Frank G. Speck Papers
1903-1950
(15.5 linear feet)

Ms. Coll. 126

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Table of contents Abstract
Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western Indian tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied, collecting all aspects of their culture.

The Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of Speck's professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Iroquois, Labrador Eskimo, Mantagnais-Naskapi, Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonkian, and Yuchi. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively.
Background note
Frank G. Speck
Frank G. Speck

Anthropologist and ethnographer Frank Gouldsmith Speck was unique among Franz Boas' early graduate students at Columbia University. Unlike other ethnographers of his time who focused their studies on the Western Indian tribes, Speck chose to study the cultures of the Eastern Woodland Indians. Becoming the self-appointed salvage ethnographer for those tribes, Speck was regularly with the Indians he studied collecting all aspects of their culture.

Although he spent the majority of his career in the field, Speck did not come from a rural background. Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 8, 1881 Speck spent the first seven years of his life in the city, a fragile and sickly child. As was common at the time, Speck's parents felt that a rural environment would be better for their son's health, and in 1888 placed him in the care of family friend Fidelia Fielding, living in Mohegan, CT. Fielding was a widow, a Native American, and the last speaker of her tribal language in New England. While with Fielding the seeds for many of Speck's professional interests were laid as she tutored him in nature, natural history, English literature, and Mohegan language and literature. At age fourteen Speck returned to his family, now living in Hackensack, NJ.

When Speck entered Columbia University at the turn of the century, he had not settled on a career - though he was leaning towards the ministry. That changed when he enrolled in a language course with the eminent linguist John Dyneley Prince. During the class Prince became fascinated by Speck's ability to provide first hand information on Native American languages long thought to be dead - particularly Pequot-Mohegan and Delaware-Mohican. Before graduating, Speck and Prince co-authored three articles. Prince also introduced Speck to anthropologist Franz Boas, who had begun his tenure at the helm of Columbia's anthropology department less then a decade earlier. Through Boas and Prince's encouragement Speck decided to pursue a career in anthropological linguistics, and after receiving his A.B. in 1904 started his graduate work under Boas. Speck was one of Boas' first graduate students and was one of a generation of anthropologists (along with Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Alfred Kroeber, Paul Raden, and Ashley Montagu) to learn and promote the Boasian approach to anthropology. Under Boas, Speck began his fieldwork among the Yuchi Indians of Oklahoma in 1904, receiving his M.A. from Columbia a year later. Speck initially planned to continue with graduate studies at Columbia with Boas until he was awarded a George Leib Harrison Research Fellowship from the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania in 1907. Leaving Columbia for the University Museum, Speck received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908 and remained in Philadelphia for the rest of his career.

When Speck first arrived at Penn he was appointed as an instructor and assistant in general ethnology, working and teaching out of the Museum. Since the University did not have an independent department of anthropology at that time, courses were taught either out of the University Museum or the Department of Religion. During these early years Speck continued with his field work, which eventually put him at odds with the Museum's director, George Byron Gordon. Gordon wanted Speck to focus less on fieldwork and more on public and social functions important to fundraising at the museum. The feud between Gordon and Speck led to a number of incidents, including the confiscation of Speck's Penobscot manuscript (which was eventually published in 1940 as Penobscot Man). Finally in 1911 Speck was fired from the University Museum, only to be hired by the University as an assistant professor to replace Daniel Garrison Brinton. Two years later Speck became acting chair of the new Department of Anthropology, and chair in 1925.

It was not long after arriving in Philadelphia that Speck began his study of the Algonkians of the Eastern Woodlands. Speck went on to study the Algonkians of Delaware, the tribes of tidewater Virginia, the Cherokee in the Southeast, and the Iroquois, especially their ceremonialism. Speck's work among the Eastern tribes was indicative of his efforts to record dying languages and cultures. In many regards Speck was ahead of his time with his efforts to document the ways of life for relatively acculturated tribes, an idea which many anthropologists disdained. The eastern tribes had been overrun by European settlers during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries and were largely destroyed by war, famine, and disease. Those who had survived were pushed westward and were absorbed by other tribes. As a result the majority of information regarding these tribes was historical not ethnographic. However, Speck viewed ethnology as a fluid field that was unlimited, and not a fixed study of past cultures. Further, he was never overly concerned with high-level generalizations or interpretations of his subject but focused more on recording well-attested facts. During his research Speck looked for variations that would turn up as he collected empirical data, and then would modify his original concept. To that end, Speck was not satisfied with providing a generalized picture of a tribe. He studied a tribe's language, technology, decorative art, myths and tales, religious belief, ceremonialism, social organization, music, and hunting territories. Speck also chose to focus on a tribe's link to nature, with ethnobiology, material culture, and uses of the environment playing major themes in his work.

Another integral part of Speck's fieldwork was collecting material culture. His love for collecting artifacts in the field was motivated by the special problems in which he became interested from time to time. Occasionally, Speck's interest in arts and crafts drew him within the borders of archeology. He would also have replicas made by Indians of objects no longer in daily use. Speck kept a number of objects in his office at the University, but most of the artifacts were sold to public museums, arriving heavily annotated as to their context within their culture group. Among the institutions to receive artifacts from Speck were the: Museum of the American Indian (now the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian), American Museum of Natural History, Peabody Museum, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Denver Art Museum, National Museum of Canada, Royal Ontario Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford, and Danish National Museum.

What made Speck successful in his research was the method he used in the field. Speck was a "bedside ethnologist," staying with the people all day, eating with them, learning their language, and sleeping in the village. This sense of ease and intimate form of fieldwork allowed Speck to gain the trust of the tribes, facilitating his collection of data. In fact, Speck was much more at ease among Indians, who were as much a part of his private life as his professional life than among Philadelphia society. He was rarely away from Indians for more than a month, going off to conduct field work when the opportunity presented itself, often without notice.

During the later years of his career, Speck began to study Iroquois ceremonialism. He felt that despite the vast material written on the Iroquois, very little was known about the diversity and characteristics of the cultures of the groups that made up the Six Nations. Also in his later years Speck was battling a failing heart and kidney disease, though this did not stop him from going into the field. It was during his trip to Red House, N.Y. in January 1950 to witness the Seneca perform their mid-winter rites that he became seriously ill. After returning to Philadelphia, Speck died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on February 6 at the age of 68.


Scope and content
The Frank G. Speck Papers consist of 15.5 linear feet of professional correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works. The material focuses on the Eastern Woodlands Indians, particularly the Catawba, Cherokee, Creek, Delaware, Houma, Iroquois, Labrador Eskimo, Mantagnais-Naskapi, Nanticoke, Penobscot, Powhatan, Algonkian, and Yuchi. The collection is divided into two subcollections: Subcollection 1 is comprised of Speck's research material and correspondence, and Subcollection 2 consists of his manuscripts and related correspondence. The two subcollections were acquired separately by the Society, and were originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3) and the Frank G. Speck Manuscripts on Native Americans (970.3 Sp3p) respectively.

Subcollection I is divided into two series. Series I came to the Library shortly after Speck's death in 1950 from Mrs. Frank G. Speck (with later additions from William N. Fenton and John Witthoft). Ninety-five percent of the material relates to North American tribes east of the Mississippi. The material was arranged by Anthony F. C. Wallace, and described in "The Frank G. Speck Collection" in The Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society (Vol. 95, pp. 286-89). According to Wallace, the Speck collection is an important ethnographic source material to those working on Eastern Woodlands Indian cultures since it constitutes a valuable body of unpublished data. In addition, the collection documents a significant chapter in the history of American science. As an early student of Franz Boas, Speck's work represents the first generation of American ethnographers to pursue the kind of research Boas encouraged and taught (a patient, detailed description of a primitive culture based on long and intimate residence with the community). Of particular interest are Speck's Columbia lecture notes from classes he took with Boas. Speck's field notes further indicate his method of study, in which casualness was itself unconsciously a technique for creating "rapport." Speck scribbled information on envelopes, scraps of paper, road maps, and old letters - in addition to ledger books and tablets.

When it came to organize the material, Wallace found the classification and ordering of the material to be "somewhat difficult." The collection could not be organized chronologically since Speck collected material over long periods of time prior to publication and did not date the material. It was also not feasible to organize the collection based on whether the notes were published or unpublished as it was not uncommon for Speck to have both types of information on opposite sides of the same piece of paper. Wallace concluded that a researcher consulting the Speck papers would be interested in a particular area or tribe, and would be familiar with the printed material on the subject. It was therefore decided to organize the material according to culture area, tribe, and community. The majority of this material has been described in John Freeman and Murphy Smith's Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1966) and Daythal Kendall's Supplement to Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian (1982). With the prominence of these two publications, it was decided to keep the initial organization and folder identification numbers of the collection when it was recataloged. Item descriptions from the Freeman/Smith and Kendall guides are designated with F&S and the entry number from the guide.

Series II of Subcollection I was initially labeled as biographical material, and organized separately in six boxes. This material arrived at the APS after Wallace had completed his organization in the 1950s. The series is predominantly correspondence to and from Speck regarding research topics, as well as other professional matters. When the collection was recataloged it was decided to reorganize it alphabetically by correspondent. Some of the items have been described in the Freeman/Smith and Kendall guides, the remainder were described when the collection was reprocessed.

Subcollection II was a gift of Mrs. Frank G. Speck, and initially housed at the Delaware County Institute of Science. The collection was eventually transferred to the Society in several accessions between 1971 and 1993, and processed in 1996 by Miriam B. Spectre and Timothy T. Wilson on a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collection is arranged in four series: correspondence, works by Speck, field notes, and photographs. Series II: Works by Speck, constitute the bulk of the material. At 4.5 linear feet, the series contains manuscript and typescript drafts, galley proofs, and page proofs of published and unpublished articles, reviews and books by Speck. The folders are arranged by title, with reviews being entered under the title of the book or article which is the subject. Series I: Correspondence contains four letters relating to publications by Speck, research material, Indian specimens, and Linton Satterthwait's summer research with John Alden Mason. Series III: Field Notes is one folder of undated material labeled "Delaware Social Dance Bustle", and Series IV contains four folders of photographs that appear to have been published by Speck.

Arrangement
Subcollection 1. Frank Speck Papers 1897-1950 10 linear feet
Subcollection 2. Manuscripts on Native Americans 1913-1946 5.5 linear feet

Administrative information
Restrictions
None.

Provenance
Presented by Mrs. Frank Speck, 1950-1982, with additions by William N. Fenton, 1951, and John Witthoft, 1952.

Preferred citation
Cite as: Frank G. Speck Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information
Recatalogued by J.J. Ahern, 2004.

Other finding aids
Freeman, John F.A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1966) Call no. 506.73 Am4me v.65

Kendall, Daythal A supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1982) Call no. 506.73 Am4me v.65s

Additional information
Related material
The American Philosophical Society Library contains several other collections from Frank Speck or that relate to him in some way. The collection of photographs and drawings (ca. 1800s-mid 1900s; ca. 5000 items) from the Speck papers have been removed and inventoried separately. The images are mainly from Speck's own collection, and focus on the United States and Canada, but there are also photographs concerning peoples of Mexico, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Oceania. Additional Speck material includes the Speck Cherokee Collection (572.97 Sp3L) which consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. In the material are several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, and material collected on Cherokee botany by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms. The Speck Catawba Texts (497.3 Sp3) concern myths, history, birds, reptiles, signs and omens, remedies, marriage, poverty, industry, food, charms, taboos, etc. The texts have both free and interlinear English translations. The Speck-Choate Photograph Collection (B Sp3c) contains photographs taken by J. N. Choate, a local commercial photographer in Carlisle, Pa. and collected by Speck. Typical images include "before and after" shots of students in native dress and school uniforms, the school band, and shots of the students at work in the saddle shop and making shoes. Choate also took a number of images of visiting chiefs in traditional dress, including the Lakota chief Spotted Tail, and the Cheyennes Man on Cloud and Mad Wolf. One photograph depicts Richard Henry Pratt seated with Quaker supporters. Among the tribes represented are the Lakota, Laguna, Cheyenne, Creek, Lipan, and Pueblo.

Other collections in the Library which relate to Frank Speck include the Franz Boas Papers (B B61), as well as Boas' other students Elsie Clews Parsons (Ms. Coll. 29), Paul Radin (497.3 R114), and Ashley Montagu (Ms. Coll. 109). Speck's colleagues are represented by the William Fenton Papers (Ms. Coll. 20), and the John Alden Mason Papers (B M384). The Library also holds the papers of some of Speck's students in the George S. Snyderman Papers (Ms. Coll. 51), Anthony F.C. Wallace Papers in the Wallace Family Papers (Ms. Coll. 64), and the Alfred I. Hallowell Papers (Ms. Coll. 26). Listings for additional Native American collections can be found in the online guide American Indian Manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society.

Outside of the Society Library, Speck material can be found at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives in the Frank G. Speck Papers. This 1.5 linear foot collection consists of correspondence and field reports dating between 1908-1950 for anthropological work with Indians of northeastern and southeastern United States, including the original manuscript for Penobscot Man

References
Blankenship Roy, ed. The Life and Times of Frank G. Speck, 1881-1950 . Philadelphia : Dept. of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1991. Call. No. B Sp35b

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Subjects
  • Abenaki Indians
  • Algonquian Indians
  • Anthropology
  • Athapascan Indians
  • Beothuk Indians
  • Catawba Indians
  • Caughnawaga Indians
  • Cayuga Indians
  • Cherokee Indians
  • Circumboreal
  • Committee for International Research in Arctic Ethnology
  • Cree Indians
  • Creek Indians
  • Delaware Indians
  • Double Curve Motif
  • Eskimo
  • Ethnography
  • Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages
  • Iroquois Indians
  • Kansas Indians
  • Kaw Indians
  • Malecite Indians
  • Mende (African People)
  • Micmac Indians
  • Mistassini Indians
  • Mohawk Indians
  • Montagnais Indians
  • Nanticoke Indians
  • Naskapi Indians
  • Native American culture
  • Native American linguistics
  • Native American lore & legends
  • Nottoway Indians
  • Ojibwa Indians
  • Oklahoma Delaware Indians
  • Omaha Indians
  • Pamunkey Indians
  • Passamaquoddy Indians
  • Penobscot Indians
  • Pequot Indians
  • Seneca Indians
  • Shawnee Indians
  • Sherbro (African People)
  • Tète-de-Boule Indians
  • Tuscarora Indians
  • Wawenock Indians
  • Wiyot-Yorok
  • Yao (African People)
  • Yuchi Indians
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  • Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
  • Adney, E. Tappan (Edwin Tappan), 1868-1950
  • Aitken, Robert
  • Alexander, James Evan
  • American Anthropological Association
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Ethnological Society
  • American Folklore Society
  • American Indian Order
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • American Sociological Society
  • Ames, Herman Vandenburg, 1865-1935.
  • Amsden, Charles Avery, 1899-1941.
  • Archaeological Society of North Carolina
  • Baily, A. G.
  • Ball, Carl C.
  • Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
  • Bates, George Joesph, 1891-
  • Battles, Frank
  • Beatty, Willard W. (Willard Walcott), 1891-
  • Bennett, Foster
  • Beston, Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • Beston, Henry, 1888-1968
  • Bever, Marion G.
  • Billiot, Anthony
  • Billiot, Maurice
  • Bingham, M
  • Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-
  • Blackwood, Beatrice
  • Blakeley, A. W.
  • Bloom, Leonard, 1927-
  • Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
  • Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936
  • Bond, Charles E.
  • Brimley, C. S. (Clement Samuel), 1863-1946
  • Britten, Marian Hale
  • Brooks, Jr., R. C.
  • Broom, Leonard
  • Buck, John Lossing, 1890-
  • Buffalo Museum of Science
  • Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)
  • Burgesse, J. Allan
  • Butler, Eva L.
  • Cabot, W. B.
  • Carpenter, Edmund S.
  • Chase, Fannie S.
  • Chester, Allan G. (Allan Griffith), 1900-
  • Child, C. G.
  • Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907-
  • Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-
  • Columbia University
  • Comas, Juan, 1900-
  • Congdon, Charles Edwin, 1877- ,
  • Cooper, John Montgomery 1881-1941
  • Cornplanter, Jesse J.
  • Crawford, J. W.
  • Dahl, Richard S.
  • Daniel, W.B.M.
  • Darlington, H. S.
  • Day, Gordon M.
  • De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-
  • Deardorff, Merle H.
  • Delabarre, E. B.
  • Department of Justice, Canada
  • Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs
  • Deskaheh, Alexander General
  • Diamond Jenness
  • Dimmick, Edgar R.
  • Dixon, Joseph K.
  • Dodge, Ernest S.
  • Dodge, Raymond, 1871-1942
  • Dorrance, Frances, 1877- ,
  • Douglas, Frederic Huntington, 1897-1956
  • Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909-1959.
  • Drake, Charley G.
  • Dunnack, Henry E.
  • Dutcher, Willena B.
  • Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946
  • Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-1963
  • Edwards, Edgar Van W.
  • Edwards, William Waller
  • Eiseley, Loren P.
  • Eisenberger, E.
  • Eskew, James W.
  • Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925.
  • Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939
  • Fenton, William Nelson, 1908-
  • Fewkes, J. Walter (Jesse Walter), 1850-1930
  • Fewkes, Vladimir J.
  • Field, Clark, 1882-
  • Finkelstein, Elsie
  • Ford, C. D. (Charles Desmond)
  • Forde, C. Daryll (Cyril Daryll), 1902-
  • Fry, Nat P.
  • Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960
  • Gandy, Ethel
  • Garner, Alfred B.
  • Gauthier, E. S.
  • Geographical Society of Philadelphia
  • Giger, Leona E.
  • Gilliam, Charles Edgar
  • Gilmore, Melvin Randolph, 1868-1940
  • Gisriel, Stewart W.
  • Godcharles, Frederic Antes, 1872-1944.
  • Goddard, Pliny Earle, 1869-1928.
  • Goldenweiser, Alexander A., 1880-1940
  • Goldfrank, Esther
  • Gordon, George Byron, 1870-1927.
  • Greywacz, Kathryn B.
  • Griffin, James B.
  • Gusinde, Martin, 1886-1969
  • Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940.
  • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974.
  • Hallowell, Dorothy Kern.
  • Hammond, R.
  • Hardenbrook, Louise
  • Harkins, Lee F.
  • Hassrick, Royal B.
  • Hawkes, Ernest William, 1883-
  • Hayne, Hayward
  • Hellmer, Joseph
  • Herris, R. H.
  • Heye Museum, The
  • Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957.
  • Hicks, Charles
  • Hill, Jasper "Big White Owl"
  • Hiller, Wesley R.
  • Holden, James E.
  • Holmer, Nils M.
  • Honigmann, John J.
  • Howells, W. W. (William White), 1908-
  • Howley, James Patrick, 1847-1918
  • Huaiquilaf, J. Martin Collio
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • Imsick, Roy C.
  • Ioma, John
  • Isserman, Ferdinand M. (Ferdinand Myron), 1898-
  • John, Samuel
  • Johnson, Frederick
  • Jones, Louis Clark, 1908-
  • Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt), 1903-
  • Kaye, S. A.
  • Kendall, W. C.
  • Kissell, Mary Lois
  • Kremens, Jack
  • Kroeba, A.
  • Krouse, Theodore B.
  • La Rue, Mabel Guinnip, 1880-1971.
  • Lagore, Eli
  • Laidlaw, G. E.
  • Lampe, Matthew Willard, 1883-?
  • Laulin, "Redge"
  • Laulin, Gladys
  • Launer, Philip
  • Leach, Henry Goddard, 1880-1970.
  • Learmouth, D. H.
  • Learn, Martha
  • Lesser, Alexander, 1902-
  • Light, Richard
  • Lilly, Eli
  • Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953
  • Lippincott, Joseph Wharton, 1887-1976
  • Lips, Julie E.
  • Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
  • Luongo, James M.
  • MacDonald, Ada S.
  • MacLeod, William Christie
  • Manning, E. W.
  • March, Douglas D. H.
  • Marriott, Alice Lee, 1910-
  • McCaskill, J. C.
  • McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-.
  • McNickle, D'Arcy, 1904-1977.
  • Mechling, William H.
  • Meier, Emil F.
  • Menzie, Decker V.
  • Messurier, William L.
  • Miller, Samuel "James"
  • Milling, Chapman James, 1901-
  • Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975
  • Montour, Josiah
  • Mook, Maurice O.
  • Mooney, James, 1861-1921
  • Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
  • Moses, Jesse, Jr.
  • Moulton, F. R. (Forest Ray), 1872-1952
  • Mueller, Werner
  • Murrow, Glenn R.
  • Musser, Paul Howard.
  • Myers, John L.
  • Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • National Geographic Society
  • National Research Council
  • Neitzel, Stuart
  • Nelson, Dorothy M.
  • New York Zoological Society
  • Newhouse, Seth
  • Norton, Jeannette Young
  • Norvell, E. B.
  • O'Brian, G. W. (Mrs.)
  • Oak, Liston M.
  • Obermaier, Anna
  • Olbrecht, Frank
  • Opler, Morris Edward, 1907-
  • Orchard, W. C.
  • Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-
  • Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club.
  • Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
  • Penniman, Josiah Harmar, 1868-1941
  • Pennsylvania
  • Peters, Nick
  • Picard, L. P. O.
  • Pitt River Museum
  • Pollard, E. B.
  • Poole, Earl E.
  • Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945
  • Quimby, George
  • Rathbone, Perry Townsend, 1911-
  • Raynolds, Frances
  • Red Thunder Cloud, 1919-
  • Reed, Ira S.
  • Rehnstrand, Jane, 1884-
  • Reirmann, Jacques
  • Revillon FrèresTrading Company.
  • Reynolds, A. G.
  • Riggs, Bob
  • Rights, Douglas L. (Douglas LeTell), 1891-1956.
  • Ritchie, W. A.
  • Rivard, E. M.
  • Roberts, Helen H.
  • Robinson, Roy H.
  • Rohrbaugh, H. L.
  • Rolland, Ann
  • Rousseau, Jacques
  • Rowell, Mary
  • Ryan, Mrs. Charles
  • Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939.
  • Sargent, R. W.
  • Saville, Marshall H., 1867-1935
  • Schaeffer, Claude E.
  • Selby, J. S.
  • Sequin, Robert Lionel
  • Shafer, A. E.
  • Shenk, Hiram H. (Hiram Herr), 1872-1954
  • Shoemaker, Henry W. (Henry Wharton), 1880-1958.
  • Siebert, Frank
  • Skinner, Alanson B. (Alanson Buck), 1886-1925
  • Smith, Edgar F.
  • Smith, Frank E., 1919-1984
  • Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940.
  • Solenberger, Robert
  • Spaulding, A. C.
  • Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950.
  • Spinder, Herbert J.
  • Staub, Peter
  • Stern, Theodore, 1917-
  • Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962.
  • Swales, Bradshaw Hall, 1875-
  • Swan, Sankey
  • Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
  • Swarthmore College
  • Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
  • Taylor, Lyda
  • Thayer, B. W.
  • Thompson, B. A.
  • Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954.
  • Traynor, Donald P.
  • Trotter, Spencer, 1860-1931.
  • Turner, G. E. S.
  • Tyler, Dorothy Louise, 1899-1979
  • University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania
  • University of California
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology
  • Voegelin, Carl F.
  • Walker, Abraham M.
  • Wallace, Paul A. W.
  • Walser, Richard, 1908-
  • Ward, Christopher L.
  • Warfield, J. O.
  • Waugh, Frederick Wilkerson, 1872-1924
  • Weitluner, R. J.
  • Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-
  • White, Leslie A., 1900-1975.
  • White, Richard Jr.
  • White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946
  • Wildens, Harry Emerson
  • Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928.
  • Wilkins, C.E.
  • Williams, Spencer F.
  • Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947.
  • Wiswall, Richard Hall, 1916-
  • Wyman, Waiter Channing
  • Yoder, Hiram J.
  • Zimmerman, William
  • Zirkle, Conway, 1895-
  • Zoological Society of Philadelphia
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    Collection overview

    Subcollection 1. Frank Speck Papers 1897-1950 10 linear feet

    Subcollection I is divided into two series. Series I is comprised of research material, and is organized according to culture area, tribe, and community. Series II is predominantly correspondence to and from Speck regarding research topics, as well as other professional matters. This sereis is arranged alphabetically by author.




