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Culture:
Yurok includes: Pueleekla’, Puliklah
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dene includes: Athabaskan, Athapascan, Athabascan, Athapaskan
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Arapaho includes: Arapahoe
Language:English
Date:1911-1934
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Anthropology | Material culture | Specimens | Kinship | Art | Motifs | Migrations
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Questionnaires
Extent:4 folders
Description: Materials relating to linguistics. Includes an undated 4-page list of 34 questions on culturally patterned aspects of language attributed to Hallowell; correspondence with Boas relating to the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Research in American Native Languages, principally consisting of reports on grants and their progress (1927-1934); and two folders containing 30 letters from Sapir (1911-1924). The Sapir letters cover a range of topics including Northeast material-culture specimens;s of Speck;s of Sapir; linguistic field work among the Montagnais [Innu], Cree, Delaware, Seneca, Mohawk, and Penobscot; relation of Algonquian and Wiyot-Yurok; on Yana (with Ishi); Arapaho-Cheyenne; Sapir's paper on Levirate marriage; Yurok kinship; a scheme to test response of anthropologists to an Indian design; work on his grammar of Paiute; reduction of language stocks to 6 (1920); his work on Subtiaba; relationships in and around Hokan-Coahuiltecan, and some discussion of migrations, seeing Athabaskan as late arrival. Discussion of colleagues: Mechling, Barbeau, Heye, Radin, Dixon, Skinner, Goldenweiser, Gifford, Frachtenberg, Reichard, Goddard, Boas, Hawkes.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:English
Date:January 20, 1823
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Describes poem; discusses Indian languages.
Collection:George William Featherstonhaugh Papers (Mss.B.F31)
Language:English
Date:October 22, 1818
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Concerning women's dialect.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
Culture:
Unangax̂ includes: Aleut, Unangas, Unangan, Алеу́ты, Унаӈан, Унаӈас
Scaticook includes: Scatticook, Schaghticoke
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Language:English
Date:April 11, 1803; November 1, 1953
Contributor:Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Witthoft, John
Subject:Linguistics | Moravians | Missions | Pennsylvania--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:2 items
Description: Item 1: Letter from Humboldt to William Smith asking for a copy of Barton (New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America, 1797), and any other works pertaining to North and Middle American languages. Item 2: Witthoft's "Preliminary listing of resources in American Indian languages in the Archives of the Moravian Church." Includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century materials described as "Algonquin, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Onondaga, Eskimo, Cherokee, Checameca, Mahican, and Scatticook". Compilers include Zeisberger, Pyrlaeus, Dencke, Heckewelder, Gambold, Ettwein, etc.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Language:English
Date:Undated
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Drafts
Extent:7 items
Description: Materials relating to Radin's linguistic studies. No clearly identified language. Includes lexical slips, phonetic charts, interlineal translations (One Rib is mentioned), vocabularies (deer hide is mentioned), notes on third plural, etc. Also includes "Is there a substratum language in America?" an outline attempt to classify languages by common phonetic characteristics.
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)
Culture:
Language:English | Apache, Lipan
Date:Circa 1936-1939; 1975
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Mendez, Lisandro | Zuazua, Augustina
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Texas--History | Education | California--History | Boarding schools
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Field notes | Stories
Extent:3 items
Description: Items relating to the study of the Lipan Apache language. These include three short Lipan texts (undated) in phonemic transcription, with English translations on separate pages for which Lisandro Mendez is credited as an informant; a notebook (circa 1936-1939) titled "Lipan Apache FIeld notes" containing texts ("At School" and "Further Schooling," one of which concerns the St. Boniface Industrial School in Banning, California) in Lipan Apache in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses, and notes to the texts on facing pages; and a typed draft and offprint of Hoijer's resulting article, "The History and Customs of the Lipan, as told by Augustina Zuazua," published in the journal Linguistics 161 (1975): 5-38.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Culture:
Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh
Date:1964
Contributor:Albert, Christine | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976
Subject:Linguistics | Yukon--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:4 sound tape reels (3 hr., 34 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings of Gwich'in ("Loucheux") language. Elicitation of a numbered list of words and phrases. Recorded by Harry Hoijer with consultant Christine Albert in Edmonton, Alberta on July 29-30, 1964. (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:Loucheux Recordings (Mss.Rec.149)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:Undated
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Uto-Aztecan languages | California--History
Type:Text
Extent:8 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Luiseño language have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. They are all in Subcollection II. There is a Luiseño folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries IX. Uto-Aztecan, except Hopi. Luiseño is also one of the languages Voegelin considered in a grammatical analysis of Uto-Aztecan languages. Drafts of seven chapters of this work can be found in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III: Uto-Aztecan book. Researchers might also be interested in the general Uto-Aztecan entry for the Voegelin Papers.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:1956
Contributor:Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Pitkin, Harvey
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Description: The Luiseño material in the Harvey Pitkin Papers consists of a select but important collection of miscellaneous materials in Series III, notes by A.L. Kroeber, in Series III-B, and manuscripts and texts by Kroeber in Series III-C.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Luiseño includes: Payómkawichum
Date:unknown
Contributor:Steele, Susan
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Drafts | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: Jane Rosenthal possessed drafts of two linguistics manuscripts by Susan Steele on Luiseño syntax and auxiliaries.
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)