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Language:Ahtna | English | Eyak | Tanana, Lower | Tanana, Upper
Date:1958
Contributor:Billum, Douglas | Billum, Mary Anne | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | George, Bacille | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | Joe, Maggie | McClellan, Catharine | McKinley, Jim | Sanford, Kate | Sanford, Ralph | Stanfield, Fanny
Subject:Alaska--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:8 sound tape reels (7 hr., 31 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in Copper Center, Alaska by Frederica de Laguna in 1958. Includes numerous interviews on autobiographical topics, explanations of Ahtna songs, sleep doctors, and traditional narratives. Also includes vocabulary related to kinship terms. Songs include potlatch songs, love songs, drinking songs, and songs of Tlingit origin. (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:Ahtna Songs and Texts Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Mss.Rec.31)
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Language:Ahtna | English | Tanana, Upper | Tutchone, Southern | Tanacross
Date:1966, 1968
Contributor:Brown, Andy | Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | David, Jessie | Ewan, Annie | George, Bacille | George, Nancy | Jackson, Arthur | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | John, Lucy | McKinley, Jim | Pete, Elizabeth | Pete, Mentasta | Peters, Jenny | Sanford, Kate | Sinyone, Jim | Stanfield, Fanny | Tanzy, Jake | Tanzy, Lily
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs | Stories
Extent:27 sound tape reels (14 hr., 55 min.)
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in 1968 by Frederica de Laguna at Copper Center, with additional ones also recorded at Cantwell, Chistochina, Gulkana, and Upper Tanana material recorded at Tetlin. Includes dance songs, sorry songs, potlatch songs, sleep doctor songs, and others. Includes "Gulkana Potlatch Given by Bill Joe and Kate Sanford for Recovery of Maggie Joe from Illness." Some songs are Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross in origin. Includes Ahtna stories, autobiographical accounts, vocabularies, and interviews, as well as a few Southern Tutchone songs recorded at Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory. Also includes Tetlin potlatch songs recorded in 1966.
Collection:Ahtna and Southern Tutchone recordings (Mss.Rec.68)
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Date:1941-1946; 1951-1952
Contributor:French, Will | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958 | Reyburn, William D. | Sequoyah, Molly | Witthoft, John
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Music | North Carolina--History | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs | Boarding schools | Games | Ethiopia--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Essays | Grammars | Transcriptions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1,652 pages, 920 slips, 59 phonograph discs, 4,500 cards
Description: The Cherokee materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 sets of material located in the "Cherokee" section of the finding aid. The smallest item is Frans Olbrechts' brief essay comparing Cherokee and Ethiopic (Ge'ez) syllabaries (item I2.1). Zellig Harris and John Witthoft's "Cherokee materials" (item I2.4) was conducted in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania and consists of grammatical Vocabularies and utterances, extensive grammatical notes and analyses, and numerous ethnographic and autobiographical stories, plus some songs, recorded on phonograph discs with Molly Sequoyah (mainly) and Will French. A small number of texts are written in the Cherokee syllabary as well. A second linguistic study by William Reyburn (item I2.3), conducted in Cherokee, North Carolina, consists of 1000+ pages of linguistic notes, transcriptions of recordings, and analyses, plus an extensive lexical file organized according to morpheme class. Reyburn's accompanying recordings are cataloged as Mss.Rec.16, "Cherokee materials gathered...on the Cherokee reservation at Cherokee, N.C.," listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Date:1948
Contributor:Bigfoot, David | Birdwoman, Laura | Blackhorse, Francis | Croft, Kenneth | Guerrier, William | Littlebird, Anna May | Littlebird, Harry | Monatie, Albert | Red Bird, Charles | Stands In Timber, John | Yellow Spider, Mr.
