PENOBSCOT (Algonkian)

Ethnography

2920. ECHSTORM, FRANNIE HARDY. Letters to Frank G. Speck [1936-1942]. Typed L.S. 14 letters of 21p.

Letters concerning publication and criticism of Penobscot Man; ethnographic data on Penobscot; relationship of Penobscot-Mohegan and Mahican; also, comparison of Zuñi-Navajo and Red Paint; Tutelo.

[170(12:D2)]

2921. PEALE, TITIAN RAMSAY. Bark canoe, Maine Indians [1829-1835]. D. Sketch.

[140(15a)]
Printed, Murphy (1957): 101:529.

2922. PEALE, TITIANRAMSAY. Penobscot Indian [1829?]. D. Sketch.

[140(15a)]
Printed, Poesch (1961): 39.

2923. PEALE, TITIAN RAMSAY. Portrait sketches [1829?]. D. Pencil drawings.

Jo Sacceus, no. 107, and Mitchele Louis, no. 109, Penobscot Indians. Drawn with aid of camera lucida.

[140(15b)]

2924. PEALE, TITIAN RAMSAY. Sketches [1829-1835?]. D. Pencil sketches.

Identification uncertain. No. 77, apparently Maine landscape with Indian fishing. No. 80, camp in Maine. Unnumbered, a woods cabin, caption illegible. No. 82, sketch of Indian or white man (but Murphy identifies this as artist sketching on U.S. Exploring Expedition).

[140( 15b)]
Printed, no. 82, Murphy (1957), 101:528, fig. 13.

2925. SPECK, FRANK G. Bird lore of the northern Indians [1921]. Typed D. 48p.

A faculty public lecture, University of Pennsylvania.

[170(11:D2)]
Printed, Speck (1921).

2926. SPECK, FRANK G. Counting and measuring, etc. [1908-1940]. Typed D. 12p.

Material not printed in Penobscot Man (1940a): 4p. on counting; 2p, on names of acculturated objects; 4p. on manners and dispositions; 2p. on attitudes and behavior.

[170(11:D2)]

2927. SPECK, FRANK G. Field notes (Penobscot) [1909-1911]. D. and Typed D. 48p., 3 photos, 3 drawings.

An introduction and description of canoemaking; miscellaneous ethnographic field notes; data on face painting, etc.·

[170(11:D2)]

2928. SPECK, FRANK G. House furnishings [n.d.]. Typed D. 7p.

Some parts not used in Speck (1940a).

[170(12:D2)]

2929. SPECK, FRANK G. Hunting morality [n.d.]. Typed D. c.c. 2p.

Religious aspect of hunting.

[170(12:D2)]

2930. SPECK, FRANK G. Letter to Esther Goldfrank [Jan. 18, 1929]. Typed L. c.c. 3p.

Concerning "clown" performances outside of the southwest among Penobscot, Iroquois, Abenaki, and Delaware.

[170(26)]

2931. SPECK, FRANK G. Letter to George B. Gordon [Jan. 3, 1924]. Typed L. c.c. 1p.

Concerning publication of Speck's Penobscot materials.

[170(26)]

