American Indian Manuscripts at the APS

American Philosophical Society Library

UNITED STATES

4865. HILLIARD, SAM B. Report on study of Indian land cessions; May 7, 1971. T.L.S. to Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. 2 pp.

Brief summary of activities.

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4865a. Miscellaneous engravings, lithographs, photographs, etc.; n.d. 17 items

Includes: Eliot, the First Missionary among the Indians (86); Jesuit Missionaries in California (99); The Death of Miantonomo (124); General Harrison and Tecumseh (130); William Penn's Treaty with the Indians (137); The Death of Philip Metacomet (141a); Pocahontas Saving the Life of Captain John Smith (144); The Murder of Major Waldron (161); Massacre of Wyoming (173); Landing of Roger Williams (178); Colonel Taylor at the Battle of O-Ke-Cho-Bee (186); Tecumseh Saving Prisoners (187); The Death Cry (202); A Medicine Man Curing a Patient (203); Photographs of George G. Heye and others (218). Artists include: J. R. Chapin, Benjamin West, C. S. Reinhart, J. A. Oertel, Alonzo Chappel, Seth Eastman, and others. Engravers include: W. Ridgway, J. Hall, C. K. Burt and C. H. Smith, J. C. Buttre, J. P. Davis, S. S. Smith, J. C. Armytage, and C. Schuesele.

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4865b. North American Indians (Catlin): illustrations; n.d. 19 engravings.

Uncolored engravings, primarily portraits. All published in George Catlin's North American Indians. Groups included: Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chinook, Chippewa, Delaware, Flat Head, Kiowa, Menomini, Mohegan, Oneida, Osage, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Tuscarora, and Winnebago.

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UPLAND YUMAN (Yuman)

4866. KENDALL, MARTHA B. Yavapai linguistic material; n.d. T.D. 33 pp.

Includes: Yavapai sentences; English translations.

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Cf: no. 4866a.
Donor, grantee, Sept. 1974.

4866a. KENDALL, MARTHA B., coll. Yavapai linguistic material; 1973. 3 reels of tape. Recording no. 100.

Re: phonology; medals; etc. Informant: Harold Sine.

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Cf: no. 4866.
Donor, grantee, Sept. 1974.

4867. REDDEN, JAMES E. Notes on Walapai verb root structure; 1976. Photocopy of D. 69pp.

Re: some high frequency verb stems containing high frequency morphemes (paper given at 1976 Hokan-Yuman Languages Workshop). Also includes field notes containing sentences, paradigms, etc., in Walapai with English translations.

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Donor, grantee, May 1977.

4867a. SIMONCSICS, PETER, coll. Yavapai language materials; n.d. 3 cassette tapes. Recording no. 99.

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Donor, grantee, ·Aug. 1974.

4868. SLOANE, EMILY-SUE. A linguistic analysis of three versions of a Yavapai ickiyuka text; n.d. Photocopy of T.D. 97 pp.

Includes: an ethnographic description; salient features of the language; three versions of the text (creation myth) with literal and free English translations.

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Donor, grantee, Sept. 1974.

URU (Chipayan)

4869. HARRINGTON, JOHN P. Uru-Puquina; 1943. T.L. and D. 22pp.

Expresses belief that Uru-Puquina is Arawakan, that Campa and Mojo are related to Uru-Puquina; discusses the position of the Uru in the Inca Empire, the distribution of Uru, and works on Uru and Arawak.

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URUBA (Chocoan)

3827. GATSCHET, ALBERT SAMUEL. Letters to E. D. Cope, J. P. Lesley, and Henry Phillips [July 7, 1884; Aug. 11 and Aug. 12, 1884; May 26, June 2, and June 6, 1S85; Jan. 8 and April 21, 1886]. A.L.S. 8 letters of 1p, each.

Concerning his article on the Aruba language and the 2 parts of his article on the Beothuk language (1 letter to Cope; 3, Lesley; 4, Phillips).

