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Date:1917-1925, 1931
Subject:Caddoan languages | Coahuiltecan languages | Hokan languages | Language families | Linguistics | Muskogean languages | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 page, circa 1,300 cards and slips
Description: The Hokan materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of two items in the "Hokan" section of the finding aid. The main item is Sapir's "Hokan-Siouan comparisons" lexical file (item H.3). This consists of comparisons among various families of the proposed Hokan-Siouan phylum. Dividers separate sections as follows: Hokan-Siouan (Yuki; Muskogean: Caddoan; Siouan; Hokan-type Coahuiltecan-Butiaba); Washo-Hokan; Hokan-Coahuiltecan; Yana-Hokan. It is subdivided by stems, grammatical categories, and occasionally by meaning. There is an additional brief document by Kroeber, item H.4 "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages", with wordlists of 21 English items with equivalents in Yuman, Hokan, Subtiaba, Xinca, Lenca, Chibcha, Guayom, Chibchan, Zoque, and Mixe, taken from published and unpublished sources. In the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, there are two items by Jaime de Angulo examining the relationship of Achumawi to the proposed Hokan language family (items H.1 and H.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:1936-1947
Contributor:Marsh, Gordon H. | Small, Julia | Small, Robert | Whitman, William | Small, Jack | Small, David | Durand, Venie | Barnes, Gertrude | Small, Ed (Elwood) | Bassett, Anna | Springer, Wiley | Green, Rachel
Subject:Dhegihan languages | Ethnography | Iowa--History | Language families | Linguistics | Siouan languages
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Grammars | Photographs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1,000+ pages, 18 photographs, 4,000 cards, 75 bluebooks (4-8 pages each)
Description: The Iowa materials in the ACLS collection consist primarily of materials collected by Gordon Marsh in the late 1930s, all located in the "Iowa" section of the finding aid. Marsh's materials (item X4a.2, "Materials for a study of the Iowa Indian language"), recorded with the assistance of Iowa speakers, especially Robert Small and Julia Small, include numerous texts on a variety of subjects, which are in the manuscripts in both initial handwritten form (in bluebooks) and in later typescript form, with both interlinear translations and free translations, of which some of the latter were made by Robert Small. This material is divided into 22 parts. This material also includes a draft version of a grammar of the Iowa extensive lexical files including Iowa-English, English-Iowa, and comparisons to related languages (Osage, Dakota, Lakota, Omaha-Ponca, Kansa, and Ho-chunk); and other linguistic notes, with related correspondence. There are also 18 photographs of Iowa people with whom Marsh worked. In this same section, there is also a brief descriptive grammar by William Whitman (item X4a.1) based on field work with an Iowa speaker and an Oto speaker.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western
Date:1919-1928
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Keresan languages | Language families | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:Circa 8,000 slips, 1 notebook, 85 loose pages
Description: The Keresan materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items compiled by Franz Boas, located in the "Keresan" section of the finding aid. The "Keresan word list and linguistic notes" (item Ke1.1) includes Cochiti and Laguna grammatical, linguistic, folkloristic, and ethnographic materials. There is also "Keresan lexical file" (item Ke1.2) likely derived primarily from Cochiti and Laguna fieldwork, though the extent of other languages' information is undetermined. Other materials from this collection that primarily relate to Laguna or Cochiti are listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Date:circa 1930s-1960s
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Pierce, Joe E.
