| 1 | Creator: | Goodenough, Ward H., 1919- | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Ward H. Goodenough Papers, ca. 1940s-1990s
| | | | Dates: | 1940-1999 | | | | Abstract: | The papers of anthropologist Ward Goodenough cover his whole career, most of it spent in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. After service in army during WW II, Goodenough received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1949. He conducted field research from 1947 to 1965, working at Chuuk (Truk), the Gilberts, Papua New Guinea, and New Britain. The collection is particularly important in showing how linguistic theory can help further anthropological theory. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.120 | | | | Extent: | 69.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropology--Research | Goodenough, Ward H., 1919- | Linguistic theory | Linguistics. | |
| 5 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Essai de solution du problème philologique proposé en l'année 1823 par la commission de l'Institut de France, 1823
| | | | Dates: | 1823 | | | | Abstract: | The commission of the Institut de France was charged with offering a prize on linguistics, under the will of Count Volney. Formerly, this essay was thought to have been by Baron Nicolas Massias (1764-1848), who won the Volney prize in 1828. However, the note that the volume was shipped from New York precludes that. | | | | Call #: | Mss.410.D92.1 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Foreign Language | Institut de France. | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics. | Manuscript Essays | Massias, Nicolas, baron, 1764-1848 | Philology. | Volney, C.-F., (Constantin François), 1757-1820 | |
| 7 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book, 1820
| | | | Dates: | 1820 | | | | Abstract: | There are notes on the colonial history of Pennsylvania, with emphasis on William Penn and his family, the Society of Friends, James Logan, and the charters granted by Penn, with some notes on the study of languages and definition of words. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.D92c | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Commonplace Book | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Language and languages | Linguistics. | Literature, Arts, and Culture | Logan, James, 1674-1751 | Manuscript Essays | Penn, William,1644-1718. | Pennsylvania History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. | Quakers -- Pennsylvania. | |
| 8 | Creator: | Ziehm, Elsa, 1911-1993 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Grammatik und Vokabular der Nahua-Sprache von San Pedro Jícora in Durango
| | | | Dates: | 1984-1986 | | | | Abstract: | The linguist and ethnomusicologist Else Ziehm became an expert in the San Pedro Jícora dialect of Nahuatl. As a result of anti-Semitism infecting the linguistics department at the University of Berlin in 1934, Ziehm switched to the Institut für Lautforschung and was awarded her doctorate for research on Romanian folk music in 1939. She began as an assistant curator at the Lautarchiv at the University, however the outbreak of the war only a few months later derailed her career. She returned to the field in the 1960s with the rediscovery of Konrad Theodor Preuss's Nahuatl manuscripts, editing them into a three volume edition that appeared between 1968 and 1976. Ziehm died in Berlin in 1993.
Ziehm's "Grammatik und Vokabular der Nahua-Sprache von San Pedro Jicora in Durango" was announced by the Berlin publishing firm of Gebrüder Mann as a forthcoming title for 1980-1981, however the work was never finished. The typescript (140p.) with manuscript emendations, does not include the vocabulary. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.43.Z65 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bierhorst, John | Indians of Mexico | Linguistics | Nahuatl language | Preuss, Konrad Theodor, 1869-1938 | Ziehm, Elsa, 1911-1993 | |
| 9 | Creator: | Gabb, William More, 1839-1878 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | On the Indian Tribes and Languages of Costa Rica
| | | | Dates: | 1875 | | | | Abstract: | A paleontologist and expert in Cretaceous and Tertiary invertebrates, William More Gabb was hired by the Costa Rican government to conduct of natural historical and ethnographic survey from 1873-1875.
