| | 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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| | Entry: | 397 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Apache (Athapascan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ayer, Edward Everett | | | | Title: | Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips | | | | Date: | 1861-1918 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 19 items (206 leaves) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Narratives of travels and adventures, 1881-1864, 1881-1916, in the Far West, Southwest, Northwest, northern Mexico, as well as Ohio, New York, and Europe, apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describing an Indian attack. Visits Pima Indians, Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; mentions Indians in Mexico; visits Sacatoon Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on Northwest Indian art; statues of Indian heroes in Northwest. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum.
See especially #1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19. | | | | Collection: | Reminiscences of the far west, and other trips (B Ay2) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 253 1490 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Miscellaneous
(History) | | | | Author: | National Archives (U.S.) | | | | Title: | Manuscript letters in the Office of Indian Trade archives, concerning Indian peace medals | | | | Date: | 1812-1819 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Letters | | | | Extent: | 1 reel, 23 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Correspondence of commissioner of Indian trade and John Vaughan, Philadelphia, conceming the manufacture of and design of dies for Madison and later Indian peace medals. Two letters of Vaughan originals; 21 copies in Letters Sent, Records of the Office of Indian Trade, Record Group 75, National Archives, volumes B, C, E.
| | | | Collection: | Manuscript letters in the Office of Indian Trade Archives, concerning Indian Peace Medals (Film 1026) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1494 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Miscellaneous
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Audubon, John James | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | June 25, 1838 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Has a portfolio of skulls on loan, which he can send Morton. Has two Indian skulls, but the individual supposed to carry them has not done so. Both skulls and portfolio have now been shipped to New York and will be forwarded. No data.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1545 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Hare (Athapascan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andemard, Fr. | | | | Title: | Newetsine 'etie pon denepautsenet'en (Peau-de-Lievre) | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (110 pages) | | | | Language: | Hare | | | | Description: | Positive copy from negative in possession of Catholic University of America. Includes catechism and doctrinal statement on sacraments in Indian only. "Corrected by le Pere Ducot, O.M.I."
Donor, Artheme A. Dutilly, grantee, 1943. | | | | Collection: | Collection of Canadian Indian linguistic materials (Film 1008)
Section 10 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 418 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Assiniboin (Siouan) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | The creation of a new tribe | | | | Date: | 1949 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 5 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Explanation of creation of Assiniboin tribe, separated from Sioux, given Ahenakew in his youth by his mission superintendent, Rev. John Hines. Battle over girl accounted for end of connection of Red Eagle with other Sioux. Letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, May 21, 1949, commenting on Rev. Hines' relation to the author.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1949. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 71 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1635 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Iroquois (Iroquoian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Andreani, Paolo | | | | Title: | Journal. Giornale, 1790-diary of a trip in New York state | | | | Date: | 1790 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 118 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | From originals owned by Count Antonio Sormani Verri, of Milan. A diary of travels: of particular importance are his comments on the Iroquois Indians, from Albany to the Six Nations, pages 32-85, especially pages 45-85, which is copied in a typed transcript by Count Antonio Sormani Verri, 15 pages. Discusses the Oneida: dress, physical type, government, religion; discusses Tuscarora and Onondaga; comments on language of Mohawks. Vocabularies, sentences of Onondaga, Oneida, and Seneca.
| | | | Collection: | Count Paolo Andreani Journals (Film 604)
Section 3, 5 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 432 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atsugewi (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Mythological text in Atsugewi | | | | Date: | 1929 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 14 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Atsugewi | | | | Description: | Text with interlinear translation and grammatical notes. Originally part of #433 (The Atsugewi language, American Council of Learned Societies Collection (497.3 B63c), H1b.1.).
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1b.3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 433 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atsugewi (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | The Atsugewi language | | | | Date: | 1929 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 71 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Atsugewi | | | | Description: | Grammar intended for comparison with the author's study of "the Achumawi language." Similar also to their grammar of Shasta. Based on field work sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.
See also de Angulo, and Freeland (1930) and #3641, The Shasta language, American Council of Learned Societies Collection (497.3 B63c), H1c.1. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1b.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1868 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Kalapuya (Penutian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Sample of Atfalatin-Yamhalla dialect of Kalapuya | | | | Date: | Circa 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 1 leaf | | | | Language: | English | Kalapuya | | | | Description: | Text on marriage customs with interlinear and incomplete free translations.
