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Culture:
Chiapanec includes: Chiapaneco
Date:1939
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:15 pages
Description: The Chiapanec materials in the ACLS collection consists of one item in the “Mexico” section of the finding aid: “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5) which includes Chiapanec vocabulary. The author is unidentified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language:English | Kuna, San Blas | Kuna, Border | Miskito
Date:2007
Contributor:Kendall, Daythal
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Bibliographies
Extent:5 pages
Description: In Daythal Kendall's card files (Series 8) is a single page with a handwritten classification of the Chibchan language family that stretches across southern Central America and South America, and a brief lexicon of Kuna and associated Miskito bibliography.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Culture:
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Language:English
Date:August 25, 1837
Contributor:Gibbon, J.H.
Subject:Archaeology | Antiquities | Pottery
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to John Vaughan regarding gold idols found near falls of river on Bogota plains together with pottery remains; image sent to American Philosophical Society.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Úza includes: Chichimeca-Jonaz
Date:1929
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 letter
Description: Currently, the only Chichimeco-related letter identified in this collection is one letter from Pablo González Casanova from January 17, 1929. This collection contains the bulk of correspondence between Franz Boas and his professional colleagues, though there are also other Boas collections in the library. The correspondents listed above contain some correspondence related to the culture or language listed in this entry. In the finding aid listings for some of these correspondents, the individual letters pertaining to this culture or language will be identified by a subject heading, though for some correspondents this indexing has not yet been completed. Some letters may contain only brief mentions of work being conducted in relation to the topic. Some additional correspondences in this collection that have not yet been indexed may also contain additional material.
Collection:Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61)
Culture:
Date:1800
Contributor:Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
Subject:Linguistics | Tennessee--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:17 pages
Description: The Chicasaw materials in this collection consist of manuscripts listed in the finding aid as items 5 and 8: Benjamin Hawkins' "A comparative vocabulary of the Muskoges, or Creek, Chickasaw, Chocktaw, and Cherokee languages," and Daniel Smith's "Vocabulary of the Chickasaw Indians, Tennessee."
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Language:English
Date:1787; 1777
Contributor:Sevier, John, 1745-1815
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Letter from John Sevier regarding Creek raids and a murder in Chickasaw territory. Second item titled "Talk from Indians to George Golphin, one of the commissioners of Indian affairs" in which the King of Talesy (probably the Creek town of Tálisi) speaks of trade with Pensacola; relations with Chickasaws and Choctaws. In a second speech the King of the Ocksuskeys (probably the Creek town of Okfuski) speaks of Cupitaws (possibly either the Creek town Kasíhta or Kawíta) and Ockjoys (probably Creek town Oktcháyi); describes a belt of wampum.
Collection:Benjamin Franklin Papers (Mss.B.F85)
Date:1972
Contributor:Pulte, William John, 1941-
Subject:Linguistics | Muskogean languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: This item consists of a letter from William (Bill) Pulte regarding his graduate work on the Chickasaw and Cherokee languages enclosing a paper titled "The Position of Chickasaw in Western Muskogean."
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Date:1985, 1991
Contributor:Carlisle, John C. | Drechsel, Emanuel J.
Subject:Art | Linguistics | Oklahoma--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs | Reports
Extent:7 pages, 8 photos
Description: The Chickasaw 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 Carlisle and Drechsel.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Language:English
Date:March 24, 1837
Contributor:Troost, Gerard, 1776-1850
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Phrenology | Skulls | Mounds | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Sends drawings of heads, one of an ancient tribe, flattened at back of head, from mound at junction of French-Broad and Holston rivers. Other from bank of Cumberland river above Nashville, probably of Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Choctaw nations said to visit here. They seem much alike in their living form to Troost.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:January 8, 1740
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Warfare | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France)
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 page
Description: Letter to Samuel Blunston. Mentions past expedition against Chickasaws; movement of French and Indians.
Collection:Selections from the correspondence of the Honourable James Logan, 1699-1750 (Mss.B.L82)