2932. SPECK, FRANK G. Miscellaneous notes [1919-1946]. D. 97p. and 6 cards.

Correspondence relating to Speck's Penobscot work; also, letters from informants, and various documents. Speck to Poland E. Nelson (Needahbeh), May 14, 1928, T.L., c.c., 1p., concerning drum for exhibit; Franz Boas, May 31, 1940, T.L.S., 1p.; John M. Cooper, Aug. 11, 1940, A.L.S., 2p; William B. Goodwin, Nov. 9 and 21, 1940, T.L.S., 6p. and 1p.; E. V. McCollum, May 24, 1940, T.L.S., 1p·; Roland E. Nelson, April 28, 1940, A.L.S., 2p.; J. Dyneley Prince, May 18, 1940, A.L.S., 2p.; all concerning Penobscot Man; Clifford P. Wilson to Speck, Dec. 29, 1937 and Feb. 2, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., both concerning Moosehair embroidery; Edward Reman, May 19, 1940, T.L.S., 2p., concerning Norse influence on Penobscot; Carrie A. Lyford, May 9, 1941, A.L.S., lp., concerning moose-wool controversy and Ann Stimson's report; Ann Stimson, n.d. (1941?) T.L.S., 1p., letter of thanks; Henry Noyes Otis, March 20, 1939, A.L.S., 2p. concerning genealogy of Indians named Sias on Cape Cod (Speck marked this Penobscot); Princess Pretty Woman, April 13, 1946, 1p., concerning her dress; Dorothy Panco, April 27, 1946, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Princess Pretty Woman's dress (both are Indians); Poland W. Mann, Nov. 8, 1943, A.L.S., 2p., concerning site of Indian occupancy according to Penobscot tradition; Ryuzo Torii, July 26, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., letter of introduction. 1p. typed transcript from printed D., 5p. transcript of agreements of Indians of Nova Scotia and English, Aug. 15, 1749, and 2p. transcript of agreement of July 13, 1727 (letter of transmittal, Lloyd Price to Miss MacDonald, Sept. 24, 1936, A.L.S., 1p.). Ann K. Stimson, Moose Wool (A.D., 2p. and 3 1p. typed copies) and Climbing Powers of the American Mink (A.D. 2p. and 3 1p. typed copies). Miscellaneous: 14p. and 17p. of field notes, Malecite and Penobscot; 9p. songs, kinship, totem, medicine, social units; 4p. Penobscot words and their cultural use; 10p. misc.; and B cards.

[170(11:D2)]

2933. SPECK, FRANK G. Notes on Penobscot social organization [1918]. D. 43p.

Charts on family, its size, totem, etc., 2p.; 2p. on family history and names; 39p. miscellaneous notes, 1918, including text interlinear translation; Micmac data.

[70(12:D2)]

2934. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot animal lore [n.d.]. Typed D. 13p.

Data; cf. Speck (1935b) (?).

[170(12:D2)]

2935. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot art [n.d.]. Typed D. c.c. 29p, and draft 15p.; also, 18 plates.

Material not used in Penobscot Man be cause of duplication in Speck (1927b).

[170(12:D2)]

2936. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot calendar system [n.d.]. D. 19p.

Notebook on calendar and seasons for hunting and sugar-making. Letter (part c.c.) of A. L. Kroeber to Speck, together with 1p. cluestionnaire on comparative calendars.

[170(12:D2)]

2937. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot Man [1908-1940]. Typed D. 77p., 24 plates and duplicates. L. 6p.

77p. of manuscript for Speck (1940a); plates (figures); Bp. letter of Frank (Siebert?) to Speck, May 29, 1939, concerning his Penobscot MS.

[170(11:D2)]

2938. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot religion [n.d.] D. and Typed D. 9p. and 81, .

An introductory statement in 4p. with a 5p. revision; also, 8L. of miscellaneous notes.

[170(10:D2)]

2939. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot sayings [n.d.]. D. and Typed D. 6p.

Miscellany not used in book (1940(1).

[170(12:D2)]

Linguistics

2940. DUPONCEAU, PETER S. Letter to Johann S. Vater [Sept. 13, 1821]. A.L. 8p.

Desires publications from Germany concerning Indian languages. Mentions his MS. vocahularies, including the Penobscot.

[4]

2941. GARDINER, EMMA (MRS. ROBERT HALLOWELL GARDINER). Letter to William Tudor [Sept. 21, 1821 (date of presentation)]. A.L. 2p.

Transmitting her Penobscot vocabulary, transcribed according to Pickering's orthography, excepting marking to show duplication of l, m, and n.

[3]
Cf. copy with Penobscot vocabulary, copied in No. 2943.

