Miscellaneous collection on the American Indian, 1949-1961

Mss.497.3.G41

Date: 1949-1961 | Size: 1 Linear feet, Ca. 365 items, 75 photographs

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Abstract

This collection pertains principally to the Cherokees of North Carolina and Oklahoma and to their language, ethnography, folklore, archeology, history, music, etc. Includes Indian studies and correspondence by Gillespie, notes on Indian dances and linguistics, bibliographies, publications of the Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University, and newspaper clippings. Also comprised of materials on: Apache, Calusa, Chippewa, Choctaw, Delaware, Eskimo, Fox, Iroquois, Karankawa, Kuchin, Louchens, Mattaponi, Muskogee, Navajo, Onondaga, Pueblo, Sauk, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Sioux, Slave, Timucua, Tuscarora, Tutelo, and Wyandot. Contains: Gillespie, "A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family," 1949-1954 (131 pages); "Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language"; "Miscellaneous items pertaining to the American Indian."

Scope and content

"A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family": A discussion of the history of the Sequoyan syllabary; the western (North Carolina) Cherokee; migration; relation of syllabary characters to Cherokee design; phonemics and sound shifts as an indication of relation of Cherokee-Iroquoian to Caddoan languages; phonetics and morphophonemics; free forms vs. bound forms; grammar arranged by semantic categories.

"Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians and language": Materials pertaining to the Western Cherokee Nighthawk Keetowahs, together with dance materials, music, medicinal and ceremonial observations, transcripts from notes, etc. (1951-1952). Includes Alice Marriott, Ethnographic observation of the nighthawk Keetowah, and Gillespie, The Kthula cult of Haiti.

Native American Images note: Nearly 600 photomechanical prints, black and white silver gelatin photographs, ink and pencil sketches, maps, news clipping photographs, and color postcards of Eastern Cherokee Indians, collected and taken by John D. Gillespie while researching Native American music from 1947-1961. Images depict the social life and customs of the Cherokees of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee and Oklahoma with such practices as ball playing, basket weaving, dances, beadwork, pottery and native dress. Also, some individual and group portraits of Junaluska, Sequoyah and Koshare Indian dancers. Includes some materials on Mayan, Cheyenne, Navajo, Choctaw, and Pueblo tribes. Referenced in the Supplement of the Freeman Guide to manuscripts relating to the American Indian.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Physical description

Ca. 365 items; 75 photographs.

Provenance

Presented by John D. Gillespie in honor of Dr. Frank Speck and accessioned, 02/1962. See in-house shelf list for additional accession numbers and dates.

Indexing Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Archaeological Society of Brigham Young University

Genre(s)

Clippings.
Gelatin silver prints
Maps.
Newspaper clippings
Photomechanical prints
Photoprints.
Postcards
Sketches.

Personal Name(s)

Gillespie, John D.
Junaluska
Sequoyah

Subject(s)

Cherokee Indians
Cherokee dance
Cherokee language
Cheyenne Indians
Choctaw Indians
Indian dance -- North America
Indians of North America -- Languages
Indians of North America -- North Carolina
Indians of North America -- Oklahoma
Indians of North America -- Tennessee
Navajo Indians
Pueblo Indians

