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Language:English | Omaha-Ponca
Date:1935 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Warfare | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Omaha language, history, and culture. One folder contains 11 pages of miscellaneous notes including 1 page of Sioux [Dakota] or Omaha words, 3 pages of Omaha lexical items, Sioux song text, 4 pages of Omaha text and paradigms, vocabulary, ethnological notes, and 3 pages of Omaha verb conjugations. The second folder contains five pages of material relating to a Plains Indian shield, including one card of bibliographic notes, a letter from Chicago dealer Albert G. Heath to Speck concerning a Pawnee shield sent as specimen, and a letter from F. T. Thunder to Speck concerning an Omaha shield he is making.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Date:1950-1995
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Chafe, Wallace L. | Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Michelson, Karin | Pirie, M. C. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Cooper, Leroy | Gillespie, John W. | Young, Norman | Curry, Ed | Dowdy, Herb | Jones, Albert
Subject:Folklore | Ethnography | Linguistics | Archaeology | Art | Psychology | Kinship | Cosmology | Rites and ceremonies | Music
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes | Notebooks | Grammars | Dictionaries | Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies | Songs | Stories
Description: The Seneca materials in the Lounsbury Papers include his extensive work on kinship. Linguistic materials in Series II include work done by Karin Michelson, Morris Swadesh, and Wallace Chafe. Recordings in Series VII include songs from the Cold Spring Longhouse on the Allegany Indian reservation (NY). There are a large number of unidentified songs.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)