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Language(s): English | Keres, Western
Date: circa 1930s
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975
Subject: Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography | New Mexico--History | Music
Type:Text
Genre: Songs
Extent: 69 pages
Description: The Acoma materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Acoma" section of the finding aid, "Songs from Acoma and Santa Ana" (item Ke2.1), a manuscript with texts of 88 songs with interlinear translations, including typed copy of one song arranged in model form. Numbers refer to phonograph records, likely at the National Anthropological Archives. English Orthography and spelling; phonetic emendations by Franz Boas. Includes songs from Santa Ana Pueblo.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture: Haudenosaunee | Seneca
Alternate forms: Iroquois
Date: 1936
Contributor: Randle, Martha Champion | Black, Edward | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Shanks, Robert
Subject: Dance | Music | Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Sound recording
Extent: 4 sound tape reels (4 hr., 10 min.)
Description: Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse, recorded by Martha Champion Randle on phonograph discs in 1936. These recordings are restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns.
Collection: Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse (Mss.Rec.17)
Culture: Cherokee
Date: 1953, 1960-1961, 1972, 1976-1977, 1980-1981, 1984-1988, 1992-1999, 2012
Contributor: Bender, Margaret Clelland | Druke, Mary A. | Fogelson, Raymond D. | Huff, Charles T. | Ishii, Izumi | Jordan, Linda | Kilroe, Patricia | Kosmider, Alexia | Nichols, David A. | Phillips, Joyce B. | Phillips, P. Gary | Pulte, William John, 1941- | Rachlin, Carol K. | Ruff, Rowena McClinton | Scancarelli, Janine | Sheidley, Nathaniel J. | Uchihara, Hiroto | Witthoft, John
Subject: Education | Botany | Georgia--History | Land tenure | Linguistics | Medicine | Missions | Music | North Carolina--History | Orthography and spelling | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre: Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent: 1123 pages
Description: The Cherokee materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 19 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bender, Druke, Fogelson, Huff, Ishii, Jordan, Kilroe, Kosmider, Nichols, Phillips, Phillips, Pulte, Rachlin, Ruff, Scancarelli, Sheidley, Uchihara, and Witthoft. Some of these materials may be restricted due to cultural sensitvity or privacy considerations.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture: Cheyenne
Date: 1949, 1963-1964, 1976, 1985-1987, 1991-1994, 2005, 2009
Contributor: Berndt, Christina | Guerrier, William | Leman, Wayne | Meadows, William C., 1966- | Merrill, William Lewis | Olson, Donald | Powers, William K.
Subject: Dance | Botany | Folklore | Linguistics | Montana--History | Music | Powwows | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre: Field notes | Photographs | Reports | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 1325 pages, 64 photographs
Description: The Cheyenne materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 7 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Berndt, Guerrier, Leman, Meadows, Merrill, Olson, Powers.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Alternate forms: Kotyit
Language(s): English | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western
Date: 1919-1940, 1957
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre: Notebooks | Shorthand | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 552 pages, 6 notebooks
Description: The Cochiti materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Cochiti" section of the finding aid, there is a set of 5 field notebooks (item Ke1.7) recorded by Boas in 1921-1922 containing his original field notes, texts, vocabularies, paradigms, and notes in German shorthand. A second set of loose-leaf notes (item Ke1.6) consists of texts with interlinear translations derived from the notebooks, 20 of which were later rendered into free translations by Ruth Benedict and published in 1931. In the "Keresan" section, Boas' "Keresan word list and linguistic notes" (item Ke1.1) contains 8 folders of Laguna and Cochiti grammatical, linguistic, folkloristic, and ethnographic materials. His "Keresan lexical file" (item Ke1.2) contains 8,000 Keresan terms, with some references to manuscripts from which they were derived, many of which are likely Cochiti. (This file may contain Western Keres as well.) In the "Laguna" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Laguna Vocabularies and texts" (item Ke2.4) includes Keresan, Laguna, and Cochiti Vocabularies, grammatical notes, and texts. Lastly, in the "Tewa" section, "Cochiti and San Juan Pueblo songs" (item Ke1.10) contains words, music, paraphrase of text, lists of ceremonial terms, and a "Phonologic chart for Cochiti Keresan and Tewa-Tanoan." NOTE: Portions of this material may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture: Lenape