Detailed Inventory

No.1 Gillespie, John D.. A grammar of western dialect of Cherokee language of the Iroquoian family	1949-1954	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Abstract: Sequoyan syllabary
No.2 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous material on the Cherokee Indians	1951-1962	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Abstract: Materials pertaining to the western Cherokee Nighthawk Keetowahs, together with dance materials, music, medicinal and ceremonial observations, transcripts from notes, etc. Including Alice Marriott "Ethnographic observation of the Nighthawk Keetowah" and John Gillespie "The Kthula cult of Haiti." Native American Images note: 9 pencil sketches, 1 negative print, 59 ink sketches, 6 newspaper clippings of diagrams of Keetouwah ceremonial dances, music score of a lullaby, glyphs of Kthulhu language of Haiti, and a Cherokee feast.
No.3, item 1 Gillespie, John D.. Eastern Cherokee reservation scrapbook	1947-1954	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Abstract: Miscellaneous papers: scrapbook of photographs, newspaper clippings, picture postal cards, etc. Native American Images note: 38 black and white photographs, 6 color postcards, 24 newsclippings, 2 negatives of Cherokee individual portraits in native attire, weapons, dwellings, canoes, dances, basket weaving, and games in North Carolina and Tennessee.
Cherokee attire	1947-1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Cherokee man "chiefing"	1947-1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Cherokee man with bear cub	1947-1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Cherokee men on stage	1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Cherokee utensils	1947-1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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Commemoration of the Treaty of Dumplin Creek	1954	Request Item for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this Item
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No.3, item 2 The Indian voice: Indian medium of expression	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 49 photomechanical prints of portraits of Kiowa, Seminoles, Kaws, Cherokees.
No.3, item 3 The Official guide to Cherokee	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 26 photomechanical prints of portraits, dwellings, pipes, moccasin.
No.3, item 4 Junaluska	1951	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 6 ink sketches of portraits, cradle-board, grave sites, battle of horse-shoe bend, maps.
No.3, item 5 Chief Junaluska	1950	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 6 ink sketches of photomechanical prints of portrait, boundary tree, ambush at Raven's place, Shawano war party, Wah-lah-see-yah.
No.3, item 6 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: correspondence	1950-1961	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 18 ink sketches, 6 color postcards, 4 photomechanical prints of Zuni, Pueblo dwellings, relics, dancers and Cherokee dwelling, myth, portraits.
No.3, item 7 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: newspaper clippings, photograph of clippings, notes, etc.	1953-1961	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 9 newspaper photographs, 7 photomechanical prints of Cherokee portraits, artifacts, pipes, weapons, dwellings, grave sites.
No.3, item 8 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: University archaeological society, Brigham Young University		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 14 photomechanical prints of pottery, artifacts, stone carvings, Olmic stone head, archaelogical sites at Chiapas, Mexico.
No.3, item 9 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: twenty-one articles on Indian dances	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 9 photomechanical prints of Cheyenne dances; Cherokee stick ball; sand paintings in Navajo hogan.
No.3, item 10 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: field notes on the North Carolina Cherokee		Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 11 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Tahlequah, Oklahoma.	1930-1959	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 5 photomechanical prints, 8 newsclipping photographs, 5 maps of Oklahoma Indian territory, Cherokee blankets, dwellings, settlements.
No.3, item 12 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: bibliographies of American Indians	1950	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 24 newspaper clipping photographs from the New Cherokee Advocate of portraits, dwellings, cradleboards, utensils.
No.3, item 13 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Indian dances	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 221 photomechanical prints of Koshare Indians artifacts, dances, native attire, portraits.
No.3, item 14 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: studies on Indians	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 15a Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: American Indian linguistic studies	1944-1947	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 15b Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: American Indian liguistic studies	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 16 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Cherokee linguistics	1948-1950	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 17 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: C.E.D.A.M. (Mexico) publications	1960-1961	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 15 photomechanical prints of artifacts, jewelry, skeletal remains, and pottery found in the sacred well of Chichen Itza.
No.3, item 18 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Indian studies	1954-1960	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 5 photomechanical prints from Sooner magazine of Native American paintings.
No.3, item 19 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Indian studies	1948-1960	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
No.3, item 20 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Cherokee, N.C.	1952-1961	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File
Native American Images note: 10 color postcards, 63 photomechanical prints, 28 newspaper clipping photographs, 10 ink sketches of Cherokee Indian villages in North Carolina. Includes images of dwellings, dances, crafts, attire, ball playing, totems.
No.3, item 21 Gillespie, John D.. Miscellaneous papers: Cherokee bibliography	n.d.	Request File for Reading Room Access Request a Copy of this File