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Ayoquesco Zapotec

Language(s): English | Zapotec, Ayoquesco

Date: 1970

Contributor: MacLaury, Robert E., 1944-

Type:Still Image | Text

Genre: Theses | Photographs

Extent: 230 pages

Description: From 1968-1970, the anthropologist Robert E. MacLaury conducted fieldwork on Zapotec (Oto-Manguean) language and ethnography at Santa Maria Ayoquesco de Aldama, Oaxaca. His masters thesis based on that research, "Ayoquesco Zapotec: Ethnography, Phonology, and Lexicon," was accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a master's degree in anthropology at the University of the Americas in 1970. Includes eighty black and white photocopy photographs of Zapotec Indians in Santa Maria Ayoquezco de Aldama, Oaxaca, Mexico from 1968-1970. Taken by MacLaury while conducting fieldwork for his thesis, the images reflect the social life and customs of the people, including clothing, utensils, daily activities and dwellings. See finding aid for related material.

Collection: Ayoquesco Zapotec (Mss.497.4.M22)

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Bedouin materials, ACLS collection

Culture: Bedouin

Language(s): German

Date: 1933

Contributor: Lange, Gertrud, 1879-

Subject: Clothing and dress

Type:Text

Genre: Sketches | Watercolors | Theses | Illustrations

Extent: 60 sketches; 196 pages

Description: The only Bedouin materials in the ACLS collection are two related items, 52a and 52b: "Die Trachten des vorderen Orients". This is a thesis submitted to the University of Hamburg about clothing in North Africa and the Middle East, including Bedouin clothing as well as Turkic and Persian, with color sketches.

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

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California materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers

Alternate forms: Karok, Na:tini-xwe

Date: 1949-1952 and undated

Contributor: Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Francescato, Giuseppe | Massey, William C.

Type:Text

Extent: 5 folders

Description: Several items relating to the indigenous peoples and languages of the region now known as California have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for items Voegelin himself grouped under the general heading of "California." Researchers should also view the entries for specific culture groups and languages. The various subseries devoted to Hokan, Penutian, and Uto-Aztecan languages in Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes might also be of interest. The following "California" items are all located in Subcollection II. They include a comparative vocabulary of California tribes (with words from from Hupa, Wiyot, Karuk, Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Konkow [Northwest Maidu], Yana, Wintu, Maidu, and Modoc) in Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes, Subseries V. Hokan. There are two items in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi: a folder on "Baja California" containing notes excerpting "Tribes and Languages of Baja California" by William C. Massey, vol 5, pp. 272-307 (1949), and a folder containing comparative charts of . There are two stories--"Coyote and the Women Hunters" (Tübatulabal) and "Measuring Worm Rescues Two Boys" (Yokuts)--in the California Indian Tales category in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries II: American Indian Tales for Children. Finally, there is a copy of Giuseppe Francescato's masters thesis "A Structural Comparison of the Californian Penutian" (1952) in Series IV. Works by Others.

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

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Central America materials, Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976

Culture:

Language(s): English | Spanish

Date: 1590-1976

Contributor: University of Chicago. Department of Anthropology

Subject: Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Social life and customs

Type:Text

Extent: 26 reels

Description: This collection includes field notes and reports, diaries of expeditions, texts, grammars, dictionaries of Indian languages, theses and research papers collected by members of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago in connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Research Program as well as various Central American governmental agencies. A microfilm publication of the University of Chicago, 1946-1957. Table of contents. Originals at theUniversity of Chicago.

Collection: Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976 (Mss.Film.297)

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Colonial gender discourse and the Delaware Indians; 1991

Culture: Lenape | Haudenosaunee

Alternate forms: Lenape, Iroquois

Language(s): English

Date: 1991

Contributor: Lowe, Joan L.

Type:Text

Genre: Theses

Extent: 86 pages

Description: This senior thesis for honors in American History was submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. Lowe's advisors were Anthony F. C. Wallace and Edward C. Carter III. The author was inspired by Peggy Reeves Sanday and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg to develop a feminist perspective in her study of history, and approaches the "Delaware as women" trope accordingly to argue that Delawares adopted a "European gender discourse" that "contributed to the erosion of Delaware Indian culture." Lowe focuses on laying out the background of the "Delaware as women"problem; analyzing morality (particular sexual mores), gender roles, and the use of the word "petticoats" in the context of Delaware culture; the position of the Delawares in relation to the Haudenosaunee; land disputes and agreements; the fur trade; religion, particularly Moravian missionaries and native prophets; and politics. Gift of Joan L. Lowe.

