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Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Unkechaug includes: Unquachog
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Miami includes: Myaamiaki
Mohican includes: Mahican, Muhhekunneuw
Lenape includes: Lenni-Lenape, Delaware
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Atakapa includes: Atacapa
Language:Algonquin | Delaware | Unami | Munsee | Nanticoke | Ojibwe | Cree | Shawnee | Mahican | Quiripi | Oneida | Cayuga | Onondaga | Miami-Illinois | Cherokee | Chickasaw | Choctaw | Muscogee | Tuscarora | Chitimacha
Date:n.d., 1792-1808?; 1802-1808
Contributor:Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 volume
Description: 4 pages of words from Jefferson's standard form, with equivalents in Mohiccon and three other languages numbered as 1, 6, 7 (Mohiccon), and 8. A comparative vocabulary of 22 languages, arranged tabularly to follow Jefferson's standard printed vocabulary form. Languages include Delaware, Unami, Monsi, Chippewa, Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Tawa, Shawanee, Nanticoke, Mohiccon, Unkechaug, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Miami, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Tuscarora, Chetimacha, and Atacapa.
Collection:Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (Mss.497.J35)
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date:n.d., 1830-1833, before 1839
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | James, Edwin, 1797-1861
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars
Extent:1 volume
Description: Printed sheets pasted into volume; manuscript notes by Peter S. Du Ponceau.
Collection:Conjugation of the verb "to hear" in its various forms in the Chippeway language (Mss.497.J23)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1932
Contributor:Fenton, William N., (William Nelson), 1908-2005
Subject:Connecticut--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Connecticut Indigenous materials in the Fenton papers can be found in Series III, which includes Fenton's 1932 paper, "The Connecticut Algonkians," written for George P. Murdock's course in ethnology at Yale. Additional material may potentially exist among correspondence in Series I.
Collection:William N. Fenton papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.20)
Culture:
Piscataway includes: Conoy
Language:English
Date:1945
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 pages
Description: Two letters of William H. Gilbert to Frank G. Speck, concerning "We Sorts," a remnant group of Maryland, perhaps Weschuk, and thought to be Piscataway (Conoy).
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Coos includes: Hanis, Miluk
Date:undated
Contributor:Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930 | Sokolow, Jane | Kendall, Daythal
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Daythal Kendall created several lexical slip files out of the Coos linguistic data collected by Leo Frachtenberg, including his own linguistic analysis, which can be found in Series 8. The other item of significance is a manuscript by Jane Sokolow on Coos phonology, found in correspondence with William Shipley (Series 1).
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)
Language:English
Date:1933-1935
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Zingg, Robert M.
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Essays
Extent:130+ pages, 3 folders
Description: The Cora and Huichol materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers can be found in a few items. In Subcollection I, Series II, see "Notes on parallels between Cora-Huichol and the Pueblo" (item 37); and notebook 4 in "Mitla journals" (item 19), which may contain some field notes. In Subcollection II, Series III, "Lectures and Manuscripts," see manuscript also titled "Note on Parallels Between the Cora-Huichol and the Pueblos." In Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes," see "Cora/Huichol notes." Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Culture:
Cora includes: Naáyarite
Language:Cora, Santa Teresa | Cora, El Nayar | English
Date:1988-1992
Contributor:Casad, Eugene | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: William Bright's only Cora materials consist of correspondence with Eugene Casad (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Language:English
Date:1978-1979
Contributor:Bierhorst, John | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
Subject:Anthropology | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Flyers | Obituaries
Extent:14 items
Description: Fourteen letters between Frederica de Laguna and John Bierhorst, from April 7, 1978 to May 31, 1979, initially regarding a permission question, with additonal subsequent correspondence including de Laguna's reaction to a review of Under Mount Saint Elias, reference to her travel plans, offering comments on Yakutat Tlingit informants and Yakutat music, and mention of Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ruth Benedict, David McAllister, and Alan Lomax. Includes copies of obituaries (in 2004) for de Laguna and the program for her memorial service at Bryn Mawr College.
Collection:Correspondence between Frederica de Laguna and John Bierhorst (Mss.SMs.Coll.22)
Culture:
Date:1783-1817
Contributor:Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | McAtee, William L.
Subject:Botany | Health | Linguistics | Religion | Rites and ceremonies | Zoology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:107 pages
Description: These letters authored by Benjamin Barton Smith to various correspondents discuss Indian vocabulary words for birds, earthquakes, and animals of their domestic economy. Smith solicits information about Indian beliefs about health, nursing, menstration, animal sacrifice, Indian Bible, origins of Indian tribes, white race, Orthography and spelling, chief's political power, and comparative linguistic analysis between Indian and Asiatic languages.
Collection:Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284d)
Culture:
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date:1885
Contributor:Newhouse, Seth
Subject:Great Law of Peace | Politics and government | Rites and ceremonies | Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Stories
Extent:1 volume, 302 pages
Description: Copy of original, formerly in possession of Ray Fadden, St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, Hogansburg, New York, now in possession of Mohawk tribe. Includes story of Dekanawidah, lists of chiefs, ceremonial chants (including Condolence Council), constitution and its acceptance (pages 1-200), version of same in Mohawk with interlinear translation, names of principal families, and incomplete "aboriginal dictionary." Marginal notes by William N. Fenton. Fully described in Fenton (1949).
Collection:Cosmology of De-ka-na-wi-da's government of the Iroquois confederacy, 1885 (Mss.970.3.Ir6)