| | 1. | Entry: | 112 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Delaware (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Lindhestrom, Pierre. (Lindestrom, Peter) | | | | Title: | Description de la Nouvelle Suede et des Indes Occidentales ou Geographie de l'Amerique, dediee au Prince Royal depuis le roi Charles XII | | | | Date: | 1691 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 20 pages | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | Copy, of chapter 5 only, made from the original Swedish manuscript in the Royal Archives. Gives place names and description of settlements along the Delaware and adjoining creeks; Indian place names and some historical information, as well as the fabulous. Meant to accompany the map of Lindestrom, a copy of which was presented with this manuscript.
Donor, Captain William Jones, 1822. Printed, in English translation from Swedish original, Johnson (1925); paraphrased in Campanius Holm (1834), 46-54. | | | | Collection: | Documents in the archives at Stockholm. Description de la nouvelle Suede et des Indes Occidentales ou Geographie de l'Amerique (974.8 Sw2) | | | | |
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| 2. | Entry: | 299 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Aubry, P. Pierre Jos. | | | | Title: | Abenaki manuscript -- Ts8i Panbattam Messi8i kessit Pis8akkamigh-imn8 Arenanbe | | | | Date: | n.d., circa 1756 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 249 pages | | | | Language: | French | Abenaki | | | | Description: | Original in Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec. Also includes De necessitate Religionis..., 27 pages. Panbaltami nis8l xedoangan, 8tsi kidoangan, 97 pages (Marginal note dated 1756). Tanni erermeg8ak, 51 pages. De confessione, 62 pages. Hymns and canticles in Abenaki, 12 pages.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 5:2 | | | | |
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| 3. | Entry: | 388 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Lettre de M. N... D... p[re]tre Mission[ai]re au Lac des Deux Montagnes, sur l'etymologie de quelques noms sauvages | | | | Date: | 1847 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | Collation from letter in copybook at Seminaire de Quebec [Fonds Verreau] Saberdache rouge M.3., Laval University.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 4:14 | | | | |
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| 5. | Entry: | 1287 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Letter to John Vaughan | | | | Date: | October 5, 1820 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Returns Indian vocabularies, to be filed in with the committee's papers after copying.
See also American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85). | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Secretary, Journal of the Proceedings, Letter books 1837-1852 (A.P.S. Archives, V.2.a) | | | | |
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| 7. | Entry: | 1289 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas | | | | Title: | Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages | | | | Date: | 1802-1808 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 31 pages, mutilated, improperly collated | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | A comparative vocabulary of 22 languages, arranged tabularly to follow Jefferson's standard printed vocabulary form. Languages include Delaware, Unami, Monsi, Chippewa, Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Tawa, Shawanee, Nanticoke, Mohiccon, Unquachog, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Miami, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Tuscarora, Chetimacha, and Atacapa.
Donor, Thomas Jefferson, 1817. Printed, facsimile of 1 page, Wallace (1949): 164. | | | | Collection: | Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (497 J35) | | | | |
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| 8. | Entry: | 1290 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas | | | | Title: | Comparative vocabulary | | | | Date: | n.d., 1792-1808? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 2 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | 4 pages of words from Jefferson's standard form, with equivalents in Mohiccon and three other languages numbered as 1, 6, 7 (Mohiccon), and 8.
Donor, Thomas Jefferson, 1817. | | | | Collection: | Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages (497 J35) | | | | |
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| 9. | Entry: | 1291 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas | | | | Title: | Letter to Joseph Francisco Correa da Serra | | | | Date: | April 28, 1816 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 4 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Mentions his collection of 40 vocabularies of cis-Mississippi Indians; thinks Barton may have Lewis' trans-Mississippi vocabularies.
Printed, Bergh (1907): 15: 3; Thwaites (1904): 7 (2): 394. | | | | Collection: | Thomas Jefferson Papers (B J35)
Section 59 | | | | |
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| 10. | Entry: | 1292 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | December 30, 1817 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Transmits remains of his Indian vocabularies and his manuscript memoir on Louisiana, giving circumstances of its composition.
Donor, Thomas Jefferson, 1817. Printed except first paragraph, Documents relating to the purchase...of Louisiana (1904): 7. | | | | Collection: | Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana, its limits and bounds (973.4 J35c) | | | | |
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| 11. | Entry: | 1293 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Miller, Samuel | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | March 22, 1819 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Requests copies of designated Indian vocabularies of Delaware, Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Osage, for training missionaries of United Foreign Missionary Society. Inquires of utility of Delaware language west of the Mississippi.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| 12. | Entry: | 1294 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Thorburn, John | | | | Title: | Letters to Henry Phillips | | | | Date: | September 25, 1885 - August 18, 1887 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letters signed | | | | Extent: | 2 items (3 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Phillips' article on supposed runic inscriptions at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; his anecdote about the inscriptions. Sent comparative vocabularies of British Columbia tribes by Dr. Tolmie and George M. Dawson; never acknowledged.
See also Phillips (1884). | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| 14. | Entry: | 389 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Materials in Indian language | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 289 frames | | | | Language: | French | Iroquois | Latin | | | | Description: | Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice. Grammaire; Dictionnaire; Petit et Grand Catechisme; Priees et cantiques. Approximately 400 pages. Algonquin. Livre a couverture violette; Dictionnaire et instructions: De l'Eucharistie, de la Penitence, etc. Approximately 90 pages. Algonquin. Grammaire Iroquoise: Iroquoian grammar; an inscription, set vertically on the page, reads "of the lake of the two mountains." Approximately 50 pages.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 10b-10d | | | | |
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| 15. | Entry: | 1296 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Hildreth, Samuel Prescott | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | February 12, 1833 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Hildreth wants a skeleton and a young anatomical specimen [cadaver?]. He has sent skulls, evidently, for he promises another cranium found in an Ohio river bank, and hopes to get some others from Illinois.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| 16. | Entry: | 1297 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Hildreth, Samuel Prescott | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | June 20, 1833 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Hildreth has secured two skulls from mounds 105 miles above St. Louis, on the Mississippi River. Has two more, one from the banks of the Ohio, one from a sandstone cave. More promised from Illinois and western Ohio. "So you see we shall not lack heads, if we are deficient in bodies..."
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| 18. | Entry: | 1299 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Hildreth, Samuel Prescott | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | March 20, 1835 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Trustees of Marietta College will not permit the Otahitean (Tahitian?) cranium to leave Marietta, for, like the Roman Catholic Church and bits of the true cross, the owner of the skull believes it will quicken the spirits of future missionaries to the heathen. Hildreth, going north in Ohio shortly, will look for American Indian skulls in ancient mounds.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| 20. | Entry: | 1301 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Eastern North America
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Hildreth, Samuel Prescott | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | August 25, 1836 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Hildreth says that Dr. John C. Warren of Boston visited; claimed the Ohio region was originally populated by Peruvians and/or Mexicans. A skull found in Meigs County, Ohio, now in the Boston Athenaeum, proves to be identical with the Peruvian temple skulls owned by Warren. Hildreth trying to get skulls from Newark, from the old burying ground on the Muskingum near Coshocton, to send to Morton.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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