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Algonquian languages | Language families
Type:Text
Extent:9 folders, 1 box
Description: The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain grammatical notes, noun and verb paradigms, short texts, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Meskwaki (Fox) language and culture. These are located in both Subcollection I and Subcollection II of the Voegelin Papers. Materials in Subcollection I include 1 box of Fox [Meskwaki] stems labeled "research assistant's notes from published sources" in Series II. Card Files. Materials in Subcollection II include Fox [Meskwaki] grammatical notes and noun and verb paradigms in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries III. Macro-Algonquian. There are also Fox [Meskwaki] examples in at least 6 folders ("Č and K," "L and M," "N and P," " Š and T," "Θ and ?" and "Specimens of Central Algonquian") of the many Comparative Algonquian notebooks in the same subseries (i.e., Macro-Algonquian). Finally, there is a copy of "Fox Grammar" (1952) by Joe E. Pierce in Series IV. Works by Others.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Language:English
Date:1930-1938
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Psychology
Type:Text
Extent:360 pages
Description: The materials in the ACLS collection relating generally to the study of the linguistics, and not to specific languages, are located in the "Linguistics, General" section of the finding aid and consist of several essays and reports relating to issues such as transcriptions methodologies, psychology of language, language classification, and assessments of the state of the study of Indigenous American languages in the 1930s.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Language:English
Date:1939 and undated
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Penutian languages | Uto-Aztecan languages | Migrations | Archaeology | Anthropology | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items: Radin's undated "Aboriginal history of North America," an outline considering physical and archaeological evidences for various waves of migration to North America, and Whorf's "Remarks on Utaztecan and Macro-Penutian," a discussion of Utaztecan, Penutian, and Mayan and probable linguistic relationship.
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)
Date:Undated
Contributor:Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Dene languages | Language families | Linguistics | Sino-Tibetan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Extent:4 volumes (approximately 500 pages each)
Description: The Na-Dene materials in the ACLS collection consist of a 4 volume Comparative Na-Dene dictionary (item Na20a.3) by Edward Sapir, found in the "Athapaskan" section of the finding aid. Volumes 1, 3, and 4 are comparative Na-Dene with provision for various Athabaskan languages and dialects, Haida, and Tlingit. Volume 2 is comparative Sino-Tibetan-Na-Dene with provision for entries in Sino-Tibetan languages, Dene, Haida, and Tlingit. Most pages in all volumes have only a few entries. Other Tlingit, Haida, and Dene materials in the ACLS Collection (Mss.497.3.B63c) are listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Tututni includes: Rogue River
Takelma includes: Rogue River
Chasta Costa includes: Shasta Costa, Chastacosta, Rogue River
Language:Chinook Jargon | English | Shasta | Takelma | Tututni
Date:1903-1904; 1906
Contributor:Johnson, Frances | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | St. Clair, H. H. (Harry Hull)
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Medicine | Music | Oregon--History | Penutian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Musical scores | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:5 notebooks (approximately 120 pages each), 6 pages (sheet music), 36 loose pages
Description: The Takelma material in the ACLS consist primarily of materials found in the "Takelma" section of the finding aid, item Pn1.1. The bulk of this material is that recorded by Edward Sapir in 1903-1904, consisting of 5 field notebooks with texts with English translations and medicine formulas (published in 1909) as well as paradigms and other grammatical notes. This material also contains sheet music with transcriptions of four Takelma songs and one each for Chasta Costa, Shasta, and Chinook Jargon. Remaining leaves are vocabulary notes made by H. H. St. Clair. In the "Penutian" section, there are also two sets of "Coos-Takelma-Penutian comparisons" (item P1.2 and P1.3).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Ohkay Owingeh includes: San Juan Pueblo
Cochiti includes: Kotyit, Keres
Date:1915, 1957
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Language families | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Charts | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:28 pages
Description: The Tewa materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Tewa" section of the finding aid. One is a brief Tewa word list from 1915 (item T1a.1), recorded by Edward Sapir. The other is Kurath's "Cochiti and San Juan Pueblo songs" (item Ke1.10), which consists of words, music, paraphrase of text, lists of ceremonial terms, and includes a list of contents of audio collection "Tewa Recordings, Ohkay Owingeh" (Mss.Rec.25), listed separately in this guide. Also includes a phonologic chart for Cochiti Keresan and Tewa-Tanoan. Some of this material may be culturally sensitive and reproduction restricted.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English
Date:circa 1974
Subject:Language families | Uto-Aztecan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies
Extent:480 pages
Description: The Uto-Aztecan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item, listed under "Unidentified author," which is a bibliographic card file on Uto-Aztecan languages, from the 19th century to 1974.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)