See also Angulo (1929) for discussion of field work. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Pn3.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1912 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Kwakiutl (Wakashan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Averkieva, Julie | | | | Title: | Kwakiutl autobiography | | | | Date: | 1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 128 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Field notes obtained at Alert Bay and Fort Rupert. Personal documents concern ethnography: culture and folklore.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 20 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1972 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Linguistics
(Miscellaneous) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Proposal of a compromise system for the fonetic [sic] transcription of language | | | | Date: | n.d., circa 1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 135 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Proposal of a compromise system for the fonetic [sic] transcription of language.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 307 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | A comparison between the semasiologies of two languages of the so-called Hokan family (Pomo and Achumawi) | | | | Date: | Circa 1931 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 231 leaves, 10 printed pages | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | Achumawi | | | | Description: | A formal paper with introduction, discussion of morphological elements and phonology of the two languages. Also "Semasiology," a 175-page list of English words according to de Angulo and Lucy S. Freeland (1930a), with Achumawi and Pomo equivalents. The author concludes that there is little similarity between the two languages, challenging the Kroeber-Dixon use of statistical vocabulary comparisons as a means of determining genetic relationships. List includes names for 86 different birds.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2159 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mazatec (Popolocan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Cuento mazateco, contado por Jose Rosas | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 32 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Spanish | Mazatec | | | | Description: | Grammatical sketch and text, Cuento de venado y de sapos, with free translations and grammatical notes.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section OtM.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 308 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Correspondence with Franz Boas | | | | Date: | 1922-1934 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letters | | | | Extent: | 80 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerns his field work among the Zapotec, Chichimeco, Otomi in Mexico; the Achumawi, Karok, and Shasta in California, and among the Atfalati Kalapuya, all linguistic; discussion of grammatical features; treatise on phonetics; American Council of Learned Societies Committee on American Native Languages.
| | | | Collection: | Franz Boas Collections (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2248 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mixe (Mixe-Zoque)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Brevisimas notas sobre la lengua Mixe para el uso de los textos | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 22 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Spanish | Mixe | | | | Description: | Brief grammatical sketch and text, El Cuento del Moro, from Oaxacan field work in 1922.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section MzM.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2250 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mixe (Mixe-Zoque)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Notes on the Mixe language (Oaxaca, Mexico) | | | | Date: | Circa 1932 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 30 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Grammatical remarks, improving on de Angulo (1926). Includes vocabulary [i.e., "semasiology," after de Angulo and Freeland (1930)] and text, The Ungrateful Toad, with interlinear and free translations and notes.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section MzM.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2254 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mixtec (Oto-Manguean)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Mixtec tones and morphological comments | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 29 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Discusses tones and morphology of Mixtec, Chochotec, Chinanteco, Zapoteco (Miahuateco dialect), with additional comments on Teotitlan and Chontal.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section MiM.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 309 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Does Achumawi belong in the Hokan family? | | | | Date: | Circa 1931 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 20 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | Achumawi | | | | Description: | List of 222 Achumawi-Pomo comparisons. Duplicates part of Semasiology in #307.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2362 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Nanticoke (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Armstrong, Edward | | | | Title: | Letter to Charles B. Trego | | | | Date: | April 18, 1849 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | R. S. Streeter of the Maryland Historical Society wants a copy of the American Philosophical Society's Nanticoke vocabulary, or copy of folio volume of vocabularies.
See also Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 5: 83. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 310 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Nontechnical description of Achumawi | | | | Date: | Circa 1931 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 13 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Includes Angulo's views on the nature of language and linguistic taxonomy. Apparently a portion of a larger work.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1a.4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2408 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Nootka (Wakashan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Relations between Nootka and Quileute | | | | Date: | Circa 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, with manuscript additions, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 21 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Includes autograph letter signed note from Edward Sapir to Andrade, n.d.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1952 and 1954. Printed in edited and abbreviated form, introduced by Morris Swadesh, as Andrade (1953b). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section W2a.13 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2427 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Northwest Coast
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Andrews, Helen A. | | | | Title: | Correspondence with various persons | | | | Date: | 1898-1923 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letters | | | | Extent: | 147 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Letters to and from Franz Boas' secretary with various persons, including anthropologists in the field including James A. Teit, H. H. St. Clair, Waldemar Bogoras, John R. Swanton, and others.
| | | | Collection: | Franz Boas Collections (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 311 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Achumawi texts | | | | Date: | Circa 1931 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 156 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Achumawi | | | | Description: | Tales, myths, and song texts, with interlinear and free translations. 4 pages, brief ceremonial song texts.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1a.7 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 312 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Appendix of addenda and corrigenda to the grammar of the Achumawi language | | | | Date: | 1931-1935 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 67 leaves | | | | Language: | Achumawi | | | | Description: | Thirteen corrections and 57 additions to de Angulo and Freeland (1930b), based on 1931 field work with Hans J. Uldall. Uldall (1935) was apparently once part of this document.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1a.6 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2606 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Osage (Siouan)
(History) | | | | Author: | Anderson, James | | | | Title: | Letter to Carl P. Russell | | | | Date: | March 13, 1958 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, copy | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerns plan of Fort Osage in original of Clark's diary [#2607] and location of other Clark items dealing with Fort Osage.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2650 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Patwin (Wintun)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | The Patwin language | | | | Date: | 1929 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 125 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Patwin | | | | Description: | Phonology and morphology; semasiology (semantically arranged vocabularies), conversation, and autobiography. Colusa dialect.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section P4b.1-4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2673 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pennsylvania Indians
(Archaeology) | | | | Author: | Augustine, Edgar E. | Butler, Mary | | | | Title: | Miscellaneous reports on Johnson, Miller, Jacobs, Hooks Run, Logan, Jimerson sites | | | | Date: | 1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 photograph album, 16 pages, 2 maps | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Northwestern Pennsylvania sites on Seneca owned property in Warren County, Pennsylvania, classified as Hopewellian by Edmund S. Carpenter. Photographs of Seneca sites, profile maps, and site reports.
