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Language:English
Date:November 26, 1875
Contributor:Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Subject:Archaeology | Beads | Graves | Grave robbing
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Collecting beads; has many from Indian graves. The Smithsonian wants to display them at the Centennial.
Collection:Samuel Stehman Haldeman letters (Mss.B.H129)
Date:1950-1995
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Chafe, Wallace L. | Abler, Thomas S., (Thomas Struthers), 1941-2019 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Michelson, Karin | Pirie, M. C. | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Cooper, Leroy | Gillespie, John W. | Young, Norman | Curry, Ed | Dowdy, Herb | Jones, Albert
Subject:Folklore | Ethnography | Linguistics | Archaeology | Art | Psychology | Kinship | Cosmology | Rites and ceremonies | Music
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Notes | Notebooks | Grammars | Dictionaries | Newspaper clippings | Vocabularies | Songs | Stories
Description: The Seneca materials in the Lounsbury Papers include his extensive work on kinship. Linguistic materials in Series II include work done by Karin Michelson, Morris Swadesh, and Wallace Chafe. Recordings in Series VII include songs from the Cold Spring Longhouse on the Allegany Indian reservation (NY). There are a large number of unidentified songs.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1929-1947
Contributor:Schoff, Harry L. | Cadzow, Donald A. | Skinner, Dorothy P.
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology | Mounds | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Reports | Notes | Photographs | Negatives | Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items relating to the excavation of Seneca-associated sites in New York and Pennsylvania under the Works Progress Administration. Skinner's 1929 "Reports of Pennsylvania Archaeological Survey," concerns the ethnological work of Dorothy P. (Mrs. Alanson) Skinner among Senecas at Quaker Bridge and Cornplanter Reservation, New York, with discussions of Frank G. Speck's field work among the Delawares and archaeological work at Clemson's Island, Pennsylvania. Schoff and Cadzow's collection of materials on the Irvine Mound Group in Warren County, Pennsylvania, consists of 100 photographs, 48 negatives, and 86 pages describing the excavations and artifacts, particularly of the Buckaloons site and the Nathaniel mound, and some letters to Edmund Carpenter from Frank M. Setzler, William N. Fenton, A. Wetmore, and Richard G. Morgan.
Collection:United States. Work Projects Administration (Pa.) Reports, 1918-1948 (Mss.913.748.Un3)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1903-1948
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988 | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys | Poole, Earl L. | Witapanóxwe
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Social life and customs | Dance | Funeral rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Social life and customs | Pennsylvania--History | Moravians | Clans | Kinship | Oklahoma--History | Art | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Newspaper clippings | Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:6 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Shawnee language, history, and culture. Includes an essay on Speck's visit to an excavation site at Fort Hill, Pennsylvania in July 1903 in which he identifies the site as Shawnee; a letter from Carl Voegelin and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin transmitting lists of Shawnee dances to Speck; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin concerning field data on Shawnee use of false faces; an undated report by Wheeler-Voegelin on general burial traits, including a brief account of field experiences and an 8-page outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure; a letter from Gladys Tantaquidgeon concerning Shawnee legends, asking about silk applique techniques, and enclosing news clippings; and 16 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Shawnee notes and correspondence, including two letters from Earl L. Poole (Reading Museum), together with a transcript of a 1747 letter of Conrad Weiser taken from American German Review: 12: 4, 18-19, April 1946, regarding meeting of Shawnees and Count Zinzendorf; a postal card from "C" on grasshopper war; a letter from Wheeler-Voegelin; a letter from War Eagle concerning Bread Dance; 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; and notes on Shawnee clans.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:1920-1962
Subject:Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:88 pages
Description: Correspondence between friends Alfred Kidder and Neil M. Judd, primarily personal in nature, but also including include sporadic references to excavations at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, and other archaeological sites, with a few references to other archaeologists and anthropologists and the Alfred Vincent Kidder Award. Letters are listed in the guide to the Alfred Vincent Kidder Papers; some also have brief descriptions.
Collection:Alfred Vincent Kidder Papers (Mss.B.K53)
Culture:
Poqomam includes: Pokomam
Date:1955
Contributor:Miles, Suzanne W.
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Diaries
Extent:1 volume
Description: Anthropologist Suzanne W. Miles received her Ph.D. at Radcliffe in 1955 for a study of the Pokom-Maya Indians [Poqomam]; she died in Guatemala in the mid-1960s. This volume is a field diary kept by Miles in the Cuchmatanes mountains of Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.
Collection:Suzanne W. Miles field diary (Mss.572.9728.M59)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1905-1947
Contributor:Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subject:Archaeology | Expeditions | Orthography and spelling
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:39 volumes
Description: Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the native people. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. Includes 106 ink sketches and 105 pencil sketches by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley to illustrate his excavation descriptions of Mayan sites in Yaxchilan (1931), Calakmul (1932), Copan (1937, 1947), and Uxmal (1941-42). Primarily Mayan glyphs, images include diagrams of stairways, pyramids, and ball courts. Originals at Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection:Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828)
Culture:
Date:1911-1913 and undated
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Archaeology | Uto-Aztecan languages | Folklore | Rites and ceremonies | Religion
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Notes | Notebooks | Field notes | Sheet music | Reports | Essays | Stories | Prayers | Vocabularies | Songs
Extent:7 items; photographs
Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest in and research on Tepecano language and culture. Items include 8 notebooks of field notes (1912-1913), containing a list of specimens purchased, texts, and notes on the language, ethnology, and archaeology, etc.; Mason's Preliminary Report as Fellow to the Escuela Internacional de Etnologia y Arqueologia Americanas (1912-1913), on continued investigations in linguistics, religion, ethnology, and mythology of the Tepecanos and in the archaeology of their region; Mason's Tepecano linguistic file, comprised of about 1000 cards with Tepecano words and sentences, with Spanish translations for most and English translations for some; Mason's "A Sketch of Tepecano Religion," which includes some comparison with religious beliefs of Huichols and Coras; a Tepecano Rain Festival Song, musical score with Tepecano lyrics; 6 pages of Tepecano verbal roots with English glosses; and Mason's miscellaneous notes on Tepecano regarding ethnology, linguistics, religion, Piman [Akimel O'odham] comparisons, etc., and including prayers with interlinear English translation (with note "work done for Boas").
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1950
Contributor:Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997 | Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997
Subject:Archaeology | Human remains | Mounds | Pottery
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Diagrams | Photographs | Reports
Extent:1 volume
Description: A report to the American Philosophical Society, summarizing archaeological data on Pennsylvania tumuli contained in manuscripts deposited in its library (i.e., site reports in Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania [913.748 Un3]). All but essays, earlier theories, the position of the Iroquois; his conclusions; summaries of the Irvine Mounds group, the Sugar Run mounds; and essays on Sugar Run pottery and skeletal remains by James B. Griffin and T. Dale Stewart have been printed.
Collection:The ancient mounds of Pennsylvania (Mss.913.748.C223)
Culture:
Tiwanaku includes: Tiahuanaco, Tiahuanacu
Language:English
Date:Circa 1940s
Subject:Archaeology | Peru--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Reports
Extent:2 minutes
Description: The Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers contains one recording by an unidentified speaker giving measurements of numbered Tiwaniku statues, found in Series VII: Recordings.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)