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Culture:
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Meskwaki includes: Mesquakie, Musquakie, Sac, Sauk, Fox, Sac-and-Fox
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:1952-1956
Contributor:Albert, Whitney | Brown, George | Buck, Gordie | Buck, Morris | Buck, Richard | Kenosha, David | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Lewis, Thomas | Link, Sam | Martin, John | Miller, Huron | Pamptopee, Betty | Roberts, Wilson | Shagonaby, Susan | Shalifoe, Thomas | Smoke, Percy | Thomas, Eli
Subject:Michigan--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording | Text
Extent:1 phonograph disc (45 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: A compilation LP record of Native American musical and dance recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath at numerous locations from 1952 to 1954, published in 1956. Also includes a 20-page booklet with extensive background information, biographical info on the performers, explanations of songs, musical analysis, and sheet music. All of the Onondaga and all but one of the Cayuga recordings in the collection are restricted due to cultural sensivity concerns.
Collection:Songs and Dances of Great Lakes Indians (Mss.Rec.22)
Language:English
Date:1819
Contributor:Davis, John
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John Vaughan (?), suggesting that Du Ponceau obtain a copy of Febres (1765).
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wonderly, William L. | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | Peeke, M. Catherine
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Colombia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Notes | Essays | Maps
Extent:12 folders
Description: There are many items relating to South American languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials that cover South American languages in general and might not show up in narrower searches. Researchers should also view the entries for specific languages (i.e., Quechua, etc.). In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with John H. Rowe and William L. Wonderly in Series I. Correspondence; a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages placed unexpectedly at the end of Ojibwa Folder #4 in Series II. "Ethnological Research Opportunities in Colombia," "Living Language Families," and "Peopling of the New World (South America After North America)" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; George P. Murdock's "Maps for South America" (Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture"), M. Catherine Peeke's "Divisive Criteria for Auca World Classes," and William L. Wonderly's "List of Central American Indian Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others; a file on "Amazon Indian Languages" (containing typed classifications of languages of the Amazon, Putomayo, and Caqueta regions of Brazil, with population numbers) and folder on South American and Other Latin American Languages (which includes Central America and Mexico and contains a list of languages and notes on some of them) in file in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes [see also the associated material in Oversized]; and a map of "South America and other Latin American languages" in Series VII. Photographs. Several references throughout the collection are made to "Island" and "Central American" Carib.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1833
Contributor:Van Heuvel, J. A. (Jacob Adrien), 1787-1874
Subject:Guyana--History | Demerara
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Two letters to Rafinesque: (1) Asks for information on Charibs; has vocabularies of Guiana Indians: Arrowauk, Guaranos, Ackoway, Macoussie, Atoray. He may read paper before Albany Institute on history of Guiana. (2) Sends vocabularies of Guaranos. Ackoways, Atorays, and Macoussies. Explains how he acquired them. Mentions Charibs [Caribs?]. Describes living quarters of Warrows (i.e., Juarros or Guaranos in Demerara).
Collection:C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124)
Language:English
Date:July 6, 1936
Contributor:Britten, Marian Hale
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Speck written from Washington regarding Speck's reappointment to Committee on Survey of South American Indians, National Research Council.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Language:French
Date:July 7, 1804
Contributor:Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859
Subject:South America--History | Travel writing
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items (17 pages)
Description: Humboldt sends notes (or abstract) of his travels, which he hopes Vaughan will translate and insert in an appropriate publication. The account is biographical as well as a summary of Humboldt's travels, 1790-1804.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)
Date:1815-1834
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 1767-1835 | Laet, Johannes de
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks
Extent:9 notebooks
Description: Includes Lengua del Chile, extracted from Molina (1788). Notes, vocabulary, and comparisons from De Laet (1633) on languages of Guiana. Discussion of 184 dialects found in the Orinoco region, extracted from Humboldt (1814).
Collection:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (Mss.410.D92)
Language:English
Date:1937
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Subject:Oceanography | Meteorology | Colombia--History | Ecuador--History | Panama--History
Type:Text | Still Image | Cartographic
Extent:1 volume
Description: Volume 38, titled "Choco expedition. 1937. Field work in the launch "Wilpet" between Panama and Ecuador". Primarily concerned with collection of water samples from the Pacific, meteorological data, etc. Some notes and discussion of Indigenous peoples of Colombia and Ecuador. A partial list of groups and places mentioned: Choco, Citara, Noanama, Cholo, Paparo, Tucura(?), and Kuna.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)
Culture:
Xavante includes: Akuen
Wapishana includes: Wapichan
Wayana includes: Uaiana
Yanomami includes: Yąnomamö, Yanomama
Ye'kuana includes: Maquiritari, So'to, Yecuana
Ticuna includes: Tucuna, Magüta
Tiriyó includes: Trio
Piaroa includes: De'arua, Wothuha
Kanamari includes: Canamari
Kayapo includes: Caiapó, Cayapo, Mebêngôkre
Kraho includes: Craho, Craó, Krahô
Macushi includes: Macuxi, Macusi, Teueia, Teweya
Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág
Aymara includes: Aimara
Ayoreo includes: Ayoreode
Baniwa includes: Curipaco, Vaniva, Walimanai, Wakuenai
Language:English
Date:1962-1978
Subject:Brazil--History | Genetics | Guyana--History | Venezuela--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence | Maps | Photographs | Speeches
Extent:4 linear feet (estimate)
Description: The South American materials in the James V. Neel papers consists materials related to Neel's genetics and populations studies among some indigenous people in Brazil, Venezuela, and Guyana. The bulk of these materials concern the Xavante and Yanomami peoples, written as "Yanomamo" by Neel. These materials can be found throughout most sections of the finding aid, though see especially "Series IIa: Amerindian" and "Series IIIa: Amerindian." In addition to data, reports, correspondence, and other manuscripts, "Series X: Photographic materials" contains numerous photographs of Xavante and Yanomami peoples from the 1960s. Materials on other indigenous groups can be located by searching within the finding aid for the culture terms listed above in the entry or by searching for the term "Indians."
Collection:James V. Neel Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.96)
Language:English
Date:January 4, 1945
Contributor:Drake, Charley G.
Subject:Anthropology | Botany | Agriculture
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Speck written from Union City, Georgia. Requesting a copy of "Gourds of the Southeastern Indians"; payment enclosed.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)