    Subcollection 2. Manuscripts on Native Americans 1913-1946 5.5 linear feet

    Subcollection II is arranged in four series: correspondence, works by Speck, field notes, and photographs. Series II: Works by Speck constitute the bulk of the series and is arranged alphabetically by title.



    Detailed inventory

    Subcollection I.
    Frank G. Speck Papers
    1897-1950 10 linear feet

    Series I.
    Research Material
    1903-1950 8.25 linear feet

    I. Circumpolar Culture Area



    A. General Circumpolar Area



    I(1A1). Speck, Frank G..
    Distribution maps for Circumpolar Traits.
    n.d. 12 items Box 1

    Separate maps show distribution of divination and miracle shamanism; sweat bath; turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept; bone divination; bear veneration; curative power of mystic words and formulae; dog-ancestor myth; dog as soul leader; curvilinear patterns; confession to cure taboo violation. F&S 1464


    I(1A2). Birket-Smith, Kaj.
    Plan for Circumpolar Research
    1946 1 item Box 1

    Concerning forthcoming International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Science at Prague. Includes Birket-Smith Report to the Members of the Committee for International Research in Arctic Ethnology, May, 1936. Status of then-current research. F&S 1416


    B. General Eskimo



    I(1B1). Speck, Frank G..
    Physical Characteristics of the Eskimo (notes on)
    n.d. 1 item Box 1

    Lecture notes. F&S 1362


    I(1B2). [no entry]

    Box 1

    I(1B3). Speck, Frank G..
    Eskimo sled dogs, MS
    n.d. 1 item Box 1

    Discusses training and use of dogs. F&S 1338


    I(1B4). Speck, Frank G..
    Story of Eskimo woman who raised bear cub
    1923 1 item Box 1

    Bibliographical note on J. W. Bilby, (1923) F&S 1343


    I(1B5). [no entry]
    Box 1

    I(1B6). Skinner, Alanson.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1924 5 items Box 1

    Miscellaneous reading notes on Eskimos: Historical Relations of Eskimos and Algonkians, notes.F&S 1341


    I(1B6). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous reading notes on Eskimos: Miscellaneous book-notes on Eskimos
    1940 3 items Box 1

    Miscellaneous reading notes on Eskimo F&S 325


    C. Labrador Eskimo



    I(1C1). Speck, Frank G..
    Eskimo on the East Coast of Hudsons Bay (Reading notes)
    n.d. 1 item Box 1

    Notes together with Speck's comments on Arthur Dobbs, (1744). F&S 1336


    I(1C2). Speck, Frank G..
    "The George River Barrne Ground Band of Eskimo" (MS carbon)
    n.d. 1 item Box 1

    Concerning whether Eskimo were first an inland or a coastal group. F&S 1339


    I(1C3). Speck, Frank G..
    "Analysis of Eskimo and Indian skin dressing method in Labrador" MS
    n.d. 5 items Box 1

    Compares technique according to skins. F&S 1335


    I(1C4). Speck, Frank G..
    Report of 1934 Field Trip (typescript)
    1934 2 items Box 1

    Summarizes activities and reasons for his field work. F&S 1342


    I(1C5). Burgesse, J. Allan.
    to Frank Speck
    1936 2 items Box 1

    Art design filed by Frank G. Speck with Eskimo material F&S 2290


    I(1C6). Speck, Frank G..
    List of Archaeological Specimens
    n.d. 2 items Box 1

    Harpoons, scrapers, and similar artifacts. F&S 1315


    I(1C7). [no entry]
    Box 1




    I(1C8). [no entry]
    Box 1




    I(1C9). Cooper, John M..
    to Frank Speck
    1935 1 item Box 1

    "Eskimo territorialism." Discusses theism in Labrador; Eskimo family rights to hunting grounds. F&S 1325


    I(1C10). Speck, Frank G..
    Eskimo field notebook
    n.d. 3 items Box 1

    Lists of Eskimo names for animals, plants, manufactured objects, etc.; terms of relationship; general vocabulary; texts with interlinear translation. Also a few Naskapi items on one page. Letter to Speck from E. B. Delabarre, Mar. 4, 1924, A.L.S., 3p., discussing tales he had heard in Labrador. F&S 1337


    II. Circumboreal



    A. General



    II(2A1a). Double Curve Motif -- a. miscellaneous notes 1915-1943 4 items Box 1

    Haddon, Alfred C. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 17, 1915 -- Curious as to degree of missionary influence on double-curve motif. Birket-Smith, Kaj. Letter to Frank G. Speck, October 30, 1927 --Discusses Montagnais-Naskapi museum specimens; double curve motif in Eskimo art. Asks questions on shared "culture elements" among northern tribes. Quimby, George. Letter to Frank G. Speck, February 8, 1943 -- Discusses possible double curve theme in Hopewell art. His field experience suggests Montagnais-Naskapi bands were differentiated by rivers on which they lived. Speck, Frank G. Table of double curve motif, n.d. --Northwestern tribes, Iroquois, central Algonkian usage charted by technique and variation of motifs. F&S 338, 1321, 1430, 2294


    II(2A1b). Double Curve Motif -- b. "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonkian Art" by F.G. Speck 1914 1 item Box 1

    A copy of Speck (1914), with interleaved snapshots and sketches, together with notes, suggesting natural-history origins of motives and variations.F&S 1443


    II(2A2). Speck, Frank G. .
    Traps -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1938 2 items Box 1

    Review of John M. Cooper, Snares, deadfalls, and other traps of Northern Algonquians and Northern Athapaskans F&S 337


    II(2A3). [no entry]
    Box 1




    II(2A4). Speck, Frank G..
    Distribution of Scapulimancy, etc., in Circumboreal
    n.d. 1 item Box 1

    Sketches and comments on shoulder blade divination (Scapulimancy); notes on origin and distribution of deer drives (including 1p. note, undated, from A. I. Hallowell); distribution of artifacts among Algonkin, Naskapi, Mistassini. F&S 372


    II(2A5). Downes, P.G..
    Letter to Frank G. Speck
    1936 1 item Box 1

    "Miscellaneous notes on Circumboreal Region" Discusses his visit to Naskapi near Davis Inlet, to Cree, and to Chip[pewa]s. 2p. of notes (Speck?) in French-English of Indian or Canadian, discussing changes in Indian culture. F&S 2499


    B. Montagnais-Naskapi



    1 General Information



    II(3B1a). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information -- a. Summary of Naskapi life
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Apparently an introductory lecture, leading to study of Naskapi beliefs. 1p. notes on psycho-shamanistic performance. F&S 2319


    II(3B1b). Hammond, R..
    General Information -- b. "The Naskapis of Northern Labrador from a Trader's Viewpoint."
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    A description of Naskapi customs, round of life, the fur trade, especially the role of fur-bearers vs. caribou, incidents of drunkenness among Naskapi; honesty, etc. F&S 2293


    II(3B1c). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information -- c. History of Eskimo-Algonkian relations in Labrador
    n.d. 6 items Box 2

    Includes bibliographical notes, notes on Eskimo-Algonkian cultural correspondences and a 3p, typed document concerning migration routes of the Eskimo to the New World. F&S 1340


    II(3B1d). Speck Frank G..
    General Information -- d. Short History by Frank Speck, concerning Labrador Indians
    1922-1924 2 items Box 2

    Includes a 15p. story of incident in Naskapi life and 7p. scraps on natural surroundings. F&S 2317


    II(3B1e). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information: e. Naskapi personality
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Lecture notes. F&S 2314


    II(3B1f). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information: f. Miscellaneous notes
    1918-1946 27 items Box 2

    Includes 4 slips of bibliographic notes; a card with notes on a lecture of Franz Boas, Philadelphia, 1918, concerning the primacy of custom over inner morality; typed reading notes, 1925 a letter of Felix Agnus Leser to Speck, Dec. 14, 1931, concerning the docking of sled dog's tails. Drawing of a Naskapi tent in the Victoria Museum. 3 miscellaneous slips; 35 slips of notes on Eskimo and Montngnais culture from printed sources; and 1 notebook, 1946, containing some linguistic and informant data. F&S 2309


    II(3B1g). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information -- g. Catalogue of Naskapi Collection, Denver Art Museum, as of 2 October 1942, and listing other specimens collected by Frank G. Speck
    1920 - 1942 6 items Box 2

    Materials collected by Speck. In addition to that at Denver, there are lists of Montagnais and Mistassini specimens sent to George Heye, 1920; Montagnais specimens sent to Reading Museum, 1927; materials collected in 1021 (list sent to Goddard); list dated Sept. 13, 1921, sent to Wissler. Summary of expenses in 1927. F&S 2298


    II(3B1h). h. [no entry]
    Box 2




    II(3B1i). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers
    1941 7 items Box 2

    Includes 18L. of notes on birch-bark baskets from northwest to northeast; 9 photos of Timagami Ojibwa birch-bark containers; 18 photos of Mistassini, Algonquin containers, as well as 1 negative, 5 sketches, and 0 leaves of notes; 7L. of general notes on birch-bark containers; 4 photos of Kutenai birch-bark containers together with negative and letter of Bella Weitzner to Speck, June 2, 1941; 4p. of notes on Ojibwa birch-bark; 1 photo of Yukon birch-bark; and 4p. of notes and 5 photos of Ojibwa baskets. F&S 370


    II(3B1j). j. [no entry]
    Box 2




    II(3B1k). Speck, Frank G..
    General Information -- k. Account book for field trips, with miscellaneous notes
    1911-1922 8 items Box 2

    Contains accounts for 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1920, and 1922 field trips, lists travel costs and cost of obtaining museum specimens. Also 2 newsclippings, 1911, 1913; and a postal card of Speck to his wife, 1919. F&S 2296


    2 Hunting Territories



    II(3B2a). Speck, Frank G..
    Hunting Territories -- a. Miscellaneous notes on Montagnais-Naskapi hunting territories
    1928-1932 14 items Box 2

    Letters concerning aboriginal us. European origins of hunting territories: Diamond Jenness to Speck, Feb. 20, 1928, 1p. T.L.S.; C. Daryll Forde (University College of Wales) to Speck, July 10, 1930, 1p. T.L.S.; Speck to Forde, Oct. 28, 1930, 2p. T.L. c.c.; John M. Cooper to Speck, Sept. 27, 1932, 2p. T.L.S. 9 leaves of miscellaneous notes. F&S 2307


    II(3B2b). Speck, Frank G..
    Hunting Territories -- b. "Terms of Relationship and Family Territorial Band Among the Northeastern Algonkins."
    n.d. 2 items Box 2

    M.S. draft and additions. F&S 339


    II(3B2c). Speck, Frank G..
    Hunting Territories -- c. "Conservation and the Indians of Eastern North America"
    1937 1 item Box 2

    M.S. F&S 2299


    II(3B2d). Speck, Frank G..
    Hunting Territories -- d. "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas."
    1922-1926 2 items Box 2

    Typed manuscript with annotations.F&S 1365
    [number wrong]


    3 Social Structure



    II(3B3a). Speck, Frank G..
    Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- a. Review of Lips Naskapi Law
    1947 1 item Box 2

    Review of Julie E. Lips Naskapi Law. F&S 2316


    II(3B3b). Speck, Frank G..
    Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- b. "The Social Structure of the Northern Algonkian"
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Typed M.S. F.S. 2318


    II(3B3c). Speck, Frank G..
    Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- c. Montagnais Kinship terms
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Rough chart and notes. F&S 2327


    4. Economic Behavoir



    II(3B4a). Speck, Frank G..
    Economic Behavior (aside from family hunting territory) -- a. Hunting customs
    n.d. 3 items Box 2

    Concerns ownership of wounded animals; destroying elderly members of family. F&S 2312


    II(3B4b). Speck, Frank G..
    Econimic Behavioir (Aside from family hunting territory) -- b. Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Concerns salmon at Waswanipi. F&S 2306


    5. Religion



    II(4B5a). Speck, Frank G..
    Religion -- a. Myths
    1929 5 items Box 3

    4 folkloristic texts in English. F&S 2313


    II(4B5b). Speck, Frank G..
    Religion -- b. Dream lore
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Brief note and sketch. F&S 2301


    II(4B5c). Speck, Frank G..
    Religion -- c. "Game Totems Among the Northeastern Algonkins."
    1916 2 items Box 3

    Typed M.S. F&S 2093


    II(4B5d). Speck, Frank. G.
    Religion -- d. Animism in Algonkian Mentality
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Lecture notes. F&S 2297


    II(4B5e). Speck, Frank G..
    Religion -- e. Miscellaneous notes on Montagnais-Naskapi Religion
    1929 6 items Box 3

    Undated, incomplete letter of John M. Cooper to ? concerning scapulimancy. Field notes concerning scapulimRncy, bear ceremony, drumming, etc. 1 sheet of Naskapi names of moons (religious). Letter of George Heye, to Speck, Jan. 3, 1926, concerning a missionary book in Montagnais. F&S 2308


    6. Linguistic



    II(4B6a). Speck, Frank G..
    Linguistic -- a. Miscellaneous linguistic materials
    n.d. 3 items Box 3

    Charts display equivalents in 7 dialects for 30 nouns, adverbs, pronouns, and verb "to see" F&S 2326


    II(4B6b). Speck, Frank G..
    Linguistic -- b. Montagnais loan words from English
    n.d. 6 items Box 3

    Vocabulary lists with Montagnais and Mistassini equivalents. Also miscellaneous notes, 3p. F&S 2328


    II(4B6c). Speck, Frank G..
    Linguistic -- c. Montagnais and Mistssinni Texts
    1915 8 items Box 3

    Montagnais texts with interlinear translation; 2 maps of hunting territory and notes; Tadoussac texts with interlinear translation; several English texts; list of kinship terms; Escoumains text with interlinear translation. Mistassini texts with interlinear translations. English texts from Mistassini and Lake St. John hands. Notebook relating to Naskapi religion; also 10p. of Michikaman Band texts. F&S 2329


    7 Moisie Band



    II(4B7). Speck, Frank G..
    Moisie Band -- A Field notes, 1930, Moisie and St. Marguerite Bands
    1930 1 items Box 3

    Names of informants for various bands; Seven Islands data on sorcery; miscellaneous material. F&S 2303


    8. Ste. Augustine Band



    II(4B8). Speck, Frank G..
    Ste. Augustine Band -- a. Field notes, 1935, Ste. Augustine Band
    1935 - 1936 12 items Box 3

    Account books list expenses and press botanical and entomological specimens. Notebook includes miscellaneous ethnographic data as well as designs. Map of St. Augustin village. 1p. sketch of animals with Naskapi names; 2 hand-drawn maps of St. Augustin region; miscellaneous materials and family histories. Letters: W. B. Cabot to Speck, July 29, 1930, A.L.S., 1p., concerning his (Cabot's) visit to Labrador; Hayward Hayne to Speck, Sept. 7, 1935, and Mar. 1, 1936, A.L.S., 4p. and 10p., concerning winter activities and Hudson's Bay Company post at St. Augustin; A. Poucher, missionary, to Speck, May 18, 1936, A.L.S., 1p. F&S 2304


    9. Mistassini Band



    II(4B9a). Speck, Frank G..
    Mistassini Band -- a. Miscellaneous notes, Mistassini
    1915-1930 8 items Box 3

    Concerns hunting territories of Mistassini, Waswanipi, Tête de Boule, Chicoutimi. Ethnographic data on childbirth and chiefs. F&S 2311


    II(4B9b). Speck, Frank G..
    Mistassini Band -- b. Document, refering to Pointe Speck
    1946-1948 3 items Box 3

    Includes 1p. blueprint of Lake Mistassini, P.Q., showing Pointe Speck. Letter of Jacques Rousseau (Director of Montreal Botanical Garden) to Speck, Nov. 3, 1948, 1p. A.L.S., concerning the adoption of the name Pointe Speck. F&S 2300


    II(4B9c). Speck, Frank G..
    Mistassini Band -- c. Field Notes, 1911-1930
    1911-1930 29 items Box 3

    6 English folkloristic texts, 1919, 1921, and 1930. A notebook of Montagnais and Mistassini texts in English, 1917; a 17p. typed version of Mistassini tales (1925) taken from above. A brief introductory statement, "Montagnais myths and tales from the Lower St. Lawrence"; ethnohistoric material; miscellaneous notes; 4p. concerning Gay Head Indians. Letter of Edward Sapir to Speck, June 18, 1912, 1p. A.L.S., concerning Cree-Montagnais linguistic relationship and obtaining of museum specimens. F&S 2310


    10. Lake St. John Band



    II(4B10a). Speck, Frank G..
    Lake St. John Band -- a. "Family Hunting Territories of the Lake St. John Montaganais and Neighboring Bands."
    n.d. 5 items Box 3

    Typed M.S. with additions. F&S 2302


    II(4B10b). Speck, Frank G..
    Lake St. John Band -- b. Field notes
    n.d. 7 items Box 3

    16p. on native names of specimens and artifacts, both Lake St. John and Mistassini: 4p. give account of Wabeno and names of specimens. F&S 2305


    11. Davis Inlet Naskapi



    II(4B11). Waugh, Frederick W..
    Davis Inlet Naskapi -- a. Waugh's notes
    1923-1924 5 items Box 3

    13p. of notes, mostly in hand of Frank G. Speck, obtained from F. W. Waugh. Letters of Waugh to Speck, Dec. 18, 1923, and Jan. 19, 1924, 1p. and 1p. T.L.S., concerning Davis Inlet group; copy of William Duncan Strong to Speck, Sept. 4, 1930, concerning Davis Inlet band. F&S 2322


    12. Tadoussac-Escoumains Band



    II(4B12). Speck, Frank G..
    Tadoussac-Escoumains Band -- a. Field notes
    n.d. 7 items Box 3

    Ethnobotanical data; plant names and medical uses; miscellaneous materials including names of museum specimens and myths. F&S 2320


    13. 7 Islands Band



    II(4B13). Speck, Frank G..
    7 Islands Band -- a. Miscellaneous field notes
    1924-1925 11 items Box 3

    Several texts with interlinear translations; house data; names of animals. 1p. friendly letter, in French, of Marie Louise Ambroise, Aug. 22, 1924, to Speck. F&S 391


    C. Algonquin



    II(2C1). Sapir, Edward.
    to Frank Speck
    1924 1 item Box 1

    "Linguistic analogues to Wiyot-Yorok" Discusses his postulated Wiyot-Yurok-Algonquian relationship; mentions his work on Subtiaba. Outlines relationships in and around Hokan-Coahuiltecan. Some discussion of migrations, seeing Athabaskan as late arrival. F&S 2061


    II(2C2). Speck, Frank G..
    Algonquin field notes
    n.d. 4 items Box 1

    One notebook contains linguistic notes, informant and population data for Waswanipi, Abitibi, Temiskaming, Nipissing, Algonquian. The other, dated June 1, contains Temiskaming ethnography, and (in English), Wisilèdjak (Wiskyjack) text. Temagami ethnology and texts (in English) and 1 Iroquois legend. Use Film 1429 Reel 1. F&S 369


    D. Beothuk



    II(2D1). Moorehead, Warren K..
    to Frank Speck
    1922 1 item Box 1

    Discusses his New England archaeological field work. Doubts Red Paint People of Maine were Beothuks; difference of art. Labels for University Museum artifacts from collections of Moorehead. F&S 462


    II(2D2). .
    Miscellaneous notes on Beothuk
    1911 - 1922 4 items Box 1

    Boas, Franz. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 17, 1911 -- Discusses Boethuk report. Dahl, Richard S. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 30, 1911 - In his career as mining engineer in Newfoundland he has opened many Beothuk sites; offers aid. Howley, James P. Letters to Frank G. Speck, December 12, 1911 and May 18, 1912 -- Howley writes Speck of the latter's meeting a Beothuk survivor; doubts authenticity, but would like to know more. Folder includes newsclipping of Oct. 15, 1911, on Speck's discovery and a portion of Howley's book printing a Beothuk vocabulary with Speck pencil notes:184-186. Messurier, William L. Letter to Dr. Bowman, February 15, 1922 -- Encloses article on Newfoundland extracted from "The Great Historical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionary... " (London, 1701). F&S 457, 459, 460, 461


    E. Athapascan



    II(2E1). .
    Miscellaneous Notes
    n.d. 10 items Box 1

    Reading notes. F&S 429


    F. Ojibwa



    II(2F1). Speck, Frank G..
    Review of Coleman on Ojibway Designs
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    of Sister Bernard Coleman: Decorative designs of the Ojibwa of northern Minnesota [1949]. F&S 2519


    II(2F2). .
    Miscellaneous notes
    1927 - 1948 4 items Box 2

    Woodman, Henry. Letter to Frank G. Speck, July 16, 1948 -- Discusses decline of crafts among Bear Island Indians (Temagami). Speck, Frank G. Letter to Chief Mitchele Buckshot; Maniwaki, Québec, February 10, 1927 -- Requests buckskin and beadwork. F&S 2516, 2523


    II(2F3). Hallowell, A. Irving.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1931 4 items Box 2

    Describes incidents on field trip to Berens River Saulteaux, Sweet Grass Cree (mentions attitude of Cree to Leonard Bloomfield) and Cold Lake Chipewyan; festivals, etc. Letter of Speck to Hallowell, Aug. 3, 1931, with pencilled responses of Hallowell to questions asked.
    F&S 2501


    II(2F4). .
    Matagama Ojibwa notes
    1914-1938 21 items Box 2

    Includes 2p. phonetic key; 1p. letter (carbon) of Frank G. Speck to Samuel (i.e., James) Miller of Gogama, Feb. 18, 1928, requesting ethnographic and map data; 2 maps, 1 of Mattagama hunting territories, boundaries in ink; 1p. typed reading notes (and a carbon); Feb. 1928 "Romance Story," 15p. sketch of a play for Mattagama Otcipwè. Burgeese, J. A. Letters to Frank G. Speck (Jan. 13 and Feb. 24, 1938). Burgesse sends drawing of "flesher" used by Oiibwa; encloses list of hunting territories and biographical information on owners. Learmouth, D. H. Letters to Frank G. Speck (Feb. 22 and 29, and Oct. 2, 1928). Learmouth, a factor for Hudson's Bay Co. at Waswanippi, recounts his experiences in adjudicating Matagama land inheritance; provides ethnographic data sought by Speck from Samuel (i.e., James) Miller of Gogama; and gives data on hunting territories. F&S 2498, 2508, 2517


    II(2F5). Speck, Frank G..
    Ojibwa Hunting territories
    n.d. 3 items Box 2

    Brief popular account, refuting Roosevelt (1889-1896), who had denied that Indians have a sense of property. 1p. typed notes from Copway (1847), and 1p. notes. F&S 2518


    II(2F6). Speck, Frank G..
    Tamagami myths
    n.d. 5 items Box 2

    5 English texts. F&S 2520


    G. Cree



    II(2G1). Speck, Frank G..
    Cree syllabary
    n.d. 6 items Box 2

    Naskapi names in Cree syllabary; the Lord's Prayer in Cree; miscellaneous syllabary Cree words. F&S 788


