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Language:English
Date:1939
Contributor:Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Linguistics | Penutian languages
Type:Text
Genre:Outlines | Tables (documents)
Extent:6 pages
Description: Material relating to Penutian languages. Consists of Benjamin Lee Whorf's "Macro-Penutian," a list, in outline form, of divisions and subdivisions of Macro-Penutian as far as Whorf felt certain at the time.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:Circa 1940 and undated
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Butler, Eva L.
Subject:Anthropology | Archaeology | New England--History | Connecticut--History
Type:Text
Extent:2 folders
Description: Materials relating to Pequot history and culture. The first folder contains a 28-page paper, possibly by Speck, on 1939 excavations near Noank Cove, Connecticut. The second contains an undated 25-page account of the "Beginnings of Pequot Plantation," attributed to Eva L. Butler, based on documents in New London, Groton, and Hartford, intended school children, and distributed by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:December 5, 1819
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Vater | Peale
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Maps | Sketches
Extent:1 Letter
Description: Concerning a publication for Vater on Indians. Concerning a sketch of Indians which Peale might copy. Suggests illustration and map for new edition. Material on the Pequot, etc. Maybe [Peale] will do a sketch for illustration.
Collection:John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (Mss.497.3.H35o)
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Language:English
Date:1994-1995, 2007
Contributor:Den Ouden, Amy E. | Grandjean, Katherine
Subject:Connecticut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Reports | Transcriptions
Extent:60 pages
Description: The Pequot materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Den Ouden and Grandjean.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Date:1527-1964
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Crime | Guatemala--History | Politics and government | Religion | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Baptismal records | Books | Censuses | Legal documents | Photographs
Extent:23 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers pertaining to the Peten region of Guatemala are found primarily in Series II of the collection. This series consists of extensive ethnohistory materials including oral histories and photocopies of documents from numerous local community archives, both within and outside the Peten region, the Archivo General de Centroamerica (AGCA), and the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville. The material dates from the 15th century through the 1960s. Reina copied the material with portable photocopy and photographic equipment under poor conditions. The series includes 5 subseries: Encomiendas y Tierras; Libros Antiguos de Cofradias; Ethnohistorical Data; Peten Court Records; and Transcriptions. Each section contains a description of the conditions under which the materials were collected and the provenance of the materials, including whether the materials are still in existence. The Mayan langauges identified above should be regarded only as probable given the locations from which documents originated. Additional relevant materials may be found in Series VI, VII, VIII, XI, and XII.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1781-1844
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Adams, John, 1735-1826 | Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859 | Coodey, William Shorey, 1806-1849 | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:.5 linear feet
Description: A pioneer in ethnographic and linguistic studies of the American Indian and one of the most active members of the American Philosophical Society, Peter Stephen Du Ponceau helped to establish the American Philosophical Society's reputation as one of the world's foremost centers for the study of American Indians and their languages. The Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Collection consists of correspondence on legal matters, Indian linguistics, silk culture, maritime law, the American Philosophical Society, and various publications of the early nineteenth century. The collection also includes several essays by Du Ponceau, most of which deal with maritime law. Materials in this collection that relate explicitly to Native peoples include a letter from Du Ponceau to John Vaughan discussing the merits of John Heckewelder's "Account...of the Indian Nations" (1818); a letter from John Adams informing Du Ponceau that his and Heckewelder's studies on Native Americans have diminished certain prejudices he (Adams) had against them, and mentioning certain works which might be of interest in Du Ponceau's study of universal language (1819); another letter from Adams relative to lost languages in general and Adams' desire to see Heckewelder's account of his missionary labors with Indians (1819); a letter from Du Ponceau to Marc-Antione Jullien de Paris mentioning the imposture John Dunn Hunter, who claimed to have been captured by Kickapoo Indians and raised among the Kickapoo, Kansa (Kaw), and Osage (1826); another letter to Jullien de Paris mentioning a review of his Delaware grammar (1828); a letter from William Shorey Coodey (Cherokee) forwarding a book in the Cherokee language translated by S.A. Worcester and Elias Boudinot (1836); and a letter from William Hickling Prescott thanking Du Ponceau for his work on Indian languages and mentioning John Vaughan and John Pickering (1839). There are also two letters from linguist Albert Gallatin, one that informs Du Ponceau of his progress on the Indian vocabularies and another that includes a newspaper clipping defending Gallatin against those who assailed his reputation. See the finding aid for an itemized list of the collection.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Collection (Mss.B.D92p)
Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
San Felipe includes: Katishtya, Keres
Nottoway includes: Cheroenhaka
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Ho-Chunk includes: Winnebago, Hoocąk
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Language:English
Date:1801-1843
Subject:Linguistics | Philology
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence
Extent:33 items
Description: Correspondence, largely from Peter S. du Ponceau to Albert Gallatin, regarding legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society. Specific topics include exchanges of publications and manuscripts between the two men; the creation of a map of Indian languages; the government's collecting of Indian vocabularies and du Ponceau's refusal to supply Historical and Literary Committee material to the government, believing that the committee rather than the government should undertake the collection and publication of Indian materials; methods of seeking data on languages, and the difficulties of sentence for testing problems of comparative Vocabularies;s both already published and in progess, such as Eliot's Grammar, Barton (1797), Pickering (1820), Hodgson on the Berber, Najera (1837), Zeisberger (1830), Gallatin (1836), Prichard (1813), several of du Ponceau's works, etc.; du Ponceau's acceptance of copies of Gallatin's Synopsis, with a jab at its Worcester (rather than APS) the fate of the manuscript for du Ponceau's prize essay: the printer bankrupt, difficulties in getting manuscript returned, and du Ponceau has no full copy; of du Ponceau's study of Chinese;s and the Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee; du Ponceau's acceptance of vocabularies on behalf of the the state of European linguistics; Pickering's alphabet for Indian languages; Carib women's vs. men's the opposition founding of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and du Ponceau's efforts to make peace by submitting his translation of Vater's Enquiry for them to publish; illnesses and deaths in du Ponceau's family; and du Ponceau's age, health, and failing eyesight. Other individuals mentioned include Franklin, Rush, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Cass, Schoolcraft, Long, Ebeling, Adelung, Klaproth, Balbi, Humboldt, Volney, and Heckewelder. Originals at the New York Historical Society.
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau letters, 1801-1843, to Albert Gallatin (Mss.Film.541)
Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Language:English
Date:1756-1908
Contributor:Society of Friends
Subject:Missions | Education | Religion | Government relations | Pennsylvania--History | New York (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Diaries | Reports | Minutes
Extent:12 reels
Description: Selections made by Dr. George Snyderman for the American Philosophical Society from the Society of Friends' Record Room in Philadelphia. Includes 12 reels of letters, diaries, reports of missionaries and individual Quakers, etc., committee reports and correspondence from Indians to Quakers, 1791-1908 and undated; minutes of the Committee...for Promoting the Improvement and Gradual Civilization of the Indian Natives (Indian Committee), 1795-1895 and beyond; minutes of the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures, 1756-1791; and miscellaneous papers of teachers, pupils, visitors to Tunessassa Indian School, Quaker Bridge, New York, mostly twentieth century.
Collection:Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Indian Committee. Records, 1791-1892 (Mss.Film.824)
Culture:
Piaroa includes: De'arua, Wothuha
Date:Undated
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Subject:Linguistics | Colombia--History | Venezuela--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:8 pages
Description: The Piaroa materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of a single word list in Series II, Other Languages and Cultures of the Americas - South America, in a folder titled "Piaroa".
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Picuris includes: Tiwa
Language:English | Tiwa, Northern
Date:1925
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941
Type:Text
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Picuris materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of a Picuris notebook and map found in Subcollection I, Series II, "Notes, manuscripts, etc." Some of this material may be restricted due to cultural sensitivity or privacy concerns. Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)