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Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Brazil--History
Type:Still Image
Genre:Photographs
Extent:2 photographs
Description: The Amazonian materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of two silver prints of unidentified indigenous people of the Amazon.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Apinayé includes: Apinajé
Date:1957-1971
Contributor:Hymes, Dell H. | Schilling, Carol S. | Schneider, David Murray, 1918- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Nimuendajú, Curt
Subject:Linguistics | Brazil--History | Ethnography | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Lecture notes | Notes | Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:over 400 pages
Description: The Apinayé materials in the Lounsbury collection consist of materials in two sections. Series I contains correspondence with Dell Hymes, concerning a manuscript in German on the Apinayé by Curt Nimuendajú, and with Carol Schilling and David Schneider. In Series II, in the "South America" sub-series, there are four folders beginning "Apinayé" by Lounsbury, mainly on kinship terminology.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Bakairi includes: Kúra, Bacairi
Language:English | Bakairi | Portuguese
Date:1950
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Gardiner, Rev. Father Giles | Levak, Zarko David, 1934- | Harmon, Carlo
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Education
Type:Sound recording | Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Correspondence
Description: The Bakairi materials in the Lounsbury Papers include recordings of the Bakairi language made in 1950, which can be found in Series VII. In Series I, see correspondence with Rev. Father Giles Gardiner and Carlo Harmon. In the "South America" section of Series II, see the folder "Paressi and Bakaire," which includes vocabulary.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Language:English | Guarani | Bororo | Paresi | Portuguese
Date:1950
Contributor:Wilbert, Johannes | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Schuster, Carl, 1904-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnography | Brazil--History
Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text
Genre:Stories | Notebooks | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Photographs | Songs
Description: The Bororo materials in the Lounsbury Papers include linguistic materials in Series II. There are a significant number of audio recordings of narratives and chanting in Series VII. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Zarko Levak's work on the Bororo, Carl Schuster's photographs of Bororo jaguar skin robes. See also correspondence with the Eastman Kodak Company about photos of Bororo people that they refused to develop.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Date:1976-1984
Contributor:Keesing, Roger M., 1935- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Crocker, William H. | Schilling, Carol S.
Subject:Kinship | Place names | Sociology | Ethnography | Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence
Extent:ca. 360 p.
Description: The main Canela materials in the Lounsbury Papers are located in Series II, in the Kinship - South America subseries: 2 folders of notes, charts, correspondence and drafts under "Canella" and a paper with correspondence by Roger Keesing titled "Formal and Sociological Analysis of Ramkokamekra Kinship". See also Carol Steffens Schilling's "Social Structure of the Eastern Timbira", which may describe the Canela. Series I contains correspondence with William Crocker regarding his work on Canela kinship. Some information about kinship terminology within the Canela language is likely to be included.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Date:circa 1948-1950
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Folklore | Venezuela--History | Guyana--History | Brazil--History | Suriname--History | French Guiana--History
Type:Text
Extent:19 folders
Description: Several items relating to Carib languages have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection I. They include extensive correspondence with Douglas MacRae Taylor (regarding his fieldwork and written work on Carib languages, including some stories, translations, and other linguistic materials) in Series I. Correspondence; Voegelin's "Black Carib Morphology" and "Central American Carib II: Morphology of the Verb" (with Douglas MacRae Taylor) in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; ten files of Taylor's work (including notes, outlines, and essays) on Black Carib, Central American Carib, and Island Carib in Series IV. Works by Others; a Carib file with data on Black, Central American, and Island Carib in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; and four folders of unbound Carib texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Texts.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Date:1936-1950
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Rahder, Johannes | Rubin, Joan, 1932- | Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939- | Pérez Cardozo, Félix, 1908-1952 | de Souza, Pedro Coelho
Subject:Linguistics | Brazil--History | Folklore | Music | Ethnography | Paraguay--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Bibliographies | Notebooks | Vocabularies | Songs | Stories
Description: The Guarani materials in the Lounsbury Papers can be found in multiple sections of the collection. In Series I, there is correspondence from Rahder, Rubin, and Tulchin. In Series II, in the "Other Languages and Cultures of the Americas" section, there are Lounsbury's notes, "Têtagüá Sapucài (Grito del Pueblo)," which accompany sound recordings. In the "South America" section of Series II, see Fieldnotes #5, under "Brazil," and "Terena and Guarani Wire Recordings Tables of Contents." In Series VII, there are two sets of digitized recordings, "Paraguayan Popular Music" and "Terena-Guarani." Of special interest among the audio is the "Story of the Guarani creator, Tupi, and the creation of the Guarani people" told by Pedro Coelho de Suza.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1820?
Contributor:Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823
Subject:Brazil--History
Type:Text
Genre:Reports
Extent:3 leaves
Description: Collection contains one item of relevance titled "The case of the Brazilian Indians." Compares American and Brazilian Indian policy. Both wish to civilize "barbarians," on the one hand independent, on the other dependent, but free. Original in Library of Congress.
Collection:José Francisco Correia da Serra papers (Mss.B.C81.1)
Culture:
Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág
Date:1936
Contributor:Henry, Jules, 1904-1969
Subject:Brazil--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Grammars
Extent:46 pages
Description: The Kaingang materials in the ACLS collection consist of a single item, "The Kaingang language" (item Ge:K.1) which includes a grammatical sketch, with morphology and grammatical categories. Based upon field work in Santa Catarina, Brazil, 1932-1934. This materials can be located in the "Kaingang" section of the finding aid.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Brazil--History | Gê languages
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:1 folder
Description: One item relating to the Kaingang language of Brazil has been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. It is an undated folder located in Subcollection I, Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes. It contains a typed 13-page outline of Kaingang based on Jules Henry's article in IJAL.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)