2942. GARDINER, EMMA (MRS. ROBERT HALLOWELL GARDINER). Vocabulary of the Penobscot Indians [April 1821]. D. 1 vol. of 20p.

Alphabetical by Penobscot list of words with English equivalent; Pickering's orthography. Capital letters probably inserted by DuPonceau, who alphabetized the list by the English in his collection, No. 2943, below.

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Donor, Mrs. R. Hallowell Gardiner, via Peter S. DuPonceau, 1821.

2943. GARDINER, EMMA (MRS. ROBERT HALLOWELL GARDINER). Vocabulary of the Penobscot Indians [1821]. D. 4p.

Alphabetical by English list of Penobscot words, with orthography as suggested by John Pickering (1820). Original is alphabetical by Penobscot. Includes covering letter: Mrs. Robert Hallowell Gardiner to William Tudor, Esq., her brother, n.d. Original No. 2943.

[60(45)]
Used in Gallatin (1836):307-367.

2944. GORDON, EUGENE S. Penobscot Indian language study [1956?]. Tape 1 reel.

Texts.

[271]
Donor, Eugene S. Gordon, grantee, 1957.

2945. SPECK, FRANK G. Penobscot texts [1928]. D. 2 notebooks of 157p, and 47p.; 43p. loose and 87p. Typed c.c.

Texts with interlinear translations; several English texts; typed versions of texts in English.

[170(12:D2)]
Cf. Speck (1935).

2946. SWADESH, MORHIS, and CARL VOEGELIN. Scientific Penobscot alphabet [n.d.]. Typed D. c.c. 3p.

[170(11:D2)]

2947.WILDER, HARRIS H. Letter to Frank G. Speck [Jan. 2, 1918]. Typed L.S. 1p.

Concerning place names; Penobscot translations.

[170(25)]

Physical

2948. CLEAVELAND, PARKER. Letter to Samuel G. Morton [March 7, 1839]. A.L.S. 1p.

Cleaveland has attempted to obtain a Penobscot or St. John's skull, without success. Has sent a Pejepscot skull, taken from ancient and deserted burying ground near the Androscoggin River, 20 miles from Brunswick; belongs to Bowdoin's anatomical cabinets and should be returned.

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Additional material from Kendall's Supplement

4656. DAY, GORDON M. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New Brunswick, N.J., May23, 1947. T.L.S. 1 p.

Re: obtaining a copy of Speck's Penobscot Transformer Texts.

[170(26)]

4657. ECKSTORM, FANNIE H. Letters to Frank G. Speck and to Henry E. Dunnack; Brewer, Me., Nov. 13, 1935. T.L.S. and L. 2pp.

Re: financial support for publication of Speck's manuscript on Penobscot social and economic life.

[170(27)]

4658. CANDY, ETHEL. Letter to Charles Marius Barbeau; Nov. 12, 1926. T.L. 1 p. c.c.

Expressing appreciation for names of chiefs and their clans. Regarding the reproduction by Wissler of plates for Candy's forthcoming monograph on Penobscot art.

[170(26)]

4659. GORDON, EUGENE S. Miscellaneous notes of Penobscot words and materials; 1956. D. 83pp.

Includes: paradigms; grammatical notes; texts.

[10(17)]
Cf: no. 271.
Donor, grantee.

4660. Letters to and from Frank G. Speck; May 30, 1913-Dec. 7, 1917. T.L. 9pp.

Re: publication of Speck's Life and Culture of the Penobscot Indians.

[170(30)]

4661. Letters to Frank C. Speck; Nov. 23, 1938-Nov. 27, 1943, and n.d. T. and A.L.S. 23L.

Expressing appreciation for copies of and giving comments on Penobscot Man.

[170(27)]

4662. NASSAU, R. H. Letters to Frank G. Speck; Ambler, Pa., May 21 and Sept. 10, 1913. A.L.S. 4L.

Re: Speck's manuscript of Penobscot stories and ethnological notes.