Read before the American Philosophical Society on August 20, 1875, Gabb's essay "On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica" was published in full in the APS
Proceedings 14 (1875): 483-602. Dealing with several tribes, including the Bribri, the paper touches on physical description, history, the names of tribes, their political organization, and ethnography. The essay includes a brief grammar of the Bribri language. | | | | Call #: | Mss.572.9728.G11 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bribri language | Gabb, William More, 1839-1878 | Indians of Central America--Costa Rica | Indians of Central America--Languages | Linguistics | |
| 10 | Creator: | Bellenger, Joseph M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Instruction sur la langue Mickmaque
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1814 | | | | Abstract: | From 1735 to 1762, Antoine-Simon Maillard (d.1762) was a Catholic missionary to the Micmac Indians at Restigouche on the Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec. Abbé Maillard was the first Frenchman to master the Micmac language, and he collected extensive grammatical and linguistic notes which were edited, arranged, and published by Rev. Joseph M. Bellenger in the 19th century.
The "Instructions sue la langue Mickmaque" is a French-language instructional manual on the grammar of the Micmac language, probably compiled by Rev. Joseph M. Bellenger, ca.1814. The manuscript (identified as Phillips 12343) is based on the grammar of Abbé Maillard, and is arranged on a Latin model. It includes general comments on the structure of the language, orthography, nouns, pronouns, and numerals, with more extensive commentary on verb conjugation. The manuscript appears to be incomplete, ending with the section heading "Verbes réciproque." | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.2.In75 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bellenger, Joseph M. | Foreign Language | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics | Maillard, Antoine Simon, d.1762 | Micmac language--Grammar | Native America | Native American Materials | |
| 11 | Creator: | Schmick, Joh. Jac. (Johann Jacob), 1714-1778 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Miscellanea linguae nationis Indicae Mahikan
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1753-1767 | | | | Abstract: | Born in Königsberg, Prussia, in 1714, the Moravian missionary Johann Jacob Schmick studied theology as a young man and became acquainted with the teachings of the United Brethren as early as 1742, taking his first communion six years later. He was called to become a missionary in 1751, and was appointed to the Indian congregation at Gnadenhutten, Pa., ministering primarily to a congregation of Mahican converts who had settled there. Schmick taught reading and writing, and was particularly known for teaching singing and introducing the spinet and other instruments to the Indians. He continued in his missionary work almost to the time of his death in 1778.
Schmick's Miscellanea linguae nationis Indicae Mahikan consists of two volumes (322pp.) of manuscript vocabulary and notes on the Mahican language recorded between about 1753 and 1767. It consists of words and phrases in Mahican, written phonologically, and translated into their German equivalents. The volumes have been edited, translated, and published by Carl Masthay as
Schmick's Mahican Dictionary
APS Memoir 197 (1991). | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.Sch5 | | | | Extent: | 0.2 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Dictionaries. | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Linguistics | Mahican language | Mahican language--Dictionaries--German | Moravians--Missions | Native America | Native American Materials | Schmick, Joh. Jac. (Johann Jacob), 1714-1778 | |
| 13 | Creator: | Li, Fanggui | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Fanggui Li Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1928-1982 | | | | Abstract: | As s student of Edward Sapir at the University of Chicago, Fanggui (Fang-Kuei) Li spent two months during the summer of 1928 in northern Alberta studying Chipewyan and went on to a career that included pioneering work in other Athapascan languages, Tai, and Chinese. A lontime member of the Academia Sinica, Li was for many years a professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington and, at the end of his career, at the University of Hawaii.
The Li Collection is comprised of ten volumes containing stories in Chipewyan collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by the Chinese-American linguist, Fanggui Li, along with an extensive Chipewyan slip file. The texts contain phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from François Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier with interlinear English translations. These were edited and published Fanggui as Li and Ronald Scollon,
Chipewyan Texts (Taipei: Academia Sinica, 1976). The collection also includes two cassettes containing an oral history interview with Li conducted in November 1982 by M. Terry Thompson and Laurence Thompson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.119 | | | | Extent: | 1.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Chipewyan language | Field notes. | Indians of North America--Languages | Li, Fanggui | Linguistics | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Slip files | Thompson, Laurence C. | Thompson, M. Terry | |
| 14 | Creator: | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Harry Hoijer Collection, 1930-1976
| | | | Dates: | Bulk, 1930-1934 | | | | Abstract: | A student of Edward Sapir's at the University of Chicago (PhD, 1931), Harry Hoijer began his career in linguistics with intensive fieldwork on the Coahuiltecan language, Tonkawa, though shortly thereafter he turned to an intensive study of Athapaskan, including several Apache languages, Navajo, Sarsi, and Galice. Employed as an instructor at the University of Chicago for several years, Hoijer moved to the new Department of Anthropology at UCLA in 1940, where he remained until his retirement.