| | | | Collection: | United States. Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania (913.748 Un3)
Section 8 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2674 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pennsylvania Indians
(Archaeology) | | | | Author: | Augustine, Edgar E. | Cresson, Frank C. | | | | Title: | Site report - summary lists for Somerset and Fayette counties, Pennsylvania | | | | Date: | 1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, mimeograph documents | | | | Extent: | 45 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Southwestern Pennsylvania woodlands sites. Summaries (burial records) of Phillips, Martin, Reckner, Fort Hill, Gower, Peck, Emerick, Powell, and Troutman sites excavated by Augustine and Cresson.
| | | | Collection: | United States. Work Projects Administration Reports on archaeological excavations in Pennsylvania (913.748 Un3)
Section 2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2709 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pennsylvania Indians
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Armstrong, Colonel John | | | | Title: | Letter to Governor James Hamilton | | | | Date: | November 19, 1760 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Complaints have been made to Commissioner of Indian trade. Only trying to get line for Shamokin-Susquehannah land agreeable with Treaty of Albany. Should not listen to silly complaints of Indians.
| | | | Collection: | Burd-Shippen Papers (B B892)
Section 2: 9 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3013 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pomo (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | The Pomo language | | | | Date: | Circa 1935 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 49 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | | | | Description: | A succinct study, similar to #3016, intended for publication. Studies the language from the point of view of grammatical categories.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H5.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3014 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pomo (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Pomo semasiology | | | | Date: | 1930-1935? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 32 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | | | | Description: | Word lists arranged semantically, according to de Angulo and Freeland (1930b).
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H5.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3015 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pomo (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | The reminiscences of a Pomo chief | | | | Date: | Circa 1935 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 306 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | | | | Description: | Autobiography of William Ralganal Benson, dictated in the Yukaya dialect; free translation; grammatical notes which refer to grammars, #3013 and #3016.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H5.3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3016 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Pomo (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | The Clear Lake dialect of the Pomo language in north-central California | | | | Date: | 1920-1935 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 219 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Pomo | | | | Description: | A description based on study of grammatical categories rather than on parts of speech, like #3013. Includes note of de Angulo to Franz Boas, n.d., mentioning #3013.
See also de Angulo (1935) and #3015 for texts referred to in work. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H5.4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 11 571 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Central America
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Anguiano, Ramon de | | | | Title: | Descripcion geografica del reyno de Guatemala | | | | Date: | 1818 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (37 pages) | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | A semi-official report on the kingdom, its geography, resources, and population. Includes reports on Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Chiapas, with numbers of Indian pueblos included.
| | | | Collection: | Descripcion geografica del reyno de Guatemala (917.281 An4) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3174 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute ethnology notes | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (22 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Quileute ethnology notes.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, December 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section W3a.6 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3181 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | An analysis of the Quileute language | | | | Date: | 1929 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, with manuscript additions | | | | Extent: | 258 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Original manuscript for Andrade (1933), together with carbons of other title pages and a preface not used in published version.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. Printed, Andrade (1933). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3182 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Correspondence with Franz Boas | | | | Date: | 1928-1932 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letters signed, typed letters signed, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 38 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning field work for and preparation for publication of Andrade's study of Quileute, for the Handbook of American Indian Languages; numerous linguistic details. Discusses work of Leo J. Frachtenberg. Mentions Chemakum informants. Discusses his Maya field trips. Proposals for orthographic changes; and the availability of reliable Mandan informants as suggested by A. U. Powers of the Beloit Museum.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | Franz Boas Collections (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3183 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | English Quileute vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies, with manuscript additions | | | | Extent: | 104 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Alphabetical by English; reverse of #3187. 1,100 words.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3184 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Groups of words, collected by M. J. Andrade to illustrate the various types of accent in the Quileute language | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 6 leaves, 18 slips | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Words were spoken into a dictaphone by a Quileute in Seattle. Contains "Remarks on Quileute dictaphone records" with musical notations and graphic forms (forms published).
Donor (of copies 2 and 3), Norman A. McQuown, 1954. See also Andrade (1933): 164-165. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3185 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Interrelations of pitch, stress, and quantity in Quileute | | | | Date: | 1928? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 4 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Copy of unpublished article. A revision is subsumed in Andrade (1933).
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3186 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Notes on the English-Quileute vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (17 leaves) | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Three pages of notes; textual material.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, December 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3187 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute English vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies, with manuscript additions | | | | Extent: | 22 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Approximately 1,100 words, alphabetical by Quileute; reverse of #3183. A second copy "General vocabulary."