[170(25)]

4663. OSGOOD, CORNELIUS. Letter to Frank G. Speck, Philadelphia; New Haven, Nov.26, 1937. T.L.S. 1 p.

.

Re: possible sales of Speck's Penobscot Man. Includes: two copies, synopsis, and preliminary notes. Mentions Murdock.

[170(30)]

4663a. Penobscot; 1906-1907, 1910-1917, 1926, 1929, 1937-1938, 1941, n.d. ca. 650 items

Includes photographs, drawings, and postal cards. Some photographs and drawings published in Frank G. Speck's Penobscot Man. Primarily concerned with Maine, but a few photographs are from Quebec (St. Francis Abenaki). Subjects include people, activities, material culture, habitat, etc. A few items pertain to other groups: Passamaquoddy, Malecite, Micmac, Lake George Abenaki, and Musquakie. Postal cards include the following notes: to Mrs. Florence Speck from Mrs. Neptune, to D. Scribner Hyler from Mae (resident of Old Town, Me.), to Frank G. Speck from E., to Frank G. Speck from C. F. Paul, and to Mrs. Florence Speck from Frank G. Speck (?). One tintype shows Clara Paul in native dress of ca. 1840 with war bow and silver brooches (Penobscot Man, p. 144).

[4020b(8), (9), (13:1)]

4664. SPECK, FRANK G. Notes on Penobscot manuscript; n.d. A.D. 3pp.

Re: progress on the manuscript; proportion of expenses to be borne by the University Museum, G. G. Heye, and himself.

[170(30)]

4665. SPECK, FRANK G., coll. Recordings of Cherokee, Naskapi, Penobscot, Sioux (Santee), and Winnebago; 1964. 4 reels of tape. Recording no. 49.

Rerecorded from discs made in the 1930s. Originals in possession of the Museum of Primitive Art, New York.

[4086]
Cf: no. 9, Speck, Frank G., table of contents ...; n.d.

PENUTIAN

 

2949. SAPIR, EDWARD. Comparative Penutian glosses [1909-1917]. Typed D. 191, .

A compilation made by Morris Swadesh of marginal glosses in Sapir's copies of Frachtenberg (1913), (1914), and (1917); also, Boas (1910) and Dixon (1909).

[30(P1.4)]
Cf. Sapir and Swadesh (1953) and Sapir (1921a).

2950. SAPIR, EDWARD. Coos-TakelmaPenutian comparisons [1914]. D. 14L.

Original Sapir manuscript, revised in No. 2951 below.

[30(P1.2)]
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1952.

Cf. description in Swadesh and Sapir (1953): 132-134.

2951. SAPIR, EDWARD, and MORRIS SWADESH. Coos-Takelma-Penutian comparisons [1914; 1952]. Typed D. c.c. 12L.

Sapir's original document in No. 2950 with modern phonemic orthography.

[30(P1.3)]
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1952 (?). Printed, Sapir and Swadesh (1953).

Additional material from Kendall's Supplement

4666. WHORF, BENJAMIN L. Macro-Penutian; Jan. 1939. T.D. 6pp.

List, in outline form, of divisions and subdivisions of Macro-Penutian as far as Whorf felt certain at the time. Refers to table I, Utaztecan.

[4017(ling. #2)]

PEQUOT (Algonkian)

 

2952. BUTLER, EVA L. Beginnings of Pequot plantation [n.d.]. Mimeo D. 25p.

An account based on documents in New London, Groton, and Hartford. For school children; distributed by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service.

[170( 14:D10)]

2953. HECKEWELDER, JOHN G. E. Letter to Peter S. DuPonceau [Dec. 5, 1819]. A.L.S. 3p.

Concerning a publication for Vater on Indians. Concerning a sketch of Indians which Peale might copy. Suggests illustration and map for new edition. Material on the Pequot, etc. Maybe

[Peale] will do a sketch for illustration.