The Hoijer Collection contains textual materials representing comparative linguistic studies of Athapascan languages, including Carrier, Chipewyan, Galice, Navajo, Sarsi, and five Apache languages and dialects, (Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Mescalero, Lipan, and San Carlos). The collection also includes four audio recordings of Loucheux (Kutchin, Gwich'in), and copies of texts collected by Hoijer from colleagues Berard Haile, Diamond Jenness, David Mandelbaum, Chic Sandoval, and Edward Sapir. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.H68 | | | | Extent: | 4.0 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Carrier language | Chiricahua Apache language | Ethnographic texts | Field notes. | Galice language | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Indians of North America--Languages | Jicarilla language | Linguistic texts | Linguistics | Lipan Apache language | Mescalero language | Navajo language | San Carlos Apache language | Sarsi language | Slip files | |
| 15 | Creator: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas Jefferson papers, 1775-1825
| | | | Dates: | 1775-1825 | | | | Abstract: | The Thomas Jefferson papers contain a large number of correspondence both to and from Jefferson, as well as various other material related to American Revolutionary War and Early Republic. Includes correspondence with Patrick Henry, Charles Willson Peale, Richard Henry Lee, Horatio Gates, David Rittenhouse, Robert Patterson | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.J35 | | | | Extent: | 0.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | American Philosophical Society. | American Revolution | Bache, Franklin, 1792-1864 | Boundaries, State. | Byrd, William, 1674-1744 | Canals. | Chemistry | Colony and State Specific History | Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823 | Diplomatic History | Early National Politics | Eppes, John Wayles, 1773-1823 | General Correspondence | Government Affairs | Indians of North America--Languages | Ingenhousz, Jan, 1730-1799 | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Linguistics. | Louisiana Purchase -- Enclopedias. | Mease, James, 1771-1846 | Mitchill, Samuel L., (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831 | Native America | Natural History | Official Government Documents and Records | Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824 | Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827 | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs. | Plants. | Political Correspondence | Presidents -- United States. | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 | Science -- United States -- 18th century. | Science and Technology | Scientific apparatus and instruments. | Seeds. | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 -- Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865. | Virginia -- History. | Washington, Bushrod, 1762-1829 | Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Williams, Jonathan. | |
| 16 | Creator: | American Philosophical Society. Historical & Literary Committee. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection
| | | | Dates: | 1784-1828 | | | | Abstract: | Beginning in the 1790s, the American Philosophical Society began to accumulate vocabularies and texts written in Native American languages, guided by Thomas Jefferson's idea of using comparative linguistics to reconstruct the histories of Indian peoples and discern their origins.
The American Indian Vocabularies Collection was initially assembled by the Historical and Literary Committee of the APS for publication in 1816. They include information on seventeen North American languages and one each from the Caribbean and Central America, collected between 1784 and 1828. A number of individuals were invovled in recording the vocabularies, including Benjamin Hawkins, William Thornton, David Campbell, Daniel Smith, Constantine Volney, Constantine Rafinesque, William Vans Murray, John Heckewelder, Martin Duralde, Campanius Holm, and Jefferson himself. Most followed the standardized word set established by Jefferson. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.V85 | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Atacapas language | Barbour, James, 1775-1842 | Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815 | Bromley, Walter | Butrick, Daniel S. | Campanius Holm, Johan, 1601-1683 | Campbell, David | Cherokee language | Chickasaw language | Chippewa language | Choctaw language | Chontal language | Creek language | Delaware language | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Duralde, Martin | Gambold, John | Gurley, George | Indians of North America--Languages | Izard, George | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | Kells, Richard | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Lexica | Linguistics | Little Turtle, 1747-1812 | Massachusett language | Miami language (Ind. and Okla.) | Micmac language | Mohegan language | Munsee language | Murray, William Vans, 1760-1803 | Nanticoke language | Native America | Native American Materials | Osage language | Quapaw language | Quinnipiac language | Rafinesque, C. S., (Constantine Samuel ), 1783-1840 | Senseman, Gottlob, 1745-1800 | Smith, Daniel, 1748-1818 | Taino language | Thornton, William, 1759-1828 | Unquachog language | Volney, C.-F., (Constantin François), 1757-1820 | Wells, William | Zeisberger, John, 1721-1808 | |
| 17 | Creator: | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | C. F. Voegelin Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1934-1970 | | | | Abstract: | Trained as an anthropologist at Berkeley under A.L. Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Carl Voegelin spent the majority of his career as a structural linguist specializing in Algonquian languages, including Delaware, Potawatomi, Fox, Menominee, and Shawnee, and on the Seneca, Ojibwa (Chippewa), and Blackfoot (Siksika). His most significant contributions came through his studies of Delaware, Shawnee, and Hopi, but he is also credited with reviving the
International Journal of American Linguistics after the death of its founder, Franz Boas, and with nurturing the program in anthropology at Indiana University, where he was on faculty from 1941 until his retirement in 1976.