    H. Miscellaneous



    II(2H1). Speck, Frank G..
    Tete de Boule
    n.d. 1 item Box 2

    Miscellaneous notes on informants; word list. Notes on reverse of 2p. letter of W. C. Orchard (Heye Foundation) to Speck, Dec. 10, 1931. F&S 2330


    III. Northeast (ill-defined area west of Mississippi, north of corn-growing limit, south to approximately Mason-Dixon Line)



    A. General



    III(5A1). Speck, Frank G..
    "Remnants of the Eastern Indian Tribes"
    n.d. 1 items Box 3

    Brief discussion of location of New England Algonkians. F&S 336


    III(5A2). Linton, Ralph.
    "The Persistence of the Mound Builder's Culture Among Recent Indian Tribes"
    1916 1 item Box 3

    Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Attempts through historical accounts to show persistence both of building of mounds and of artifacts, thought to be prehistoric, and argues that white contact produced the cultural loss. F&S 1217


    III(5A3). Speck, Frank G..
    Wampum - miscellaneous notes
    1913-1920 8 items Box 3

    Includes letters of L. P. O. Picard to Speck, April 24, and May 12, 1914, concerning a belt in Picard's possession; I. B. Delay to Speck, Aug. 23, 1913, and Jan. 1914, concerning beads and sale of belts; Sankey Swan to Speck, Mar. 15, 1914; Josiah Hill of Ohsweken to Speck, June 11, 1914, offering to send wampum string and describing Nanticoke belt; Waiter Channing Wyman, collector, to Speck, Dec. 18, 1920, discussing Shenandoah belt and a Penobscot belt in his possession; W. C. Orchard, Heye Foundation, to Speck, concerning bibliography on wampum. F&S 2321


    III(5A4). Speck, Frank G..
    Observations on the Northeast in general
    1941 9 items Box 3

    Notes used by Speck in summing up the symposium, Man in Northeastern America, meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1941, at Phillips Academy, Andover. Brief comments on the various papers. On verse of 4p. are letters: Frederick Johnson to Speck, Oct. 13, 1941, Typed L.S., 2p., concerning meeting plans; and James B. Griffin to Johnson, 1941, Typed L., 2p., copy, concerning his paper. Also, 3 copies of printed program and one typed Tentative Program. F&S 1256


    III(5A5). Fenton, W.N..
    "The Agricultural Tribes of the Northeast"
    1941 1 item Box 3

    Principally a discussion of Iroquois and Algonkian maize culture. Attempts to date usage. Notes of Speck on the 1941 Man in Northeastern America conference on reverse of typed sheets. F&S 1639


    III(5A6). de Laguna, Frederica.
    "The Place of the Dorset Eskimo in the Northeast"
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Typed M.S. F&S 1313


    III(5A7). Voegelin, C. F., and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin.
    "Linguistic Considerations of Northeastern America"
    n.d. 2 items Box 3

    Special emphasis on midwestern tribes, particularly Sauk and Fox. 1p. note of Frank G. Speck, criticizing the paper. F&S 1295


    III(5A8). Spaulding, A.C..
    "Circumboreal Archaeology"
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    A brief statement of a lengthier paper. F. S. 1232


    III(5A9). McKern, W. C..
    "A Cultural Perspective of Northeastern Area Archaeology"
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Typed M.S. F&S 1218


    III(5A10). Howells, W. W. .
    "Physical Types of the Northeast"
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Brief statement of formal paper. F&S 1304


    III(5A11). Ritchie, W. A..
    "Archeological Manifestations in the Northeast"
    n.d. 1 item Box 3

    Typed M.S. F&S 1224


    III(5A12). Cooper, John.
    "The Culture of the Northeastern Hunter"
    1941 2 items Box 3

    A draft with very little similarity to tile published version. Contains generalizations about shared culture traits in the area. 1p. note of Cooper to Frank G. Speck, Sept. 9, 1941. F&S 1246


    III(5A13). Sapir, Edward.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1918-1919 2 items Box 3

    Concerning Speck (1918a); Sapir sees Yurok comparisons; discusses general linguistic relationships; excited about reduction of language stocks; inquires after possible typographical errors, pp. 157-158 of article. F&S 362 and 2062


    B. Iroquois



    1. General Iroquois



    III(6B1a). Moses, Jesse, Jr..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- a. "The Long-House Man"
    n.d. 1 item Box 4

    Discusses relationship (from point of view of a Christian Indian) of Christianity and long-house religion; emphasizes government Indian policy; expects victory of Christianity. F&S 1647


    III(6B1b). Speck, Frank G..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- b. "Canadian Christian Indians Revert to Pagan Beliefs"
    1929-1930 1 item Box 4

    Argues that better-educated Indians have "gone native" as a means of escaping bureaucracy and clerical greed. F&S 1659


    III(6B1c). Buck, Chief John.
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- c. Iroquois burial customs
    1888 1 item Box 4

    Letter to George S. Conover Re Iroquois burial customs. F&S 1637


    III(6B1d). Speck, Frank G..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- d. Wabanaki War with Iroquois
    n.d. 7 items Box 4

    Miscellaneous notes Iroquois, wampum. F&S 1789


    III(6B1e). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- e. Seizure of Iroquois wampum by Canadian government 1914 - 1926 6 items Box 4

    Letters: Josiah Hill, Ohsweken, to Frank G. Speck, April 27, 1914, concerning photos of wampum, exchange of wampum with Seth Newhouse; same to same, n.d., complaining that British are unmindful of Loyalist Iroquois aid during eighteenth century; Frank G. Speck to Chief David S. Hill, c.c., Jan. l(i, 1925, concerning dispute with Canadian Indian department (seizure of wampum: loose beads and strings); David S. Hill to Speck, Feb. 15, 1925, stating MS. of Six Nations constitution has reappeared and will be compared with Scott copy (Scott, 1912); Speck to Dr. A. Leon Hatzon, Nov. 3, 1925 and April 17, 1926, criticizing book on wampum by Hatzon; A. Leon Hatzon to Speck, April 15, 1926, reply. F&S 1655


    III(6B1f). Newhouse, Seth.
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- f. Letters to Frank Speck offering to sell code, etc.
    1915-1916 2 items Box 4

    1915 Asks, at suggestion of F. W. Waugh, that Speck secure shell for wampum for Newhouse. 1916: Offers to sell Speck his history manuscript, which he has been working on since 1885 [No. 1650]; will try to secure some wampum. F&S 1648, 1649


    III(6B1g). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- g. Nanticokes visit 6 Nations with Frank G. Speck n.d. 1 item Box 4

    A document describing meeting of Delaware, Nanticoke, and Canadian Iroquois in presence of Speck; recounts injustices suffered by Indians in United States and Canada. F&S 1755, also 2358


    III(6B1h). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- h. Cayuga Indian claim 1914-1926 2 items Box 4

    Letter of David Jamieson (Des-ka-heh) to Speck, April 4, 1914, concerning making secure Indian rights to land at Ohsweken. Copy of letter of Fred K. Nielsen to George P. Decker, Mar. 27, 1926, with MS. note of Decker to Speck concerning validity of Cayuga land claims before American-British Arbitral Tribunal. F&S 552


    III(6B1i). Menzie, Decker V..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- i. Cayuga Indian representative in Onandaga Council
    1925 1 items Box 4

    Concerning Speck's aid on Deskaheh's speech. Newsclipping included. F&S 558


    III(6B1j). Ioma, John.
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- j. Letter to Chief Gibson
    1914 1 item Box 4

    Letter introduces Frank G. Speck to Gibson, with request that he be given data and wampum. F&S 1643


    III(6B1k). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- k. Miscellaneous notes 1936-1948 24 items Box 4

    Letters and notes concerning Speck (1945), and masks. Includes: 2p. sketches of masks; 36 slips of miscellaneous Iroquois references, notes, and Wyandot data; 1p. quotation concerning Delaware as women theme; bibliographical note (to Robert T. Hatt, Director of Cranbrook Institute of Science); note on Iroquois art. Letters to Speck include: John L. Buck, Burlington, Ontario, May 18, 1936, offering to sell masks; Merle H. Deardorff, Nov. 29, 1945, concerning Speck and Fenton field work and Speck (1945); Robert T. Hatt, Nov. 18, 1943, concerning publication of Speck (1945); John E. Jacobs, Jan. 12, 1948, concerning Iroquois songs, seeking feathers, sale of bow and arrows; W. N. Fenton, Nov. 15, 1948, concerning wampum strings; Arthur C. Parker, Sept. 11, 1947, concerning splint work of Seneca, basketry-mentions Stockbridge, Mahican, and Brotherton; Mrs. Alfred Martin, May 27 and Feb. 28, 1947, conceming museum specimens and deer tails; Loren C. Eiseley, July 8, 1940, concerning beaver and Algonkin hunting territory; W. N. Fenton, Sept. 1, 1944, concerning Seneca use of Joe Pye plant.F&S 1662


    III(6B1l). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- l. [no entry]

    Box 4




    III(6B1m). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- m. "Status of the Six Nations." Brief by St. Regis Mohawks n.d. 1 item Box 4

    Brief concerning Indian rights against New York and federal government after 1924; also, letter of Muzzy Cook, Julius Cook, and Ray Fadden (Akwesasne Counselor Organization). F&S 2262


    III(6B1n). Speck, Frank G..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- n. Review of Listen for a Lonesome Drum by Carl Cramer
    n.d. 1 item Box 4

    A romantic review of a literary work. F&S 2267


    III(6B1o). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- o. Masks (miscellaneous notes) 1934-1944 42 items Box 4

    Includes: 4 letters of John L. Buck Ohsweken, to Speck, Oct. 23, 1936, to March 5, 1944, concerning masks sent to Speck asking Speck to burn tobacco for mask as suggested by a dream; and, concerning pictures Buck wants of his relatives; also, notes on Iroquois and Eskimo masks and drama, 1p.; 4p. quotations of printed works on corn-husk masks; 3p. notes on function of masks, east; 2p. on drums, northeast; letter of G. E Fenstermaker to Speck, March 15, 1934, offering to sell Cherokee and Iroquois masks; 3p miscellany. Photographs. F&S 1661


    III(6B1p). General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- p. Reflections on Iroquois religion 1939-1941 10 items Box 4

    Draft of article of Speck protesting missionary competition in reservations and emphasizing Christian character of long-house religion. Submitted originally to Newsletter of Home Missions Board, but rejected for its controversial nature. Published in Crozier Quarterly in 1941. Letters discussing the contents: Alban W. Hoopes, Feb. 12, 1940; Thomas Alfred Trip, Feb. 28, 1940; Mark A. Dawber, March 11, 1940 and Nov. 27, 1940; C. E. Schaeffer, Dec. 3, 1940 (quoting M. H. Deardorff); Charles T. Loran, Oct. 20, 1939; Chief Deskaheh, Nov. 9, 1939; Luther H. Ketels, Nov. 5, 1939; W. N. Fenton, Aug. 5, 1941. F&S 1664


    III(6B1q). Deardorff, Merle H..
    General Iroquois (6 Nations) -- q. Population statistics 1792
    1944 2 items Box 4

    2 memoranda, March 19, 1944 and March 26, 1944, with comments on and copies of population statistics of 1792, given in I. Chapin papers in the O'Reilly Collection of the New-York Historical Society (the originals are in No. 234). F&S 1638


    2. Mohawk



    III(6B2a). Rowell, Mary.
    Mohawk -- a. Letter on St. Regis Mohawk
    1942 5 items Box 4

    A former student writes of her summer experiences among St. Regis Mohawk; general impressions of culture; dangers of false traditions being taught. Photographs. F&S 2261


    III(6B2b). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohawk -- b. Mohawk words and Miscellaneous field notes
    1933-1948 10 items Box 4

    2p. on names and designs of Caughnawaga traps; 1p. St. Regis mask data obtained from Julius Cook; 4L. scraps (1 printed in Speck (1946):387, on dance). 7 cards of addresses, etc. Ray Fadden to F. G. Speck, May 7, 1947, T.L.S., 1p., congratulating Speck on his Iroquois study (1945). F&S 2277


    III(6B2c). Lagore, Margaret C. (Eli).
    Mohawk -- c. Letter to Frank Speck
    1947 1 item Box 4

    Friendly letter concerning sale of baskets at Allentown Fair; mentions visit of Mary Rowell and Ray Fadden. F&S 2260


    III(6B2d). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohawk -- d. Oka Iroquois notes
    n.d. 1 item Box 4

    Data on hunting territory, chiefships, words. F&S 1663


    3. Cayuga



    III(7B3a). General, Alexander J. (Deskaheh after 1925).
    Cayuga -- a. letters to Frank Speck
    1924-1947 14 items Box 4

    General to Speck, Jan. 13, 1925, 1p., concerning Indian claim against Canada and the United States and radio talks; Dec. 29, 1925 (as Deskaheh), 1p.; Mar. 26, 1926, 1p., concerning politics, snow-snake game mentioned; July, 1926, 1p., concerning Delawares, Nanticoke recording; Feb. 21, 1927, 1p., concerning injustices of Canadian RCMP, elections, false-face masks; May 7, 1934, 2p., conceming husk masks and museum specimens; n.d., 1p. receipt and 4p. answers to queries, and questions of Speck with MS. answers of Deskaheh concerning tobacco planting. F&S 556


    III(7B3b). Speck, Frank G..
    Cayuga -- b. Cayuga worsd
    n.d. 2 items Box 4

    Names and phrases.F&S 566


    III(7B3c). Speck, Frank G..
    Cayuga -- c. Miscellaneous Cayuga field notes
    1940-1941 7 items Box 4

    Letter of H. W. Dorsey (Smithsonian Institution), Mar. 13, 1941, concerning a Chief Gibson text in Cayuga in Bureau of American Ethnology. Letter of William N. Fenton, 2p., concerning Cayuga winter rituals MS.; suggestions. Miscellaneous notes for Cayuga MS. F&S 561


    III(7B3d). Dodge, Ernest S..
    Cayuga -- d. Story about war medicine collected by Dodge
    1944 1 item Box 4

    Cayuga story about war medicine. F&S 554


    III(7B3e). Cayuga -- e. [no entry]

    Box 4




    III(7B3f). Cayuga -- f. [no entry]

    Box 4




    III(7B3g). Speck, Frank G..
    Cayuga -- g. Obeservations on Cayuga religion
    1925 2 items Box 4

    Letter to Alexander J. General. Observations on Cayuga religion; Speck suggests a defense of the long house from critics by suggesting it is a form of Christanity. F&S 560


    III(7B3h). Deskaheh.
    Cayuga -- h. Diretions for care and tuning of water drum
    n.d. 1 item Box 4

    Concerning specimen sent Speck. F&S 553


    III(7B3i). Cayuga -- i. [no entry]

    Box 4




    III(7B3j). Speck, Frank G..
    Cayuga -- j. Large notebook of Cayuga material (This notebook also contains data on other tries, not all of it published.)
    1933-1936 1 item Box 4

    Photographic negatives, masks: John Buck, Jerry Aaron and wife. Feasts, 3p.; notebook of 23L, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Onondaga, and Seneca material; notebook, 1936, 8p. notes re bowl game and false faces; 9p. notes on prayer for skin dance by Mrs. Buck, copied by Speck; 4p. in notebook, describing 90 dances, mask data; 2p. Typed D., legend, by Deskaheh. Letters: John L. Buck and Mrs. John L. Buck to Speck, Apr. 25, 1936, and Feb. 29, 1938, concerning masks sent and their stories. William N. Fenton to Speck, Jan. 12, 1933, 2p., concerning field trip and Seneca-Cayuga material. Three letters to Speck concerning death of John L. Ruck: John L. Buck, Jr., Feb. 17, 1935; Edward A. Brown, Feb. 18, 1935; Deskaheh, Feb. 18, 1935.F&S 562


    4. Seneca



    III(7B4a). Cornplanter, Jesse (Tonawanda).
    Seneca -- a. letters from
    1941-1947 6 items Box 4

    Cornplanter to Speck: Nov. 12, 1941, 2p., concerning his religious beliefs, and changes in the way of life; April 22, 1947, 1p., praising Speck; Feb. 27, 1947, 2p., concerning informants' pay. Typed c.c. letter of Cornplanter to [?], Dec. 20, 1946, sending Christmas greetings; Ho-wonk-gowah (Charles Congdon?) to Go-wa-non-dah Doweestowee, Feb. 8, 1947, recluesting information on husk face; and Cornplanter to Ha-ouh-wonh-go-wah (Charles Congdon?), concerning husk faces. F&S 3247


    III(7B4b). Congdon, Charles (Allegheny).
    Seneca -- b. letters from
    1945 2 items Box 4

    Congratulates Speck on his Iroquois (1945); describes Alleghany ceremonials; gives sketch of arrangement of participants. F&S 3241


    III(7B4c). Congdon, Charles.
    Seneca -- c. "The Native Religin of the Senecas"
    1942 1 item Box 4

    Religion of Handsome Lake is compared with Judaism and Greco-Roman spirits. Comparison of ceremonials. F&S 3243


    III(7B4d). Redeye, Clara.
    Seneca -- d. letters from
    1941-1948 2 items Box 4

    Picture, 1941, of 4 generations; sends dolls. F&S 3273


    III(7B4e). Clark, Evangeline.
    Seneca -- e. letter from
    1947 1 item Box 4

    Thanks for reprints, which she had sent to Suffolk University. F&S 3500


    III(7B4f). Speck, Frank G..
    Seneca -- f. Words and miscellaneous notes
    1944 6 items Box 4

    3p. notes and 6 slips: miscellaneous data. 2 letters, Sherman Redeye to Speck. Nov. 9, 1944, and n.d., concerning corn-husk masks. F&S 3279


    III(7B4g). White, Clayton.
    Seneca -- g. Description of the one-year death feast
    1942 1 item Box 4

    Letter to Merle H. Deardorff, encloses description of the one-year death feast (document included). Clayton White was a native informant for Deardorff. F&S 3280


    III(7B4h). Seneca -- h. [no entry]

    Box 4




    III(7B4i). Seneca -- i. False Face Dance at Coldspring 1944 1 item Box 4

    Songs transcribed by Jesse Cornplanter from manuscripts of his father, Edward Cornplanter, and George Pierce; also from mernory. Occasional notes in English give tempi, behavior of dancers, sources, etc. 4 letters: Cornplanter to W. N. Fenton, Oct. 11 and 26, 1951; Fenton to Cornplanter, Oct. 18 and 30, 1951, 1p. each.F&S 3248


    III(7B4j). Deardorff, Merle H. .
    Seneca -- j. letters from
    1942-1943 2 items Box 4

    Concerning informant Clayton White, Pennsylvania place names, and Speck (1942). The second is a lengthy discussion of practices of Handsome Lake adherents. F&S 3249


    III(7B4k). Seneca -- k. Notes on Oklahoma Seneca 1940 3 items Box 4

    Outline of ceremonials; chart; especially dances and funerary practices. F&S 3278


    III(7B4l). Fenton, William N..
    Seneca -- l. Seneca Ceremonial Calendar. Coldspring, MS.
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    An organized, detailed set of field notes on ceremonies. [NOTE: 2 folders, one is a photocopy, the second is the original. Use photocopy] F&S 3252


    III(7B4m). Isserman, Ferdinand M..
    Seneca -- m. Mythology of Senecas
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    A student's paper. F&S 3254


    5. Tuscarora



    III(7B5a). Speck, Frank G..
    Tuscarora -- a. Canadian Tuscarora words
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    Geographical terms secured at Six Nations Reserve. F&S 3817


    III(7B5b). Speck, Frank G..
    Tuscarora -- b. Notes on Canadian Tuscarora
    1918 3 items Box 5

    Includes: names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; some Nanticoke vocabulary.F&S 4559 and 4864


    III(7B5c). Speck, Frank G..
    Tuscarora -- c. Reading notes on the Chowan (incorporated by Tuscarora)
    n.d. 3 items Box 5

    Includes Suwanoos and Tutelo data. F&S 751


    III(7B5d). Speck, Frank G..
    Tuscarora -- d. reading notes on New York State Tuscarora
    n.d. 2 items Box 5

    1p. Mattawascheet notes; A. I. Hallowell to Speck, Dec. 9, 193-, note concerning Nanticoke and Tuscarora. F&S 3798


    6. Nottoway



    III(7B6). Speck, Frank G..
    Nottoway -- a. Nottoway notes
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    Miscellaneous; map of Eastern Maryland shore. F&S 2468


    C. Delaware [Lenape]



    1. General



    III(8C1a). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- a. Delaware bibliography
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    List of authorities for brief article, pp. 7, 8,9, (copy used by printer after 1935?). F&S 902


    III(8C1b). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- b. Notes on place names
    n.d. 3 items Box 5

    A bibliographical note from Heckewelder and a quotation. F&S 1183


    III(8C1c). General -- c. Copy of Detroit treaty, 17 June 1777 1 item Box 5

    A copy made by Peter F. Timothy, a Moravian Delaware, in Aug., 1888, and transmitted to Frank G. Speck by Jesse Moses, Nov. 31, 1945. Copied from British Public Record Office.F&S 1748


    III(8C1d). Peters, Irma.
    General -- d. White Peters, an Indian captive
    1895 3 items Box 5

    Letter to editor of [Buffalo Evening] Standard, 1895, concerning captivity of White Peters and his descendants; intermixture with Negro and Tuscarora mentioned. F&S 897


    III(8C1e). General -- e. Notes on Delaware-Munsee Bear Rite after 1941 1 item Box 5

    Handwritten notes regarding Delaware-Munsee Bear Rite.No Freeman number


    III(8C1f). Voegelin, Carl.
    General -- f. Linguistic analysis of Delaware (mimeographed)
    1939-1969 2 items Box 5

    Includes copy of letter from R. H. Goddard III to the APS dated 1969 attributing the document to Carl Voegelin. F&S 1182


    III(8C1g). General -- g. [no entry]

    Box 5




    III(8C1h). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- h. Miscellaneous notes
    1933-1948 25 items Box 5

    Includes: Gladys Tantaquidgeon, Delaware Indian designs, 5p.; miscellany, 3 slips; miscellany, linguistic notes 1941, 2p.; miscellany, 2 cards; notebook with botanical specimens and 10p. of miscellaneous. Letters: Katharine Bennet to Speck, Oct. 22, 1945, A.L.S., 2p., concerning his celestial bear article (1945); Carl Voegelin to Speck, Jan. 5, 1948, T.L.S., 2p., concerning meaning of Walam Olum title; War Eagle to Speck, March 4, 1935, A.L.S., 2p., concerning earthquake and museum specimens, and card of queries with War Eagle's answer; George P. Murdock to Speck, March 5, 1943, T.L.S., Delaware data in John Fitch MS.; Jesse Moses to Speck, A.L.S., 4p. and continued on envelope, concerning Six Nation Delaware reservations incidents. F&S 911


    III(8C1i). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- i. Review of Kinietz Delaware Culture Chronology
    1946 1 item Box 5

    Review of Kinietz, Delaware Culture Chronology F&S 919


    III(8C1j). General -- j. [no entry]

    Box 5




    III(8C1k). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- k. "The Delaware Indians Past and Present"
    n.d. 1 item Box 5

    Introduction to article; includes population statistics. F&S 904


    III(8C1l). General -- l. Quiripi and Delaware vocabularies compared n.d. 1 item Box 5

    Quiripi words based on published sources with some Delaware comparisons arranged, in parallel columns. F&S 3201


    III(8C1m). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- m. Reviews and comments on Speck's Delaware publications
    1932-1945 8 items Box 5

