compilers include Zeisberger, Pyrlaeus, Dencke, Heckewelder, Gambold, Ettwein, etc.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Language:English
Date:1993-1996
Contributor:Thorne, Tanis C. | Weiner, Diane
Subject:California--History | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports
Extent:440 pages
Description: The Luiseño 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 Thorne and Weiner.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Language:English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date:1975-1978, 1995, 1998
Contributor:Campana, Mark | Knecht, Laura | LeSourd, Philip S. | Ng, Eve | Paul, Peter Lewis, 1902-1989 | Smith, Nicholas N.
Subject:Linguistics | Maine--History | New Brunswick--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Essays | Field notes | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:858 pages
Description: The Malecite-Passamaquoddy 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 Campana, Knecht, LeSourd, Ng, and Smith.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Language:English
Date:1966-1972
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Canger, Una | Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:13 pages
Description: The Mam materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Campbell, Canger, and Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Mandan includes: Nueta
Date:1968-1972, 1997
Contributor:Bowers, Alfred W. | Hollow, Robert C. | Powers, William K. | Williams, Randy H.
Subject:Linguistics | North Dakota--History | Trade
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports
Extent:711 pages
Description: The Mandan 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 Bowers, Hollow, Powers, and Williams.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Date:1971, 1972, 1977, 1992-1993
Contributor:Adams, Walter Randolph | Hellmuth, Nicholas M. | Kilroe, Patricia | Campbell, Lyle
Subject:Chiapas (Mexico)--History | Guatemala--History | Linguistics | Religion
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays | Photographs | Reports
Extent:416 pages, 74 photographs
Description: The Maya 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 Adams, Campbell, Hellmuth, and Kilroe.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Language:English
Date:1827; 1893-1894
Contributor:Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899 | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials relating to Menominee culture and language materials at the American Philosophical Society. Includes Walter James Hoffman's correspondence with Henry Phillips concerning Hoffman's Menominee grammar and vocabulary submitted for publication to the APS and the "Report of American Philosophical Society committee on Dr. Edwin James' communication on the Menomonie Indians," in which the author suggests that the Menominee do not speak Algonquin, although they use much Algonquin in their vocabulary (the committee recommends publication, preferably in Historical and Literary Committee Transactions).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw
Language:English
Date:1999, 2012-2015
Contributor:Kavanaugh, Rebecca P. | Pollak, Margaret
Subject:Health | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:368 pages
Description: The Menominee 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 Kavanaugh and Pollak.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1982
Contributor:Farrer, Claire R. | Second, Bernard
Subject:Music | New Mexico--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:37 pages
Description: The Mescalero Apache materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Claire Farrer: "Research report and index for Mescalero Apache cylinder recordings," concerning a project to copy and transcribe cylinders (1931) and tapes (1982 remasters) of Mescalero Apache songs, held at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The indices provide detailed accounts of their contents, interpretations by consultant Bernard Second, and their audio quality. Cultural sensitivity information is on the first page.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)