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Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English | Abenaki, Western | French
Date:1884; 1959-1976; 1929
Contributor:Day, Gordon M. | Laurent, Joseph | Panadis, Theophile | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Vermont--History | Linguistics | Place names | Geography | Population | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Vocabularies | Dialogues | Grammars | Stories
Extent:1,300 pages; 1 microfilm reel
Description: The Abenaki materials in the Siebert Papers are located primarily in Series III and V. There are descriptions of wars with the Iroquois from the 17th century, linguistic materials, and stories. Series V includes 5 research notebooks containing historical notes and some linguistics materials.
Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)
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Language:English
Date:n.d., circa 1857; December 31, 1859-February 7, 1860; January 9, 1860; January 22, 1860
Contributor:Alexander, John Henry, 1796-1851 | Allen, James, 1806-1846 | Ballard, Edward | Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862 | Parsons, Usher, 1788-1868
Subject:Geography | Place names | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: Concerning Place names and names of rivers in Maryland and New England. Reference to work on Algonquin dialects and report to Rhode Island Historical Society.
Collection:Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (Mss.497.3.H39)
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Date:1926-1959
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 | Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975 | Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977 | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994 | McQuown, Norman A. | Weitlaner, Robert J., 1883-1968 | Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
Subject:Linguistics | Archaeology | Guatemala--History | Honduras--History | Architecture | Geography
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Drafts | Speeches | Notes | Bibliographies | Essays
Extent:Circa 455 leaves; circa 635 pages; photographs
Description: The Central America materials, John Alden Mason Papers include correspondence regarding linguistic, archaeological, and ethnological work in Mexico and Guatemala; meetings; etc. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama. Regarding Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Chichen Itza; archaeological work in Guatemala and Mexico. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Texas. Regarding Pima; Yaqui; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Maya glyphs and architecture; archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and British Honduras. The bulk of the material is from 1933-1939 and concerns archaeological work at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Some discussion of the Mayan calendar, the ruins at Yaxchilan, Mexico, and a 1953 expedition to the Caracol Ruins, Honduras. Scholarly materials: Article for [Lilly de Jongh] Osborne's handbook of Guatemala regarding the ruins of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. A paper entitled, "Los cuatro grandes filones linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica" for the International Congress of Americanists, Mexico, August 1939. A paper read at meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1938, on the genetic classification of Middle American languages. Bibliographies of books and a few manuscripts on Indians of Central America, Mexico, and South America; letter from Zelig Harris to Mason; Mason's reply. Paper sent to Mason to be read at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Discusses Hokan-Siouan Phylum, Tarascan, Macro-Otomanguean Phylum, Macro-Penutian Phylum, and Macro-Chibchan Phylum. Notes on genetic relationships and geographic distribution. Mostly from published sources. A compilation and juxtaposition of various opinions. A talk given before Sociedad de geografia e historia de Guatemala regarding the architecture of Piedras Negras. English original which was translated into Spanish for publication in Anales 15 (December 1938): pages 202-216. A paper "Middle American Linguistics, 1955" by Norman A. McQuown; draft of a paper by Mason discussing that of McQuown; a copy of Mason's paper as delivered at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17, 1955, Boston; a copy of Mason's paper as corrected for correspondence with Robert J. Weitlaner and Gordon R. Willey.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Date:1902-1907
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:Archaeology | California--History | Geography | Linguistics | Material culture | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Stories
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: The Chilula materials in the ACLS collection consist of two sets of notebooks located in the "Chilula" section of the finding aid, both recorded by Pliny Goddard. A set of 5 notebooks recorded at Redwood Creek (item Na20g.1) includes lexical items, texts (translated and untranslated) includings one text and narration on geographical features, plus information on material culture. 1 Kato item is included. A separate set of 4 notebooks recorded at Bald Hills (item Na20g.2) includes data on village sites, material culture, an "Indian encounter" near Fort Seward, and texts with interlinear translations. Consultants are not yet identified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:August 2, 1820
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Concerning Indian languages of the United States. Perhaps Naudowessie aren't Huron, but many rivers by that name. Winnebago and Naudowessie are grandchildren of the Lenni Lenape. Other data on names of tribes.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
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Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English | Delaware | Powhatan | Susquehannock | Quiripi | Mohegan-Pequot | Carolina Algonquian | Dutch | Swedish
Date:1859-1860
Contributor:Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862
Subject:Linguistics | Geography | Place names | Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History | Delaware--History | Maryland--History | New York (State)--History | North Carolina--History | Virginia--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Dictionaries | Maps | Place names
Extent:1 dictionary (820 p.); 8 maps
Description: A completed dictionary, based on various printed authorities (Zeisberger, Heckewelder, etc.). Contains a separate dictionary of place names organized by states. Maps of portions of Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and New York. Maps beyond Lenape territory may contain Powhatan, Susquehannock, Mohegan-Pequot, Quiripi-Unquachaog, Carolina Algonquian, and Pamlico place names.