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Cf. Gatschet (188.5a and h), and (1885b).

UTE (Uto-Aztecan)

3828. CARMAN, SAM. Letter to Gertrude Lewis [Aug. 28, 1868]. L. c.c. of typed copy.· 3p.

Original in MacLean County Historical Library, Bloomington, Ill. The entomologist of the Colorado Exploring Expedition mentions Ute Indians begging food at Hot Sulphur Springs.

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3829. OPLER, MARVIN K. Letter to Elsie C. Parsons [Feb. 12, 1940]. Typed L.S. 1p.

Concerning his Ute research and use of deer-horn whips in Basin region.

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3830. Rocky Mountain News. Newsclipping: The Powell expedition [Aug. 20, 1868]. Typed D. c.c. 2p.

Byers (?), Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, mentions Ute village.

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3831. STEWARD, JOHN F. Diary [1871]. Typed D. 56p. Microfilm.

Diary, Through the canyon of the Colorado with J. W. Powell; prepared from shorthand notes in 1903; with marginal notes by Fr. S. Dellenbaugh, ca. 1924. Brief reference to the Ute Indians and to the Navajo. Original in New York Public Library.

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UTO-AZTECAN

 

Linguistics

3832. SAPIR, EDWARD. Uto-Aztecan comparisons [1913]. A.D. 350 cards.

Lexical comparisons for 10-12 languages, mostly Uto-Aztecan and Nahuatl. Organized by English alphabetical order for the various phonetic units.

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Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1950.

Printed, southernPaiute and Nahuatl comparisons only, Sapir (1914):379-425.

3833.WHORF, BENJAMIN L. Azteco-Tanoan [1936]. A.D. 1L. Photo.

Diagram showing relationships and chronology of divergences.

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Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1950.

3834. WHORF, BENJAMIN L. (?) The Uto-Aztecan stock [n.d.]. D. Mimeo. 2L.

Presents relationships of Uto-Aztecan languages in outline form. Includes text and chart of Uto-Aztecan sound shifts.

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Donor, Leslie Spier, 1957.

Additional material from Kendall's Supplement

4869a. BENEDICT, RUTH. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1927-1943. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 27 pp.

Re: work on Papago, Pima, and Yaqui languages; honorarium for Franz Boas; Ruth Underhill's Papngo Ceremonies.

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4869b. HERZOG, GEORGE. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1929-1958. T.L. and L.S. ca.75pp.

Re: Tepehuan music and language; Pima-Papago language. Mentions Franz Boas, Gene Weltfish, Edward Sapir, Ruth Underhill, Frank G. Speck, and others.

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4870. Huichol-Cora comparisons; n.d. T. and A.D. 4pp.

Includes: thirty-four items in English, Huichol, and Cora; notes on correspondences, etc.

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4871. KELLEY, DAVID H. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; Mar. 26-July15, 1957. T.L.S. 9L.

Re: the section of his doctoral thesis dealing with Uto-Aztecan-Polynesian linguistic comparisons.

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Cf: no. 4872.

4872. KELLEY, DAVID H. Polynesian linguistic comparisons; n.d. T.D. 71pp. c.c.

Part of a Harvard University doctoral thesis regarding the borrowing of Uto-Aztecan words into Polynesian.

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Cf: no. 4871.

4873. MASON, JOHN ALDEN, comp. Notes on Nahuatl, Tepehuan, Tepecano, and Ute; n.d. A.D. 40 pp. in 1 notebook.

Includes: vocabulary; other notes. Primarily concerned with Nahuatl.

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4874. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Notes on numerical systems; n.d. T.D. 1 p.

Discussion of characteristics of numerical systems of twenty Uto-Aztecan languages without examples.

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4875. MASON, JOHN ALDEN. Some initial phones and combinations in Utaztecan stems; 1951. T.D. 20pp.