Alternate forms: Delaware
Date: 1973-1974
Contributor: Roark-Calnek, Sue N., 1936- | Washington, Fred | Wilson, Tom | Dean, Nora Thompson
Subject: Dance | Music | Oklahoma--History | Rites and ceremonies | Religion
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Elicitation sessions | Prayers | Songs
Extent: 4 audiocassettes (3 hr., 30 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Performances of Lenape ("Delaware") sacred and secular songs with interspersed commentary, commentary on Big House ceremony in Delaware in English, Delaware vocabulary, and prayers. Recorded by Sue Roark-Calnek in Oklahoma in Wann and Dewey, Oklahoma in 1973 and 1974. Some recordings in this collection are restricted due to cultural sensitivity. (NOTE: This material has been digitized. The non-restricted recordings 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: Delaware songs and texts (Mss.Rec.106)
Alternate forms: Arapahoe, Atsina, Gros Ventre
Date: 1995
Contributor: C'Hair, Wayne | C'Hair, William James | Gone, Fred P. | Hatton, Orin T., 1953- | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931-
Subject: Dance | Linguistics | Music | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Wyoming--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Interviews | Songs
Extent: 5 sound tape reels (4 hr., 44 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic and cultural fieldwork about songs associated with the Crow Dance of the Northern Arapaho and its relation to the Ghost Dance and other tribes' dances. Consists of linguistic and cultural analysis and transcription of 16 pre-recorded songs sung by Fred Gone, Sr. an with Arapaho consultant, William C'Hair. Also includes extensive discussion of Arapaho customs and ceremonies. Recorded in Arapahoe, Wyoming on 18 July 1995. (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: Ghost Dance-era Songs of the Arapaho Crow Dance (Mss.Rec.242)
Culture: Haudenosaunee | Oneida | Seneca
Alternate forms: Iroquois
Language(s): English
Date: 1920-1939
Contributor: Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937 | Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955 | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Subject: Population | Folklore | Material culture | Hunting | Architecture | Pottery | Music | Drums | Clans | Politics and government | Social life and customs | Kinship | Religion | Animals | Games | Rites and ceremonies | Ethnography
Type:Still Image
Genre: Lecture notes | Bibliographies | Notes | Charts
Extent: 1 folder
Description: The Haudenosaunee materials in the Hallowell papers are located in Series V. There are postcards of museum exhibits featuring Iroquois culture in the "American Indian" series of folders. The rest of the materials are concentrated in the folder labled "Eastern Woodlands." These items include information on material culture, the social organization of the confederacy, a chart of relational systems of clans, kinship, and genealogy. Specific topics includ Huron Mythology, Oneida magic, Seneca secret societies and genealogy. Some of this material is culturally sensitive and may be restricted.
Collection: Alfred Irving Hallowell Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.26)
Culture: Ho-Chunk
Language(s): Ho-Chunk
Date: 1935-1937
Contributor: Blowsnake, Jasper | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Subject: Medicine | Music | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Wisconsin--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Songs
Extent: 33 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: The Ho-Chunk materials in the Frank Speck recording collection consist of 14 recordings, primarily of instrumental flute music for various occasions, as well as lullabies, peyote songs, and other medicine songs. (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: Recordings of Cherokee, Creek, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux, Santee, Tutelo, and Winnebago (Mss.Rec.49)
Culture: Hopi
Date: 1965
Contributor: Albert, Earl | Black, Robert A., 1927- | James, Alice | Nash, Sylvin | Talawepi, Charlie | Talayeseva, Don
Subject: Arizona--History | Music | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Interviews | Songs
Extent: 4 sound tape reels (5 hr., 17 min.)
Description: Field recordings made in Arizona in 1965. Hopi songs of a wide variety, including kachinas, clown, and corn-grinding songs, many with translation and commentary. Also includes Pan-Indian English-language "pachala" songs and discussions of different types of songs, dances, ceremonies, and subsistence activities. Portions of this collection may be restricted due to potential cultural sensitivity and privacy concerns.
Collection: Hopi Indian Songs (Mss.Rec.56)