    Letters relating to Speck (1931): Ruth Renedict to Al[exander Lesser]?, March 23, 1932, T.L.S., 1p.; Frans M. Olbrechts to Speck, June 6, 1932, A.L. postal card; Dr. W. Krickeberg (Berlin Volkerkünde Museum) to Hiram H. Shenk, July 14, 1932, 1p. copy; M. R. Harrington (Curator, Southwest Museum) to Speck, March 3, 1937, T.L.S., 1p., concerns also Zeisberger analysis of Delaware "tribes"; Father P. W. Schmidt (Vienna) to Speck, A.L.S., 3p. in German, and Speck's reply, May 13, 1932, T.L.S., 2p., concerning dualism or unity in Delaware God concept; Charles F. Goddard to Speck, March 13, 1934, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Long Island archaeology. W. N. Fenton (1946), T.D., c.c., 7p.F&S 920


    III(8C1n). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- n. Delaware-as-women
    1946 3 items Box 5

    Letters to Frank C. Speck concerning his article (1946). John H. Morice to Speck, Nov. 26, 1946, T.L.S., 2p.; Merle H. Deardorff, Nov. 25, 1946, T.L.S., 3p., discusses linguistic aspects of the problem.F&S 906


    III(8C1o). Springer, Ethel M..
    General -- o. Delaware remnants in state of Delaware
    1917 1 item Box 5

    Concerning Delaware remnants in the state of Delaware, intermixture with Negro.F&S 923


    III(8C1p). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- p. Delaware religion evaluated
    n.d. 6 items Box 5

    Notes for a lecture on dangers in Indian policy and the destruction of Indian culture.F&S 905


    III(8C1q). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- q. Delaware grammar and vocabulary materials
    n.d. 27 items Box 5

    Contains a transcript of Jefferson's Edgepullock Delaware vocabulary with phonetic transcription by Speck, 21p. [Chief Webber thinks it is Munsee]; transcript of Heckewelder's Munsi and Mahicanni vocabularies, 8p.; text froth Gabriel Thomas' "Account" in Myers (1912), 5p.; 1p. from printed source; field notes; 2p. of Objurgatives (profanity); 12p. of verbs; 4p. abstracts of grammar and sacred terms; 3 vocabulary slips and 5 cards of linguistic items. F&S 1178


    III(8C1r). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- r. Delaware ceremonial patterns
    n.d. 3 items Box 5

    Contains 3p. discussion, 10p. of charts illustrating origin, procedure and ceremonial host for various ceremonies, and a page indicating facing directions.F&S 903


    III(8C1s). Speck, Frank G..
    General -- s. Delaware High God concept
    1937 2 items Box 5

    Includes 2 documents: 1. discussion of Supreme Deity in Delaware, including some peculiar linguistic usages, suggesting difference from general Algonquian. 2.a translation from the Swedish of "Om Gudsbegreppet's Hos Lenape," Albin Widdn, vol. 2, no. 4 (July, 1937), an article which rejects Father Schmidt's contention that Delaware religious concepts of supreme being are independent of Christian influence, citing John Campanius' mission work and his translation of Luther.F&S 922


    2. Oklahoma Delaware



    III(9C2a). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- a. List of Museum specimens
    1929 3 items Box 6

    Lists of 1929 and 1935 specimens obtained by Speck from Oklahoma and Canadian Delaware with provenance of items given. 1935 list of items deposited at Delaware County Institute of Science.F&S 910


    III(9C2b). Parks, J. A..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- b. Letter concering painting of ceremony
    1930-1933 3 items Box 6

    Parks, Sept. 12, 1930, discusses drawings he will make of ceremonies; March 30, 1932, discusses painting of ceremony; March 7, 1933, discusses loan of painting. F&S 895


    III(9C2c). Washington, Joe.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- c. Drawnigs of cow-bone roach spreaders
    1946 2 items Box 6

    Drawings of cow bone roach spreaders made by an Oklahoma Delaware Indian. F&S 935


    III(9C2d). Oklahoma Delaware -- d. Field notes 1932 4 items Box 6

    Texts, names of tribes, and ceremonies (Delaware-English); also kinship terms, names, and ceremonial and ethnographic data. Partly used in publications. F&S 1180


    III(9C2e). Voeglin, Erminie Wheeler.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- e. Field notes
    1938 1 item Box 6

    Concerning names and data on Delaware informants. Shawnee data on Delaware in Oklahoma.F&S 925


    III(9C2f). Washington, Fred.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- f. letters from
    1932-1947 15 items Box 6

    Letters concerning museum specimens and their manufacture; meanings. One from Mrs. Jane Washington (Fred's mother), Sept. 18, 1942, 1p., re specimens. F&S 934


    III(9C2g). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- g. Myth of the great earthquake by War Eagle
    1938-1939 6 items Box 6

    Materials relating to Speck (1941d): (1) 2p. quotation from Sidney Perley on the earthquake of 1638 in Esser Antiquarian, vol. 1, 1895, p. 173. (2) 2p. abridgment of same. (3) 2p. T.D. Report on effects of earthquakes by Joseph Berman, 1938. (4) Fred Washington to Speck, Nov. 24, 1939, 1p. and 8p., account of Delaware earthquake legend. (5) F. G. Speck, "The great Pennsylvania earthquake of Indian days," 3p. T.D.F&S 915


    III(9C2h). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- h. Miscellaneous notes
    1932-1941 9 items Box 6

    Letters to Speck from native informants: George T. Anderson to Speck, Dec. 27, 1932, 1p., and March 24, 1933, 2p., concerning museum specimens; Mrs. Alex Elijah, March 23, 1935, 1p., concerning baskets (Ontario Delaware); A. F. Frenchman, Nov. 5, 1941, 2p., (son-in-law of George Anderson); Fred Keeler, Jan. 11, 1940, 2p., discussion of Delaware by an Oklahoma Cherokee; Minnie A. Garrett, March 14, 1935, 3p., asking for genealogical data on her Indian forebears. 5 cards and a 1p. typed document on a test for determining a murderer.F&S 913


    III(9C2i). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- i. Peyote notes
    1923-1940 4 items Box 6

    Includes 3p. critical notes on peyote as described in Lindcluist (1923); 2p. scraps; of Omer C. Stewart to Speck, Feb. 6, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., seeking data for comparative study of peyote.F&S 918


    III(9C2j). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- j. "Additional notes on Big House Ceremony"
    n.d. 2 items Box 6

    Speck has, with aid of George Anderson, informant, discovered evidences of "dualism" in Delaware religion. F&S 900


    III(9C2k). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- k. Delaware relations with Quapaw Indians
    1942 1 item Box 6

    Also concerns Peyote Cult. F&S 927


    III(9C2l). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- l. Delaware witchcraft
    1939 2 items Box 6

    An 8p. account, noting Plains Indian difference from Nanticoke; 10p. revision to Frank G. Speck. Cf. Pawnee witch story with letters of War Eagle, No. 932.F&S 929


    III(9C2m). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- m. Story of a reace between man and horse
    n.d. 2 items Box 6

    11p. story with 16p. free revision by Speck. F&S 933


    III(9C2n). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- n. Objects used in Delaware Peyote rites
    n.d. 3 items Box 6

    3p. account by Speck of specimens collected from War Eagle and 5p. account of the same by War Eagle, Nov. 1, 1939.F&S 917


    III(9C2o). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- o. Legend of Snow Boy
    1933 3 items Box 6

    3p. original by War Eagle; 2p. free revision by Speck. F&S 930


    III(9C2p). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- p. Legend of Woods dwarf
    n.d. 2 items Box 6

    2p. original by War Eagle; 1p. typed D. free revision by Speck. F&S 931


    III(9C2q). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- q. Cherokee and Delaware Alliance
    1933 2 items Box 6

    3p. original account by War Eagle; 3p. free revision by Speck. F&S 640


    III(9C2r). Oklahoma Delaware -- r. Delaware art designs in color n.d. 10 items Box 6

    Bag decorations, 11p. of crayon decorations. F&S 859


    III(9C2s). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- s. "Delaware Tales"
    1928 1 item Box 6

    18p. section concerns Peyote and the Delaware; 10p. concerns George Wilson (related to John Wilson of Peyote Cult).F&S 928


    III(9C2t). Moses, Jesse, and Nick Peters.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- t. Little people slay great bull
    n.d. 3 items Box 6

    Material obtained by Frank G. Speck. In English. F&S 894


    III(9C2u). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- u. song texts
    n.d. 2 items Box 6

    Text with interlinear translation; 2 versions of 1 song. Meant to accompany "Record H" (unknown). F&S 1184


    III(9C2v). Oklahoma Delaware -- v. Text on morality n.d. 1 item Box 6

    Text with interlinear translation. F&S 1189


    III(9C2w). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- w. Social organization field notes
    n.d. 12 items Box 6

    Notes and brief typed documents relating to the Turtle clan (7p.), class divisions (6p.), funeral ceremony (2p.), history of clans (3p.), names (13p.), locations and place names (4p.), concept of soul (4p.), miscellaneous (10p. and 8 cards). Fred Washington, Wolf Clan Ceremonies (2p.).F&S 921


    III(9C2x). Speck, Frank G..
    Oklahoma Delaware -- x. Gourd designs
    n.d. 1 item Box 6

    Rattle of Oklahoma Delaware for Peyote ceremonies. F&S 908


    III(9C2y). Wilson, Reuben.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- y. lettes from
    1941 12 items Box 6

    Letters concerning museum specimens, model, and sketch of Big House. March 18, 1941, 1p. and enc., concerning masks, other specimens, sketch of Delaware church (1925); April 23, 1941, 1p., concerning Big House and "Messing 1941, 1p. sketch of mask and costume of Messing; May 2, 1941, 2p., concerning Messing; May 7, 1941, post card of Fred Washington to Speck concerning Wilson; Sept. 12, 1941, 1p., concerning a mortar; Oct. 11, 1941, 1p., concerning Lenape words and Big House model; photos of Reuben Wilson, Washington County, Oklahoma Delaware. List of articles and prices; sketches; 1p. 2 queries of Speck on cards with Wilson's answers. F&S 937


    III(9C2z). War Eagle.
    Oklahoma Delaware -- z. letters from
    1933-1944 36 items Box 6

    Concerning War Eagle's collecting legends and traditions; his obtaining museum specimens; information on peyote and on Big House; his health; reservation and national Indian affairs; some mention of Pawnee, Nanticoke, etc. See various other documents listed separately, but transmitted with these letters. Includes the following tales: snow boy tale, boy captive of bear, trickster tale, Pawnee witch story. F&S 932


    3. Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware



    III(8C3a). Moses, Jesse, Jr..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- a. letters from
    1932-1948 19 items Box 5

    Letters: April 7, 1934, 1p., concerning obtaining data; Oct. 5, 1940, 4p., concerning reservation activities; Dec. 11, 1941, 4p., reservation affairs; Nov. 23, 1942, (typed copy?), 1p., concerning Speck (1942) and Indian affairs; Nov. 13, 1944, 5p., wrongs to Indians and miscellaneous; Nov. 29, 1944, 4p., concerning Lenni Lenape and data Moses is gathering; Dec. 3, 1944, 8p., same subject; Dec. 7, 1944, 4p., (typed), Story of Nick (Peters?) and white captives; Sept. 7, 1945, 3p., concerning Delaware affairs, speculations on Delaware religion, concept of Great Spirit and conversion to Christianity; Aug. 4, 1947, 4p., miscellaneous Cayuga and Delaware affairs; Nov. 31, 1945, 6p., sends treaty of 1777 of British and Indians at Detroit, discusses manufacture of museum specimens; Sept. 7, 1948, 3p., miscellaneous, discusses meeting with Mormon missionaries; ca. 19431944, 1p., fragment of letter. 7 photos of old and young Jesse Moses. Speck field notes taken from Jesse Moses, 1944, 3p.F&S 893


    III(8C3b). Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- b. [no entry]

    Box 5




    III(8C3c). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- c. Miscellaneous notes
    1938-1945 16 items Box 5

    Abstract of report on University of Pennsylvania grant (Bear Ceremony), 1p. Ethnographic notes, 17p. Letters: M. R. Harrington (Southwest Museum) to Speck, March 11, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning his MS. on Delaware (1945a) and comparisons with Minsi; Charles Edgar Gilliam to Speck, Oct. 22, 1945, A.L.S., 2p., concerning the celestial bear theme, refers to William Byrd's attributing aphrodisiacal powers to bear meat and Gilliam suggests that the winter ceremony thus insures birth of children at harvest when there will be food; Paul A. W. Wallace to Speck, Sept. 11, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerns Joseph Montour and his return to his native religion.F&S 912


    III(8C3d). Hill, Jasper "Big White Owl".
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- d. Stories
    1934-1943 11 items Box 5

    Two narratives by an acculturated Moravian Delaware and accompanying letters (seeking and transmitting information): Hill to Frank G. Speck, Mar. 15, 1934; April, 1934; April 28, 1934; Feb. 28, 1943. F&S 892


    III(8C3e). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- e. Notes on life and geneology of Joseph Montour
    1932 3 items Box 5

    Includes chart of succession of chiefs, 1855-1937; data from Joseph Montour (biographical). 3p. biography of Nicodemus Peters (1859-1938).F&S 916


    III(8C3f). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- f. Field notes
    1945 1 item Box 5

    Linguistic materials: names of objects, materia medica names, 1 drawing.F&S 1177


    III(8C3g). Montour, Josiah.
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- g. Texts narrated by
    1931-1936 7 items Box 6

    Six texts in Delaware with interlinear translations. F&S 1173


    III(8C3h). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- h. Field notes
    1946 4 items Box 6

    Field trip with Anthony F. C. Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Carpenter: Delaware text, no translation, from Josiah Montour; Delaware, Cayuga, and Mohawk words. F&S 1181


    III(8C3i). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- i. Field notes
    1936 2items Box 6

    Ethnographic and linguistic notes; concerns ceremonies and text. Letter of Nicodemus Peters to Speck, March 2, 1936, concerning masks and a turtle rattle. F&S 907


    III(8C3j). Speck, Frank G..
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- j. Hoop game
    1944-1945 3 items Box 6

    Cayuga hoop game data from Deskaheh. Typed D. description of Delaware-Munsee hoop game. Postal card, Nov. 24, 1944, of Ernest S. Dodge to Speck, concerning reference to hoop game in Morgan's League of the Iroquois (1851). F&S 559


    III(8C3k). Peters, Nick.
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- k. Letters from and concerning
    1935-1939 15 items Box 6

    Letters of Peters to Speck concerning museum specimens being obtained by Peters: Jan. 3, 1938; April 11, 1938; May 1, 1938; and no date. Letters concerning death of Peters and his collecting museum specimens: Irma Peters to Speck, Nov. 23, 1938, 2p., Margaret Vanderberg to Speck, Jan. 8, 1938; ? to Speck, n.d., concerning Peters data on executions; three letters of Frank Siebert to Speck, July 24, 1938, 2p., Nov. 20, 1938, 2p., and June 25, 1939, all concerning linguistic field work with Peters and museum specimens. 4p. biographical data concerning Nekatcit.F&S 898


    III(8C3l). John, Samuel.
    Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- l. letters from
    1934-1935 4 items Box 6

    Three letters concerning John's Tutelo background and Speck's visit to Canadian Delawares. Sept. 4, 1934, 3p.; Jan. 8, 1935, 4p.; June 2, 1935, 2p. F&S 3821


    III(10D1a). Butler, Eva L..
    General New England -- a. "Letters of the Indians"
    n.d. 1 item Box 6

    29 letters of seventeenth-century Indians, principally from archives in Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. F&S 343


    D. New England Algonkians (also including Algonkians of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick)



    1. General New England



    III(10D1b). Butler, Eva L..
    General New England -- b. "Colonial Letters of our Ancestors"
    n.d. 1 item Box 6

    19 letters of seventeenth-century colonial Connecticut, principally from Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. F&S 342


    III(10D1c). General New England -- c. Tribal Maps n.d.
    Box 6

    [see map files]


    III(10D1d). Butler, Eva L..
    General New England -- d. "Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology of the New England Indians"
    n.d. 1 item Box 6

    90p. of ethnobotanical references, 29p. of ethnozoological references found in a 3p. bibliography of seventeenth and eighteenth century sources. F&S 331


    III(10D1e). Speck, Frank G. .
    General New England -- e. Bibliography of New England Tribes
    n.d. 1 item Box 6

    Nineteenth-century printed references; some twentieth-century. F&S 2092


    2. Penobscot



    III(11D2a). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- a. "Bird Lore of the Northern Indians"
    n.d. 2 items Box 7

    A faculty public lecture, University of Pennsylvania. F&S 2925


    III(11D2b). Speck, Frank G. .
    Penobscot -- b. Miscellaneous Notes
    1912-1946 55 items Box 7

    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.F&S 2932


    III(11D2c). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- c. Penobscot religion
    1910 15 items Box 7

    An introductory statement in 4p. with a 5p. revision; also, 8L. of miscellaneous notes. F&S 2938


    III(11D2d). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- d. Penobscot field notes
    1909-1911 32 items Box 7

    An introduction and description of canoemaking; miscellaneous ethnographic field notes; data on face painting, etc.F&S 2927


    III(11D2e). Speck Frank G. .
    Penobscot -- e. MS. of Penobscot Man
    n.d. 46 items Box 7

    77p. of manuscript for Speck (1940a); plates (figures); Bp. letter of Frank (Siebert?) to Speck, May 29, 1939, concerning his Penobscot MS. F&S 2937


    III(11D2f). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- f. Counting and measuring
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    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. F&S 2926


    III(11D2g). Swadesh, Morris and Charles F. Voegelin.
    Penobscot -- g. Scientific Penobscot Alphabet
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    Scientific Penobscot alphabet F&S 2946


    III(12D2h). Echstorm, F. H..
    Penobscot -- h. letters from
    1936-1941 14 items Box 8

    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. F&S 2920


    III(12D2i). Penobscot -- i. [no entry]

    Box 8

    III(12D2j). Penobscot -- j. [no entry]

    Box 8

    III(12D2k). Needahbeh.
    Penobscot -- k. Penobscot sayings
    n.d. 1 item Box 8

    Miscellany not used in book (1940). F&S 2939


    III(12D2l). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- l. House furnishings
    1935 2 items Box 8

    Some parts not used in Speck (1940a). F&S 2928


    III(12D2m). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- m. Hunting morality
    n.d. 1 item Box 8

    Religious aspect of hunting. F&S 2929


    III(12D2n). Penobscot -- n. [no entry]

    Box 8




    III(12D2o). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- o. Notes on Penobscot Social Organization
    n.d. 6 items Box 8

    Charts on family, its size, totem, etc., 2p.; 2p. on family history and names; 39p. miscellaneous notes, 1918, including text interlinear translation; Micmac data. F&S 2933


    III(12D2p). Penobscot -- p. [no entry]

    Box 8




    III(12D2q). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- q. Penobscot calendar system
    1916-1928 2 items Box 8

    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. F&S 2936


    III(12D2r). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- r. Penobscot animal lore
    1924 2 items Box 8

    Data; cf. Speck (1935b) (?). F&S 2934


    III(12D2s). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- s. Penobscot Art and the Penobscot texts
    n.d. 5 item Box 8

    Material not used in Penobscot Man because of duplication in Speck (1927b).F&S 2935


    III(12D2t). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- t. Penobscot texts (I)
    1928 19 items Box 8

    Texts with interlinear translations; several English texts; typed versions of texts in English. F&S 2945


    III(12D2t). Speck, Frank G..
    Penobscot -- t. Penobscot texts (II)
    1928 5 items Box 8

    F&S 2945


    3. Malecite



    III(13D3a). Speck, Frank G..
    Malecite -- a. Malacite Dance
    1936 4 items Box 8

    Text with interlinear translation; notes; musical score. F&S 2099


    III(13D3b). Prince, J. Dyneley.
    Malecite -- b. Passamaquoddy-Malecite Dictionary
    1921 1 item Box 8

    Indian-English, arranged according to English alphabet; also, English-Indian. Based on 1911 collection of Passamaquoddy texts printed in Prince (1921). F&S 2649


    III(13D3c). Malecite -- c. [no entry]

    Box 9




    III(13D3d). Speck, Frank G..
    Malecite -- d. Miscellaneous Malecite field notes
    1917-1948 19 items Box 9

    7p. of slips containing Malecite words; 1p. printed map of St. John's River with Malecite villages marked; 12p. Malecite terms (with a few Penobscot items), 1948: 12p. unpublished notes on hunting territories. Letter of J. Clarence Webster (Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada), July 24, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerning present life of Malecite and Micmac. Letter of Edwin Tappan Adney, Feb. 9, 1946, T.L.S., 1p., concerning the Celestial Bear, Malecite-Delaware comparisons. F&S 2101


    III(13D3e). Speck, Frank G..
    Malecite -- e. Malecite notes
    1949 1 item Box 9

    Vocabulary list, hunting terms, names of trees. F&S 2100


    4. Mohegan-Mohican



    III(10D4a). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohegan-Mohican -- a. Mohegans in Maine
    1939 2 items Box 7

    Reading notes. F&S 2283


    III(10D4b). Tantaquidgeon, Gladys.
    Mohegan-Mohican -- b. Correspondence with
    1938 2 items Box 7

    A Connecticut Mohegan Indian, employed by the Government, writes of Shawnee legends and inquires about silk appliqué techniques. Newsclippings. F&S 3648


    III(10D4c). Mohegan-Mohican -- c. Miscellaneous notes 1916-1936 19 items Box 7

    Commentary on Fidelia Fielding's Texts, 15p. in notebook; notes for 1920 Pequot trip, with Nehantic and Pennacook notes. 3 letters of Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell to Frank G. Speck, Feb. 11, March 1, and March 11, 1924: commentaries on lectures, etc. concerning Indians in Rhode Island. Notes on Mohegan social organization 2p.; 1p. of incomplete letter of Red Wing concerning Indian affairs; miscellaneous Stockbridge notes, 5p.; George Heye to Speck, Feb. 8, 1916, T.L.S., 1p., re publication; J. R. Swanton to Speck, June 22, no year, A.L.S., 3p., concerning his exhibition for Mohegan Stockbridge data, 3p. from published sources; postal card from Princess Pretty War, re dress, Oct. 26, 1943; Ernest E. Rogers to Speck, March 7, 1934, T.L.S., 1p., of New London Hist. Society re Mohegan-Pequot Diary of Speck. Miscellaneous 4p. and 6 cardsF&S 2284


    III(10D4d). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohegan-Mohican -- d. Plants at Mohegan
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    21 trees and uses of their products noted on cards; other cards lacking data. F&S 2287


    III(10D4e). Butler, Eva L..
    Mohegan-Mohican -- e. "Mohegan Indians Deeds"
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    22 deeds of seventeenth century signed by Connecticut Mohegan Indians: Connecticut archival sources. A pamphlet of the Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. F&S 2285


    III(10D4f). Mohegan-Mohican -- f. [no entry]

    Box 7




    III(10D4g). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohegan-Mohican -- g. Mohegan elect chief
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    Copy for a news release. F&S 2282


    III(10D4h). Speck, Frank G..
    Mohegan-Mohican -- h. Mohegan Pequot Texts and vocabulary material
    n.d. 1 item Box 7

    Mohegan-Pequot texts, 28p. together with a 22p. carbon of another draft. 2p. text and interlinear translation; 2p. phonetic notes; 5p. comparative material and names; 3p. grammatical notes and comparisons; an 1892 vocabulary of Mohegan, 2p. and 1 card. 4p. comparisons.F&S 2286


    5. Micmac



    III(13D5a). Speck, Frank G..
    Micmac -- a. Micmac Dance
    n.d. 2 items Box 9

    Text with interlinear translation and notes; musical score. F&S 2246


    III(13D5b). Speck, Frank G..
    Micmac -- b. Miscellaneous Micmac notes
    1909-1926 26 items Box 9