Abstract and full text of paper delivered at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Cf: no. 4878.

4876. SAPIR, EDWARD. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; Aug. 15-29, 1914. T. and A.L.S. 32pp.

Includes: examples from Tepehuan, Tepecano, Papago, Nahua; data from Mason for Sapir's use in Uto-Aztecan comparative work; Sapir's comments on Mason's data and analysis; additional data; Sapir's views on Uto-Aztecan historical phonology.

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4877. SAPIR, EDWARD. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; June 18, 1927-Sept.29, 1938. T. and A.L.S. 35L.

Re: Mason's work on Tepehuan, Papago, Sonoran languages, and Yaqui; Sapir's work on Palute and Hupa. Mentions Boas, Rivet, Speck, Spier, and Whorf.

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4878. Some initial phones and combinations in Utaztecan stems: correspondence; May 28-Nov. 1, 1951, and Oct. 19-23, 1953. T.L.S. 19L.

Discussion, with data, of J. Alden Mason's 1951 paper for the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Cf: no. 4875.

4879. STEELE, SUSAN. Uto-Aztecan bibliography; n.d. T.D. ca.600slips. c.c.

Includes: books; articles; manuscripts.

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Donor, grantee, Nov. 1974.

4880. SWADESH, MORRIS. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1941-1960. T.D., A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 29 pp.

Re: establishing an official Aztec alphabet; Swadesh's glotto-chronological work in Uto-Aztecan; disagreement between Mason and Swadesh over number of stop series in Papago; Mosan; Macro-Penutian; Uto-Aztecan (Yutonahuan); Hokan. Includes: Swadesh's retraction (to be published in Word) of his criticisms of Mason's Papago grammar; copies of letters from Swadesh to [Dean] Saxton and Andre Martinet.

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4881. Tarahumara-Cahita comparisons; n.d. T. and A.D. 171, .

Includes: Spanish-Tarahumara-Cahita notes of consonant correspondences.

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4882. Tepehuan-Tepecano-Huichol-Cora comparative vocabulary; n.d. T.D. 35 pp.· c.c.

Spanish-Tepehuan-Tepecano-Huichol-Cora (=Pima Bajo) with sources indicated by initials.

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4883. Utaztecan sound shifts; 1951. D. 13 pp.

Includes: notes, correspondences, etc., on Uto-Aztecan historical phonology.

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4884. Uto-Aztecan comparative vocabularies: Nahua, Yaqui, Opata, Huichol, Tepecano, Papago; n.d. T.D. 10pp.

Cognate sets with English glosses divided according to various vowel and consonant correspondences.

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4885. Uto-Aztecan comparative vocabularies: Tarahumara, Yaqui, Tepecano, Aztec; n.d. A.D. 4pp.

Cognates with Spanish glosses.

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4886. Uto-Aztecan comparative vocabulary: Tubar, Heve, Tarahumara, Yaqui; n.d. T.D. 3pp.

Cognates with English glosses.

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4887. Uto-Aztecan: lexicostatistical com pilations and comparative vocabulary; n.d. T.D. 6pp.

Re: Huichol, Cora, Papago, Arivechi Opata, Huepac Opata, Guaymas Yaqui, Mocoriba Yaqui, and Fuerte Yaqui.

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4888. WHORF, BENJAMIN L. Correspondence with John Alden Mason; 1928-1939. A.L.S., T.L. and L.S. 29 pp.

Re: Whorf's grant application to the Social Sciences Research Council to work on modern Nahuatl; Uto-Aztecan phonology; Maya glyphs; Nahuatl; Papago; Tepecano; Tepehuan; Yaqui; subgrouping.

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4889. WHORF, BENJAMIN L. Utaztecan; Jan.1939. T.D. and photo. 15pp.

Includes: table of relationships with explanation; genetic relationships of Mayan (reference to table III, Macro-Penutian); photo reproduction of Whorf's Azteco-Tanoan tree.

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