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, December 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3188 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute grammar | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 20 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Quilete | | | | Description: | Incomplete, antecedent to Andrade (1933). Contents: phonetics, suffixes, nominal suffixes, pronouns.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown (excepting nominal suffixes, already in collection), 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3189 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute grammar | | | | Date: | Circa 1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 2,000 slips and cards | | | | Language: | English | Quilete | | | | Description: | Notes probably used in preparing the author's "Quileute Grammar" (1933).
Donor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1950. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3190 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute morphology | | | | Date: | Circa 1933 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 42 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Word lists of Quileute forms with English translations, including nominal classifiers, verbs, numerals. Contains tables of vowels and pronouns which were published in Andrade (1933).
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3191 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute texts | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, documents | | | | Extent: | 2 notebooks, 32 pages | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Texts with notes and some interlinear translation; also, list of texts 1-45, collected by Leo J. Frachtenberg, 1915-1916.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. Printed, Andrade (1931), 1: 2-26. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3192 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 2,650 cards | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | File boxes arranged phonetically. Quileute notes on 20 cards.
Donor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1950. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3193 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute (?) vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 13 leaves, 55 cards | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Examples of words and phrases, including possessives. Mostly English only, with reference number.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3194 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute word lists, grouped by accents | | | | Date: | 1928? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (11 leaves), 8 slips | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Words grouped according to accentual patterns.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3195 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Quileute (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Quileute words and sentences, and phonetic observations | | | | Date: | 1928? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (90 pages) | | | | Language: | English | Quileute | | | | Description: | Examples of sentences, including interrogative form and word building, etc. Phonetic observations.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3325 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Andrew, John | | | | Title: | Letter to the United States Congress | | | | Date: | 1902? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letter, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 14 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Petition, signed by a New York Indian, objecting to section 5 of House Resolution 12, 270, providing for the purchase of the Ogden Land Company's claims to the Cattaraugus and Allegany Reservations, by citing treaties between the United States and Seneca Indians, and legal decisions rendered by the courts of New York State.
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3326 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Angel, W. P. | | | | Title: | Letter to Ely S. Parker | | | | Date: | October 11, 1846 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | The Indian agent acknowledges Parker's letter of September 29, and regrets some Tonawandas have refused to supply information Parker has been authorized to obtain. Angel instructs Parker to assure the chiefs that the "proposed census has no concealed or hostile object," and applies to all Indians within the United States and its territories. Hopes to visit reservation soon to present in Council matter of importance concerning annuity money wasted by a preceding agent.
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3327 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Angel, W. P. | | | | Title: | Letter to Ely S. Parker | | | | Date: | December 16, 1847 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning arrangements for the payment of $400 to the Tonawanda chiefs, and requesting a statement signed by them concerning "their wishes and determination in regard to the census."
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3328 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Angel, W. P. | | | | Title: | Letter to Ely S. Parker | | | | Date: | February 20, 1848 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | The Indian agent advises he believes the district attorney, under the Statute of 1813, can compel the county judge to issue warrants for removal of white intruders. Angel offers to pay Parker's board in exchange for services in Ellicottville. Would like to have Tonawanda census as soon as "your brother...gets it completed."
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1406 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Miscellaneous
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Adams, John | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | June 23, 1819 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | In handwriting of Miss Adams. Recommends Court de Gebelin on languages, among others. Du Ponceau's and John G. E. Heckewelder's studies have diminished certain preiudices he had held against Indians.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3330 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Angel, W. P. | | | | Title: | Letter to Ely S. Parker | | | | Date: | July 13, 1851 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Informs Parker of a meeting with Mr. Fellows in Albany, and of the latter's plan to "attempt to pay improvement money to the Tonawandas."
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3331 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History -- Correspondence) | | | | Author: | Avery, Benjamin F. | | | | Title: | Letter to William Medill | | | | Date: | October 15, 1846 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter, typed copies | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Encloses receipts amounting to $46.00 (?), covering Ely S. Parker's expenses incurred on business in Washington on behalf of the Seneca Indians; and of a petition, September 18, 1846, from the chiefs and Superintendent Augustus Warren, requesting that "the said Ely S. Parker may not lose the allowance he receives to assist him in his education," which was interrupted in March 1846, because they "have had and still continue to have great use for his services."
| | | | Collection: | Ely Samuel Parker Papers (497.3 P223) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3639 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Shasta (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Knomihu vocabulary, obtained at Selma, Oregon | | | | Date: | n.d., 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 4 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Shasta | | | | Description: | 49 vocabulary items. Note of Edward Sapir.
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1946. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3640 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Shasta (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Sample of Shasta | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 1 leaf | | | | Language: | English | Shasta | | | | Description: | 48 forms based on a verb meaning to peel; marginal note of Edward Sapir.
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1946. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3641 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Shasta (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | The Shasta language | | | | Date: | 1928-1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 254 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Shasta | | | | Description: | Grammar and illustrative text with interlinear and free translations and notes. Author discusses language in terms of how ideas are expressed. Intended to parallel the authors' discussion of Achumawi (1930). Also a carbon copy (244 leaves) lacking free translation.