    15 bibliographical slips, 8p. of reading notes, concerning hieroglyphics of Micmac. 2p. list of informants; 1p. list of specimens, 1916; 2 copies of printed Micmac mission newspaper, Setaneoei. 1910 and 1920. Note book 1914, 24p. containing words and names of informants; 1 card. 8p. notes including a text in English; 12p. reading notes; 2p. "nominal suffixes"; 1p. bird names of Micmac; 2p. miscellaneous. Letters: Stansbury Hagar to Speck, Jan. 7, 1909, 3p. A.L.S. concerning his Micmac and Cherokee notes; also his bibliography. Same to same, March 8, 1926, 2p. incomplete and 1p. typed copy, concerning his explanation of triangulation to a Micmac chief. John Sark to G. A. Paul, June 30, 1914, 1p. transmits 3p. Micmac text (in mission Micmac). Newell Lyon to Speck, Feb. 21, 1919, 2p. A.L.S. thanking Speck for book. Mrs. Newell Lyon, March 13, 1919, 2p. A.L.S. concerning Lyon's death. News-clipping. F&S 2231


    III(13D5c). Milais, J. J..
    Micmac -- c. Observations
    1907 7 items Box 9

    An incomplete article or set of reading excerpts taken after 1922 by Speck from J. J. Millais (1907). F&S 2232


    III(13D5d). Speck, Frank G..
    Micmac -- d. Traveler's account of the Micmac in 1822
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    A brief article. F&S 2233


    III(13D5e). Speck, Frank G..
    Micmac -- e. Micmac Field Notes
    1915 9 items Box 9

    Notebook of 13p. concerning wampum, Hunting Territories; some reference to Passamaquoddy; notebook of 29p. Cape Breton Micmac texts; Newfoundland Micmac data and traditions. 7p. Cape Breton Micmac Texts (English); 1p. map with names of Bear River Band members; 4p, draft of article on Micmac Hunting Territories; 1 envelope of miscellaneous notes; 1 piece birch bark with pictographs inscribed. F&S 2230


    III(13D5f). Butler, Eva L..
    Micmac -- f. Notes from Jesuit Relations
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    Extracts concerning the sweat house. F&S 2227


    III(13D5g). Witthoft, J..
    Micmac -- g. Micmac notes
    1949 4 items Box 9

    10p. of linguistic notes and vocabulary collected along the Miramichi River. 6p. typed copy by John Witthoft. F&S 2247


    6. Narraganset



    III(14D6a). Speck, Frank G..
    Narraganset -- a. Physical measurements of the Narraganset male
    1917 1 item Box 9

    Male 1/4 Nehantic, 1/2 Brotherton (Narraganset). F&S 2369


    III(14D6b). Speck, Frank G..
    Narraganset -- b. Miscellaneous notes
    1916-1926 4 items Box 9

    Comparative vocabulary of Massachusetts, Narraganset, Mohegan, Pequot, and Naugatuck (ca. 30 items); 3 vocabulary lists on cards; 1p. of names. E. B. Delabarre to Speck, May 6, 1920, A.L.S., 2p., prefers Cherokee to Narraganset as explanation of origin of characters on Rhode Island stone. F&S 2368


    7. St. Francis Abenaki



    III(14D7a). Speck, Frank G..
    St. Francis Abenaki -- a. Conjuring lodge
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    Description. F&S 296


    III(14D7b). Speck, Frank G..
    St. Francis Abenaki -- b. Miscellaneous notes
    1901-1946 6 items Box 9

    Two cards of reading notes; typed copy of Indian poem in English, from John Reade (1887). Also 3p. A.L.S. Frederick S. Dick son to Speck, re Abenaki vocabulary, May 5, 1920, 1p. Typed L.S. Edwin Tappan Adney, February 18, 1946, concerning place names and Maine Indian shamans. F&S 297


    8. Abenaki



    III(14D8a). Speck, Frank G..
    Abenaki -- a. Field notes
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    Notebook of Abenaki Indians. Was received with the A.I. Hallowell Papers. no F.S. number


    9. Scatticook



    III(14D9a). Scatticook -- a. Miscellaneous notes 1904, 1939-1940 4 items Box 9

    1904 vocabulary. 2 letters of Chief Swimming Eel to Speck, Aug. 16, 1939 and Aug. 5, 1940, concerning Indian social activities; 1 broadside. F&S 3230


    III(14D9b). Scatticook -- b. Scatticook field notebook 1903 1 item Box 9

    Vocabulary census, and reservation data; biographical notes and traditions.F&S 3231


    10. Pequot



    III(14D10a). Speck, Frank G..
    Pequot -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1922-1941 8 items Box 9

    2 cards with Mohegan names; 7p. reading notes; 1p. animal names; 3p. typed letter, c.c., of Harral Ayres to the Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 15, 1941, concerning Connecticut place names; Gertrude Bell Browne to Speck, Feb. 19, 1924, A.L.S., 7p., concerning seventeenth-century Pequot-Mohegan history. F&S 2281


    III(14D10b). Speck, Frank G..
    Pequot -- b. Pequot archaeology
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    A paper on 1939 excavations near Noank Cove, Conn. Possibly by Speck.F&S 2954


    III(14D10c). Butler, Eva.
    Pequot -- c. "Beginnings of Pequot Plantation"
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    An account based on documents in New London, Groton, and Hartford. For school children; distributed by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. F&S 2952


    11. Wampanog



    III(14D11). Speck, Frank G..
    Wampanog -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1923-1928 8 items Box 9

    9 cards and 3 slips of miscellaneous material. 1 postal card, June 18, 1928, of Uncle Al to Speck, concerning an island. Rachelle T. Ryan to Speck, May 23, 1928 (reserving cottage at Gay Head), A.L.S., 2p. Frederick S. Hammett (Wistar Institute), Aug. 29, 1923, T.L.S., 1p. concerning his archaeological find at N. Truro, Mass. Chief Le Boy C. Ferry (a Wampanoag), Aug. 6, 1925, A.L.S., 4p., concerning tribal and intertribal social activities. F&S 3841


    12. Massachusetts



    III(14D12a). Speck, Frank G..
    Massachusetts -- a. "Reflections of the Past and Present of the Massachusetts Indians"
    1943 2 items Box 9

    Carbon copy of Speck (1943); also letter of C. A. Weslager (Archaeological Society of Delaware) to Speck, urging him to write general book on remnant Indians. F&S 2117


    III(14D12b). DeLa Barre, Edmund Burke .
    Massachusetts -- b. "Prehistoric Cremation..."
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    Account of and speculation on an ancient burial. F&S 2109


    III(14D12c). Speck, Frank G..
    Massachusetts -- c. Landing of Pilgrims
    1906-1920 3 items Box 9

    Account of Pilgrims, 1920; 3p. notes concerning Middleboro, Mass. F&S 2116


    13. Wawenock



    III(14D13a). Speck, Frank G..
    Wawenock -- a. Wawenock Texts
    n.d. 3 items Box 9

    Texts taken from Neptune, interlinear translations; folkloristic. F&S 306


    III(14D13b). Speck, Frank G..
    Wawenock -- b. Miscellaneous Wawenock notes
    1915 11 items Box 9

    Miscellaneous notes, 4p.; 2p. vocabulary and folkloristic text in English; 1 scrap; 4p. text in English; 1p. A.L.S. J. P. Ranger, concerning canoe; population notes on reverse. Three letters of W. C. Kendall, owner of Camp Wawenock, Lake Sebago, Maine, February 8, 14, and 28, 1915 (1p., 3p., 4p.), concerning information about Wawenock, his memories of Wawenock and Penobscot Indians of Maine. F&S 298


    14. Mashpe



    III(14D14). Speck, Frank G..
    Mashpe -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 3 items Box 9

    Bibliographical notes. F&S 2380


    15. Nipmuc



    III(14D15). Speck, Frank G..
    Nipmuc -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1914-1942 10 items Box 9

    3p. concerning place and family names. 2p. A.L.S., Feb. 4, 1942, Mrs. Ruth Allen, Medfield, Mass., to Speck, concerning baskets owned by her family; transmits 3p. Typed D. extracts from printed works concerning Medfield history. Letters of Sarah M. Cisco Sullivan (Grafton, Mass., Indian Reservation): 4p. A.L.S., July 16, 1926, concerning social activities; 5p. A.L.S., Sept. 3, 1924, family news, place name data; 2p. A.L.S., Aug. 24, 1924, concerning place names; 1p. A.L.S., Sept. 8, 1943, 3p. enclosure, miscellaneous historical data; 2p. A.L.S., n.d., ca. 1943, family news. F&S 2399


    16. Montauk



    III(14D16). Occom, Rev. Sansom.
    Montauk -- a. Occum's Account, 1764
    n.d. 1 item Box 9

    Transcript from an original manuscript in the Yale Library. Concerns marriage, naming of children, religion, death practices. 2p. of genealogical data on Maine Indians. F&S 2332


    17. Pennacook



    III(14D17). Speck, Frank G..
    Pennacook -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 8 items Box 9

    Notebook contains Pennacook, Mashpee, Gay Head, Cape Cod Indian genealogical and population notes; miscellaneous Pennacook notes, ca. 3 slips, 2p. F&S 2672


    E. Miscellaneous Tribes



    1. Central Algonkians



    III(5E1a). Speck, Frank G..
    Central Algonkians -- a. Miscellaneous Ottawa notes
    1939 6 items Box 3

    Miscellaneous data concerning Ottawa dances and an informant. Letter of Ene (?), Denver Art Museum, Department of Indian Art, to Speck, Dec. 7, 1939, concerning Delaware specimens. On reverse are Speck's notes on Delaware locations, according to eighteenth-century maps. F&S 2631


    III(5E1b). Speck, Frank G..
    Central Algonkians -- b. Fox ceremonies
    n.d. 2 items Box 3

    Questionnaire, not filled out, 2p. list only. Bibliographical note to Jones (1907), 1p.F&S 1365


    III(5E1c). Central Algonkians -- c. [no entry]

    Box 3




    III(5E1d). Central Algonkians -- d. [no entry]

    Box 3




    III(5E1e). Adney, E.T..
    Central Algonkians -- e. Miami Miscellaneous notes
    1943 1 item Box 3

    letter to Frank Speck F&S 2217


    2. Shawnee



    III(5E2a). Wheeler-Voegelin, Erinie.
    Shawnee -- a. Genearl Shawnee Burial Traits
    n.d. 3 items Box 3

    Brief account of field experiences; also 8p. outline of burial, funerary, and condolence procedure. F&S3651


    III(5E2b). Speck, Frank G. and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin.
    Shawnee -- b. Miscellaneous Shawnee notes
    1932-1946 7 items Box 3

    Includes two letters of Earl L. Pools (Reading Museum), April 23, 1946, 1p. TLS, and May 6, 1946, 1p. TLS, together with 2p. transcript of letter of Conrad Weiser, Feb. 16, 1747 from American German Review: 12:4, 18-19, April, 1948, re meeting of Shawnee and Count Zinzendorf. Postal card of "C" to Speck, September 10, 1942, on grasshopper war. E. W. Voegelin to Speck, March 13, 1941. War Eagle to Speck, April 22, 1933, concerning Bread Dance. 1912 notes on Bread Dance and names given Speck; also notes on Shawnee clans. F&S 3647


    III(5E2c). Voegelin, Carl and Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin.
    Shawnee -- c. List of Shawnee dances
    1934 1 item Box 3

    Includes letter transmitting lists to Speck, July 15, 1934.F&S 3649


    III(5E2d). Wheeler-Voegelin, Erinie.
    Shawnee -- d. Shawnee False Faces
    1948 1 item Box 3

    Field data on use of false faces by Shawnee.F&S 3650


    3. Nanticoke



    III(5E3). Speck, Frank G..
    Nanticoke -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1914-1943 15 items Box 3

    Slips contain miscellaneous notes. Letters: Wes (?) to Speck, June 24, 1943, concerning Nanticoke vocabulary; J. Barton Cheyney to Speck, Oct. 31, no year, concerning Delaware-white-Nanticoke relations; James Mooney to Speck, Feb. 15, 1916, concerning Speck's Nanticoke article (1915); Franz Boas to Speck, March 29, 1916, on same subject. F&S 2360


    IV. Southeast



    A. General Southeast (south of Mason-Dixon Line, east of plains)



    IV(15A1). Shafer, A. E. .
    "Fauna of Southeastern U.S."
    n.d. 1 item Box 10

    List of animals of the Southeastern United States. F&S none


    IV(15A2). Speck, Frank G..
    Tribal Remnants in Southeast
    n.d. 6 items Box 10

    Typed D., 12p., R. Solenberger, on tribal remnants; 3p. MS. notes on Louisiana remnants and Seminoles of Florida; 7p. Southeastern Culture group and subdivisions by Speck (?); abstract of data distinguishing between Cherokee-Yuchi-Creek vs. Chickasaw-Choctaw; 1p. phonetic text with note, Town Square Speech. F&S 1259


    IV(15A3). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    1938-1941 17 items Box 10

    Includes 8 letters, one from Speck to J. Dynely Prince, and 7 from the following correspondents to Speck: Ethel Cutler Freeman, R. S. Boggs, Alice L. Marriott, Irving Rouse, Hugh M. Hamill, Mary R. Haas, and Claude Schaeffer; various subjects. Includes also 3p. Typed D. c.c. by Teresina Salgado Muaoz, concerning Speck (1941b); 1p. sketch for engraving of hammerstones from lower Susquehanna; Typed D., 2p., c.c., bibliography of southeast for publication, ca. 1944, and 3D. copy of same; 1p. list of tribes of southeast and population figures; 5p. of bibliographical scraps; Typed D., 1p., c.c., list of MS. studies in the southeast, mostly Speck and Claude Schneffer, on Catawba, Tutelo, and Cherokee. F&S 1257


    IV(15A4). Milling, Chapman J..
    "Is The Serpent Tale an Indian Survival?"
    1941 2 items Box 10

    Transmits reprint of his article on Serpent tale as an Indian survival. Speck's Catawba texts. Comments on Speck's Catawba texts. F&S 508


    B. Archaeology



    IV(15B1). Fewkes, Vladimir J. and Joseph R. Caldwell.
    Irene and Kolomlki Mounds
    1938-939 7 items Box 10

    Includes Caldwell to Frank G. Speck, March 23, 1938, Typed L.S., 3p., reporting on Irene Mound pottery types (near Savannah, Ga.); Fewkes, Memorandum, Typed D., 9p., on Irene Mound project, intended for publicity purposes. Press release, March 2:, 1938, Typed D. c.c., 7p., on archaeology in Georgia, particularly Irene Mound; 2 drafts of reports on proposed Kolomoki Mound excavations, April 3, 1938, Typed D., 5p. and 5p. Includes also Dolores B. Floyd, Typed D. c.c., 3p. History points the way to archaelogy on the Georgia Coast (no Indian references). F&S 1209


    IV(15B2). Fewkes, Vladimir J..
    "Southeastern Pottery"
    n.d. 3 items Box 10

    Includes 3p. report and c.c.; 4p. bibliography. Identifies Choctaw, Natchez, Tunica, and Caddoan complexes. F&S 1210


    IV(15B3). Physiography of Georgia n.d. 1 item Box 10

    Analysis of the state, especially the coastill plain, with some mention of Indian population. F&S 1253


    C. Houma (Louisiana)



    IV(16C1). Speck, Frank G..
    Correspondence with native informants
    1929-1947 20 items Box 11

    Includes letters of David Billiot (Golden Meadow, La.) to Speck: generally concerns obtaining museum specimens, land and schooling problems for Houma families. Charles Billiot to Speck: May 26, 1938, A.L.S., 2p.; July 12, 1938, A.L.S., 2p.; Aug. 27, 1938, A.L.S., 2p., concerning obtaining a pirogue. Dorothy Celestine to Speck: Dec. 21, 1946, A.L.S., 1p., offering to make beaded belts. Ann Celestine (later Sister Felice, O.S.B.) to Speck: Nov. 10, 1946, A.L.S., 1p.; May 11, 1947, A.L.S., 1p., concerning beaded belt. Ben Paul to Speck: Aug. 18, 1929, A.L.S., 3p, concerning baskets and blowguns. George Billiot to Speck: June 1, 1938, A.L.S., 2p., with photo, a friendly letter. Included are carbon copies of letters from Speck to Willard Beatty of the Education Department of Bureau of Indian Affairs, Oct. 1, 1938, T.L.S., 3p., urging schools for the Houma and recognition of their Indian status; to David Billiot, Sept. 27, 1938, T.L., 3p., on government aid for schools and land questions. Typed copy of T. H. Harris to Ruth Underhill, T.L., 1p., recommending Houma schools. 1p. list of specimens included.F&S 1574


    IV(16C2). [no entry]
    Box 11

    IV(16C3). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    1938-1941 21 items Box 11

    Includes 1p. of reading notes; 2p. note on Negro and French influences; 3 cards; 1p. list of Houma food mollusks by Speck; 1p. list of fish; 5p. handwriting exercises by Houma children; 2p. note on Houma blowgun; 2p. note on Houma loans from Creole French contact with Jean LaFitte. Correspondence: Speck to Wilhelmina Hooper (DuLac mission), Feb. 24, 1941, A.L.S., 2p., re specimens and mission school; Wilhelmina Hooper to Speck, March 2, 1941 and Sept. 21, 1941, 2p. and 2p., concerning life at mission and making of specimens; Guy B. Johnson (Chapel Hill, N.C.) Sept. 14, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Houma photographs; Vernon Kinietz to Speck, March 28, 1939, T.L.S., 1p., concerning blowgun use by Munsee, and Delaware names of months; Ruth Underhill to Speck, Oct. 22, 1938, T.L.S., 2p. re Houma land title problems; Rev. Oakley Lee to Speck, April 2, 1941, T.L.S., 2p., concerning moving site of Houma mission and school; R. M. Harper to Speck, July 25, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Houma fertility; Fred Kniffen to Speck, Feb. 4, 1938, 1p. telegram, and Feb. 16, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., both concerning Houma blowguns. F&S 1577


    IV(16C4). Speck, Frank G..
    Houma medical remedies
    1941-1944 4 items Box 11

    Contains a 1p. T.D. and c.c. of list of diseases and 4p. list with reference numbers to method of treatment. Correspondence concerning Houma materia medica: Jane O'Kelly Mitchell to Speck, Aug. 15, 1941, 1 postal card; Wilhelmina Hooper, A.L.S., 1p. and 1p. note, Jan. 10, 1944; J. Percy Moore, Jan. 5, 1942, T.L.S., 1p. (identifies Mantid egg specimen used by Houma); Flora (Fogg?), Aug. 13, 1941, T.L.S., 1p. (identifies specimens); Wilhelmina Hooper, July 14, 1941,F.S> 1576


    IV(16C5). [no entry]
    Box 11

    IV(16C6). Speck, Frank G..
    Manuscripts on Houma
    1941-1943 4 items Box 11

    A 27p. c.c. "Report... on Houma Indians" prepared for Bureau of Indian Affairs, concerning history and condition of the Houma and their educational needs. 28p. typed draft of paper based on the preceding, "A Social Reconnaisance of the Creole Houma." F&S 1575


    IV(16C7). Marriott, Alice L. .
    Plans for Houma research
    n.d. 1 item Box 11

    Description of project aimed at cutting prejudice toward Houma. F&S 1573


    IV(16C8). Swanton, John R..
    Houma spear thrower
    1938-1941 3 items Box 11

    Swanton to Speck: March 10 and Feb. 14, 1941, concerning Houma slings and darts. Reprint of Swanton (1938). F&S 1579


    IV(16C9). Billiot, Maurice and Anthony.
    Houma specimens
    n.d. 2 items Box 32

    6 bone and wood points for canoe arrows and a model of canoe with 2 paddles.F&S 1572


    D. Cherokee



    IV(17D1). Speck, Frank G..
    Correspondence with informants
    1929-1948 15 items Box 11

    From Cherokee Indians: Will West Long to Speck, Aug. 11, 1929, A.L.S., 1p., concerning specimens (also 2p. list of specimens and prices); March 29, 1945, A.L.S., 1p., personal. Alien W. Long, March 2, 1948, A.L.S., 2p., concerning feathers for ball game, corn-husk masks, medicines. C. C. Webber (War Eagle), June 18, 1945, A.L.S., 4p., from Oklahoma (Delaware?), friendly letter. Letters to Arthur Kelly (anthropological field worker among North Carolina Cherokee) to Speck: July 6, 1929, T.L.S., 2p., concerning physical type and white mixture of Will West Long, ball game, material culture; July 18, 1929, T.L.S., 3p., concerning Will West Long, serpent masks, legend of Seneca-Cherokee War; July 28, 1929 (?), T.L.S., 4p., concerning field reputation of other anthropologists among Cherokee, museum specimens, magic practices, gourd mask, tradition of South American Cherokee, Cherokee-Catawba relationship; Aug. 9, 1929, T.L.S., 6p., anthropometry of Cherokee, ethnohistoric legend of Choctaw-Cherokee War, genealogy, descendants of Yona Guski [Eoneguski?]; Nov. 10, 1929 (?), T.L.S., 1p., concerning Will West Long and field work. Will West Long correspondence -All concern museum specimens. F&S 607, 614


    IV(17D2). Speck, Frank G..
    Cherokee field notes
    1931-1943 27 items Box 11

    Includes 10p. miscellany, including formulae for curing; notes on recordings; 3p. notes. 2p. notes; 1p. sketch of map. 2p. miscellaneous notes; 1p. data on dugout canoe; 1p. on story of dance (typed); 1p. T.D. listing Cherokee masks; Bp. miscellaneous notes. 5p. Christmas 1921 field notes; at Cherokee, N.C., pertaining to natural history, and T.D., 2p., a translation of diary record of Will West Long of Mutual Aid Meeting. 1932. Correspondence: Will West Long to Speck: May 23, 1924, A.L.S., 2p., concerning corn-husk masks and their use; April 27, 1933, A.L.S., 2p., on same subject. April 16, 1935, A.L.S., 3p., on the same subject; Jan. 14, 1935, A.L.S., 4p., concerning masks and other museum specimens; July 22, 1936, A.L.S., 1p. (incomplete), concerning basket and dice games. Letter of Eva M. Horner to Speck, Aug. 3, 1931, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Oklahoma Cherokee ceremony and Yuchi dances; Creek influences. F&S 612


    IV(17D3). Speck, Frank G..
    Cherokee music, dances and recordings
    1935-1938 14 items Box 11

    Includes 103p. typed draft of materials on Cherokee music, dance, and drama (Speck and Broom, 1951); 1 note card, 5313. of field notes on dances; 5p. table of contents to recording discs. Ilp. typed draft, student term paper on "Dance." Letters of George Herzog to Speck, Dec. 21, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., and 1p. note by Speck; June 11, 1937, T.L.S., 1p.; July 2, 1937, T.L.S., 1p.; April 22, 1938, T.L.S., 2p.; and n.d. (Friday P.M.), T.L.S., 2p., with Speck's comments. All concern preparation of above MS. F&S 613


    IV(17D4). Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs.
    Cherokee bibliography
    n.d. 1 item Box 11

    Publication 68650, listing 48 items, 1775-1922. F&S 625


    IV(17D5). Speck, Frank G..
    Juan Pardo's letter (1566)
    n.d. 1 item Box 11

    Letter (7p. in English, with introduction by Speck), relating early Spanish contact with the Cherokee. F&S 637


    IV(17D6). [no entry]
    Box 11

    IV(17D7). Speck, Frank G..
    Biographical sketch - Will W. Long
    n.d. 1 item Box 11