The Voegelin collection contains field notes, lexical files, notebooks, papers, correspondence, and other materials relating to Voegelin's work on Native American languages. The bulk of the collection concerns Delaware and Shawnee, but there is significant material for Blackfoot, Menominee, Ojibwa and Potawatomi, Seneca, and Penobscot. Notes on Turkish, kept during the Second World War, are also present. Among other important series in the collection are Voegelin's correspondence and notes concerning two of his major projects: the translation and interpretation of the Walam Olam and his study of Shawnee law. Correspondents include Leonard Bloomfield, Eli Lilly, and Morris Swadesh. A portion of the collection is indexed in Kendall (1982). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.68 | | | | Extent: | 34.5 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquian Indians | Algonquian languages | Blackfoot language | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Card files. | Chippewa language | Delaware language | Field notes. | Fox language | Gelatin silver prints | Hamp, Eric P. | Hodge, C. T., (Carleton Taylor), 1917-1998 | Indians of North America--Delaware | Indians of North America--Illinois | Indians of North America--Indiana | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--New England | Indians of North America--New Mexico | Indians of South America | Kenneth L. Hale, (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001 | Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | Linguistics | Maps. | Menominee language | Nitrate negatives | Notebooks | Ojibwa language | Potawatomi language | Seneca language | Shawnee language | Siksika language | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Turner, Glen | Voegelin, C.F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Walam Olum | Witthoft, John | Wonderly, William Lower | |
| 18 | Creator: | Bowers, Alfred W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Mandan-Hidatsa Ethnohistory and Linguistics
| | | | Dates: | 1969 | | | | Abstract: | Primarily consists of autobiographical stories, creation stories, and medicine stories collected by Alfred W. Bowers in earlier decades. The stories are read in segments in Bowers' English translation to two native consultants, who then translate the material into both Mandan and Hidatsa, or occasionally into either Mandan or Hidatsa alone. A small number of stories are told in Mandan only. Also includes English discussions of the Mandan and Hidatsa domestic life, material culture, personal reminscences, and histories of the Crow-Flies-High Band and the Fort Buford and Fort Berthold settlements. Bowers' original table of contents also available. Recorded at Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, in 1969. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Rec.81 | | | | Extent: | 19.0 Reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Anthropological linguistics | Autobiography | Bears--Folklore | Beavers | Bowers, Alfred W. | Buffaloes--Folklore | Burial | Cemeteries | Coffins | Conversation | Creation--Mythology | Dogs--Folklore | Ethnohistory | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (N.D.) | Hidatsa Indians | Hidatsa Indians--Biography | Hidatsa Indians--Economic conditions | Hidatsa Indians--Folklore | Hidatsa Indians--Government relations | Hidatsa Indians--History | Hidatsa Indians--History--19th century | Hidatsa Indians--Material culture | Hidatsa Indians--Medicine | Hidatsa Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Hidatsa Indians--Social life and customs | Hidatsa language | Hidatsa mythology | Hidatsa women | Horses | Hunters--Folklore | Indians of North America--North Dakota | Indians of North America--North Dakota--History | Linguistics | Mandan Indians | Mandan Indians--Biography | Mandan Indians--Economic conditions | Mandan Indians--Folklore | Mandan Indians--History | Mandan Indians--History--19th century | Mandan Indians--Material culture | Mandan Indians--Medicine | Mandan Indians--Rites and ceremonies | Mandan Indians--Social life and customs | Mandan language | Mandan mythology | Mandan women | Mother and child--Folklore | Older women--Folklore | Porcupines--Folklore | Quests (Expeditions)--Folklore | Rattlesnakes | Ringworm | Rivers--North Dakota | Siblings--Folklore | Snakes--Folklore | Sound recordings | Sun-dance | Turtles--Folklore | United States--Census, 9th, 1870 | Warriors | |