[80(343-346)]

2954. SPECK, FRANK G. Pequot archaeology [ca. 1940]. Typed D. 28p.

A paper on 1939 excavations near Noank Cove, Conn. Possibly by Speck.

[170(14:D10)]

PICURIS (Tanoan)

 

2955. PARSONS, ELSIE C. Picuris notes and map [1925]. D. 1 notebook. 45p., 2 maps.

Map and draft of map of village. Kinship terms; names of obiects; ethnographic data.

[137(6)]

PIMA (Uto-Aztecan)

 

Ethnography

2956. HERZOG, GEORGE. Correspondence with Franz Boas [1928-1934]. L. 65 items. Some in German.

Pueblo field work; studies of Pima anti Navaho songs; field work in Liberia; discussion of songs of Upper Chehalis collected by Thelma Adamson and Boas in 1937.

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2957. HERZOG, GEORGE. Correspondence with Elsie C Parsons [Nov. 19 and Dec. 18, 1937]. Typed L.S. and Typed L. c.c. 2p. each.

Concerning music among Pueblo and Pima Indians.

[137(1)]

Linguistics

2958. HALE, KENNETH. Lexical variability in Pima-Papago [1961]. Typed D. 16p.

Concerned with method of determining variability, patterns of variability, etc.

[10(8)]
Donor, Kenneth Hale, grantee, 1962. Cf. No. 2960.

2959. HALE, KENNETH. Pima-Papago recording transcriptions [1981-1982]. Typed D, and D. c.c. 340p.

Transcription of No. 2960.

[10(9)]
Donor, Kenneth Hale, grantee, 1962. Cf. No. 2960 and No. 2958.

2960. HALE, KENNETH. Pima-Papago recordings [1981 and 1957-1958]. Tape. 8 reels.

Recorded utterances, translations, dictionary items; usage sought. Transcribed in No. 2959. Picture eliciting sentences; sentences, texts, lexical text lists; definitions; sentences; ambiguous strings, minimal pairs, transformations.

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Donor, Kenneth Hale, grantee, 1962. Cf. Hale, No. 2958 and No. 2959 for transcription.

2961. HERZOG, GEORGE. Pima speeches [n.d.]. Typed D. 52L. In Pima-English

14 texts of speeches with interlinear translation; most of the speeches relate to rain making and warfare.

[30(U8.2)]

Additional material from Kendall's Supplement

4667. PARSONS, ELSIE CLEWS. Letter to Edward Sapir; May 19, 1920 [1926]. Photocopy of A.L.S. 2 pp.

Re: financial support of White's fieldwork; Boas's suggestion that White go to the Pima; "going over" Russell; study of possible relations between Pima and Pueblo.

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PIMA BAJO (Uto-Aztecan)

4668. BRUGGE, DAVID M. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1955-1960. T.D., A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 175 pp.

Re: Brugge's work on Pima Bajo and Navajo; problems arising from mistreatment of Maicoba Pimas by Whites. Includes: log, itinerary, list of photographs, and journal of Brugge-Annon trip to Sonora; correspondence with the Wenner-Grenn Foundation and Paul Fejos; essay on distribution, religion, festas, social structure, economy, houses and furnishings, handicrafts, etc., of the Pima Bajo.

[4017(C10), (ling. #1)]

4669. BRUGCE, DAVID M. History of the Pima Bajo of the mountains; May 1960. T.D. 10pp.

Discusses information from historical and archeological sources regarding the Pima in the villages of Yecora and Maicoba, Sonora, and Yepachic and Moris, Chihuahua.

[4017(ling. #1)]

4670. BRUGGE, DAVID M. Letter to John Alden Mason; Callup, N. Mex., Feb. 28, 1956. T.L.S., photographs. 5 items

Gives identification for two photographs showing pottery and baskets and for two showing terrain near Rancho Los Tepalcates.