Collection: Colonial gender discourse and the Delaware Indians; 1991 (Mss.970.3.L948c)

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Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831

Culture: Haudenosaunee | Seneca | Tuscarora | Mohawk

Alternate forms: Iroquois

Language(s): English

Date: 1940

Contributor: Parish, Jasper, 1767-1836 | Newton, Dorothy May Fairbank | Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829

Type:Text

Extent: 1 reel

Description: "Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York State," compiled and edited by Mrs. Dorothy May Fairbanks Newton, 1940. This Vassar College student thesis contains text written by Newton, transcriptions of letters to and from Parrish [aka Parish, an Indian agent and interpreter] and other documents, and 54 letters and 5 maps pertaining to Indian affairs in New York State. Newton used primary documents found in Vassar College's Jasper Parrish Papers Collection. Originals of both thesis and the primary documents it is based on are at Vassar College.

Collection: Letters and documents relating to the government service of Jasper Parrish among the Indians of New York state, 1790-1831 (Mss.Film.650)

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Ndau materials, ACLS Collection

Culture: Ndau | Kwakwaka'wakw | Zulu

Language(s): Ndau | English | Kwak'wala | German

Date: 1921, 1947, undated

Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Simango, Columbus Kamba | Rumberger, Joseph Paul | Hunt, George

Type:Text

Extent: 218 p., ca. 1850 slips and 39 notebooks

Description: All Ndau materials in the ACLS collection are by C. Kamba Simango working with Franz Boas in the 1920s, or are derived from this. Three sets of texts (items AfBnd.4, AfBng.1 and AfBng.2) written by Simango describe topics including general home life, food, childrearing, marriage, religion and beliefs about death, and some autobiography. Some texts appear to have been later published as "Tales and Proverbs of the Vandau of Portuguese South Africa" (1922). The text items also include lexica, marginalia by Boas, a song, kinship terms and an illustration, and item AfBnd.4 "Texts on Ndau culture" also includes description of George Hunt's Kwak'wala language work. Item AfBnd.3 "Ndau lexica and ethnographic slips" contains ethnographic notes of mostly unidentified topics, but especially witchcraft, and 39 short notebooks of mostly Chindau lexica. The two main Chindau lexica (both "Chindau lexicon", items AfBnd.1 and AfBnd.2) total around 1700 slips. Zulu culture is also sporadically referenced in the above items. Finally, "An Analysis of Chindau, A Bantu Language of South East Africa" (item AfBnd.5) is an MA thesis by Joseph Rumberger derived from these materials. Boas published "Ethnographische Bemerkungen über die Vandau" in Zeitschrift Für Ethnologie 55(1), 1923 (in German) describing his work with Simango.

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

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Round Valley materials, Amelia Susman Schultz Papers

Culture: Maidu | Konkow | Wailaki | Nomlaki

Alternate forms: Concow, Noamlakee, Nomelaki

Language(s): Maidu, Northwest | English | Wailaki | Nomlaki

Date: 1930s-1970s

Type:Text | Cartographic

Extent: 1.5 linear feet

Description: During the late 1930s, Amelia Susman Schultz conducted fieldwork on acculturation at the Round Valley Indian Reservation, California, for a Ph.D. thesis eventually published in 1976. Series II of the Amelia Susman Schultz Papers reflects both periods of research, though mostly the late 1930s. Of particular interest are: ten field notebooks from 1937, most containing some language data (undetermined as yet which languages) in addition to ethnographic notes from discussions with consultants; ethnographic notes arranged by subject (see items titled "Ethnographic notes by subject" in addition to "Notes on full sheets" and "Notes on half sheets"); descriptions of Round Valley's chronology, population history, genealogy, and socioeconomic surveys; and Schultz's works-in-progress, including the original dissertation.

Collection: Amelia Susman Schultz Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.171)

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The five nations of Indians in their relation to the colony of New York from 1700 to 1781, 1900

Culture: Haudenosaunee

Alternate forms: Iroquois

Language(s): English

Date: 1900

Contributor: Smith, Lloyd Dean

Subject: Government relations | Politics and government | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | New York (State)--History | United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783

Type:Text

Genre: Microfilms | Theses

Extent: 78 pages

Description: This master's thesis traces relations between the Haudenosaunee and the colony of New York from 1700 through the Revolutionary War, with attention to the role of New France. Original at University of Wisconsin Library.

Collection: The five nations of Indians in their relation to the colony of New York from 1700 to 1781, 1900 (Mss.Film.651)

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Walter Dyk Collection

Culture: Wasco-Wishram

Language(s): 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)