    Biography; account of customs. F&S 610


    IV(17D8). [no entry]
    Box 11

    IV(17D9). [no entry]
    Box 11

    IV(17D10). Speck, Frank G..
    Cherokee basketry
    1920-1921 3 items Box 11

    Three letters concerning Speck (1920); Walter E. Roth to Speck, Dec. 8, 1920, A.L.S., 1p. (also concerns British Guiana and South American parallels to North American basketry); Clark Wissler to Speck, Sept. 15, 1920, T.L.S., 1p.; Theodor Krock-Ginsberg (Stuttgart Museum), Jan. 12, 1921 (also concerns troubles contacting Professor Farabee over publications). F&S 611


    IV(17D11). Hicks, Charles.
    "Manners, customs." etc. of Cherokees in 1818 (copy of MS)
    n.d. 1 item Box 11

    Transcribed from letter of October 13, 1818; printed in Raleigh (N.C.) Register, submitted by Calvin Jones, but written by an Indian, Hicks. See Bureau of American Ethnology scrapbook, 1:354. F&S 606


    IV(17D12). Miscellaneous notes 1940-1945 11 items Box 11

    Includes 1p. list of Cherokee ceremonial specimens and economic specimens with prices; 4p. notes on Cherokee folklore taken by Horace P. Beck; 6 cards of miscellaneous field notes; T.D., c.c., 1p. concerning bone "scratchers" used for scarifying before ball game; T.D. and c.c., 1p., classification of Cherokee masks; 5p. miscellany. Correspondence: Leonard Broom to Speck, Nov. 4, 1940, A.L.S., 6p., concerning Christian Indian objections to dances, influence of tourist performances, comments on Speck's dance manuscript. James G. K. McClure (Farmer's Federation Educational and Development Fund to James R. Coates, Nov. 2, 1945, 1p. mimeo form letter concerning a program for Cherokee redevelopment; pamphlet enclosed James R. Coates (Norfolk, Va.) to Speel Nov. 8, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerning authenticity of the above. Concerning Cherokee Museum specimens; wants to begin translation of Cherokee record book. Speck to Marian Godfrey, October 1, 1943 F&S 615, 617


    IV(17D13). Speck, Frank G. and Leonard Broom.
    Cherokee Dance and Drama
    1951 4 items Box 11

    Manuscript of published book. F&S 600


    E. Catawba



    IV(18E1). Red Thunder Cloud.
    Correspondence with
    1938-1945 5 items Box 12

    Correspondence of a Catawba raised principally among New England Indians: May 14, 1938, T.L.S., 3p., concerning Algonkian groups he has visited, their languages, etc. March 7, 1944, A.L.S., 8p., concerning difficulties in his acceptance by Indians at Catawba, S.C., and on buses because some think he is "colored." October 4, 1945, A.L.S., 6p., concerning his visits to New England Indian groups and speeches. F&S 521


    IV(18E2). Speck, Frank G..
    Correspondence with other informants
    1917-1944 17 items Box 12

    Catawba correspondence. Leola Blue to Speck, concerning pottery specimens, reservation activities: Oct. 21, 1917, A.L.S., 2p.; Dec. 27, 1917, A.L.S., 2p.; Oct. 12, 1919, A.L.S., 3p.; Oct. 27, 1919, A.L.S., 4p.; Nov. 1, 1919, A.L.S., 3p.; Dec. 5, 1919, A.L.S., 3p.; Dec. 13, 1919, A.L.S.,2p. Mrs. Nettle O. Harris, Dec. 2, 1921, A.L.S., 3p. and 1 scrap, concerning specimens sent. Mrs. R. L. Harris, Nov. 17, 1930, A.L.S., 1p., concerning Catawba politics interfering with distribution of church Christmas gifts. Chief [Sam] Blue, March 17, 1944, A.L.S., 3p. Cherokee correspondence: Climbing Bear to Speck, July 30, 1928, A.L.S., 2p., concerning masks and dances (Swayney, N.C.). Will West Long, Aug. 22, 1929, A.L.S., 3p., concerning museum specimens and explanation of use; Sept. 10?, 1929, A.L.S., 2p., concerning masks and dances; Nov. 20, 1929, A.L.S., 4p., concerning sticks, baskets, masks of corn husks, dances; Dec. 1, 1929, A.L.S., 3p., concerning specimens and murder of his step-father at Thanksgiving party; Dec. 27, 1929, A.L.S., 5p., concerning specimens. F&S 520


    IV(18E3). Speck, Frank G..
    Catawba food resources
    1942 7 items Box 12

    Includes 1p. list of foods gathered by Indians; 2p, notes on food; 1p. chart of animals used for food; 4p. charts of animals, birds, fish utilized in Catawba economyF&S 514


    IV(18E4). [no entry]
    Box 12

    IV(18E5). [no entry]
    Box 12

    IV(18E6). Speck, Frank G..
    Racial Status
    1938 3 items Box 12

    An explanatory note on Catawbas as a group, discussing their fear of being classed as Negroes in South Carolina. MS. notes added to reprint, John Walker McCain, Jr. (1934). F&S 517


    IV(19E7). Speck, Frank G..
    Catawba field notebooks, miscellaneous
    1937-1946 4 items Box 12

    Notebooks dated 1914, 1921, 1922, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1937. Includes texts (both folkloristic and ethnographic), vocabulary, ethnologic notes, conjugations, grammatical notes, linguistic notes. Some Cherokee, Houma, Pamunkey materials in the 1937 books F&S513


    IV(18E8). Speck, Frank G..
    Catawba bibliography
    1942 1 item Box 12

    "For Hunting MS., 1942." F&S 511


    IV(18E9). Speck, Frank G..
    "The Catawba - A Small Nation Deflated"
    n.d. 1 item Box 12

    Notes and reflections on the Catawba; perhaps a lecture. F&S 518


    IV(18E10). Miscellaneous Notes 1925-1946 37 items Box 12

    Includes 25p. reading notes and linguistic notes; 25 cards of reading notes on Catawba, Cheraw, Cherokee; 1p. on house building; 5p. reading notes and sketch; 1p. note on use of gourds (Feb. 1929); 1p. notes on primitive law; 1p. note on bibliography; 2p, reading notes; 7p. miscellaneous; 4p. text and grammatical notes. Correspondence to Speck: John R. Swanton, Oct. 8, 1931, T.L.S., 2p., concerning tribe-band locations and names for Montagnais-Naskapi and queries concerning Siouian predecessors of Cherokee and Yuchi as the Hopewell. (1p. note of Speck on reverse); Oct. 16, 1931, T.L.S., 2p. concerning Yuchi, Catawba Ilames and Spanish sources; May 11, 1928, T.L.S., Zp., concerning Speck collecting Catawba texts; April 2, 1931, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Catawba and problems of name derivation; April 22, 1931, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Sioux predecessors and Cherokee, their divisions; June 14, 1933, T.L.S., 2p., concerning Yuchi names, Cherokee and other Southeast tribes; Jan. 15, 1925, T.L.S., 2p. Catawba and Wataree the same. Mary R. Haas, Oct. 28, 1940, T.L.S., 4p., concerning comparisons of Catawba with Creek, Tutelo with Cherokee. Jeffrey L. Coe, May 10, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning search for Siouan sites for archaeological study in Southeast. Douglas L. Rights, Feb. 13, 1933, T.L.S., 1p.; April 20, 1933, T.L.S., 2p.; Sept. 14, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning publication prospects for Speck's Catawba ethnology volume. A. R. Newsome (North Carolina Historical Commission), March 28, 1933, T.L.S., 1p., rejects Speck's Catawba manuscript. Erminie W. Voegelin, Feb. 16, 1939, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Shawnee, Yuchi, Catawba, and Tutelo ethnologic comparisons. Carl Voegelin, n.d. (ca. Feb. 1939), A.L.S., 2p., with 8p. notes of E. W. Voegelin on role of celestial bodies (Shawnee); re Shawnee. Raymond --- (Southwest Museum, Los Angeles), Oct. 23, 1946, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Iroquois affairs; Speck's Catawba reprint (1946). Claude Schaeffer, n.d., A.L.S., 1p., concerning early map of Catawba country. W. N. Fenton, n.d., 1p. fragment, concerning distribution of Calumet dance. Leonard Broom, Nov. 1, 1938, A.L.S., 1p., concerning Cherokee and Catawba writings. F&S 516


    IV(18E11). Speck, Frank G..
    Travel and Expedition
    n.d. 1 item Box 12

    Extract from Catawba ethnography manuscript on means of travel. F&S 522


    IV(18E12). Speck, Frank G..
    Division of time
    n.d. 1 item Box 12

    Seasons, months, etc.; explanation of units and names. F&S 512


    IV(18E13). [no entry]
    Box 12

    IV(18E14). Speck, Frank G..
    Language and texts
    1922-1939 24 items Box 12

    2p. notes on two words; 4p. typed D., c.c., 4 Catawba tales from Sam Blue; 5p. phonetic text (with interlinear translation and notes); ca. 60 cards and slips-paradigms, linguistic notes; T.D., 1p., text in English; 16p. of comparative vocabulary (215 English words with equivalents in 10 Siouan languages); 2p. grammatical forms; 7p. text and Ip, note. Correspondence: John R. Swanton to Speck, Feb. 18, 1922, T.L.S., 1p., concerning a Catawba grammar. Henry C. Davis, Jan. 9, 1936, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Catawba numerals and words from 1854 MS. of Oscar M. Lieber, Charter, S.C. Albert Keiser, Sept. 10, 1937, T.L.S., 1p., concerning origin of Catawba name and Catawba migration. Morris Swadesh, Aug. 11, 1937, A.L.S., 5p., concerning Catawba vowels and phonetics and his Catawba field work; Sept. 25, 1937, T.L.S., 2p., concerning Catawba phonemes; n.d., A.L.S. 2p., with 1p. text with note from Swadesh on phonetics. F&S 548


    IV(18E15). Cadwalader, John.
    Catawba tribal history
    n.d. 8 items Box 12

    12p. historical sketch by John Cadwalader, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, and 3p. of notes from eighteenth-century sources. F&S 527


    IV(18E16). Speck, Frank G..
    General ethnological notes
    1943-1944 18 items Box 12

    Includes 24p. Typed D., "Catawba ethnology"; 15p. of copies of same; 8p. Typed c.c., Copy of "Division of time" [see 18:4E12]; 5p. Typed D., English text; 18p. "An Addendum to Catawba Indian herbals & curative practices, March 26, 1943:" F&S 515


    IV(18E17). Speck, Florence I..
    Genealogies
    1942 5 items Box 12

    Genealogies of twentieth-century Catawba informants, giving names, birth dates and birthplace, children, locations of tribes. 2p. reading notes on location of tribes. F&S 510


    IV(18E18). Speck, Frank G..
    Social Organizations
    1937 2 items Box 12

    3p. charts of kinship terms; 1p. note and 17p. of cards containing Catawba kinship terms, phonetic spelling. Letters to Speck from A. I. Hallowell, June 25, 1937, A.L.S., 2p., concerning published references on Southeastern kinship data; n.d., A.L.S., 3p., concerning Speck and Schaeffer (1942). F&S 519


    IV(18E19). Speck, Frank G..
    Catawba field notebook: vocabulary, texts and songs
    n.d. 9 items Box 12

    Catawba field notebooks: vocabulary, texts, and songs F&S 547


    F.Virginia (Powhatan Algonkians)



    1. General and Historical



    IV(20F1a). Speck, Frank G..
    a. Gourds in early contact days
    n.d. 5 items Box 13

    Reading notes taken from 1855 edition of Robert Beverley's History of Virginia. F&S 3034


    IV(20F1b). Speck, Frank G..
    b. Bow and arrow in early contact days
    n.d. 1 item Box 13

    Reading notes on Virginia Indians. F&S 3028


    IV(20F1c). c. [no entry]

    Box 13

    IV(20F1d). Speck, Frank G..
    d. Miscellaneous notes
    1940-1947 23 items Box 13

    3p. of reading notes; 1p. sketch of nets; 2p. notes; 8p. series of letters, 1940, pertaining to Social Work Conference paper on Virginia Indians; 3p. miscellaneous notes; T.D., c.c., 2p., concerning Virginia Indians and their villages. Correspondence includes: Charles E. Gilliam to Speck, Sept. 22, 1947, T.L.S., 1p., concerning irregularity of design in Powhatan pottery; M. D. Hard. Apr. 5, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., concerning racial purity as goal for Virginia Indians; Chief J. H. Johnson (Ga-Yen-Twa-ga, or Complanter), May 1, 1940, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Speck's speech on Virginia Indians; George G. Heye, Apr. 18, 1940, T.I, .S., 2p., lists Chickahominy, Pamunkey, Rappahanock specimens received; Mrs. J. R. Darden, July 11, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., seeks authoritative data on Indian art, music, and literature; Dr. Belie Boone Beard, Dec. 1, 1940, A.L.S., 5p., concerning schools for Virginia Indians; Speck to G. A. Brakeley (University of Pennsylvania), May 2, 1939, concerning grant for ethno-ecologic study of tidewater area. F&S 3036


    IV(20F1e). e. Racial status of Virginia Indians
    Box 13

    Item not located as of 4/10/96, not on microfilm #1429 or in Freeman guide


    IV(20F1f). Speck, Frank G..
    f. Field notebooks, representing several communities
    n.d. 6 items Box 13

    Ethnologic notes; information separated by group. Includes a few notes on Cherokee. F&S 3033


    IV(20F1g). Speck, Frank G..
    g. Draft classification of Virginia Indians
    1940-1946 82 items Box 13

    Correspondence (42 letters) and copies of various documents relating to efforts of Frank G. Speck, James R. Coates, and others to overcome practice of Virginia local draft boards to classify Virginia Indians as Negroes for Selective Service. Also Charles D. Humberd, M.D., "Pickett Nelson, " 5p. T.D., copy, and Ella N. Wade (of College of Physicians and Surgeons), Oct. 9, 1941, T.L.S., 1p., transmitting same: concerns a giant Rappahannock of late nineteenth century. 25p. of typed letters of U.S. Senators on Indian Committee, 1944-1945, and c.c.'s of letters to same by Speck and James R. Coates, opposing Indian Bills before the Senate. Charles E. Gilliam to Speck, May 21, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Gilliam's articles on ethnobotany of Virginia Algonkians. F&S 3032


    IV(20F1h). Gilliam, Charles Edgar.
    h. Powhatan Algonkian birds, etc., in colonial times
    1946 3 items Box 13

    2p., c.c., memo on bird names (with note to Speck and to Father Geary); 3p., c.c., to Wm. B. McIlwaine, same subject; 3p., May 2, 1946, same subject. F&S 3061


    IV(20F1i). Gilliam, Charles Edgar.
    i. Correspondence
    1943-1947 12 items Box 13

    Gilliam, a Petersburg, Va., attorney and amateur etymologist and ethnologist. June 10, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., concerning names of Pocahontas, Oppusioquionuske; July 24, 1943, T.L.S., 3p., legal advice re Oliver Fortune case; July 12, 1943, T.L.S., 1p. Indian names in seventeenth century; July 19, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., colonists hostile propaganda on Indians; July 21, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., Indian-White relations, seventeenth century; July 27, 1943, T.L.S., 4p., re Powhatan marital and sex customs; June 16, 1943, T.L.S., 2p., concerning gourds; June 19, 1943, T.D. c.c., 6p., concerning the Appomatoc, from historic sources; Aug. 17, 1943, T.L.S., 2p., conceming Fortune case and gourds; Sept. 15, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., June 27, 1944, T.L.S., 1p., both re Negro-White relations; Sept. 22, 1944, T.L.S., 2p., re Seminoles and hurricanes; Sept. 27, 1944, T.L.S., 2p.; May 16, 1946, T.L.S., 2p., with transcript of Oct. 29, 1855 land transfer with Gilliam's comments; Oct. 38, 1946, T.L., c.c., 2p., to Miss Anniel re Powhatan place name; Nov. 5, 1946, T.L.S., 1p. and 4p. c.c. on bird name meanings; Nov. 7, 1946, T.L.S., 6p., re bird names; Dec. 16, 1946, T.L.S., 2p., re bird names and etymology; May 19, 1946, postal card, re land and place names; Jan. 11, 1947, 3p. c.c., concerning Virginia Indian arrowheads; Jan. 22, 1947, T.L.S., 1p. and 3p. memo (c.c.) for Father Geary, concerning bird names. April 28, 1944, T.L.S., 1p., re Appomattac villages and incidents in colonial Virginia.F&S 3021


    IV(20F1j). Speck, Frank G..
    j. Virginia Indian population in 1668
    1943 1 item Box 13

    Comments on figures obtained from regulation requiring certain numbers of wolves be killed by various Indian groups. F&S 3055


    2. Pamunkey



    IV(21F2a). Speck, Frank G..
    a. Contemporary technology
    n.d. 5 items (arrowhead) Box 13

    Miscellaneous notes on material culture; projectile point. F&S 3039


    IV(21F2b). Speck, Frank G..
    b. Hunting and fishing
    1940-1945 29 items Box 13

    Map of hunting stands; 6p., c.c., "Notes on Pamunkey Deer Drive, 1938-1939"; 2p. listing of costume ornaments; 2p. Pamunkey pictographic tablet, both drawing and explanation; 42p. on game practices; notebook of communal game drive (12p); 2p. on cage traps and fish bait; 12p. charts on animals and fish used; 1p. list of functions of animals; 1p. explanation of division of game; 7p. notes and sketch of hunting club; 3p. "Accessories Co Hunting, " listing clubs, poles, paddles, stretchers. Correspondence: Claude E. Schaeffer to Speck, Sept. 17, 1945 and Nov. 20, 1943, 2 postal cards, concerning game drives; E. P. Bradby to Speck, June 2, 1945, A.L.S., 1p., concerning hunting clubs and Indian (Pamunkey) birth certificates. F&S 3045


    IV(21F2c). Speck, Frank G..
    c. Emergency foods
    n.d. 2 items Box 14

    Charts of plants and other items considered edible (i.e., not regular diet). F&S 3041


    IV(21F2d). Speck, Frank G..
    d. "Virginia Indians Past and Present" newspaper article
    n.d. 1 item Box 14

    Printed, Richmond, Va., Times Dispatch, 1940. F&S 3054


    IV(21F2e). Speck, Frank G..
    e. "Pamunkey Town" in 1759
    n.d. 1 item Box 14

    An account based on Andrew Burnaby, Travels (1760). F&S 3051


    IV(21F2f). Speck, Frank G..
    f. Miscellaneous notes
    1920-1922 8 items Box 14

    4p. miscellaneous notes; 3p. description and sketch of Pamunkey refuse pit; 1p. sketch of trap; letter of Chief Cook to Speck, June 30, 1922, A.L.S., 3p., concerning cane for museum specimen. F&S 3048


    IV(21F2g). Speck, Frank G..
    g. Pamunkey folklore and language
    1940 20 items Box 14

    9p. English folklore (tales and sayings); Ilp. miscellaneous folklore; 1p. sketch of metal bracelet for curing rheumatism (Nov., 1939); 5p. folklore and English language idioms collected by R. R. Solenberger; 1p. Pamunkey words ("of doubtful authenticity, FGS") taken from a Tuscarora who had married a Pamunkey (Peter Cusick); 4p. folklore superstitions (sic) obtained by Jack Kremens from Paul and Nancy Miles. F&S 3043


    IV(21F2h). Stern, Theodore.
    h. "Pamunkey Pottery"
    1941 1 item Box 14

    Manuscript in 4 parts with a 5p. Appendix (142p. -t 5p.); also 4p., c.c., a bibliography of southeastern pottery; 2p., c.c., discussion of aboriginal pottery technique, possibly by Speck. F&S 3057


    IV(21F2i). Kremens, Jack.
    i. Plants and agriculture
    1940 10 items Box 14

    8p. typed list of shrubs, flowers, and their use; 4p. list of trees and uses; 2p. list of farm produce and use. 6p. notes of Frank G. Speck (?) on plants and their use and a letter of William N. Fenton to Speck, Feb. 26, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., concerning plant identification. F&S 3024


    IV(21F2j). Speck, Frank G..
    j. Pamunkey, Celestial and Meteorological Phenomena
    1940 3 items Box 14

    Copied from field notes. F&S 3038


    IV(21F2k). Speck, Frank G..
    k. Pamunkey Mensuration
    n.d. 3 items Box 14

    Units of measure; measurement of time; technique of determining right angle. F&S 3047


    IV(21F2l). Kremens, Jack.
    l. Pamunkey Birds
    n.d. 4 items Box 14

    7p. list of 76 English bird names used by the Pamunkey, together with their generic and common names and the uses made of these birds. 4p. miscellaneous. F&S 3023


    IV(21F2m). Speck, Frank G..
    m. Pamunkey reptiles
    1940 2 items Box 14

    2p. description of turtle-catching techniques; 1p. list of snakes. F&S 3049


    IV(21F2n). Speck, Frank G..
    n. Pamunkey fish, amphibians, and reptiles
    1939 4 items Box 14

    List of fish, amphibians, crustacea, reptiles, their uses (6p. typed); 4p. miscellaneous. F&S 3042


    IV(21F2o). Speck, Frank G..
    o. Pamunkey medicines and poisons
    1940 13 items Box 14

    1 notebook of 28p. concerning Pamunkey folklore and medicines; Mattaponi folklore and hunting; Rappahannock folklore and medicines; Chickahominy folklore. 1p. conceming Rappahannock lovelore; 1p. on medicines; 8p. cards and scraps, miscellany on medicines and 1p. by R. Solenberger on Pamunkey medicine. F&S 3046


    IV(21F2p). Speck, Frank G..
    p. Pamunkey foods
    1939-1940 19 items Box 14

    2p. concerning fungus; 9p. concerning food habits; 2p. on huntings; 1p. on Croatan foods; 2p. on remedies; 1p. note on cookery, 1940; 7p., c.c., cooking notes, Pamunkey, 1939; 2p., c.c. Mattaponi cooking; 2p., c.c., Chickahominy cooking; 2p. reading notes. 2p. notes on Indian bread, 1939, by Howard G. Henry. F&S 3044


    IV(21F2q). q. [no entry]
    Box 14

    IV(21F2r). Speck, Frank G..
    r. Social Organization
    1940 6 items Box 14

    1p., Pamunkey band composition; 1p. reading notes; 5p. miscellaneous notes; Waiter Bradby to Speck, Nov. 19, 1940, A.L.S., lp., concerning sending delegation of Virginia Indians to Washington, D.C., seeking Indian status. F&S 3050


    IV(21F2s). Speck, Frank G. .
    s. Correspondence with informants
    1921-1940 7 items Box 14

    From Pamunkey Indians: Paul L. Miles to Speck, Jan. 12, 1922, A.L.S., 2p., and April 9, 1940, A.L.S., 1p., concerning gourd seeds (1p. sketch of newt on back of latter) Miles to Speck, Nov. 27, 1921, A.L.S., 2p. (incomplete, may not be Miles), concerning organizing Virginia Indians; Dec. 16, 192?, A.L.S., 2p., on same subject. Chief O. W. Adkins, Mar. 21, 1921, A.L.S., 3p., friendly letter. From whites: R. B. Van Oot (Virginia government official), Dec. 14, 1931, T.L.S., 1p., denying teaching job to ex-Chief Miles; W. F. Jones, Fredericksburg, Va., Mar. 1, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., concerning per cent of Indian blood in Bradby family. F&S 3040


    IV(21F2t). Kremens, Jack.
    t. Animals
    1940 4 items Box 14

    4p. typed list of 21 animals and their uses; also Kremens to Speck, July 19, 1940, A.L.S., 1p., transmitting the list and describing identifications as tentative. 2p. miscellaneous notes. F&S 3022


    IV(21F2u). Rowell, Mary.
    u. Games and amusements
    1941 1 item Box 14

    A report by a student of Speck, used in a publication? F&S 3025


    3. Rappahanock



    IV(20F3a). Speck, Frank G..
    a. Contemporary technology
    n.d. 1 item Box 13