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| | Entry: | 3723 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Taos (Tanoan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Taos texts and grammatical notes | | | | Date: | n.d., circa 1924-1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 66 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Taos | | | | Description: | Contains four letters with literal and free translations and grammaticalnotes. Six texts, most with free translations and notes. Note on revision of orthography.
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| | Entry: | 3724 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Taos (Tanoan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | A sketch of the Taos language | | | | Date: | 1924-1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 76 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Article considers morphology and semasiology (according to de Angulo and Freeland [1930]). Three letters from literate informant, all with interlinear and free translation and notes.
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| | Entry: | 12 3793 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Tupi (Tupi) | | | | Author: | Araujo, Antonio de | | | | Title: | Catecismo Brasilico Da Doutrina Christaa, Com o Ceremonial dos Sacramentos, e mais actos Parochiaes, composto Por Padres Doutos da Companhia de Jesus...Emendado nesta segunda impressao [sic] | | | | Date: | 1686 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (93 pages) | | | | Language: | Portugese | Tupi | | | | Description: | Manuscript copy of a printed work. Includes poems, statement of Christian doctrine with Portuguese translation, three catechetical dialogues.
Printed, Araujo (1696). See also Vinaza (1892): 217. | | | | Collection: | Catecismo Brasilico Da Doutrina Christaa; Com o Ceremonial dos Sacramentos, e mais actos Parochiaes; composto Por Padres Doutos da Companhia de Jesus (238 Ar1) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3941 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Zapotec (Oto-Manguean)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Estudio gramatical de las lenguas de la familia zapoteca | | | | Date: | 1923 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 529 leaves, illustrated | | | | Language: | Spanish | Zapotec | | | | Description: | Study based on field work in 1922, in which the author proposes divisions of the Zapotec family into Zapotec, Mixtec, Chatino, Amuzgo, Trique, Cuicatec, Mazatec, and Chochotec. Makes dialectical comparison of phonological and morphological features. Includes comparative word list, semantically arranged.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 3942 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Zapotec (Oto-Manguean)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Metodologia linguistica, II | | | | Date: | Circa 1925 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 28 leaves | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | Discussion of Zapotec materials, the argument following Sapir (1921b). See also, similar point of view in de Angulo and Freeland (1935).
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| | Entry: | 3943 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Zapotec (Oto-Manguean)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | (Oto-Manguean) texts | | | | Date: | 1922?-1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 74 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Zapotec | | | | Description: | Texts with interlinear and some free transIztion of Chinanteco, Mazateco, Cuicatec, Mixtec, Chatino, and mountain and valley dialects of Zapotec. Tones are indicated. Includes sentences from everyday speech and folkloristic texts.
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| | Entry: | 3979 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Zuni (Penutian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Adair, John | | | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons | | | | Date: | July 2, 1938 - January 22, 1940 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters signed | | | | Extent: | 5 items (11 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Zuni silverwork; attitudes toward missions; seeks aid for Navajo family study.
| | | | Collection: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29)
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| | Entry: | 4100 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Conversational texts in Achumawi | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 72 pages | | | | Language: | English | Achumawi | | | | Description: | Includes sentences in English; Achumawi equivalents; literal English translations; some paradigms and notes on grammatical points; notes on dialectal differences (Atwamdzini, Hammawi, Adzumawi).
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| | Entry: | 4101 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Reminiscences of an Achumawi youth | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 22 pages | | | | Language: | English | Achumawi | | | | Description: | An autobiographical text with numbered English translations corresponding to the Achumawi sentences. Dictated by Willard Carmony, an Achumawi.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 4102 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 11 pages | | | | Language: | English | Achumawi | | | | Description: | Includes texts; free English translation; literal translations for some sentences; references to an Achumawi grammar.
See also #433. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
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| | Entry: | 4117 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atsugewi (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Conversational text in Atsugewi | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 19 pages | | | | Language: | English | Atsugewi | | | | Description: | Includes English sentences; Atsugewi equivalents; literal English translations; some grammatical notes; references to the Atsugewi grammar (see also #433) of which it seems to have been a part originally.
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| | Entry: | 4118 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atsugewi (Hokan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Parallel Achumawi and Atsugewi texts | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents signed | | | | Extent: | 11 pages | | | | Language: | English | Atsugewi | | | | Description: | Includes texts; free English translation; literal translations for some sentences; references to an Achumawi grammar.
See also #433. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1a.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4131 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | California | | | | Author: | Alliot, Hector | | | | Title: | Letter to DeMoss Bowers | | | | Date: | September 22, 1915 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Acknowledges the receipt of DeMoss Bowers' father's papers; diaries; manuscript of "Archaeological explorations in southern California"; notes; pictures.
| | | | Collection: | Stephen Bowers correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4160 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chatino (Oto-Manguean) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Brevisimas notas sobre el idioma Chatino para el uso de los textos | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 30 pages | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | Primarily concerned with an analysis of verbs; some discussion of noun declension.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Z5.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4187 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace | | | | Date: | August 25, 1922 - July 31, 1961 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autographs, typed letters signed | | | | Extent: | 60 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Regarding Ahenakew's manuscripts; the desirability of his collecting ethnographic material and tales; personal matters; etc.
| | | | Collection: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection II, Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4188 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Miscellaneous) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Genealogical sketch of my family | | | | Date: | April 27, 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, letters, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 85 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Includes autobiographical sketch; biographical sketch of parents and grandparents and some of their collateral relatives.
