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Language:English
Date:1819-1884
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Schultz, Theodor | Im Thurn, Everard F. (Everard Ferdinand), 1852-1932
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 items
Description: Correspondence relating to Arawakan languages materials at the APS, particularly those assembled and deposited by Theodor Schulz. Du Ponceau thanks Schulz for his work on the Arawak language and writes to him about other South American languages, noting that he has copied Schulz's Arawak vocabulary into his book of 45 vocabularies and inquiring about men's and women's languages, DeLaet's vocabularies of Yaois, Sapajoi, etc., and Caraibi; Schulz contacts the APS secretary requesting permission for the Rev. N. O. Tank to use Schulz's Arawak manuscripts deposited at the APS; and Im Thurn requests a loan of Schulz's works on Arawak language.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Lokono includes: Arawak
Date:1963
Contributor:Commins, Dorothy Berliner | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Holden, J.H. | Pike, Kenneth L. | Sturtevant, William C.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Description: The Arawak materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of word slips in Series II. Series I includes correspondence about the Arawak language family, prefixes, the translation of a Arawak lullaby, and William Sturtevant 's Arawak notebooks. The exact Arawakan languages referred to in each case have not been identified, but are largely presumed to be Lokono.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Language:English
Date:September 25, 1821
Contributor:Schultz, Theodor
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Speeches
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau regarding men's and women's speech in the Arawak language (unclear if mainland or island). From original in the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:1820
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Penn, William, 1644-1718
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Linguistics | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 volume
Description: A record begun March 10, 1820, principally of chronology of early Pennsylvania, with mention of Penn-Logan correspondence and extracts from same. Arruwak [Arawak - mainland or island not identified] words, page 11; extract, Narrative [of the late massacres], pages 132-133.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book (Mss.410.D92)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1942-1943
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:7 pages
Description: The Arawakan materials, John Alden Mason papers include correspondence regarding the Campa language and other languages and/or tribes in their area (Yine/Piro, Machiguenga, Amuexia, Chama, Shipibo, Conibo, Cocama, and Cashibo).
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Date:1883-1886
Contributor:Barker, Anna E.
Subject:Linguistics | Alberta--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:9 leaves
Description: List gathered by matron of Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morley, North West Territories [i.e., Alberta]. English-Stoney, alphabetical by English. Numerals. Letter, Lucile Yerdon (owner of original, who made the typescript in January 1948), Fort Plain, New York, to Charles Marius Barbeau, March 21, 1948.
Collection:Around 500 words in the Mountain Stoney dialect gathered from a branch of the Sioux Indians (Mss.497.2.B24)
Culture:
Akimel O'odham includes: Pima
Language:Tohono O'odham | English
Date:2004
Contributor:Jackson, Eric | Jose, Mary | Lewis, Virgil | Makil, Mary | Robertson, Brenda | Wellington, Delbert
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:3 compact discs (1 hr., 42 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Elicitations of O'odham sentences from multiple speakers. Recorded in 2004 in Los Angeles and Tucson. (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:Aspects of the Grammar of Pima (Mss.Rec.283)
Culture:
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:Assiniboine | English
Date:1936, 1949
Contributor:Ahenakew, Edward | Deloria, Ella Cara
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Montana--History | Warfare
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Translations
Extent:64 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items that can be found in the "Assiniboine" section of the finding aid. Deloria's "Notes on the Assiniboine (Belknap or Watopahnatu dialect)" (item X8d.1) contains a sketch of Assiniboine grammar, compared with that of Dakota, and includes an Assiniboine text, with literal and free translation and notes, and a letter from author to Franz Boas, Jan. 6, 1936, covering the document. The other item is Ahenakew's "The creation of a new tribe" (71), an explanation of creation of Assiniboine tribe, separated from Sioux, given Ahenakew in his youth by his mission superintendent, Rev. John Hines, a battle over a girl accounted for end of connection of Red Eagle with other Sioux, and a letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, May 21, 1949, commenting on Rev. Hines' relation to the author.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Assiniboine includes: Assiniboin, Nakoda, Hohe, Nakota
Language:Assiniboine | English
Date:1967-1970, 1997
Contributor:Harbeck, Warren A. | Morgan, Mindy | Powers, William K. | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject:Linguistics | Montana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:246 pages
Description: The Assiniboine materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Harbeck, Morgan, Powers, and Taylor.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Date:1934
Contributor:Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:3 pages
Description: The Atakapa materials in the ACLS collection consist of "Atakapa fragments recorded from descendants of speakers" (item G5.1) found in the "Atakapa" section of the finding aid. This item is a fragmentary list of Atakapa terms with English equivalents, recorded near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)