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Kumeyaay includes: Kumiai, Diegueño, Kamia, Tipai-Ipai
Date:1963-1964
Contributor:Aldama, Maria | Alto, Rebecca | Ames, Ramon | Barrett, Florence | Couro, Ted | Hinton, Leanne | Hutcheson, Christina | Kwaha, Fernando | Langdon, Margaret, 1926-2005 | La Chappa, Mary Leon | Largo, Teneslado | Lopez, Ortiz | Machado, Anjelina | Murillo, Alejandrina | Ponchetti, Steve | Robertson, Rosalie | Thing, Isabel
Subject:California--History | Folklore | Food | Material culture | Museums | Sonora (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:3 sound tape reels (6 hr., 34 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made with Kumiai / Kumeyaay (Diegueño) speakers from numerous communities in San Diego County, California, and Sonora, Mexico. Primarily consists of traditional stories, including Coyote stories. Also includes Vocabularies, conversations, description of the preparation of acorns for food, identification of museum artifacts, and an extended account of the Mission Indian Federation. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Diegueño texts (Mss.Rec.76)
Culture:
Date:1883-1892, 1920-1924, 1929-1932, 1936, 1938-1940
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | Cochise, George | Crow-wing | Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 | Forde, C. Daryll | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Stephen, Alexander M. | White, Leslie A. | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Arizona--History | Folklore | Kinship | Material culture | Museums | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Diaries | Notebooks | Photographs | Stories
Extent:24 notebooks, 300+ pages
Description: The Hopi materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of a large amount of material found in several different section of the collection. In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", item 18 includes the notebooks of Alexander Stephen from 1885-1892; item 51 includes a significant number of photographs from Hopi communities from the period of 1918-1926; and items 46 and 61 also contain briefer manuscript materials relating to Hopi ceremonies. In Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence", a number of Correspondences pertain to Hopi matters, particularly Parsons' correspondence with Franz Boas, Ruth Bunzel, Frederick Dellenbaugh, C. Daryll Forde, Robert H. Lowie, Leslie White, and Benjamin Whorf. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts", there are proofs and drafts related to Parsons' publication of Alexander Stephen's "Hopi Journal." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes" there is a large number of Parsons' field notebooks from multiple visits to different Hopi communities. Some portion of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:Chippewa | English | Ojibwa, Northwestern | Ojibwa, Western | Oji-Cree (ᐊᓂᔑᓂᓂᒧᐏᐣ)
Date:1955-2011 (bulk 1992-2011)
Contributor:Belanger, Virginia | Berens, Alex | Berens, Edmond | Berens, Gordon | Berens, John | Berens, Percy | Bignell, Darren | Bignell, Quintin | Bittern, Alan | Bittern, Atoine | Brown, Jennifer S. H., 1940- | Butikofer, Gary | Constant, Peter | Courchene, Viola | Crow, Joseph | Crowe, Joyce | Demery, Virginia | Everett, Kenneth | Everett, Oliver | Flett, Moses | Flett, Stanley | Francis, Eva | Green, Ida | Green, Walter | Keeno, Jacob | Keeper, Mary Anne | Laughlin, Joel | Levesque, Elizabeth | Levesque, Galani | Levesque, Rita | Matthews, Maureen Anne, 1949- | Neufeld, Henry | Owen, Annette | Owen, Charlie George | Owen, David | Owen, Elaine | Owen, Elizabeth | Owen, Jacob | Owen, James | Owen, Kenneth | Owen, Louis | Owen, Moses | Owen, Nelson | Owen, St. John | Owen, Yellowbird | Owen, Walter | Pascal, Boushey | Pascal, Elizabeth | Pettipas, Cathy | Prince, Thomas, Jr. | Rattlesnake, Harriet | Raven, William | Richthammer, John | Ross, George | Roulette, Roger | Simmons, Kyle | Simmons, Margaret | Stevenson, Laurence | Strang, George D. | Strang, James | Strang, Mangoose | Strang, Sugashki | Swain, Rebecca | Swan, Margaret | Thompson, Mark | Thomas, William | Traverse, Miles | Williams, Alice | Young, Louis
Subject:Drums | Folklore | Hunting | Manitoba--History | Material culture | Museums | Ontario--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Photographs | Radio programs | Stories | Transcriptions | Translations
Extent:350+ hours; 2500+ photographs; 100+ documents
Description: Audio recordings, photographs, and born-digital manuscripts documenting Ojibwe communities and individuals primarily in Manitoba and Ontario, with a smaller number from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Subject matter includes the photographs and ethnography of A. Irving Hallowell in these communities in the 1930s, thunderbirds, memegwesiwag, Ojibwe language, religion, ceremonies, and other traditions. The main communities concerned are Berens River, Pauingassi, Little Grand Rapids, Pikangikum, Poplar Hill, and Jackhead. The majority of the audio materials are interviews recorded in the context of producing radio documentaries for CBC Radio One from the early 1990s through late 2000s. (See Series I, Subseries 12 for the broadcast version of these documentaries.) Transcripts for both the finished documentaries and some of the interviews are located in Series II. Photographs taken during Matthews' visits to indigenous communities, museums, and other locations can be found in Series III.
Collection:Maureen Matthews Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.164)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Tutelo includes: Yesan
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Passamaquoddy includes: Peskotomuhkati
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
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
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927 | Day, Gordon M. | Gandy, Ethel | Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928 | Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921 | Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-1985 | Ranco, Dorothy | Princess Pretty Woman | Nelson, Roland E.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Social life and customs | Politics and government | Hunting | Religion | Linguistics | Art | Place names | Kinship | Material culture | Museums | Specimens | New England--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Essays | Drafts | Stories | Transcriptions
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)
Culture:
Tolowa includes: Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’
Date:1902-1903
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:California--History | Linguistics | Material culture | Museums | Music
Type:Text
Extent:20 notebooks
Description: The Tolowa materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of 18 field notebooks with information from informants from Burnt Ranch and Smith River Island, California. Includes lexical items, paradigms, songs, museum specimens, texts, historical narratives, ethnological data, and names for material-culture objects. These can be found in the "Tolowa" section of the finding aid as item Na20f.1. There are also some stories in "Field notes in California Athabascan languages" (item Na.2), located in the "Athapaskan" section of the finding aid.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Date:1880-1881, 1915-1924, 1932
Contributor:Cattell, Owen | Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900 | Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Lewis, Margaret | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957 | Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961
Subject:Folklore | Kinship | Material culture | Museums | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:300+ pages, 44 notebooks, 18 photographs
Description: The Zuni materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers numerous materials found in multiple sections of the finding aid for the collection, primarily Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence", Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts", Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes", and 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)