Guide to the Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society

Description: The Nuu-chah-nulth materials in the ACLS collection consist of a large body of various materials primarily collected by Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, George Hunt, and Morris Swadesh. The majority of the content pertains to Hupacasath and Tseshaht people in the Alberni Valley area, with the exception of the Hunt materials, which were recorded in the Yuquot area, Mowachaht territory. All of these materials are found in the "Nootka" section of the finding aid, which contains a full, detailed listing. The Boas materials consist of a lexicon of 1500+ word slips dating from the 1890s (item W2a.3). Hunt's "Nootka Tales" (item W2a.5) consist of large body of traditional stories written in English and later typed up by Sapir with additional notes. Sapir's materials comprise the bulk of this section overall. See especially his extremely voluminous "Miscellaneous Nootka material" (item W2a.18), the final item in the "Nootka" section, for which a detailed table of contents is available upon request. This set of materials includes 24 field notebooks with extensive stories (some unpublished or untranslated) and ethnographic notes, as well of 80 folders of typed up notes from the notebooks, arranged into categories. It also includes some photographs, censuses of Nuu-chah-nulth "bands" (1920-1921), and 10 folders notes derived by Sapir (and Swadesh?) from "NW Coast Sources and Archives," pertaining to the region more broadly, including information on Coast Salish culture and history. Finally, Swadesh's materials in this section include some additional ethnographic and linguistic field work, as well as extensive bodies of linguistic analysis of materials recorded by Sapir and himself. Brief passages on Comox and Pentlatch in Sapir's notes in loose folders. Detailed guide available upon request.

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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O'odham materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Tohono O'odham includes: Papago

Akimel O'odham includes: Pima

Language:English | Tohono O'odham

Date:1957-1962, 1978-1980, 1994-1997

Contributor:Bahr, Donald M. | Fitzgerald, Colleen Miriam | Graves, William | Gregorio, Juan | Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001

Subject:Arizona--History | Linguistics | Music

Type:Text

Genre:Correspondence | Interviews | Reports | Songs

Extent:627 pages

Description: The O'odham materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bahr, Fitzgerald, Graves, and Hale.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Oaxaca materials, Field notebooks and anthropometric data

Culture:

Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca

Pochutec includes: Pochuteco

Chatino includes: Kitse Cha'tño

Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish

Date:1912

Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History

Type:Text

Extent:1 notebook

Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)

Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)

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Okanagan Salish stories and songs

Culture:

Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan

Language:Okanagan (nsyilxcən) | Chinook Jargon | English | French

Date:1961, 1966, 1971

Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Music | Religion | British Columbia--History

Type:Sound recording

Genre:Stories | Prayers | Songs | Conversations | Vocabularies

Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 4 min.) : DIGITIZED

Description: Syilx (Okanagan Salish) stories with English free conversation on dialectical variations in Okanagan and borrowing from French and English; elicitation sessions covering animal names, fish names, body parts, and words containing fricatives; Catholic hymns in Okanagan and Chinook. Recorded in Penticton, Spectacle Lake, and head of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, in 1961, 1966, and 1971. Project report, letter to APS Librarian, and detailed tape contents available in Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4). (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:Okanagan Salish stories and songs (Mss.Rec.101)

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Omaha materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:

Omaha includes: Umoⁿhoⁿ

Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks

Dakota includes: Dakȟóta

Language:English | Omaha-Ponca

Date:1935 and undated

Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950

Type:Text

Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Stories | Vocabularies

Extent:2 folders

Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Omaha language, history, and culture. One folder contains 11 pages of miscellaneous notes including 1 page of Sioux [Dakota] or Omaha words, 3 pages of Omaha lexical items, Sioux song text, 4 pages of Omaha text and paradigms, vocabulary, ethnological notes, and 3 pages of Omaha verb conjugations. The second folder contains five pages of material relating to a Plains Indian shield, including one card of bibliographic notes, a letter from Chicago dealer Albert G. Heath to Speck concerning a Pawnee shield sent as specimen, and a letter from F. T. Thunder to Speck concerning an Omaha shield he is making.

Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)

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Oneida materials, Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers

Culture:

Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka

Potawatomi includes: Pottawotomi, Neshnabé, Bodéwadmi

Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw

Menominee includes: Menomini, Mamaceqtaw

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language:English | Oneida | Menominee | Potawatomi | Mahican

Date:1938-1996

Subject:Linguistics | Religion | Pedagogy | Music | Wisconsin--History

Type:Text | Sound recording

Description: The Oneida materials in the Lounsbury Papers include photographs in Series I. Series II contains plays and songs from the WPA Oneida Language Project and the Workers Alliance of the Oneida Indian Council. Also of interest are an Oneida dictionary by Mercy Doxtator, et al., a field notebook by Martin Joos, and Lounsbury's work on an Oneida dictionary. There are an abundance of recordings in Series VII including "Dekanawidah" as told by Demus Elm; the "opening" of the Thanksgiving address; sixteen conversations in Oneida; music. The correspondence, in Series I, includes Clifford Abbott's work, Oscar Archiquette's letter in Oneida, Harry Basehart work on Oneida language, medicine-compounding, false faces, [Oneida] hymnbooks, Leonard Bloomfield's study of alternative forms for Oneida numerals, William Fenton's studies of Oneida linguistics, Bryan Gick's the Harvey / Demus Creation / Tekanawita story in Oneida with a complete English translation, Tayokawe (Curtis John) language materials and recordings, Robert Ritzenthaler's Oneida recordings and translation of Oscar Archiquette's Oneida diary, Morris Swadesh on the Wisconsin Oneida language project, Tony Wonderly's list of Oneida personal names

Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)

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Papiamento materials, Phillips Fund Collection

Culture:

Curaçaoan

Language:English | Papiamento | Spanish

Date:1963-1964

Contributor:Forbes, Jacques C. R.

Subject:Curaçao--History | Dance | Linguistics | Music | Social life and customs

Type:Text | Still Image

Genre:Bibliographies | Reports | Stories | Photographs

Extent:30 pages; 52 slides

Description: The Papiamento materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Forbes. See collection "Materials on Papiamento, native language of the Netherlands Antilles" (Mss.Rec.48) for accompanying audio.

Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)

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Penobscot materials, Frank Siebert Papers

Culture:

Penobscot

Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac

Abenaki includes: Abnaki

Language:English | Abenaki, Eastern

Date:1669; 1678; 1725-1796; 1809-1884; 1900-1995

Type:Sound recording | Still Image | Text

Extent:12 linear feet; 3 hrs. (audio); 5 photographs

Description: The Penobscot materials in the Frank Siebert Papers are concentrated in Series III. Siebert collected census material, treaties and treaty minutes, placenames, with a strong representation of songs, stories, and linguistic materials. There are detailed notes about Indian claims in Maine and genealogical information. There are also educational materials for the teaching of the Penobscot language as well as a wealth of information on Penobscot linguistics. Series V, Siebert's notebooks, have extensive grammatical, phonetic, and vocabulary of the Penobscot language. Both Series III and V reflect Siebert's deep interest in the history of Maine and the Eastern Abenaki including archaeological, pre-history, and colonial era documents such as the Eliot Bible, which Siebert owned a rare copy in his library, which was sold at auction. Series VI and VII contain various drafts of essays on Penobscot culture, language, and history. Series XI contains 5 related photos of Louis Lolar, taken in 1933. Series XII contains approximately 3 hours of Penobscot language recordings, primarily from the 1930s and 1950s.

Collection:Frank Siebert Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.97)

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Ponca materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:

Ponca

Language:Omaha-Ponca | English

Date:1994-1997

Contributor:Anderton, Alice J. | Bright, William, 1928-2006

Subject:Music | Linguistics

Type:Text

Genre:Musical scores | Correspondence

Extent:1 folder

Description: William Bright corresponded with Alice J. Anderton on Anderton's transcriptions of Ponca (Omaha-Ponca) songs (Series 1).

Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)

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Quileute materials, ACLS collection

Culture:

Quileute

Language:English | Quileute

Date:1908-1933

Contributor:Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941 | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Howeattle, Arthur | George, Hallie B. | Reagan, Albert B., 1871-1936

Type:Still Image | Text

Extent:817 loose pages; 21 notebooks; approx. 4,800 word slips; 1 map

Description: The Quileute collection in the ACLS collection consists of a large body of materials located primarily in the "Quileute" section of the finding aid. These materials were recorded primarily by Albert Reagan, Leo Frachtenberg, and Manuel Andrade. Reagan was an Indian agent and teacher at the Quileute Day School. His materials (item W3a.10, "Quileute ethnology"), dated from 1908-1913, primarily include drawing made by students at the Quileute Day School. These images include pencil and ink sketches, color crayon drawings, watercolors, and gelatin silver prints of utensils, canoes, drums, rattles, toys, arrows, masks, totems, and decorative patterns. Frachtenberg's materials date from roughly 1915 to 1922 and contain detailed ethnographic and linguistic information, split up into several different listed items. Andrade's work followed shortly after Frachtenberg and concerns primarily linguistic information and additional stories. Arthur Howeattle is a prominent Quileute consultant for some of these items. Some additional materials comparing the Quileute and Chemakum languages can be found in the "Chimakum" section of the finding aid (items W3b.1, W3b.2, and W3b.4), as well as comparisons of Quileute and Nuu-chah-nulth in the "Nootka" section of the finding aid (item W2a.13).

Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)