[4017(ling. #1)]

4671. BRUGGE, DAVID M. Letter to John Alden Mason; Callup, N. Mex., Mar. 1, 1956. T.L.S., photographs. 3 items

Gives information about baskets shown in four photos (two photos wanting).

[4017(ling. #1)]

4672. BRUGGE, DAVID M. Letter to John Alden Mason; Gallup, N. Mex., June 30, 1958. A.L.S., T.L. 21pp.

Concerning mistreatment of Maicoba Pimas by Whites: taking of land, cattle, church offerings, etc.

[4017(ling. #1)]

4673. BRUGGE, DAVID M. Lower Pima notes; n.d. T.D. 10pp.

Brugge's contribution to an article co-authored with J. Alden Mason.

[4017(ling. #1)]
Cf. No. 4682.

4674. BRUGGE, DAVID M., coll. Nevome word lists; Jan. 1954. T. and A.D. 13pp.

Notes from three informants at Santa Ana rancheria near Onavas, Sonora.

[4017(ling. #1)] Cf: no. 4681.

4675. BRUGCE, DAVID M. Tepehuan and Pima Bajo recording logs; Pima Bajo texts; 1958-1965. D. 25pp.

Includes: notes on Yaqui and Northern Tepehuan recordings to be sent to Indiana University; contents of Southern Tepehuan recordings (in hand of J. Alden Mason); two Pima Bajo texts; Spanish translations for four texts; phonetic key for Pima Bajo.

[4017(C36)]

4676. CORNELL, JOHN R., coll. Pima Bajo materials; 1970. 17 reels of tape. Recording no. 83.

Includes: word lists; history; texts, some with translation. Informants: Pedro Estrella Tánori and Maria Córdova, both of Ónabas, Sonora, Mexico.

[4056]
Donor, grantee.

4677. DUNNIGAN, TIMOTHY. A report on linguistic field work among the Pima Bajo of eastern Sonora, Mexico; n.d. T.D. 3 pp.

Report on fieldwork in the highland dialect; very brief discussion concerning phonology and syntax.

[10(43)]
Cf: no. 4678.

4678. DUNNIGAN, TIMOTHY, coll. Pima Bajo recordings; 1965. 12 reels of tape. Recording no. 55.

Recorded at Yecora, Sonora, Mexico. Informant: Leonardo Duarte 0.

[4058]
Cf: no. 4677.
Donor, grantee.

4679. Lower Pima linguistic notes; 1956-1957. D., L.S. ca.1,000 cards, 4pp.

Cards are probably by David M. Brugge. Most items have English translation. Some items are keyed to informant. Includes three letters between Brugge and J. Alden Mason discussing the language and Brugge's work.

[4017(4)]

4680. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Nevome grammatical notes; T. and A.D. 2 pp.

Primarily a listing of locative particles and adverbs. From an unspecified source.

[4017(ling. #2)]

4681. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Nevome (Lower Pima Expedition) 1953; 1953-1954. D. ca. 100L., notebook of ca. 20L.

Includes: correspondence, draft reports on, and expenses for trip to Sonora, Mexico. Correspondents include: Dale S. King, James McConnell, Edward H. Spicer, Fernando Pesqueira, David Lopez Molina, Robert J. Weitlaner, John E. Heimnick, and Robert J. Drake.

[4017(ling. #1)]
Cf: no. 4674.

4682. MASON, JOHN ALDEN, and DAVID M. BRUGGE. Notes on the Lower Pima; 1956. T.D. and L.S. ca.85pp.

Includes: drafts of an article (one complete, two incomplete); letters; notes; bibliographic items; linguistic map of northwestern Mexico.

[4017(ling. #1)]
Cf: no. 4673.

PIPIL (Uto-Aztecan)

2962. BOAS, FRANZ. Pipil notes [1912?]. D. 1 notebook. 13p. In Pipil-Nauhuatl Spanish.

Vocabulary and comparisons with Nahuatl; Spanish translations.

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