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Language:English | Abenaki, Western
Date:1956-1972
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Day, Gordon M.
Subject:Kinship | Place names | Ethnography | Vermont--History
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Essays | Correspondence | Notes
Description: The Abenaki materials in the Lounsbury Papers includes correspondence from Gordon Day on the eastern border between the Haudenosaunee and Abenaki, found in Series I under "Day, Gordon." A recording on Abenaki kinship terms can be found in Series VII.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Language:English | Abenaki, Western | Abenaki, Eastern
Date:1914-1947 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Day, Gordon M. | Adney, Edwin Tappan | Dickson, Frederick Stoever, 1850-1925
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Rites and ceremonies | Religion | Population | Quebec--History | Maine--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Photographs | Poems | Stories
Extent:5 items
Description: Materials relating to Abenaki language and culture. Includes notes on a St. Francis Abenaki [Western Abenaki] conjuring lodge; miscellaneous notes about the St. Francis Abenaki including two cards of reading notes, a typed copy of an Indian poem in English from John Reade (1887), a letter from Frederick S. Dickson regarding Abenaki vocabulary, a letter from Edwin Tappan Adney concerning place names and Maine Indian shamans, and a photomechanical print of Montagnais [aka Innu] in camp; Wawenock [or Wawanoc, Eastern Abenaki] texts taken from Neptune, with interlinear translations [See also Speck (1928b).]; miscellaneous Wawenock notes on vocabulary, folklore, and population, along with a letter from J. P. Ranger about canoes, and three letters from W. C. Kendall, owner of Camp Wawenock, Lake Sebago, Maine, with information about Wawenock and his memories of Wawenock and Penobscot Indians of Maine; and a letter from Gordon M. Day seeking a bibliography and Speck's help in learning Abenaki.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
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)
Culture:
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language:English
Date:circa 1890s-1900s
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Description: This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. See correspondence with Gatschet discussing his study of Abenaki and Mi'kmaq. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Language:Abenaki, Eastern | Abenaki, Western | Mi'kmaq | English
Date:1965-1966, undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Day, Gordon M.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas' Abenaki materials consist mostly of comparisons with other languages, particularly Proto-Algonquian and other languages of the eastern US. These can be found in Series 2 and Series 9, including a brief (ca.50-100 slip) lexical file of Abenaki. There is also correspondence in Series 1 and 9 with Gordon M. Day that includes Mi'kmaq comparisons.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Language:English
Date:December 1956-1957
Contributor:Leland, Marine
Subject:Indian captivities | Captivity narratives
Type:Text
Genre:Lectures
Extent:20 pages
Description: "Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity," a talk for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation based on Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity by the Abenaki in 1754-1758.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Culture:
Muruwari includes: Murrawarri
Gumbaynggir includes: Kumbainggar
Language:English
Date:1897-1898
Contributor:Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1841-1918
Subject:Indigenous peoples--Australia | Cartography | Kinship | Australia--History | New South Wales--History | Queensland--History | Petroglyphs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:15 letters
Description: Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society largely concerning Robert H. Mathews' proposal and preparation of a series of articles on Aboriginal Australians published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. The letters contain little direct ethnographic content, but may provide additional context on Mathews's research on peoples of New South Wales and southern Queensland during the mid- to late 1890s. These letters have all been digitized.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:circa 1825
Subject:Social life and customs | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Reports
Extent:1 reel
Description: This is a forty-eight page report on Delaware culture and language, with selected words and phrases and their meanings, by C. C. Trowbridge in response to a 1823 questionnaire distributed by Lewis Cass. In part a criticism of Heckewelder and DuPonceau. Originals at the University of Michigan.
Collection:Account of some of the traditions, manners and customs of the Lenee Lenauppa Indians: traditions of the Lenee Lenaupee or Delawares: and, language of the Delawares, [ca. 1825] (Mss.Film.883)
Date:1907, 1931-1935
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Carmony, Willard | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
Subject:California--History | Ethnography | Folklore | Music | Linguistics | Boarding schools
Type:Text
Genre:Autobiographies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:615 pages
Description: The Achumawi materials in the ACLS collection are primarily located in the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, with some also in the "Atsugewi" section (specifically item H1a.2, "Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts"). They include a word list from the Pit River area; autobiographies of Willard Carmony, an Achumawi speaker, whose stories refers to being sent to Fort Bidwell Indian Boarding School; linguistic analysis of Achumawi's relationship to the Hokan language family; conversational texts in the Achumawi language; free English translations; and grammars. Also included are notes on dialectical differences between Atwamdzini, Hammawi, and Adzumawi.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Hokan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies
Extent:2 folders, 1 box
Description: Three items relating to the Achumawi language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. They consist of a folder of Achumawi & Atsugewi material and a folder containing a comparative vocabulary of California tribes (with words from from Hupa, Wiyot, Karuk, Shasta, Achumawi, Atsugewi, Konkow, Yana, Wintu, Maidu, and Modoc) in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries V. Hokan; and a box of notes in Series V. Card Files.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)