| 1 | Creator: | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Huron Word List
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1949 | | | | Abstract: | 173 English words with Huron equivalents, compiled from Cartier, Sagard, Hale, Potier, Chaumonot. Also lists radicals, with occasional comparisons with other Iroquoian dialects. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.2.B235w | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Huron language | Vocabularies. | |
| 6 | Creator: | unknown | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials, [ca. 1900-1920]
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1900-1920 | | | | Abstract: | These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh,
Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.687 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Indians of North America--Languages | Nootka Indians | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Vocabularies. | Williams, Frank | |
| 9 | Creator: | Potier, Pierre-Philippe,1708-1781. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Huron linguistic materials, 1743-1744
| | | | Dates: | 1743-1744 | | | | Abstract: | Vocabulary of Huron with French equivalents, semantically ordered (parts of body, terms of relationship, animals, etc.). List of names of occupants of Huron villages, L'ile aux bois blanc, 1747 (33 cabins); list of bands, locations, names of chiefs. Recorded by Father Potier, a missionary at Sandwich on the Detroit River and written at Lorette near Quebec. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.2.P845 | | | | Extent: | 38.0 Item(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Potier, Pierre-Philippe,1708-1781. | Vocabularies. | Wyandot Indians | Wyandot language | |
| 11 | Creator: | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularies of the Okonagan, Attnaha, and Walla Walla languages, [and] Vocabularies of the languages of Indians inhabiting N.W. America, 1834-1836
| | | | Dates: | 1834-1836 | | | | Abstract: | These vocabularies were obtained from Indians, people of mixed ancestry, and traders, with most of the informants identified. One volume appears to contain the notes from which the other was prepared. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.T66 | | | | Extent: | 2.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Indians of North America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Salishan languages | Townsend, John Kirk,1809-1851. | Vocabularies. | Walla Walla Indians | |
| 13 | Creator: | Morán, Francisco,fl. 1625. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arte y vocabulario de la lengua Cholti, 1695
| | | | Dates: | 1695 | | | | Abstract: | This is a copy of Moran's "libro grande" (1625-1650), and includes two versions of the grammar (in different hands), confessional materials, and a vocabulary of 500 words which has been added to the others. The first three pages are a narrative of Spanish missions (1689-1692) by Thomas Murillo. For description, see: D. G. Brinton. "Notice of some manuscripts..."
American Journal of Science, 2nd Series, 1869, v. 47, 222-230. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.4.M79 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Cholti language--Texts | Chorti language--Grammar, Comparative | Dictionaries. | Guatemala--Languages | Indians of Central America--Languages | Missions, Spanish. | Morán, Francisco,fl. 1625. | Murillo, Thomas. | Prayers. | Vocabularies. | |
| 14 | Creator: | Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala.. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Cakchikel Language Texts, 1553 - ca. 1700
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1553-1700 | | | | Abstract: | The library has several volumes of grammars, vocabularies, sermons, and other religious writings in the Cakchikel language of Central America. Several have been studied, notably by Daniel G. Brinton in APS
Proceedings 21 (1884): 345, and Nora B. Thompson, "Algunos manuscritos guatemaltecos en Filadelfia",
Anales de la Sociedad de Geografia e Historia 23 (1948), Nos. 1 2: p. 3; and all have been described by John F. Freeman, "Manuscript Sources on Latin American Indians," APS
Proceedings 10 (1962): 530, and in Freeman's
Guide to Manuscripts relating to the American Indian (1966). | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.43.V42 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cakchikel language | Catholic Church -- Guatemala -- Catechisms -- Cakchikel. | Catholic Church -- Guatemala -- Sermons. | Grammars. | Indians of Central America--Languages | Mayan languages | Microfilm Collection | Sermons, Cakchikel. | Sermons. | Varea, Francisco de. | Vocabularies. | |
| 15 | Creator: | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Collection of notes and diaries in the Cherokee syllabary, 1840-1932