| 19 | 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 | |
| 20 | Creator: | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | John Alden Mason Papers
| | | | Dates: | 1904-1967 | | | | Abstract: | An archaeological anthropologist and linguist, John Alden Mason spent the majority of his career at the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. After receiving his undergraduate degree at Penn in 1907, Mason received a doctorate at Berkeley (1911) for his ethnographic work on the Salinan Indians of California, but his diverse interests in later years ran the gamut from Puerto Rican folklore to Piman languages and cultures (including Pima, Papago, Pima Bajo, Northern and Southern Tepehuan, and Tepecano), Mayan, Aztec, and Incan archaeology, and the languages of South American Indians. Mason was curator of the University Museum at Penn from 1926 until his retirement in 1958.
The Mason Papers include both in-coming and outgoing correspondence, linguistic material, notes, and photographs relating to Mason's work in the southwestern U.S., northern Mexico, and South America. Centered on the years after Mason's return to Philadelphia in 1926, the collection covers all aspects of Mason's professional life, from reports on field work to answering casual questions referred to him through the University Museum to data and analyses on Piman and other languages. The collection also contains voluminous files relating to the Mason's editorship of the
American Anthropologist (bulk: 1945-1948). Of special note are a series of class notes (1908-1910) kept by Mason for course work in ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania under Edward Sapir and Frank Speck. | | | | Call #: | Mss.B.M384 | | | | Extent: | 26.75 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Agogino, George | American Anthropological Association--Publishing | American Anthropological Association. | American Anthropologist | Anthropology--Societies, etc. | Archaeology | Bascom, Burton W. | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1848 | Birge-Smith, Kaj, 1893- | Black, Fred L | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bororo language (Brazil) | Butler, Mary | Cadzow, Donald S. | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Cattell, James McKeen, 1860-1944 | Chihuahua (Chihuahua, Mexico) | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-1961 | Cross, Dorothy | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Diagrams. | Durango (Mexico) | Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991 | Egyptology. | Ethnology | Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963 | Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Ge language | Gelatin silver prints | Greywacz, Kathryn B. | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956 | Indians of Mexico | Indians of Mexico--Languages | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Southwest, New | Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities | Indians of South America--Languages | Jalisco (Mexico) | Judd , Neil Merton, 1887-1976 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kroeber, A. L., (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Latin-American Institute for Race and Culture Studies | Linguistics | Madeira, Percey Child, Jr. | Malali language | Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 | Maps. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Mayas--Antiquities | Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 | Mexico--Antiquities | Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948 | Negatives | Nuttall, Zelia, -- 1858-1933. | Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) | Photoprints | Phrenology | Pima Bajo language | Pima Indians | Pima language | Piman Indians | Piman languages | Quechua language | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Recordings | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Satterthwaite, Linton, 1897- | Sketches. | Sonora (Mexico : State) | Southwest Indians | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Symbols | Tepecano Indians | Tepehuan language | Tohono O'Odham Indians | Tohono O'Odham dialect | Tozzer, Alfred M. -- (Alfred Marston), -- 1877-1954. | University of Pennsylvania. | University of Pennsylvania. University Museum | Uto-Aztecan languages | Vaillant, George Clapp, 1901-1945 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Yaqui Indians | |
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