See also #779. | | | | Collection: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection II, Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4211 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Delaware (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Alderfer, E. Gordon | | | | Title: | Correspondence with Paul A. W. Wallace | | | | Date: | October 26 - December 27, 1954 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters signed, letters | | | | Extent: | 8 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Regarding a proposed literary history of Pennsylvania and the desirability of including Indian oral literature; validity of Walam Olum.
| | | | Collection: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection II, Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4498a | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mayan
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Adams, Walter Randolph | | | | Title: | Religious practices of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico | | | | Date: | 1976-1977, n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, documents, typed letters signed, carbon copies, photographs | | | | Extent: | Circa 425 items | | | | Language: | English | Spanish | | | | Description: | Includes discussion and photographs of religious pilgrimages and concomitant religious practices; discussion of prayers (with emphasis on the Rezo Tzeltal), the cargo system, and the Coxoh colonial project; report on pilgrimages by the Tzeltal and Tojolabal; copies of papers on the Coxoh (Chicomuceltec) coauthored by Thomas A. Lee, Jr., and Sidney D. Markham (given at the Society for Historic Archaeology and the Forty-second International Congress of Americanists); transcripts of Spanish manuscripts; field notes.
See also #4498b. Donor, grantee. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 162, 162a, 162b | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4047a 4498b | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mayan
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Adams, Walter Randolph | | | | Title: | Recordings concerning religious practices of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico | | | | Date: | 1977 | | | | Type: | Sound Items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Extent: | 7 cassette tapes | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | Informants include Tzeltal: Francisco Calvo Perez-Romerias; Tojolabal: Hermalindo Jimenez; probable Tzeltal: Jose Hernandez, Ramiro Garcia, and Francisco Aguilar.
See also #4498a. Donor, grantee, November 1977. | | | | Collection: | Recordings concerning religious practices of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico (Rec. 108) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4498c | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mayan
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Correspondence with John Alden Mason | | | | Date: | 1930-1939 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters, letters signed | | | | Extent: | 6 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Regarding Andrade's work on Maya and Huastec; Mason's query concerning subgrouping of Mayan languages.
| | | | Collection: | John Alden Mason Papers (B M384) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3091 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Puyallup (Salishan) | | | | Author: | Aginsky, Ethel Gertrude | | | | Title: | Puyallup texts | | | | Date: | 1934 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 307 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Puyallup | | | | Description: | Texts with manuscript interlinear translation. 140 pages. Each text includes one or more pages giving analyses of new words. Morpheme boundaries are shown and morphs are identified by broad class labels and meaning, such as "prefix meaning time." Each text is followed by a free translation.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section S2e.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 2217 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Miami (Algonquian)
(History) | | | | Author: | Adney, Edwin T. | | | | Title: | Miami Miscellaneous notes | | | | Date: | June 19, 1943 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Letter to Frank G. Speck. Concerns history of his family and relation to Little Turtle and Miami Indians, circa 1812. Seeks linguistic data on New England Indians. Discusses misnaming of moose as elk.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(5E1e) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4024 4499 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mayan
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Archivo General de Indias, Seville | | | | Title: | Audiencia de Guatemala, 16th century | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 129 reels of film | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | Collection of documents relating to post-conquest social and cultural processes in Guatemala, which were culled from the AGI in Seville by the Hispanic-Latin American Research Project beginning in 1967. There is a 65-page guide to the collection, Guide to the Documents from the Archivo General de Indias pertaining to the Audiencia de Guatemala.
Donor, Ruben E. Reina, December 1974. | | | | Collection: | Audiencia de Guatemala, 16th century (Film 1337) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 707 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chimakum (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Chemakum vocabulary | | | | Date: | 1928 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook (14 pages) | | | | Language: | English | Chimakum | | | | Description: | English words and sentences with Chemakum equivalent; incomplete. Attempt to verify use of informant, Louise Webster, by Franz Boas at an earlier date.
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, 1954. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section W3b.5 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 708 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chimakum (Chimakuan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Andrade, Manuel J. | | | | Title: | Notes on the relations between Chemakum and Quileute. Edited by Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh | | | | Date: | 1930?-1953 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, with manuscript additions | | | | Extent: | 10 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Sapir's comments in black pencil; Swadesh's comments in red. Page 10 gives phonetic system.
Printed, Andrade et al. (1953a). Donor, Norman A. McQuown through Morris Swadesh, 1953. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section W3b.4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 716 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chinanteco (Oto-Manguean)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Chinantec text - El perrito de Teotitlan | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 10 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Spanish | Chinantec | | | | Description: | Printed, with different orthography and English translation, de Angulo and Freeland (1935).
