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Unangax̂ includes: Aleut, Unangas, Unangan, Алеу́ты, Унаӈан, Унаӈас
Date:1990-1995
Contributor:Bergsland, Knut, 1914- | Lestenkof, Michael D. | Taff, Alice
Subject:Alaska--History | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:9 sound tape reels (13 hr., 55 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Interviews with Fr. Michael D. Lestenkof and Stepanida Lestenkof regarding the Pribilof subdialect of Unangan (Eastern Aleut). Includes texts, grammatical elicitations, and readings (with explanations) from Knut Bergsland's "Qawalangim Tunugan Kaduuĝingin" [Eastern Aleut Grammar and Lexicon] (National Bilingual Materials Development Center: Anchorage, 1978) and Knut Bergsland & Moses Dirks' "Aleut Tales and Narratives" (Alaska Native Language Center: Fairbanks, 1990.) Recordings made in Seattle, Washington on cassette recorder, then dubbed to 7-inch sound tape reels. (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:Eastern Aleut grammar (Mss.Rec.199)
Language:Keres, Eastern | English | Spanish
Date:1996-1999
Contributor:Davis, Irvine | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: During the collection of William Bright's Hispanisms lexical file (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, Series 5) he corresponded with Irvine Davis on Santa Ana and Santo Domingo varieties of Keresan.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Date:1755-1788
Contributor:Collinson, Peter, 1694-1768 | Johnson, William, 1715-1774 | Pettit, Charles, 1736-1806 | Stiles, Ezra, 1727-1795 | Kent, Benjamin, 1708-1788 | Timothy, Peter, 1725?-1782 | La Rochefoucauld-d'Enville, Louis-Alexandre, duc de, 1743-1792 | Morgan, George, 1743-1810 | Bancroft, Edward, 1744-1821
Subject:United States--History--French and Indian War, 1754-1763 | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Land transfers | Land claims | Medicine | Mounds | Kentucky--History | Québec (Province)--History | South Carolina--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:9 items
Description: Letters between various correspondents regarding Indian affairs. Topics include French intrigues during Seven Years' War era; sale of liquor to Indians and consequent disorders; relations with western Indians and action needed by Congress of Confederation in early national period; ancient fortifications discovered at the junction of Muskingum and Ohio, as well as in Kentucky; South Carolina governor's bad management of Indian affairs; discovery of root which cures gout; land sales and grants; Indians' title to lands, implications of papal decrees and Quebec Act.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Language:English
Date:1748; 1751
Contributor:Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Lee, Thomas, 1690-1750 | Peters, Richard, 1704-1776
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | Ohio--History | Diplomacy | United States--History--King George's War, 1744-1748
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 items
Description: Letters to Conrad Weiser, urging Weiser to go to Ohio with gifts for the Ohio Indians in 1748 and again in 1751. Lee asks for Indian songs.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)
Language:English
Date:September 12, 1775
Contributor:Gordon, William, 1728-1807
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:3 pages
Description: Letter to Richard Price regarding efforts of British to win support or neutrality of Indians. Rev. Samuel Kirkland reports that Lord Dartmouth wishes Presbyterian missionaries suppressed; Episcopalians are loyal. Kirkland detained as a prisoner by Colonel Guy Johnson.
Collection:Richard Price Papers (Mss.B.P93)
Language:English
Date:1811-1884
Contributor:Fiske, Moses | Peale, Franklin, 1795-1870 | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Sellers, George Escol
Subject:Human remains | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Mounds | Mississippian culture | Adena culture | Hopewell culture | Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806) | Antiquities | Material culture | Pottery | Peale's Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) | Museums
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Catalogs
Extent:4 items
Description: 1) Moses Fiske's description of skeletal remains found in basket burial in Warren County, Tennessee, in 1810. 2) Charles Willson Peale's catalogue of museum contents: "Indian curiosities, dresses, ornaments. Implements of agriculture, war, etc. of various nations. In the upper Room." Artifacts and articles of dress of western Indians (Lewis and Clark); ornaments from Ohio mounds; unidentified belts, pouches, and arrowheads. 3) Benjamin Franklin Peale's description of his collection of Material culture; thinks pottery fragments sent to him by Sellers are those of Mound Builders. 4) George Escol Seller's letter describing his artifacts from mounds in Ohio, 60 specimens of tools and cloth. Argues that Franklin Peale collected specimens to show the unity of mankind, while Sellers collects to find the variety of tools. Discusses Mound Builders at some length.
Collection:Peale-Sellers Family Collection (Mss.B.P31)
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Language:English
Date:1915-1950
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Hardenbrook, Louise | Greywacz, Kathryn B. | Howells, W. W. (William White), 1908-2005 | Launer, Philip | Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-2000 | Fewkes, Vladimir J. | Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883- | Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994 | McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892- | Ritchie, William A. (William Augustus), 1903-1995 | Spaulding, Albert C. (Albert Clanton), 1914-1990 | Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977 | Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977 | Eisenberger, E. | MacDonald, Ada S. | Swales, Bradshaw Hall, 1875- | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956 | Cartwright, Willena Dutcher | Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt), 1903-1982 | Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 | Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949 | Caldwell, Joseph R.
Subject:Fieldwork | Ethnography | Ethnohistory | Anthropology | Archaeology | Shamanism | Scapulimancy | Treaties | Mounds | Basketry | Indian arts--North America | Place names | Museums | Ethnology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Drafts | Essays | Reports
Extent:18 folders
Description: This entry concerns materials relating to Speck's general study of Native American peoples, languages, and cultures east of the Mississippi, as well as to his activities as a consulted expert in the field. Includes Speck's miscellaneous notes on the southeast; notes on "tribal remnants" in the southeast; notes on shamanism in the northeast; notes on the 1941 symposium Man in Northeastern America; offprints, drafts, and synopses of the work of others, sometimes with Speck's notes, including several that were printed in Frederick Johnson's 1946 volume based on the symposium, Man in Northeastern North America; archaeological reports on southeastern pottery, mound sites, and the Georgia coast; a student's master's thesis on mound-builders; and letters from various correspondents regarding eastern Indian baskets, museum specimens, the sale of Indian art and specimens, the ethnohistory of the southeast, Indian place names, archaeological sites in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, scapulimancy, copies of Indian treaties from a museum in Nova Scotia, and other topics.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:1931-1941
Contributor:Schoff, Harry L.
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology | Mounds | New York (State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:2 items
Description: Materials relating to archaeological sites in New York State. Includes Schoff's reports and photographs on Wheatland Mound, Kip Island site, and Eagle Bluff site, all in Seneca County, New York, and regarded as Point Peninsula aspect, an undated letter from Schoff to Edmund S. Carpenter, and an unattributed item titled "Vandalia Mound Materials," a report on a Hopewellian site in Cattaraugus County, New York, along with a site map and two photographs.
Collection:United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948 (Mss.913.748.Un3)
Language:English
Date:December 4, 1792
Contributor:McHenry, James, 1753-1816
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to Rufus King regarding demand of Indians for medals, and suggests designs.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:October 27, 1855
Contributor:Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872 | Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
Subject:Archaeology | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Objects to Frazer's hostile anonymous review of recent Smithsonian work on ethnology (Antiquities of Wisconsin), because of Frazer's lack of knowledge of ethnology.
Collection:John Fries Frazer Papers (Mss.B.F865)