Subject:Education | Folklore | Music | Montana--History | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent:5 sound tape reels (7 hr.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made on 10 wire spools in 1948 in Lame Deer, Montana and El Reno, Oklahoma. Consists of traditional and historical stories, autobiographical narratives, unidentified texts, all given in Cheyenne only. Also includes discussions of the state of Cheyenne learning among the younger generation, and a variety of peyote, war dance, and hand game songs. Originally recorded on wire spools. (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:Cheyenne material (Mss.Rec.5)
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Date:1963-1964
Contributor:Bearbow, Minnie | Flyingout, Allan | Hawk, Anna | Hoffman, Albert | Hoffman, Albert, Mrs. | Howlingcrane, Jeanette | Olson, Donald | Torres, Dora | Yelloweagle, Leonard
Subject:Education | Folklore | Government relations | Montana--History | Oklahoma--History | Music | Social life and customs | World War, 1939-1945
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Stories
Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 24 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Cheyenne folkloric and autobiographical stories, given by 9 different speaekrs in Cheyenne only. Recorded in Norman, Oklahoma in 1963 and 1964. (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:Cheyenne stories (Mss.Rec.51)
Language:English | Tiwa, Southern
Date:1969-1970
Contributor:Brandt, Elizabeth A.
Subject:Food | Linguistics | Music | Politics and government | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Speeches | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:29 sound tape reels (25 hr., 4 min.)
Description: Includes Text; analysis of the Sandia material by an Isleta informant; household items; foods; directions; natural phenomena; buildings; fruits; time expressions; verbs; adverbs; checking George L. Trager's material; pronominal reference; greetings; animal names (including domesticated); festivals; other ethnographic information. Tape 1 includes Tewa (not Tiwa) texts, vocabulary, speech, and song recorded by Ernest Riechert of Wycliffe Bible Translators at Nambe Pueblo, New Mexico. Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns.
Collection:Linguistic data in the Sandia dialect of Tiwa (Mss.Rec.72)
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Date:1993
Contributor:Brown, Clara | Cousins, Retha | Melnar, Lynette | Tate, Helen
Subject:Linguistics | Music | Oklahoma--History | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Interviews | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:29 sound tape reels (14 hr., 45 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: The collection consists of linguistic recordings of relating to Caddo vocabulary, phrase structure, syntax, adjectives, and sound changes. Also includes interviews and discussion of Caddo traditional songs and customs. Recorded by Lynette Melar at Binger and Gracemont, Oklahoma in September 1993 with consultants Clara Brown, Retha Cousins, and Helen Tate. (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:Linguistic properties of the Caddo language (Mss.Rec.186)
Language:English | Nahuatl, Morelos | Totonac, Highland | Yaqui
Date:1949
Contributor:Barlow, R. H. (Robert Hayward), 1918-1951
Subject:Folklore | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:1 sound tape reel (42 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Nahuatl Texts, recorded on phonograph discs by Robert Barlow circa 1949, in Milpa Alta, Mexico. Stories given entirely in untranslated Nahuatl, with the exception of two stories given in Spanish. Almost all stories are given by Luz Jimenez. The identifiable texts include a story about the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday and the mountain Popocatepetl. Also includes one Yaqui song and one text that may be in a Totonac language. There is occasional prominent cracking and hissing background noise on the recording. (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:Nahuatl texts (Mss.Rec.6)
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Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Hupacasath includes: Hupač̓asatḥ, Opetchesaht
Language:English | Makah | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date:1949
Contributor:Gallic, Seymour | Kishkish, Peter | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swan, Charlie | Williams, Frank
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Music | Social life and customs | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Extent:3 sound tape reels (2 hr., 46 min) : DIGITIZED
Description: Nuu-chah-nulth songs and stories, and Makah stories, recorded by Morris Swadesh on 5 wire spools in Port Alberni and Neah Bay in 1949. Includes Nuu-chah-nulth (primarily Tseshaht) music, group singing, historical stories, and stories in Makah. (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:Nootka and Makah songs and stories (Mss.Rec.8)
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Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:English | Otomi, Mezquital | Spanish
Date:1971
Subject:Folklore | Hidalgo (Mexico : State)--History | Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920 | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Extent:2 sound tape reels (3 hr., 25 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: This collection consists of numerous recordings of Otomi stories, primarily folklore, along with a number of unidentified, untranslated stories, and story about the Mexican Revolution. There is also one recording of various songs sung by children. Includes Spanish, English, and Otomi version of "Frère Jacques." (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:Otomi songs and stories (Mss.Rec.86)