| 1 | Creator: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society
| | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Formed in 1927 under the initiative of Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and other academic linguists, the Committee on Native American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies was charged with documenting the endangered languages of indigenous Americans.
The Collection of the American Council of Learned Socities Committee of Native American Languages is one of the largest and most significant primary resources for study of the indigenous languages of North America. Beginning with the creation of the Committee in 1927, and periodically added to since by the APS, the collection has grown to over 80 linear feet of material representing at least 166 languages and dialects from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The formats range from field notes and ethnographic texts to slip files, vocabularies, lexica, and grammars, and dozens of linguists and Native consultants are represented. Although most of the material was collected in the 1920s and 1930s, a signficant number of items have been added that extends the range of dates represented both backward and forward. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.B63c | | | | Extent: | 80.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Achumawi language | African Americans--Florida | African Americans--Folklore | African Americans--West Virginia | Anthropology, ethnography, fieldwork | Athapascan languages | Atsugewi language | Autobiography | Banister, John, Jr. | Bella Coola language | Benin--History | Chehalis language | Cherokee language | Chimakum language | Chinese language | Chiricahua language | Christianity--Africa | Chukchi--History | Clothing and dress--Middle East | Cree language | Culture, community, organizations | Cyanotypes | Dakota language | Dictionaries. | Drawings. | Ethnographic texts | Ethnology--Africa | Ethnology--Russia | Ethnology--United States | Face painting | Field notes. | Fijians--Social life and customs | Folk music--Puerto Rico | Folklore | Folklore--Africa | Folklore--British Columbia | Folklore--Florida | Folklore--Uganda | Gelatin silver prints | Geological Survey of Canada. | Group portraits | Haida language | Heiltsuk Indians | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Hopi language | Hupa language | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alaska | Indians of North America--British Columbia | Indians of North America--Languages | Inuktitut language | Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969 | Jews, Ethiopian | Kalapuya language | Kalibala, Ernest B. | Kalispel language | Kathlamet language | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kutenai language | Kwakiutl language | Laguna dialect | Lillooet language | Linguistics | Maps. | Mayan languages | Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 | Mukasa, Ham, 1871-1956 | Nahuatl language | Nass language | Navajo language | Nez Percé language | Nitinat language | Nootka Indians | Nootka language | Northwest Coast Indians | Ntlakyapamuk language | Photographs | Photomechanical prints | Plantations | Pomo language | Quileute Indians | Quileute language | Religion, religious organizations | Salish Indians | Salishan languages | Shasta language | Sketches. | Slip files | Social conditions, social advocacy, social reform | Sturtevant, Edgar Howard, 1875-1952 | Tarahumara language | Tarascan language | Tlingit language | Tolowa language | Tsimshian language | Tunica language | Twi (African people) | United States -- Emigration and immigration. | Volga River Region (Russia)--History | Wailaki language | Warren, John | Watercolors | Winnebago language | Wintu language | Word lists | Yana language | Zapotec language | |
| 2 | Creator: | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Frank G. Speck Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1903-1950 | | | | 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. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.126 | | | | Extent: | 15.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Abenaki Indians | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. | Adney, E. Tappan (Edwin Tappan), 1868-1950 | Albumen prints | Algonquian Indians | Athapascan Indians | Atikamekw Indians | Baily, A. G. | Beothuk Indians | Beston, Elizabeth Coatsworth | Beston, Henry, 1888-1968 | Billiot, Anthony | Billiot, Maurice | Bogoras, Waldemar, 1865-1936 | Bororo Indians | Brimley, C. S. (Clement Samuel), 1863-1946 | Broom, Leonard | Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution) | Cabinet cards | Cabot, W. B. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Carte de visite photographs | Catawba Indians | Cayuga Indians | Cheroenhaka Indians | Cherokee Indians | Circumboreal | Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907- | Comas, Juan, 1900- | Committee for International Research in Arctic Ethnology | Cree Indians | Creek Indians | Cyanotypes | Dahl, Richard S. | Delaware Indians | Diagrams. | Diamond Jenness | Double Curve Motif | Douglas, Frederic Huntington, 1897-1956 | Dutcher, Willena B. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Eskimo | Ethnography | Forde, C. Daryll (Cyril Daryll), 1902- | Gelatin silver prints | Great Basin Indians | Griffin, James B. | Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940. | Hassrick, Royal B. | Hayne, Hayward | Herris, R. H. | Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages | Houma Indians | Howley, James Patrick, 1847-1918 | Huaiquilaf, J. Martin Collio | Illustrations. | Indians of North America--Alberta | Indians of North America--Arizona | Indians of North America--California | Indians of North America--Canada | Indians of North America--Colorado | Indians of North America--Connecticut | Indians of North America--Delaware | Indians of North America--Florida | Indians of North America--Louisiana | Indians of North America--Maine | Indians of North America--Massachusetts | Indians of North America--Montana | Indians of North America--New York (State) | Indians of North America--Newfoundland and Labrador | Indians of North America--North Carolina | Indians of North America--Northeastern States | Indians of North America--Oklahoma | Indians of North America--Ontario | Indians of North America--Quebec (Province) | Indians of North America--Saskatchewan | Indians of North America--South Carolina | Indians of North America--Southeastern States | Indians of North America--Virginia | Indians of South America--Brazil | Inuit--Canada | Iroquois Indians | Johnson, Frederick | Jones, Volney H. (Volney Hurt), 1903- | Kansa Indians | Lagore, Eli | Lantern slides. | Laulin, "Redge" | Laulin, Gladys | Leach, Henry Goddard, 1880-1970. | Learmouth, D. H. | Lips, Julie E. | Lithographs. | MacLeod, William Christie | Malecite Indians | Maps | Mende (African People) | Messurier, William L. | Micmac Indians | Miller, Samuel "James" | Mistassin Indians | Mohawk Indians | Montagnais Indians | Moulton, F. R. (Forest Ray), 1872-1952 | Nanticoke Indians | Naskapi Indians | Native American culture | Native American linguistics | Native American lore & legends | Negatives | Newspaper clippings. | Ninham, John Alexander | Ojibwa Indians | Oklahoma Delaware Indians | Omaha Indians | Onondaga Indians | Orchard, W. C. | Paintings. | Pamunkey Indians | Passamaquoddy Indians | Pennsylvania | Penobscot Indians | Pequot Indians | Photomechanical prints | Picard, L. P. O. | Picture-writing | Plains Indians | Postcards | Quimby, George | Raynolds, Frances | Revillon FrèresTrading Company. | Seminole Indians | Seneca Indians | Shawnee Indians | Sherbro (African People) | Sketches. | Southeast Indians | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Stern, Theodore, 1917- | Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962. | Sub-Arctic Indians | Swales, Bradshaw Hall, 1875- | Swan, Sankey | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Thomas, Chief David | Tintypes | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | Trotter, Spencer, 1860-1931. | Tuscarora Indians | Tyler, Dorothy Louise, 1899-1979 | Wallace, Paul A. W. -- Pictorial works | Walser, Richard, 1908- | Wawenock Indians | White, Leslie A., 1900-1975. | White, Richard Jr. | White, Stewart Edward, 1873-1946 | Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928. | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Wiswall, Richard Hall, 1916- | Wiyot-Yorok | Wyman, Waiter Channing | Yao (African People) | Yuchi Indians | |
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