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Culture:
Rarámuri includes: Tarahumara
Language:English | Spanish | Tarahumara, Central
Date:1931, 1940
Contributor:Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953 | Henry, Jules, 1904-1969
Subject:Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Ethnography | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Dictionaries | Field notes | Newsletters | Notebooks | Photographs | Vocabularies
Extent:300+ pages, 1800 slips, and 3 notebooks
Description: The Rarámuri materials in the ACLS collection consist of several items located in the "Tarahumara" section of the finding aid. There is a set of texts with interlinear Spanish translations (item U6a.2), recorded by Wendell Bennett, with a related lexical file (item U6a.1) of 1800+ word slips derived from the texts. Material recorded by Jules Henry consists of 3 field notebooks (item U6a.4) with texts with interlinear translations and biographical information on speakers who provided the stories. Henry's related "Tarahumara materials" (item U6a.3) includes a diverse set of items, including word lists, a draft dictionary, additional texts, a Spanish-Tarahumara newsletter, and a "Cartilla Tarahumara de Lectura" with photomechanical prints depicting housing, utensils, clothing, and social customs.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:French
Date:1783
Contributor:Mandrillon, Joseph, 1743-1794
Subject:Expeditions
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:127 pages
Description: This small leather bound volume contains an essay by APS member Joseph Mandrillon, prepared for the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon. The essay discusses the discovery of America, early exploration, and colonization. It is written in French. Joseph Mandrillon was a French businessman and writer elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1785. This essay was printed, with slight changes, in Le Spectateur américain ou remarques générales sur l'Amérique septentrionale et sur la république des Treize États-Unis (Amsterdam, 1784).
Collection:Recherches philosophiques sur la découverte de l'Amérique, 1783 (Mss.973.1.M31)
Culture:
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Language:English
Date:1630-1682
Contributor:Conyngham, Redmond, 1781-1846
Subject:Pennsylvania--History | New Jersey--History
Type:Text
Genre:Government documents
Extent:66 p.
Description: The volume contains records relating to the history of Dutch settlers in the territories that the English acquired. It may contain references to Lenape people in the Delaware River area, though specific references have not yet been identified. These are copies of documents that are held at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Many were originally in Dutch but were translated to English in this volume. The documents contain records from as early as 1638 and continue through Edmund Andros' term as governor of New England and ends in 1700. The documents include many official government proclamations and legal documents relating to Dutch property and their rights within English colonies.
Collection:Records concerning the early settlements on the Delaware River (Mss.974.8.P37)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1955
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Subject:Ethnography | Religion | Medicine | Folklore | Music | Michigan--History
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Essays | Songs
Extent:1 volume
Description: The draft of an unpublished book. Includes pictures and musical scores. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. Twelve chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Also, presnnts Ottawa superstitions (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see also #2642), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references.
Collection:Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians (Mss.497.3.K965a)
Language:English
Date:1972
Contributor:Boas, Franziska, 1902-1988
Subject:Anthropology | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Biographies | Interviews | Oral histories
Extent:76 pages
Description: Franziska Marie Boas was the youngest of six children of anthropologist Franz Boas and Marie Krackowizer. These reminiscences of her father, Franz Boas (1858-1942), were the result of an interview by John R. Cole of the Oral History Research Office at Columbia University in 1972. Portions of her life are highlighted but the primary focus is on her father, Franz Boas, with numerous comments on his students and colleagues. This is a typed transcript of the original interview reels in the Oral History Research Office of Columbia University, now the Columbia Center for Oral History.
Collection:Reminiscences of Franziska Boas : oral history, 1972 (Mss.B.B61re)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1861-1916
Contributor:Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927
Subject:Archaeology | Art | Dance | Boarding schools | Museums | Travel | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History | Arizona--History | New Mexico--History | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Essays
Extent:19 items
Description: Narratives of travels and adventures, 1881-1864, 1881-1916, in the Far West, Southwest, Northwest, northern Mexico, as well as Ohio, New York, and Europe, apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describing an Indian attack. Visits Pima Indians, Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; visits Gila River reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on Northwest Art; statues of Indian heroes in Northwest. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum. See especially #1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19.
Collection:Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips (Mss.B.Ay2)
Culture:
Zapotec includes: Zapoteco, Zapoteca
Language:Zapotec, Rincón | Spanish
Date:1952
Contributor:Alleman, Vera Mae
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: William Bright possessed a copy of Vera Mae Alleman's "Vocabulario Zapoteco del Rincon" (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Snuneymuxw includes: Sneneymux, Nanaimo
Ktunaxa includes: Kootenai, Kootenay, Kutenai, Tonaxa
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Language:English
Date:1880-1908
Contributor:Bell, Robert | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Isbister, William
Subject:Anthropometry | Physical anthropology | Geology | Geography | Birds | Human remains | Grave robbing | Museum objects | Museum specimens | Museums | Chicago World's Fair
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 folders
Description: The Robert Bell correspondence collection is a small collection of incoming letters to Robert Bell, who was primarily a geologist. The main content relating to Indigenous peoples in the collection is from Franz Boas, which mentions Boas's field trips to British Columbia and Baffin Island, anthropometric data collection, the collection of objects for museums, and human remains. There is also mention of William Isbister documenting Cree stories around Oxford House, Manitoba. See individual letter descriptions for more detail.
Collection:Robert Bell correspondence (Mss.B.B421)
Language:English
Date:November 29, 1838
Contributor:Webb, Samuel | Hare, Robert, 1781-1858
Subject:History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Asks him to accept a history of the Pennsylvania Hall, since part of the Hall's dedication is to the Indians. Hare has spoken of oppressed Indians.
Collection:Robert Hare Papers (Mss.B.H22)
Culture:
Language:English | Chehalis, Lower | Quileute | Quinault | Blackfoot
Date:1925-1927
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:1 reel
Description: These linguistic materials include field notes taken by Ronald L. Olson pertaining to the Quinault and Quileute Indians, and a vocabulary of the Blackfoot language assembled by Isaac Ingalls Stevens, as well as a comparative vocabulary of Indians of the United States. From originals in the University of Washington Libraries.
Collection:Ronald L. Olson microfilm collection, 1925-1927 (Mss.Film.1276)