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Ch.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1407 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Miscellaneous
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Adams, John | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | July 5, 1819 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | In handwriting of Miss Adams. Relative to lack of evidence on ancient and lost languages. Desires to see Heckewelder's account of his missionary labors with Indians.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4039 4591 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | North America
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Moravian Church Archives | | | | Title: | Records of the Moravian mission among the Indians of North America | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 40 reels of film | | | | Language: | English | Creek | Delaware | Mohawk | Onondaga | | | | Description: | Includes language materials in Delaware, Creek, Mohawk, and Onondaga; materials pertaining to the Chippewa, Cherokee, Nanticoke, and Shawnee; diaries (travel and other); reports; letters; conference minutes; various other materials relating to missionary activities and relations with the Indians. Materials from: New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Ontario. Table of contents available. From originals in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
| | | | Collection: | Moravian mission among the Indians of North America records (Film 1279) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4504a | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Mexico
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Abbot, Griffith Evans | Charnay, Desire | | | | Title: | Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection | | | | Date: | 1859-1882 | | | | Type: | Still Images | | | | Format: | Photographs | | | | Extent: | 123 items | | | | Language: | | | | | Description: | Photographs of Mexican and Central American antiquities, architecture, and people. Photographs identified with the following groups and places: Museum of Mexico, Tula, Teotihuacan, Iztaccihuatl, Oaxaca, Chichen Itza, Tabasco, Comalcalco, Yucatan, Palenque, Aztec, Toltec, Lacandon, Yucatec, Maya, Mixtec, etc.
| | | | Collection: | Abbot-Charnay Photograph Collection (913.72 Ab23) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4599 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Northwest Coast
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Amoss, Pamela T. | | | | Title: | Catalogue of the Marian Smith Collection in the Library of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland | | | | Date: | 1975, n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 26 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Consists of report (1 page); catalog of manuscript materials (20 pages); inventory of photographs (5 pages). The catalog lists documents on the Salish, the Kwakiutl, and Indian Shakers; correspondence between Marian Smith and Ernest Bertelson; typewritten notes of Arthur Ballard on Salish; photographs on various topics.
Donor, grantee, July 1975. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 145 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 737 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chochotec (Popolocan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Chocho text | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 47 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Chochotec | | | | Description: | Grammatical sketch and text, Cuento del perrito.... Includes tones, verbs, verb lists, and paradigms. Based on 1922 field work at Nativitas, Coixtlahuaca D., Oaxaca.
Printed, text only, with different orthography and English translation, de Angulo and Freeland (1935). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Cho.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 745 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Chontal (Tequistlatecan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Chontal text | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 24 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Spanish | Chontal | | | | Description: | Grammatical sketch, eleven phrases with notes, and text, El Cuento del Perrito, obtained from pueblo of Tequisistlan.
See also printed reference to grammatical study in de Angulo (1925): 97. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section M1b.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4857 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Tualatin (Kalapuyan/Penutian) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, Lucy S. | | | | Title: | Short grammatical analysis of Tfalati Kalapuya with appended comparison between Tfalati and Chinook jargon | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 35 pages | | | | Language: | English | French | Kalapuya | Tfalati | | | | Description: | Regarding phonology and morphology. Includes comparative texts; interlinear literal translations; free translations in English and French. Informant: Louis Kenoy.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Pn3.3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4709 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History) | | | | Author: | Abler, Thomas S. | | | | Title: | Political Ethnohistory of the Seneca Nation. Factional dispute and party conflict in the political system of the Seneca nation (1845-1895) | | | | Date: | 1969 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, photocopies | | | | Extent: | 274 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Paper regarding the history and development of the Seneca political system; interaction between the Seneca Nation and the dominant White society; pressures on the Seneca political system.
See also #4710-#4711. Donor, grantee, July 1971. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 107 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4710 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seneca (Iroquoian)
(History) | | | | Author: | Abler, Thomas S. | | | | Title: | Political Ethnohistory of the Seneca Nation. The political history of the Seneca Nations | | | | Date: | 1965 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 5 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Paper regarding the Seneca two-party system. Includes tentative outline for work on the origin of the two-party system.
See also #4709, #4711. Donor, grantee, 1966. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 35 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 777 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | A-us-to-yit (Making a canoe...) | | | | Date: | 1949 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed, typed documents | | | | Extent: | 8 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Techniques of manufacture described by informant Jerry Constant, age seventy-nine. Includes letter of Ahenakew to Dr. Paul A. W. Wallace, mentioning Cree and Blackfoot dictionaries. Added memo tells of informants used in #781-784.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1949. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 70 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 778 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | The Cree Indians' theology | | | | Date: | October 1, 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 5 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Discusses various Cree conceptions of Muneto. Describes attempt to acquire personal Muneto; mentions sun dance for Thunderbird.