    Concerns a sketch of bag string. F&S 3052


    IV(20F3b). Sollenberger, R..
    b. Field notes
    1940 3 items Box 13

    1p. on English idioms of the Rappahannock; 5p. on baskets, fire drill, medicinals and a Penobscot Dance used by the Rappahannocks. F&S 3027


    IV(20F3c). Speck, Frank G..
    c. Miscellaneous notes
    1921-1946 6 items Box 13

    1p. card and 4p. notes taken in field. 1p. poem, "Memorial flowers, " c.c., by Robert Clark, a Rappahannock, Dec. 2, 1923. Let ters of Otho S. Nelson, May 17, 1940, A.L.S. 3p., and Aug. 23, 1940, A.L.S., 2p., explaining that it is other Virginia Indians who are doubtful of Speck. Letter of John M. Cooper to Speck, Oct. 28, 1948, T.L.S., 1p., concerning distribution of Rappahannock cage fall trap, its distribution in North and South America. F&S 3053


    IV(20F3d). Speck, Frank G., Royal B. Hassrick, and Edmund S. Carpenter.
    d. "Rappahanock Talking Dances"
    1942 1 item Box 13

    Report on graduate student field trip, 1942. Description and use of traps and other hunting devices. Illustrations not included. F&S 3056


    4. Mattaponi (Adamstown)



    IV(20F4). Speck, Frank G..
    a. miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 6 items Box 13

    7p. of miscellaneous materials on traditions and customs; 1 postal card of Speck to Florence I. Speck, concerning specimens and his field work among Mattaponi. F&S 3035


    5. Chickahominy



    IV(20F5a). Speck, Frank G..
    a. Incorporation as chartered tribe
    1939-1940 6 items Box 13

    Includes 3p. c.c. certification of incorporation; 1p. note, submitted by Speck, 1939, urging Indian status for Chickahominy. Letters to Chief E. P. Bradby to Speck: Feb. 9, 1940, T.L., 1p., re Treaty of 1613; Feb. 14, 1940, T.L., 1p. Bradby to F. Zimmerman (Bureau of Indian Affairs), Feb. 14, 1940, T.L., 1p., with 1p. typed list-of Tribal Roll of 52 members. F&S 3030


    IV(20F5b). Speck, Frank G..
    b. Miscellaneous notes
    1940-1945 14 items Box 13

    13p. of miscellaneous notes; 1p. re 1920 population of Virginia, comparing racial groups; 1p. history of Chickahominy; 1p. quote from E. P. Alldredge, The New Challenge of Home Missions (1927), Mimeo D.; 1p. telling of Baptist missionary ancestor of Bradby family. Correspondence, Frederic Douglas to Speck, April 4, 1940, T.L.S., 2p., concerning Virginia specimens sent to Denver Art Museum. C. E. Gilliam, April 17, 1945, typed postal card, 1p., concerning place names. F&S 3031


    IV(20F5c). Speck, Frank G..
    c. Correspondence with informants
    1924-1940 14 items Box 13

    Speck to Chief George L. Nelson, Oct. 34, 1924, T.L., c.c., p., and May 16, 1924, T.L., c.c., 1p., concerning Eastern Indian conference on race question, and also museum specimens and split of Chickahominy into two groups. Speck to Mrs. S. P. Nelson, Jan. 12, 1926, T.L., c.c., 1p., concerning Virginia Indians and legislature. Speck to Chief James H. elson, Jan. 21, 1926, T.L., c.c., 1p., concerning appearance before legislature. Letters of E. P. Bradby, chief of Chickahominy: Feb. 28, 1940; May 24, 1940; June 12, 1940; June 19, 1940 (postal card); July 8, 1940; July 18, 1940; Aug. 13, 1940; T.L., 1p. ach, concerning traps, specimens, attempts to form a Powhattan Conference and gourds. Also 1p. list of Bradby family members, with map on reverse. F&S 3029


    IV(20F5d). Stern, Theodore, and Maurice O. Mook.
    d. Field notes
    1941 3 items Box 13

    1p. report of Stern on intermarriage practices of Chickahominy; 1p. 1611 data on treaty; also report of Maurice Mook to Frank G. Speck, April 17, 1941, A.L.S., 6p., concerning historical resources in Virginia and his estimate of field work opportunities among Chickahominy. F&S 3058


    6. Appomatoc



    IV(20F6). Gilliam, Charles Edgar.
    a. Historical Sketch
    n.d. 1 item Box 13

    Cities historical sources for location, Appomatoc-English contact, ethnology, for 1607-1723. F&S 3059


    IV(20F7). 7. [no entry]

    Box 13

    8. Nansamond



    IV(20F8). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    1940-1941 13 items (photo) Box 13

    3p. reading notes; 3p. typed D., Dec. 1940, recording memories of Nansemond informants as to past customs (Jesse Bass); 1p. note and 1p. typed note, English tale: Mouse escapes from cat, 1924; 1p. photo of dugout canoes used in Dismal Swamp, Va. Letters: Ted Stem to Jesse Bass (Nansemond) and Otho Nelson (Rappahannock), Feb. 3, 1941, T.L.S., 1p. c.c., concerning crossbow; Sara Nichols to Speck, A.L.S., 1p. and A.L.S., 2p., (no dates), sending photo of corn meal mortar and offering to get more information about same (white farm house is source). F&S 3037


    G. Creek



    IV(15G1). Speck, Frank G..
    "Notes on Social and Economic Conditions Among the Creek Indians of Alabama in 1941"
    1947 3 items Box 10

    Printed work by speck, 1947. F&S 801


    IV(15G2). Speck, Frank G..
    "Creek Indians Surviving in Alabama"
    n.d. 1 items Box 10

    An early version of Speck (1947), No.F&S 799


    IV(15G3). Opler, Morris E..
    "Memorandum in regard to Creek 'Towns'"
    n.d. 1 item Box 10

    Using Oklahoma Creek data, Opler concludes that towns approximate tribes or bands; lack political meaning. History of the institution and white efforts to overcome it. F&S 796


    IV(15G4). Speck, Frank G..
    Creek Texts
    1914-1915 22 items Box 10

    Includes 47p. of texts with interlinear translations as well as 15p. of typed carbons of the above and 28p. of copies, MS. and typed. 1p. notes on Cyrus Byington (1870) and 7p. text with translation of How Languages Changed. F&S 812


    IV(15G5). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    1915-1942 15 items Box 10

    Includes 14p. of bibliographical notes; 10p. of held notes (ethnographic), Feb. 1941; 1p. chart of Alabama Creek social dances, with various features noted; 4p. reading notes; 2p. on Muskogee language variations; 1p. copies of sash designs, copied from McKenney and Hall (1836). Letters of Carl Ball to Speck, April 16, 1942, A.L.S., 2p., seeking myth data; his people (Creek, with mixture of Cherokee) seek to make Creek handicrafts. John R. Swanton to Speck, May 13, 1913, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Creek and Yuchi field work. F&S 800


    IV(15G6). Taylor, Lyda.
    Ms. On Koasati Town
    1940 3 items Box 10

    A draft of an ethnography, presenting traits, comparing western and eastern Koasati-Creek from field work and historic sources. Marginal comments by Frank G. Speck. 1p. T.L.S., Lyda Taylor to Speck, concerning her Alabama work and Koasati MS. 1p. T.L.S., April 5, 1940, D'Arcy McNickle to Frank Speck, concerning Koasati manuscript materials and notes . F&S 1891


    IV(15G7). Speck, Frank G..
    Creek linguistic notes
    1904 1 item Box 10

    Linguistic material organized by categories; some text material. F&S 811


    H. Yuchi



    IV(15H1). Speck, Frank G..
    Yuchi and Creek Dances
    n.d. 2 items Box 10

    Includes: sheet music for songs to accompany dance; choreography; a few vocabulary items with translations. F&S 4923


    IV(15H2). Speck, Frank G..
    Yuchi and Creek Songs
    n.d. 6 items Box 10

    Includes: Yuchi and Creek songs; twelve vocabulary slips. F&S 4924


    IV(15H3). Speck, Frank G..
    Yuchi miscellaneous notes
    1912-1947 1 items Box 10

    1p. note concerning Yalewi, a Yuchi Indian; 1 card of notes concerning peyote among Yuchi; 1p. list of names of informants, 1941; 1p. note. Correepondence: E. vorr Hornbostel to Speck, Nov. 20, 1912, 2p. A.L.S., concerning Yuchi songs, musical comments; Ellen Alien, a Yuchi Indian, to Speck, June 1, 1917, A.L.S. 2p., recalling Speck's visit in 1904 and Boas' visit and effort to do a Yuchi grammar with her; Carl F. Voegelin to Speck, Mar. 8, 1947, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Yuchi linguistics; Charles Eli Sexton to the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Mar. 1, 1945, copy of T.L., 1p. concerning Speck's Yuchi ethnography and a Yuchi informant, and Mar. 7, 1945, A.L.S., 1p concerning connection of Natchez and Hopewell to Yuchi; Ann Rolland (Haskell Institute), to Speck, April 6, 1941, A.L.S., 3p., concerning Yuchi museum specimens, other data; Rolland to Speck, Mar. 12, 1940, A.L.S., 3p., concerning Yuchi specimens and relies of the past. F&S 3922


    IV(15H4). Speck, Frank G..
    Ms. on Yuchi ethnology
    n.d. 2 items Box 10

    Report on political organization, diseases, mythology, etc., based on 1904 field trip. F&S 3921


    IV(15I1). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    1941-1942 9 items Box 10

    1p. list of Tutelo names; 2p. c.c. of Typed D. on Long House religious ceremonies; 1 note card and 4p. reading notes on adoption rites. Correspondence includes John R. Swanton to Speck, Oct. 26, 1942. 1p. T.L.S., citing Byrd's History of the Dividing Line for Sappony-Trutelo references, and Oct. 14, 1942, T.L.S. 1p., concerning Tutelo linguistic forms and relationships. W. N. Fenton to Speck, Feb. 27, 1941, 1p. T.L.S. concerning Tutelo songs, difficulties of attending Seneca longhouse ceremonies; H. W. Dorsey (Smithsonian Institution), Mar. 13, 1941, T.L.S., 1p. c.c., transmitting photo of Tutelo adoption necklace. F&S 3823


    I. Tutelo



    IV(15I2). Speck, Frank G..
    Field Notes, Grand River, Ontario
    1936 4 items Box 10

    Notes for recordings of Tutelo and Onondaga songs. Order of rites noted. F&S 3822


    IV(15I2a). Speck, Frank G..
    a. -- Tutelo field notes, Ohsweken
    1931-1938 5 items Box 10

    Notebook of 53p. of ceremonials; 7p. Typed D. c.c., Account of Tute!o ceremonial procedure; 1p. note on Cayuga burial and redressingg ceremony. Correspondence from Indians: George Nash to Speck, Dec. 22. 1925, A.L.S., 2p.; Mrs. John Ruck to Speck, Mar. 7, 1935, A.L.S., 4p., concerning museum specimens. F&S 3825


    IV(15I3). Speck, Frank G..
    Tutelo Ceremonies
    n.d. 4 items Box 10

    A draft of manuscript concerning adoption rite and diffusion of this trait. F&S 3824


    J. Miscellaneous Tribes



    IV(15J1a). Neitzel, Stuart.
    Tunica -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1938-1940 12 items Box 10

    Letters as follows: March 5, 1940, 2p. A.L.S., concerning archaeology at Marksville, La., sketches; 1940, 1p. A.L.S., concerning Tunica museum specimens; 1940, 2p. A.L.S., phonetic transcription of dance names; March 26, 1940, 2p. A.L.S. and 1p. sketch of Tunica scraper and hide drying frame; April 1, 1940, 2p. A.L.S., concerning specimens; 1940, 2p. A.L.S., concerning specimens; April 10, 1938, lp. A.L.S., concerning specimens; n.d., 1p. A.L., including note on trap and sketch; April 1940, 1p. Typed L.S., concerning specimens. Also, 1p. note by Frank G. Speck on Tunica tools. F&S 3788


    IV(15J1b). Neitzel, Stuart.
    Tunica -- b. Tunica Dances
    n.d. 6 items Box 10

    2p. typed report on Tunica dance and green-corn ceremony; 21 cards of field notes, 1940-1941, Marksville, Louisiana; letters of Stuart Neitzel, none dated: 1p. A.L.S., 2p. A.L.S., and 2p. A.L.S., concerning field work among the Tunica and Caddo archaeology; sketch of digging. F&S 3787


    IV(15J1c). Neitzel, Stuart.
    Tunica -- c. Tunica tanning of deer hides
    1940 1 item Box 10

    2p, report, together with 1p. letter of transmission, March 6, 1940, and 2p. drawing (for Frank G. Speck). F&S 3789


    IV(15J2a). Speck, Frank G..
    Seminole -- a. Notes on Calusa
    1923-1924 9 items Box 10

    3p. account of Seminoles and their mixed past; 1p. discussion of Siouan origin of South Carolina Francisco de Chicora terms. Correspondence: H. Knotts, Nov. 3, 1924, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Muskogee dialects. John R. Swanton, Jan. 8, 1924, T.L.S., 1p., concerning trip to Florida of Speck and Fewkes; n.d., T.L.S., 1p., concerning Cusabo-MuskhogeanSiouan boundaries; Dec. 6, 1923, T.L.S., 1p.; Dec. 14, 1923, Dec. 18, 1923, T.L.S. each 1p., all concerning Speck as aid to Fewkes in locating Calusa remnants among the Seminoles. F&S 500


    IV(15J2b). Speck, Frank G..
    Seminole -- b. Miscellaneous notes
    1931 7 items Box 10

    1p. Mimeo. D. concerning Glade Cross mission activities in Everglades among the Seminoles; 2p. notes on Seminole silverwork. Correspondence of Henry W. Haynes to Frank C. Speck (Ta-de-wim): April 16, 1931, A.L.S., 3p., concerning visit to the Seminoles; July 9, 1931, A.L.S., 1p., concerning Calusa question and Seminoles; suggests persons to see in Florida. Ernest F. Coe to [?], April 13, 1931, L., c.c., 1p. concerning Seminoles as guides, should there be an Everglades national park; Coe to Roy Nash (Bureau of Indian Affairs), U.S. Department of Interior, April 27, 1931, T.L., 1p. and Coe to Speck, April 27, 1931, T.L.S., 1p., supporting national park in Everglades. F&S 3236


    IV(15J3). Speck, Frank G..
    Choctaw -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 7 items Box 10

    1p. note with embossed Great Seal of the Choctaw Nation; 9p. bibliographical notes; 2p. Choctaw burial-1904; 2p. on Choctaw medicines. F&S 743


    IV(15J4). Speck, Frank G..
    Natchez -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1935 3 items Box 10

    Oklahoma Natchez. F&S 2379


    IV(15J5). Speck, Frank G..
    "We Sorts" (Maryland) -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1945 3 items Box 10

    Two letters of William H. Gilbert to Frank G. Speck, concerning "We Sorts," a remnant group of Maryland, perhaps Weschuk, and thought to be Piscatawey (Conoy): Jan. 20, 1945, T.L.S., 1p. and map, 1p., and Feb. 3, 1945, A.L.S., 2p. F&S 773


    IV(1913L). Speck, Frank G..
    Rough Drafts of Miscellaneous papers
    1928-1948 22 items Box 13

    Includes: Typed D., c.c., 2p., proposed intensive study of a small community; A.D., 1p., on Collier's Indian program; A.D., 1p., reflections on Negro education; A.D., 8p., graduation speech on the answer of anthropology to various misconceptions about man; also, on imagination of Indians; Typed D., c.c., 8p., educating the white man up to the Indian; Typed D., c.c., 5p., statement favoring New Deal Indian policy; 1p. lecture notes; 55p. lectures on language and writing: Chinese, Egyptian, Maya, etc.; 7p. miscellaneous notes; 6p. poetry; 8p, miscellaneous notes; 17p. lecture notes on primitive religion and primitive philosophy. F&S 1471


    IV(22). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. [numerous note cards in envelope] Box 14

    Bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work. Other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to the proper tribe. F&S 1468


    V. Plains (Roughly from Mississippi to the Rockies)



    A. General



    V(22A1). Speck, Frank G..
    Plains Indian Shields: Notes
    1935 3 items Box 14

    1 card, bibliographic notes. Letter of Al-bert G. Heath, Chicago dealer, to Speck, June 22, 1935, A.L.S., 3p., concerning Pawnee shield sent as specimen; F. T. Thunder to Speck, June 27, 1935, A.L.S., 1p., concerning Omaha shield he is making. F&S 2554


    V(22A2). Speck, Frank G..
    Plains sundance analysis
    n.d. 3 items [artifact] Box 14

    3p. chart of comparative features of sun dance for various plains tribes. 2 Crow tepee ornaments of grass, sent by Frederic H. Douglas. F&S 3002


    B. Miscellaneous Tribes



    V(22B1). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B2). Speck, Frank G..
    Osage: Miscellaneous notes
    1941 3 items Box 14

    Includes 2p. description of moccasin game. Letter of Tom Halfmoon to Speck, Mar. 6, 1941, T.L.S., 1p., preparing museum specimens. F&S 2604


    V(22B3). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B4). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B5). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B6). Speck, Frank G..
    Kaw (Kansas) -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1904 3 items Box 14

    Notes, including a 3p. vocabulary with numerals; also, 1p. conjugations and a 2p. vocabulary list. Some Ponca forms are included. F&S 1875


    V(22B7). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B8). Speck, Frank G..
    Sioux (Dakota) -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    1927-1934 3 items Box 14

    Santee utterances with translations; also ethnographic and linguistic notes; 1p. name of Santee shield; note of 11p., ca. 1934, with names and addresses of Dakota Indian; museum specimens; phonetic names of material culture objects. Mrs. A. L. Haines and Richard Night Chase (a Dakota) to Speck, Jan. 2, 1927, A.L.S., 3p., concerning possible specimens. F&S 855


    V(22B9). Speck, Frank G..
    Blackfoot -- a. Review of Oscar Lewis: "The Effects of White Contact upon Blackfoot Culture..."
    1943 1 item Box 14

    Submitted to American Sociological Review; unpublished. F&S 466


    V(22B10). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B11). [no entry]
    Box 14

    V(22B12). Cook, Mrs. A. M. .
    Arapahoe -- a. Captivity narrative
    1935 1 item Box 14

    Two accounts of captivity of Mrs. A. M. Cook, captured by Cheyenne Indians in 1865 with her sister; one possibly from a published source, "Captured by Indians," a copy of Mrs. Cook's narrative; the other, "A White Indian Woman," taken from History of Nntrona County, 1888-1922; also 1p. copy of T.L., Fred S. Cook, M.D. (son of Mrs. Cook), to William Ash, concerning the two accounts, April 26, 1935. F&S 691


    V(22B13). Speck, Frank G..
    Omaha -- a. Miscellaneous notes
    n.d. 3 items Box 14

    1p. Sioux or Omaha words; 3p. Omaha lexical items, Sioux song text; 4p. Omaha text and paradigms, vocabulary, ethnological notes; 3p. Omaha verb conjugations. F&S 2560


    VI. Southwest



    A.-C. [no entry]



    D. Miscellaneous manuscripts on the Southwest



    VI(22D). Speck, Frank G..
    Miscellaneous manuscripts on the Southwest
    n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Statement to be signed by committees opposing the Bursum Land Bill, which would have given squatters legal rights to Pueblo land. F&S 3088


    VII. Northwest Coast



    A. Hupa



    VII(22A1). Speck, Frank G..
    Huppa Text
    n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Text, notes, and translation. F&S 1606


    B. Haida



    VII(22B1). Speck, Frank G..
    Origin of carved house posts
    1917 1 item Box 15

    Extract copied from Judson, (1917). F&S 1536


    VIII. Latin America



    A. Maya and Aztec



    VIII(22A1). Double curve motif in Aztec-Maya art 1938 3 items Box 15

    Discusses relation of double fret in Mayan art to double-curve motif in North American art; importance of calendar to society. F&S 2139


    B. [no entry]



    C. Aravcanian



    VIII(22C1). Collio Huaiquilaf, J. Martin .
    Correspondence with
    1943-1945 3 items Box 15

    Discusses several Araucanian words. Mentions Lloyd G. Carr and A. I. Hallowell. F&S 406


    IX. Africa



    A. General



    IX(22A1). Bibliography of African antrhopology n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Typed bibliography arragned by topic or tribe. no F.S. #


    IX(22A2). The Roosevelt-Churchill eight points and Africa's Future 1942 1 item Box 15

    Ms. on the impact of the 1941 Atlantic meeting on Africa.


    B. Miscellaneous Tribes



    IX(22B1a). Rohrbaugh, H. L. .
    Bantu -- a. Bantu puberty rites
    n.d. 1 item Box 15

    typed manuscript


    IX(22B1b). Hallowell, D. K..
    Bantu -- b. Summary of Akamba ethnology
    n.d. 2 items Box 15

    Handwritten and typed manuscript


    IX(22B2). Dahomey -- a. Press clippings on Prince Lobagola 1930 3 items Box 15

    Material relating to Prince Lobagola's lecture tour of the U.S. in the 1930s


    IX(22B3). [no entry]
    Box 15

    IX(22B4). Yao -- a. Miscellaneous notes n.d. 4 items Box 15

    Handwritten notes regarding culture, marriage rights, and mythology


    IX(22B5). Mende -- a. Miscellaneous notes n.d. 6 items Box 15

    Handwritten notes


    IX(22B6). Sherbro -- a. Miscellaneous notes n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Handwritten notes on language


    IX(22B7). Basuto -- a. Miscellaneous notes n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Note on tales


    IX(22B8). Brooks, Jr., R. C..
    Subu -- a. Subu tales
    n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Handwritten notes on Subu tales, contains linquistic material.