Collection:English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (Mss.497.33.H39)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:March 19, 1857; Circa 1857-1859; October 18, 1859
Contributor:Alexander, John Henry, 1796-1851 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 | Henry, Mathew Schropp, 1790-1862 | Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864 | Streeter, Sebastian Ferris, 1810-1864
Subject:Geography | Place names | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 letters
Description: Concerning Powhatan and Lenape place names. Mentions Joseph Henry and Henry Schoolcraft. Concerning Streeter's and John Henry Alexander's efforts to obtain financial support of Henry's study from Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution. Too busy to work on hobby of Indian languages; no help from Maryland Historical Society on publication.
Collection:Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (Mss.497.3.H39)
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Mattole includes: Bear River
Date:1907
Contributor:Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928
Subject:Ethnography | Geography | Linguistics | Place names | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Mattole materials in the ACLS collection consist of 2 notebooks in the "Mattole" section of the finding aid, titled "Mattole materials" (item Na20e.1). These notebooks, recorded by Goddard in 1907, include a detailed account in English of an unidentified Native American's explanation of topographical features connected with a Mattole settlement, a survey of Bear River sites, October 1907, and Mattole texts with interlinear translation. Also includes Vocabularies.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:1897, 1929-1930, 1935, Circa 1939
Contributor:Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939 | Phinney, Archie, 1904-1949 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Velten, Harry V. | Minthorne, Gilbert | Wayilatpu
Subject:Ethnoanatomy | Botany | Geography | Linguistics | Coyote tales
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:3 notebooks; Circa 25,150 slips; 27 pages
Description: The Nez Perce materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items, primarily found in the "Nez Perce" section of the finding aid. Noteworthy materials include 1897 field notes by Livingston Farrand (item Ps1a.7), 2 notebooks (item Ps1a.4) by Archie Phinney recorded at Fort Lapwai with his mother Wayilatpu, and grammatical analyses by Swadesh and Velten (items Ps1a.2 and Ps1a.5). There is also an extensive "Sahaptin lexicon" (author unidentified, item Ps1a.6) based largely upon Phinney's published "Nez Perce texts" (1934). In the "Cayuse" section of the finding aid, Swadesh's "Cayuse interlinear texts" (item Ps1a.1) are in the Niimi'ipuutímt language as told by Gilbert Minthorne, including one text later published by Jarold Ramsey as "Fish Hawk's Raid Against the Sioux" (in the book "Coming To Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America", ed. Brian Swann, 1994, Vintage Books, New York). In the "Quinault" section, a small number Farrand's notebooks (item S2a.1) may contain some Nez Perce texts in English. Identification within the notebooks is unclear.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:February 8, 1857
Subject:Geography | Place names | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning Powhatan place names. Refuses aid for Henry to visit Canada to study languages of Indians. Refers to Heckewelder.
Collection:Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (Mss.497.3.H39)