Donor, Paul A. W. Wallace, 1948. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 779 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Genealogical sketch of my family | | | | Date: | 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 27 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Autobiography of Cree Indian, born at Atahkakoops Reservation to Christian (Episcopalian) parents. A sickly lad, he studied medicine in 1918, giving it up to become head of mission on his reserve. Discusses his nineteenth-century grandparents (grandfather and granduncles), their conversion, role among people. Mentions treaty of 1876, rebellion of 1885. Views his past from point of view of an acculturated Indian.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1948. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 64 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 3233 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Seminole (Muskogean) | | | | Author: | Abadie, Eugene Hilarian | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | February 3, 1838 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 5 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Abadie (medical director for General Scott in forcing emigration) has found two skulls, both of Seminole boys, one from tribe of Black Dirt, Hola-Te-Ematha and other from party led by John Cavallo (Cow-A-Gee). Describes Seminole burial practices. He has 3 female heads, and 2 male heads from near Okee-Chobee, only 2 of 12 that were not "very offensive." Presumed Yemasee mounds described. Talks of tuberculosis among the Indians (pthisis pulmonaris). He treated wife of Cooper, daughter of King Paine, Seminole chief under the Spanish.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 780 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Letter to Paul A. W. Wallace | | | | Date: | April 30, 1945 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Transmits document on genealogy of his family and Skunkskin. Hopes to write on Metawiwin societies. Skunkskin had powers needed to do Buffalo pounds. Mentions Tar Blanket, Susukwamoos as Indians high in Metawiwin. Indians at Ahenakew's reserve have been Christian for four generations; has to travel to get ethnographic information.
Donor, Paul A. W. Wallace, 1948. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 781 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Non-human personalities | | | | Date: | 1949 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 10 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Tale told by Ahenakew's grandmother about Ma-Na-Kwa-Si-Wuk, a Cree-speaking "little people" who inhabit caves; also a personal narrative about Pa-Ha-Koos told by Sam Cook together with a description of a dance intended to pacify these game-controlling little creatures. Concludes with a narrative told by a relative who saw Pa-Ha-Koos even after becoming a Christian.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1949. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 68 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 782 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Spirit help | | | | Date: | 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 7 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Incidents of spirit contact reported by Indians, which Ahenakew, despite his Christian upbringing, believes in part. Drawings of conjuring tent and experiences of Chief Starblanket of Ahtahkakoop, who was also a Mitawiwin. Experience of magic and counter-magic in contest with another person having spirit help (participants were ancestral relatives of the author). Note to Dr. Paul A. W. Wallace, November 12, 1948.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1948. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 66 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 783 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | Tanning of leather | | | | Date: | 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 8 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Discusses Cree methods of tanning. Seven drawings of implements. Informants are James Moostoos, "who strangely enough admitted having done the female work of tanning some hides," and his wife, Susan. Letter of Ahenakew to Paul A. W. Wallace, June 10, 1948. Mentions Dr. William E. Lingelbach.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1948. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 65 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 784 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cree (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Ahenakew, Edward | | | | Title: | The We-tikoo, or He-who-is-alone | | | | Date: | 1949 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 20 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Three documents discussing We-ti-koo (Windigo) possession, or cannibalism, among the Cree, as told by various informants, whom Ahenakew disbelieves. Two tales of family cannibalism told by Jerry Constant. Additional cases.
Donor, Edward Ahenakew, grantee, 1949. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 67 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 818 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Cuicatec (Mixtecan) | | | | Author: | Angulo, Jaime de | | | | Title: | Brevisimas notas sobre el idioma Cuicateco | | | | Date: | 1922 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 36 leaves | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | Grammatical sketch; 3 folkloristic texts and 3 original narratives told by a Chiquihuitlan native.
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Section MiC.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 1110 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Delaware (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Alexander, John Henry | | | | Title: | Letter to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | April 2, 1857 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Agrees to confer with Joseph Henry at the Smithsonian about financial aid to Indian language studies of Matthew S. Henry. Originally an enclosure in Streeter to Henry, April 3, 1857 (#1186, 6).
| | | | Collection: | English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (497.33 H39)
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| | Entry: | 1111 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Delaware (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Alexander, John Henry | | | | Title: | Letter to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | April 17, 1857 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 4 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Only unperishable sciences received aid from the Smithsonian. The government was "fleeced" by Schoolcraft in his study of Indian languages. Suggests joint support for Matthew S. Henry in his study by the Pennsylvania and Maryland Historical Societies, and the Smithsonian and the United States government.
| | | | Collection: | English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (497.33 H39)
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| | Entry: | 1112 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Delaware (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Alexander, John Henry | | | | Title: | Letter to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | April 30, 1857 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | If secretary of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania will notify the Maryland Historical Society of plans to aid Matthew S. Henry in his study of Delaware Indian linguistics (money to go through Historical Society of Pennsylvania), then J. Henry Alexander and the Smithsonian might aid too.
| | | | Collection: | English-Lenni Lenape and Lenni Lenape-English dictionary (497.33 H39)
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