    X. Asia and associated islands



    A. Formosa



    X(22). Formosan Myths 1926 3 items Box 15

    Contains a typed document of Formosan Myths, a letter John Clark dated February 14, 1926 relating to his time in the Pacific, and a typed document by Clark "Genesis in Formosa"


    XII. ?



    XIII. Miscellaneous



    XIII(22A). Speck, Frank G..
    Shamanism (notes)
    n.d. 4 items Box 15

    Notes on shamanistic practices among northeastern and other tribes; includes 6p. descriptions of shaman ceremonies. F&S 1258


    XIII(22B). Speck, Frank G..
    Crane posture (notes)
    1911 7 items [photo] Box 15

    Comparative notes and photograph of distribution of trait of standing like a crane, with map of distribution in Africa. F&S 1469


    XIII(22C). Speck, Frank G..
    Excavation of site at Fort Hill, PA
    1903 1 item Box 15

    A literary essay on Speck's visit to excavation in July 1903; he identifies the site as Shawnee. F&S 3645


    XIII(22D). Physical anthropology. 2. "On the Status of Race" n.d. 1 item Box 15

    typed manuscript


    XIII(22E). Speck, Frank G..
    Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
    n.d. 1 item Box 15

    Review. F&S 1470


    XIII(22F). Speck, Frank G..
    Illustrated lectures on Primitive Religion
    1916-1917 2 items Box 15

    Lectures on primitive religion (read at Houston Club, Nov. 6, 1916, 25p.); primitive cults and ceremonies (Nov. 19, 1917, to same group, 24p.). Slides for lecture are missing. F&S 1466


    XIII(22G). Speck, Frank G..
    Traps
    1938 5 items Box 15

    Correspondence of Leslie Spier to Speck: Oct. 1938, T.L.S., 1p., refers to published reference on Carib-Dominica trap and sketch (also 1p. card with quotation and sketch of trap); Oct. 20, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Pima and Maricopa traps; Nov. 2, 1938, 1p. postcard, concerning Papago traps; Nov. 28, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning Houma and Maricopa traps. F&S 1578


    XIII(22H). Haskell Institute.
    Rooster
    1939-1940 1 item Box 15

    List of Indian students, giving name, age, tribe, and address. F&S 1856


    XIII(22I). [no entry]
    Box 15

    XIII(22J). Speck, Frank G..
    Contributions to Social Science Abstracts
    1928-1929 9 items Box 15

    Speck's abstracts of published works on the Rama-Chibcha of Nicaragua; the River Desert Algonquins; Southern Ontario Indians, and the Maya; also other subjects. F&S 371


    XIII(22K). [no entry]
    Box 15

    XIII(22L). [no entry]
    Box 15

    XIII(22M). Speck, Frank G..
    Concerning iconology and the masking complex in eastern North America
    1950 1 items Box 15

    Manuscript of a published work. F&S 1255


    XIV. Natural History



    XIV(23a). Southeastern botanical specimens 1938-1941 12 items Box 15 & 32

    Specimens of Coopti (Zamia poridana) used by Seminoles, 1941; Ilex vomitoria Ait, used by Creek. Letters to Speck from Richard Evans Schultes, April 25, 1938, A.L.S., 2p.; Feb. 8, 1938, A.L.S., 2p.; Feb. 9, 1941, T.L.S., 1p., all concerning Houma ethnobotany. Specimens are in Box 32. F&S 802


    XIV(23b). Botanical and zoological field observations 1919-1942 3 items Box 15

    Field notebook and magazine clipping


    XIV(23c). [no entry]
    Box 15

    XIV(23d). White mountains n.d. 6 items Box 15

    XIV(23e). New Jersey Pine Barrens 1914-1915 3 items Box 15

    [photographs in red notebook]


    XIV(23f). drawings n.d. 2 items Box 15

    [2 drawings out of folder]


    XIV(23g). Some Observations on Serpents n.d. 1 item Box 15

    [typed document, no folder]


    XV. Columbia Lecture Notes



    Notes taken by Speck during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for anthropology courses at University of Pennsylvania by Speck; with numerous loose cards and slips, as well as several student term papers interfiled. It is not wholly clear what is Boas and what is Speck material, but the former undoubtedly deserves credit for the northwest-coast linguistics included. Photos of Quechua Indians, miscellaneous others. F&S 1463


    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Anthropology I
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Anthropology V and I
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Culture and Chinook. Anthropology 707, Culture Dr. Boas
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Ethnography of Asia
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Iroquois languages
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Klamath, Sioux, Chinook
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Lecture notes of course with Boas, Tribes of North Pacific
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Misc. Anthropology notebook
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Misc. Anthropology notes
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 16

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Science of language, West Asia, archaeology of Mexico
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 17

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Tsimshian
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 17

    XV(24). Speck, Frank G..
    Tsimshian and Eskimo
    ca. 1904-1917 1 item Box 17

    Series II.
    Biographical Material
    1897-1950 1.75 linear feet

    Academy of Natural Sciences.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1926 June 26 2 items Box 17

    Letter and credentials stating Speck is a delegate of the Academy to the International Congress of Americanists held in Rome.


    Aitken, Robert.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1915 3 items Box 17

    Letters regarding Aitken's accepting the position in the Department at the University of Pennsylvania which Speck arranged, and the plans for his summer voyage to Puerto Rico with Boas. Formal letter accepting the position.


    Alexander, James Evan.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1949 2 items Box 17

    Photocopies of letters between Speck and Alexander regarding the Indians near Lake Waccamaw. Source of letters typed at top.


    American Anthropological Association.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1905-1944 18 items Box 17

    Correspondence regarding Speck's election as a member, and nomination to various Councils, list of officers for the American Anthropological Association. Notification that he has been elected Vice-President of the AAA for one year.


    American Association for the Advancement of Science.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1916-1939 2 items Box 17

    Notification of election. Notification that he has been elected Section Committeeman for the Section on Anthropology (H).


    American Ethnological Society.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1907 February 4 1 item Box 17

    Notification of election


    American Folklore Society n.d. 1 item Box 17

    Typed Table of contents for a handbook.


    American Indian Order.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1923 1 item Box 17

    Membership card.


    American Museum of Natural History.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1903-1918 6 items Box 17

    Authorization to conduct research, and acknowledgement of gifts.


    American Sociological Society.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1917 3 items Box 17

    Regarding Specks presentation of a paper at the 1917 annual meeting of the Society in Philadelphia.


    Ames, Herman V..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1913-1915 2 items Box 17

    Appologies for the delay in replying to Speck. Regarding the issue of Gordon having Speck's library removed from his office in the Museum. Thanking Speck for sending copies of his latest publication.


    Amsden, Charles.
    to Editor
    1935 3 items Box 17

    Announcment of interst to readers regarding the Frederick Webb Hodge Anniversary publication.


    Archaeological Society of North Carolina.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1940 1 item Box 17

    Notification he has been eleced an honorary member


    Bailey, A. G. .
    to Frank G. Speck
    n.d. 1 item Box 17

    Sending a copy of his book on Algonquians to Speck. F&S 4109


    Ball, Carl C..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1942 1 item Box 17

    Sending Speck a price for items he sent him. Is interested in obtaining more information on the Southeastern material culture of indians.


    Barbeau, Marius.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 17

    Thanks Speck for sending him a piece of old silver found in a grave. Believes the piece to have been made in Quebec City between 1800 and 1830.


    Bates, George J..
    From Frank G. Speck
    1948 1 item Box 17

    Letter to Bates regarding legislation to reduce wildlife preservation, particularly the Parker River Refuge.


    Battles, Frank.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1913-1914 2 items Box 17

    Acknowledges previous letters. Recommends he contact Dr. Harrison.


    Beatty, Willard W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1941 1 item Box 17

    Concerning field work among the Houma Indians. F&S 1571


    Bennett, Foster.
    from Frank G. Speck
    1927 1 item Box 17

    Regarding the purchase of and shipping instructions for three birch-bark canoes and two pairs of paddles. F&S 4148


    Beston, Henry and Elizabeth Coatsworth Beston.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1940-1941 4 items Box 17

    Concerning Montagnais reminiscences, Indian pough; Main Indans, Joe Pye weed, etc. F&S 2289


    Bever, Marion G..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1938 1 item Box 17

    Mrs. Bever is writing a historh of Mashpee, Mass. and is contacting Speck for information regarding the Indians of the area.


    Bingham, M.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1936 1 item Box 17

    Thanks Speck for the pamphlet "Penobscot Tales and Religious ?"


    Birket-Smith, Kaj.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1930-1932 10 items Box 17

    Letters concern specimens sent by Speck to Danish Museum (Copenhagen National Museum). F&S 1245


    Blackwood, Beatrice.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1944 1 item Box 17

    Appologizes for sending out the Museum Report for the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Comments on how the war has effected their efforts in publication.


    Blakeley, A. W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1937 1 item Box 17

    Is a graduate student at the University of Toronto. Inquires where he can obtain a copy of Speck's work on Ojibawa, and if Speck can be of additional help.


    Bloom, Leonard.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 17

    Concerning his manuscript on Cherokee Dances; seeks names for dances. F&S 599


    Boas, Franz.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1904 - 1938 27 items Box 17

    Letter recommending Speck for a scholarship; letter in regards to Aitkens; letters regarding receiving papers for meeting, and Boas' visit with Speck in Philadelphia. Concerning copying of his Catawba texts; concerning Cherokee field work of Frans Olbrechts. Materials relating to the American Council of Learned Societies on Research in American Native Languages, principally consisting of reports on grants and their progress. Report of Committee on Research in Native American Languages, listing vanishing languages studied, by whom, publications, materials to be published, work to be done, and expenditures. Regarding criticism of the Executive Section of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages to the American Council of Learned Societies. Cover letter for a check to Speck. Asks Speck to write a letter on behalf of his sister Hedwig Lehmann who is 75, and wants to immigrate to the U.S. F&S 686, 1976, 4270


    Bogoras, W..
    From Frank G. Speck
    1929 1 item Box 17

    Regarding his proposition for exchange students between the University and Russia.


    Bond, Charles E..
    from Frank G. Speck
    1925 1 item Box 17

    Regarding references for information on the Indians of Maine. Mentions Chief Frances and A. V. Kidder. F&S 4478


    Brimley, C. S. .
    to Frank G. Speck
    1914 1 item Box 17

    Invoice with note regarding Specks purchase of snakes.


    Britten, Marian Hale.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1936 1 item Box 17

    Regarding Speck's reappointment to Committee on Survey of South American Indians, National Research Council. F&S 4739


    Buck, John L..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 17

    Received book, and will send mask some time soon.


    Buffalo Museum of Science.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 17

    Notification that he has been elected an honorary Charter Member in appreciation of his contributions.


    Bureau of American Ethnology.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1904-1924 2 items Box 17

    1904 letter authorizing Speck to incur expenses for his work in connection to the Handbook of American Languages. 1924 letter regarding Specks Calusa proposition.


    Burgesse, J. Allan.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 17

    Regarding difficulty of obtaining crooked knives, birch-bark baskets, etc., for Speck; Burgesse's work on the translation form the French of Eugene Roy's diarly (including Sumner's battle with Cheyennes and descriptions of other Indians). F&S 4271


    Chase, Fannie S..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1934 2 items Box 17

    Concerning research on and publication of material on Maine Indians. Comments regarding the impact of the Depression on scholarly publication.


    Chester, Allan G..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 17

    Acknowledges receiving recent article.


    Child, C. G..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1915 1 item Box 17

    Thanking Speck for his two monographs, and commenting on a discussion they had the previous Spring.


    Cobb, Rodney D..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1944 2 items Box 17

    Contacts Speck to obtain copies of his publications on birch-bark techniques.


    Cole, Fay Cooper.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1930-1931 2 items Box 17

    Concerning exhibits for Chicago World's Fair. F&S 1421


    Columbia University.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1904-1905 3 items Box 17

    Notification of Specks appointment as University Scholar in Anthropology and President's University Scholar in Anthropology, and that he has received his Masters degree.


    Comas, Juan.
    To Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 17

    Asking Speck to cotribute to the Boletin Bibliografico de Antropologia Americana.


    Congdon, Charles E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945-1949 2 items Box 17

    Concerning Coldspring Long House ceremonies; use of stick and post in dance; Tonawanda and Cattaraugus medicines. F&S 3242


    Cooper, John Montgomery 1881-1941.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1942 1 item Box 17

    Thanks Speck for sending the paper Speck wrote with Eiseley on Montagnais-Naskapi Bands. Comments on its relation to his work Temporal Sequence and Marginal Cultures (Catholic University of America. Anthropological series, no. 10, 1941).


    Crawford, J. W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    n.d. 1 item Box 17

    Thanks him for sending article.


    Crow Court, The n.d. 1 item Box 17

    Handwritten story.


    Daniel, W.B.M..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1915 1 item Box 17

    Note of thanks for the work on jade Speck provided him, and his wish he had more training in anthropology.


    Darlington, H. S..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1924 1 item Box 17

    Recounts his experience of observing a snake swallow its young and a toad shed its skin after reading Speck's article in the Journal of American Foldlroe.


    Davidson.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1931 1 item Box 17

    one word telegram - "Accepted"


    Day, Gordon M..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 2 items Box 17

    Regarding obtaining a copy of Speck's Penobscot Transformer Texts. Day is a forester who is contacting Speck to obtain information on his study of Indian occupation and place names in Vermont. F&S 4656


    Deardorff, Merle.
    from Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 17

    Concerning Iroquois conference at Allegany. F&S 3277


    Definitions for Clan from Various Sources n.d. 1 item Box 17

    List of 9 definitions for clan, and 6 definitions for Moiety, Phratry, Dual Division.


    Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony. Correspondence regadring .
    to Frank G. Speck
    1928-1932 7 items Box 17

    Correspondence regarding the publication of, and commends regarding Speck's work Delaware Indian Big House Ceremony. Correspondents include John W. Cooper, Franz Boas, William A. Slaughter, and Robert W. Reader.


    Department of Justice, Canada.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1922 1 item Box 17

    Letter from the deputy minister of justice requesting information from Speck regarding the indians of the Labrador coast, as it pertains to a court case. On verso is Speck's reply.


    Deskaheh (Alexander General).
    to Frank G. Speck
    1949 1 item Box 17

    Extract prepared for William Fenton, concerning slaughter of the Hurons by the Iroquois, together with Speck's notes on historical sources. F&S 1702


    Dimmick, Edgar R..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 17

    Replies to Speck regarding his family history.


    Dixon, Joseph K..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1920 1 item Box 17

    Indicates his willingness to see Speck and discuss his work at hand.


    Dodge, Raymond.
    Report of the Division of Athropology and Psychology for the Year 1922-1923
    n.d. 1 item Box 17

    Report of division, with addition listing members.


    Dorrance, Frances.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1938 1 item Box 17

    Informing Speck that he has been elected a director of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology for a three year term.


    Douglas, Frederic H. and Frances Raynolds.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1939-1943 6 items Box 17

    Letters to Speck regarding his sending artifacts to the Denver Art Museum, and Frederic Douglas's purchasing of them, and latter finanical difficulites.


    Drake, Charley G..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 17

    Requesting a copy of "Gourds of the Southeastern Indians"; payment enclosed. F&S 4763


    Dunnack, Henry E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1935 1 item Box 17

    States that the Maine State Library has Symbolism in Penobscot Art and Wawenock Myth Texts and has ordered Naskapi. Anticipates Speck's new volume on Maine Indians. F&S 4278


    Dutcher, Willena B. and Frederic H. Douglas.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1938-1948 6 items Box 17

    Concerning acquisition of material-culture specimens for the Denver Art Museum: New England, Virginia, Tunica, etc. Concerning acquisition of material-culture specimens for the Denver Art Museum: New England, Virginia, Tunica, etc. F&S 1247


    Eckstorm, Fannie H..
    to Frank G. Speck and Henry E. Dunnack
    1935 2 items Box 18

    Regarding financial support for publication of Speck's manuscript on Penobscot social and economic life. F&S 4657


    Edgerton, Franklin.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1915 1 item Box 18

    Expresses appreciation for copies of some of Speck's publications. F&S 4279


    Edwards, Edgar Van W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 18

    Sending Speck postcards. Comments on Dr. and Mrs. Macy who collected them.


    Edwards, William Waller.
    To Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 18

    Acknowledging receipt of Speck's letter on the Yankwis.


    Eiseley, Loren P..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1934-1945 3 items Box 18

    Concerning Speck's contribution to anthropology: concerning mention of scapulimancy in Drake (1839). Concerning Speck's contribution to anthropology; concerning mention of scapulimancy in Drake (1839). Fragment of letter regarding the exchange of articles with Speck. F&S 1249


    Eisenberger, E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1935 1 item Box 18

    Concerning scapulimancy and spread of the custom. F&S 1250


    Eskew, James W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1943-1944 3 items Box 18

    Requests information on publications relating to American Indians, e.g., about the mounds of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and about the Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos of the Southwest. Regarding Speck's pamphlets on specific topics. F&S 4280


    Farabee, W. C..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1930 1 item Box 18

    Requsts that Speck sends someone to read his paper. Refers to Speck's request fo his manuscript.


    Farrand, Livingston.
    Recommendations for Scholarship
    1904-1905 2 items Box 18

    Letter of recommendation for Speck's scholarship application.


    Fenton, William.
    to Frank Speck
    1936-1950 67 items Box 18

    Concerning field work among Catawba, Cherokee, and Houma; principally, however, Fenton's Seneca field work and Speck's various studies of the Iroquois. 3 letters pertain to Mahican (Stockbridge) texts recorded by Truman Michelson. Relations of Delaware and Iroquois. Some materials on Iroquois conferences prior to 1950. [note, photograph] Post card congratulating speck on his publication of The Delaware Indians as Women. "A Newsletter to the Second Conference on Iroquois Research" - Newsletter regarding events at the conference. F&S 1660


    Ferris, R. H..
    to Frank G. Speck
    n.d. 1 item Box 18

    Poem written to Speck after a stay at his home.


    Fewkes, J. Walter.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1921-1923 3 items Box 18

    Directions and instructions for Catawba field trips made by Speck for the Bureau of American Ethnology. F&S 507


    Field, Clark.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1946-1947 2 items Box 18

    Regarding his personal collection of Indian baskets.


    Finkelstein, Elsie.
    to Frank G. Speck
    n.d. 1 item Box 18

    Comments on remembering a ceremony[?]


    Ford, C.D.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1934 1 item Box 18

    Thanks Speck for a copy of the Penobscot Manuscript. Has received it too late to use it as source material for his pending book.


    Fry, Nat P..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1914 1 item. Box 18

    Verification of shipping his order of snakes.


    Gamio, Manuel.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 18

    Acknowledges receipt of Creek Indian pamphlet. F&S 790


    Gandy, Ethel.
    to C. M. Barbeau
    1926 1 item Box 18

    Expressing appreciation for names of chiefs and their clans. Regarding the reproduction by Wissler of plates for Gandy's forthcoming monograph on Penobscot art. F&S 4658


    Garner, Alfred B..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1914 1 item Box 18

    Disputes Speck's article stating that snakes will swallow their young in times of danger, based on his own observation.


    Gauthier, E. S. .
    from Frank G. Speck
    1928-1929 2 items Box 18

    Regarding the meaning of the Indian name Pizendawach; purchase of a bow and arrow by Speck. Mentions Andre Cayer. F&S 4331


    Geographical Society of Philadelphia.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1914-1915 2 items Box 18

    First letter informs Speck that he has been elected a member, and the second informs him he has been selected to serve on the Committee on Study and Research.


    Geyelin and Company.
    From AS
    1927 1 item Box 18

    Has received communications, and thanks him for the refund.


    Giger, Leona E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1940 1 item Box 18

    Student at Haskell Institute writes concerning a Creek doll she is making; mentions council house at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. F&S 791


    Gilliam, Charles Edgar.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 18

    Letter of introduction for William B McIlwaine III to Speck.


    Gilmore, Melvin R..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1931 1 item Box 18

    Concerning ethnobotanical exhibits for the Chicago World's Fair. F&S 1427


    Gisriel, Stewart W..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1914 1 item Box 18

    Booking of a lecture for Speck.


    Gloucester Safe Deposit and Trust Co..
    Check
    1922 1 item Box 18

    Personal check issued by Speck.


    Godcharles, F. A..
    from Frank G. Speck
    1929 1 item Box 18

    Regarding the shipment of Godcharles of Delaware Indian specimens received from War Eagle. F&S 4224


    Goddard, Pliny E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1916 1 item Box 18

    Pertaining to Mechling's review of Speck. F&S 2291


    Goldenweiser, Alexander.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1913-1917 8 items Box 18

    Returning Speck's manuscript. Concerning Goldenweiser's review and that of Mechling of Speck. Responses to Speck's letter, suggests the best time to meet. Also gives a list of subjects which Speck mith want to look into. Regarding his meeting with Speck, must reschedule until January. Agrees to speak at Speck's seminar. Appologizes for disappointing Speck, was not able to get away because Mrs. Goldenweiser was sick. Telegram stating he cannot come. Happy to stay with Speck after coming up to give a Lecture to Aitken's class. F&S 2292


    Goldfrank, Esther.
    from Frank G. Speck
    1929 1 item Box 18

    Concerning "clown" performances outside of the southwest among Penobscot, Iroquois, Abenaki, and Delaware. F&S 2930


    Gordon, George Byron.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1913-1924 15 items Box 18

    Regarding Speck and the museum (access to early, and obtaining books). Concerning publication of Speck's Penobscot materials. Concerning the submission of Speck's manuscript of "Life and Culture of the Penobscot Indians" for publication by the University, and a latter request by Speck to have the manuscript back to make changes. List by Speck of incidents with Gordon.F&S 2931


    Gourds in the Southeast
    Box 18

    scrapbook with clippings of reviews.


    Great Northern Railway Company.
    To Frank G. Speck
    1947 1 item Box 18

    Reply to Specks request for the 1947 Indian calendar.


    Greywacz, Kathryn B..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1929-1947 4 items Box 18

    1929 - Regarding possible purchase from Speck of some modern Delaware items; request for pictures of those pieces; Speck's reply. 1947 - Regarding proposed sale of some of Speck's baskets from Eastern American Indian groups. Notice of his election as an honorary member of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey. F&S 4216, 4239


    Gusinde, Martin.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1926-1939 5 items Box 18

    Concerning Fuegian's and others use of family hunting areas; a "universal" trait to Speck. Sending a manuscript, "Family Hunting Territories of the Lake St. John Montagnais," to be considered for publication. Thanks him for sending copies of the pamphlets for use by his class. Inquires if he has received Speck's manuscript. 1939 letter in German thanks Gussinde for sending copies of the pamphlets for use by his class. Inquires if he has received Speck's manuscript. F&S 1467, 4189


    Hallowell, A. I. .
    to John Witthoft
    1950 9 items Box 18

    Concerns Hallowell's obituary for Speck, and includes a complete Speck bibliography. Also includes a processing note by A.F.C. Wallace.


    Hallowell, A. I. .
    Culture and Language ...
    n.d. 1 item Box 18

    34 questions on culturally patterned aspects of language. F&S 2045


    Hallowell, A. Irving.
    The Nature and Function of Property as a Human Institution
    n.d. 1 item Box 18

    Typescript draft of Hallowell's manuscript, with edits.


    Hardenbrook, Louise.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 18

    The historian of the Columbia County, N.Y., Historical Society writes concerning Indian place names. F&S 1288


    Harkins, Lee F..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 2 items Box 18

    Two letters requesting publications of Speck's on Indian tribes.


    Hawkes, Ernest W. .
    to Frank G. Speck
    1913-1949 3 item Box 18

    First letter is concerning the "Gordon fight" and Hawkes intention to leave it alone. Second letter is concerning contents of Rancocas Creek Mound (pre-Delaware). Regarding Hawkes retirement, and need to take up a position at Westminster College in Utah. F&S 1213


    Hellmer, Joseph.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1945 1 item Box 18

    Concerning his expected field work among Nahuatl and Othomi. F&S 2615


    Heye Museum, The.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1915 2 items Box 18

    Refers to the Museum's publication of Speck's Nanticoke Papers, and the cost of making later changes.


    Heye, George G..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 18

    Regarding people, material culture, etc. F&S 4539a


    Hiller, Wesley R..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 18

    Regarding obtaining copies of publications by Speck and others. F&S 4288


    Holden, James E..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1937 2 items Box 18

    Concerning unsuccessful attempts to purchase baskets at Nipigon. F&S 2503


    Holmer, Nils M..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1947 2 item Box 18

    Visits Kagaba Indians of Sierra Nevada, Columbia. Mentions work on Cuna Indians. Comments on being in Panama City, and trying to contact representatives of the tribe. F&S 481


    Honigmann, John J..
    from Frank G. Speck
    1946 1 item Box 18

    Response to Honigmann's letter regarding an instructo position at the University of Pennsylvania.


    Hudson's Bay Company.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1937 3 items Box 18

    Regarding unavailability of birch-bark articles at Longlac, Ontario, and Pointe Bleue, Lake St. John, Quebec; availability of five baskets and one canoe for purchase at Montreal. F&S 4145


    Imsick, Roy C..
    to Frank G. Speck
    1937 1 item Box 18

    Regarding the 1937 March of Scouting in which the scouts portrayed Delaware Indians.


    International Congress of Americanists XXII.
    Frank G. Speck
    1926 1 item Box 18

    Membership card.


    International Congress of Anthropolgocial and Ethnological Sciences.
    to Frank G. Speck
    1934 1 item Box 18