| | | | Dates: | 1840-1932 | | | | Abstract: | The items in this collection are chiefly by William West Long and Morgan Calhoun and are accompanied by notes of Speck with numbers and descriptions made by John Witthoft. There are diaries of William West Long, Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group) accounts, Big Cove birth and death records, and material collected by James Mooney in 1887. There is also material on medicine, including formulae, curing charms, and texts. Cherokee-English vocabularies and personal accounts by Speck are included. | | | | Call #: | Mss.572.97.SpL | | | | Extent: | 0.25 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Calhoun, Morgan | Cherokee Indians--Medicine | Cherokee Indians--Social life and customs | Cherokee Indians--Societies, etc. | Cherokee language | Diaries. | Indians of North America--Languages | Mooney, James, -- 1861-1921, -- collector. | Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950 | Vocabularies. | West Long, Will | Witthoft, John, 1921- | |
| 16 | Creator: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Names of various trees, shrubs, and plants in the language of the Lennape [sic], 1840
| | | | Dates: | 1840 | | | | Abstract: | This volume was obtained from Edie Turner, "an old Indian woman." It contains John Heckewelder's English, Algonkian and Delaware comparative vocabulary (a list of 310 English words, without particular order); and names of various trees, shrubs, and plants in the language of the Lenape (Del). Includes also a list of the Latin botanical names for the plants of Christian Frederick Kampman. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.W85 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquian languages | Algonquin language | Cheroenhaka Indians | Delaware language | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823 | Indians of North America--Languages | Iroquoian languages | Kampman, Christian Frederick, 1708-1808 | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Native America | Native American Materials | Vocabularies. | Wood, John,ca. 1775-1822. | |
| 18 | Creator: | Peirronet, Thomas | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797
| | | | Dates: | 1797 | | | | Abstract: | This is a comparative vocabulary of the Micmac, Montagnais, and Nascapee Indian languages, and includes Micmac prayers, and a dictionary of Micmac pictographs. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.3.P61s | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquin language | Dictionaries. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Indians of North America--Canada--Languages--Writing | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of North America--Maritime Provinces | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Micmac Indians | Micmac language--Writing | Montagnais language | Naskapi language | Native America | Native American Materials | Peirronet, Thomas | Prayers. | Sketches. | Vocabularies. | |
| 19 | Creator: | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Indian vocabularies, 1820-1844
| | | | Dates: | 1820-1844 | | | | Abstract: | Copies of 82 vocabularies representing 73 languages with notes and additions made by Du Ponceau and Albert Gallatin. Vocabularies for South American languages are copied from rare printed sources, while North American vocabularies are from both printed and manuscript sources. The first 23 pages of the volume are the Continuance Docket of the Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, 1783-1786. Cases noted are those involving Stephen Dutilh, Samuel Garrigues, John Girard, John Holker, Charles J. de Longchamps, and Claude P. Raguet. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.In2 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Courts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia County. | Du Ponceau , Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Dutilh, Stephen | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Garrigues, Samuel. | Girard, John | Holker, John | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of South America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Longchamps, Charles Julian de. | Native America | Native American Materials | Raguet, Claude P. | Vocabularies. | |
| 20 | Creator: | Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Vocabularia variarum linguarum Americanarum, 1822
| | | | Dates: | 1822 | | | | Abstract: | This manuscript copy contains dictionaries of nine Indian vocabularies, such as Aztec, Algonkin, and Huron, and was taken from Reland's "Dissertationum miscellanearum pars tertia" (Utrecht, 1708). [Vocabularies compiled from printed sources,of South and North American dialects: Brasilica (1590,1595,1648); Chilensis (1647); Peruana, Poconziae [or Poconomica, Guatemala and Honduras]; Caraibica [Antilles], 1658; Mexicana [Otomitica, Chontalica, Zoquina, Cascan, Niciecana, Chicemeca dialects mentioned]; Virginiana (1966 [Eliot] 1685 [Mather], Algonkina [1703 La Hontan] Huramica (German-Huron vocabulary not included; 1822.] | | | | Call #: | Mss.498.R27 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Algonquin language | Anchieta, Jose de, 1534-1597 | Arawak language | Baerle, Caspar van, 1584-1648 | Carib language | DuPonceau, Peter S. (Peter Stephen), 1760-1844 | Eliot, John, 1754-1813 | Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca, 1539-1616 | Indians of North America--Languages | Indians of South America--Languages | Language Material | Language and Linguistics | Mapuche language | Massachusett language | Moraes, Emanuel de | Nahuatl language | Native America | Native American Materials | Pokomam language | Quechua language | Reeland, Adriaan, 1676-1718 | Rochefort, César de | Vocabularies. | Word lists | Wyandot language | |
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