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Culture:
Apache includes: Inde
Language:Apache, Western | English | Apache, Kiowa | Navajo
Date:undated
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' short file of Apache languages consists of Swadesh lists, partially from work by Harry Hoijer, and lexical and grammatical comparisons with other languages, all in Series 2 and 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1929-1930; 1932
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Classroom notes | Essays | Field notes | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:18 notebooks (approximately 125 pages each), approximately 11,000 slips, 172 loose pages
Description: The Navajo materials in the ACLS collection include 3 items in the "Navajo" section of the finding. The largest of these is Sapir's "Navajo texts, field notes, and word lists" (item Na31.5), which includes 17 notebooks of texts with interlinear translations and a word slip file derived from these texts that numbers around 11,000 slips. There is also Sapir's "A list of Navaho stems" (item Na31.2) and Morris Swadesh's class notes (Na31.3) based on Edward Sapir's lectures on the Navaho language, containing grammatical notes, texts with translation, 175-word vocabulary, and a brief descriptive essay. In the "Yana" section of the finding aid, see also Swadesh's "Yana and Navaho notes from Edward Sapir" (item H6.1) containing class notes from Sapir's lectures on Yana, Navaho, with comparative Athapascan material. NOTE: Portions of this material may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:circa 1938-1959 and undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Fincher, Beverly Hung, 1933- | Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 | Kinkade, M. Dale (Marvin Dale), 1933-2004
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Dene languages | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Stories | Essays | Maps | Correspondence
Extent:6 folders
Description: Five items relating to Navajo language and culture have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. There is relevant correspondence with M. Dale Kinkade (regarding a comparative work on color and anatomical terms in Salish, Navajo, and English); Navajo material in a folder labeled "Athabascan (Chipewyan)" as well as a separate Navajo folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries II. Na-Dene; a Navajo story ("Coyote files with the Birds") in the Southwestern Indian Tales category in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries II: American Indian Tales for Children; Harry Tschopik's map of "Indian Languages in New Mexico, A.D. 1600" (1938) in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries V: American Indian Languages; and Beverly Hung Fincher's article "On the Phonemic Status of Navaho Stress" (1959) in Series IV. Works by Others. Note that a digital image of Tschopik's map is available through the APS's Digital Library.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1976-2007
Contributor:O'Donnel, Meghan | Vitelli, Anthony | Kendall, Daythal | Saville-Troike, Muriel | Milne, Derek | Dinwoodie, David W., 1961-
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:4 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall discussed Navajo materials, at the American Philosophical Society and in private collections, with Meghan O'Donnel and Anthony Vitelli (Series 1) and possessed some Essays from the American Anthropological Association (Series 7).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1885-1891, 1915-1916
Subject:Archaeology | Arizona--History | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Notebooks | Photographs | Reports | Stories
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Navajo materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of items in multiple sections of the finding aid. In Subcollection I, Series I, "Correspondence", see Parsons' "Project report for Navajo archaeology." In Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc.", see Stephen's "Navaho Notebook" (item 42). In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Zuni - Notebook" 1915-1916, which contains some Navajo information. 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)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1926-1956; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Sandoval, Chic
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Extent:7 items
Description: Various materials relating to the study of Navajo language, including 11 notebooks of Navajo songs; 5 notebooks on the Navajo Night Chant in phonetic transcription, with notes in English on language and ceremony; Navajo conversations; Navajo stories; manuscript of Hoijer's Navajo lexicon published in the University of California Publications in Linguistics series (no. 78, 1974); notes on various aspects of Navajo grammar and phonology, with comparisons with other Athapascan languages and reconstructions for Proto-Athapascan; and notes and letters regarding Chic Sandoval's fieldwork on Navajo. Some materials may be restricted to due potential cultural sensitivity, and are noted as such in the guide to the collection.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1971-1973, undated
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: The most significant items in Mary Haas' Navajo file are two field notebooks, totaling around 140 pages filled, from the early 1970s, possibly as part of a taught field methods class. These can be found in Series 2, name Frank Burnside as the consultant, and reference audio recordings not housed at the APS. Haas also kept short wordlists of Navajo and made comparisons between Navajo and a large variety of other Dene languages, scattered throughout Series 2 and 9, and corresponded with Muriel Saville-Troike on the language (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1966-1977, 1992-1996, 2012-2015
Contributor:Abeyta, Tony | Bsumek, Erika | Chamberlain, Kathleen P. | Fernald, Theodore B. | Field, Margaret | Garrison, Edward Ralph, 1945- | Gill, Samuel Dale | Hahn, Milanne | Hammond, Blodwen | Hill, Jennie-Keith | House, Deborah | Kaufman, Ellen S. | Kibrik, A. A. | Kroskrity, Paul | McDonough, Joyce M. | Perkins, Ellavina | Pollak, Margaret | Roberts, Alexandra | Schepers, E. M. | Shepardson, Mary | Shetter, William Z. | Taptto, Mary Helen | Weisiger, Marsha | Werner, Oswald | Chee, Melvatha
Subject:Arizona--History | Art | Education | Food | Government relations | Health | Linguistics | Material culture | Social life and customs | Utah--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Moving Image
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Genealogies | Interviews | Maps | Photographs | Reports | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:2588 pages, 2 photographs, 13 DVDs
Description: The Navajo materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of numerous items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bsumek, Chamberlain, Chee, Fernald, Field, Garrison, Gill, Hahn, Hammond, Hill, House, Kaufman, Kibrik, Kroskrity, McDonough, Perkins, Pollak, Roberts, Schepers, Shepardson, Shetter, Taptto, Weisiger, and Werner.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1954-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J.
Subject:Language study and teaching | Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Place names | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Place names
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected books (Series 2) and engaged in correspondence (Series 1) on “Hispanisms” (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, collected in Series 5) and Navajo place names.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)