| | Entry: | 295 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Leland, Marine | | | | Title: | Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity | | | | Date: | December 1956-1957 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 20 pages, in 3 parts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Talk for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation based on Mrs. Johnson's narrative of her captivity by the Abnaki in 1754-1758.
Donor, Marine Leland, 1957. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 298 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Miscellaneous Wawenock notes | | | | Date: | 1915, etc. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 20 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Miscellaneous notes, 4 pages; 2 pages, vocabulary and folkloristic text in English; 1 scrap; 4 pages, text in English; 1 page, autograph letter signed, J. P. Ranger, concerning canoe; population notes on reverse. Three letters of W. C. Kendall, owner of Camp Wawenock, Lake Sebago, Maine, February 8, 14, and 28, 1915 (1 page, 3 pages, and 4 pages respectively), concerning information about Wawenock, his memories of Wawenock and Penobscot Indians of Maine.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(14D13b) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 297 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Miscellaneous notes, Abenaki | | | | Date: | 1920-1946 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, letters | | | | Extent: | 5 pages, 2 cards | | | | Language: | English | Abenaki | | | | Description: | Two cards of reading notes; typed copy of Indian poem in English, from John Reade (1887). Also 3 pages, autograph letter signed, Frederick S. Dick son to Speck, regarding Abenaki vocabulary, May 5, 1920. 1 page, typed letter signed, Edwin Tappan Adney, February 18, 1946, concerning place names and Maine Indian shamans.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(14D7b) | | | | |
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| | 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: | 301 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Jacopo, P. | | | | Title: | Catechisme en Abenaquis, verbes de la langue Algonquine | | | | Date: | Circa 1760 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 75 pages | | | | Language: | French | Abenaki | | | | Description: | "Partit de Becancourt pour venir a Quebec en 1753." Collation of original in Universite Laval. Seminaire de Quebec [Fonds Verreau] Archives.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 4:7 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 279 302 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Laurent, Joseph | | | | Title: | New familiar Abenakis dialogues, read by Stephen Laurent | | | | Date: | 1957 | | | | Type: | Sound Items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Extent: | 5 reels of tape | | | | Language: | Abenaki | | | | Description: | Recorded by Gordon M. Day. Contents (with record). A reading of Laurent (1884) by Chief Joseph Laurent's son, Stephen Laurent, an atypical speaker of Abenaki.
Donor, Gordon M. Day, grantee, 1958. Printed, Laurent (1884). | | | | Collection: | New familiar Abenakis and English dialogues (Rec. 27) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 304 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Ralle, Sebastian | | | | Title: | A vocabulary of the language of the Abenaki Indians | | | | Date: | n.d., 1689 ff. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, copy | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | Abenaki | | | | Description: | "Extracted from Father Ralle's M.S. Dictionary By John Pickering, Esquire." Using a standard list, Pickering filled in words from the Ralle manuscript in Harvard College library. Done before May, 1826.
See also Rasles (1833). | | | | Collection: | Indian vocabularies (497 In2)
Section 41 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 305 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Robert, Vicar General of Quebec | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | August 8, 1818 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | Offer help to Historical Committee regarding its collection of Indian vocabularies. Suggests contacting Joseph Marcoux at St. Regis for Iroquois; Mr. Malard at Lac de Deux Montagnes on Ottawa River for Algonquins; Mr. Roux, Seminaire du Montreal at Kistiagauche for Micmac; Mr. Romagner at Passamaquoddy for Abenaqui.
See also #1284. | | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 43 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 303 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Abnaki (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Racines Abnaquises | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 144 pages | | | | Language: | French | Abenaki | | | | Description: | Collation of the original in Universite Laval. Seminaire de Quebec [Fonds du Seminaire]. Archives no. 57. Aba, Abaisse, etc. Saaghi ... de consequence.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 4:6 | | | | |
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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).
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1a.1 | | | | |
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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)
Section H1a.5 | | | | |
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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)
Section H1a.2 | | | | |
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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 313 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Achumawi (Hokan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Pit River word list | | | | Date: | 1907 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 3 slips | | | | Language: | Achumawi | | | | Description: | Brief Achumawi word list.
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)
Section H1a.8 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 315 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Acoma (Keresan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Parsons, Elsie Clews | | | | Title: | Correspondence with various persons | | | | Date: | 1932-1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters signed | | | | Extent: | 9 pages, 6 letters | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | (1) Leslie A. White to Parsons, October 17, 1937, 1 page, regarding Stirling manuscript and Acoma-Hopi-Antelope sand mosaic. (2) Matthew W. Stirling to Parsons, September 22, 1937, 2 pages, regarding Stirling-Forde Acoma manuscript. (3) Clyde Kluckhohn to Parsons, March 19, 1941, 1 page, regarding Macleish (1943). (4) Three letters of Ralph Beals to Parsons, May 17, 1932, 2 pages; June 8, 1932, 2 pages; and June 12, 1932, 2 pages; all regarding Yaqui materials, linguistic resemblances of Keresan, Tewa, Cahita, and Sonoran.
| | | | Collection: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29)
Section 64 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 316 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Acoma (Keresan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Stirling, Matthew W. | | | | Title: | Songs from Acoma and Santa Ana | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 69 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Acoma | | | | Description: | Texts of 68 songs with interlinear translations, including typed copy of one song arranged in model form. Numbers refer to phonograph records, not in American Philosophical Society Library. English orthography; phonetic corrections by Franz Boas.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Ke2.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 317 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Acoma (Keresan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Stirling, Matthew W. | White, Leslie A. | Parsons, Elsie Clews | | | | Title: | Acoma origin myth materials | | | | Date: | 1928-1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 1,600 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Includes sketches, plates, and correspondence. Materials gathered in 1928 by C. Darryl Forde and Matthew W. Stirling together with materials supplied by Leslie A. White and notes by Elsie C. Parsons, who edited the whole of the work. Part of the material is unpublished. Forde material: Acoma material, typed document, 33 pages (incomplete), "duplicate of revision of Forde's original." Stirling material: Origin myth of Acoma and other records, typed document, carbon copy; Acoma records, typed document, draft, 443 leaves (draft of first part of above, including Forde material, pages 1-36). White material: autobiography of an Acoma Indian, 172 pages; supplementary data on Acoma, 60 pages; Acoma material, 212 pages, pencil draft of manuscript including Forde material; Acoma tales, 59 pages, English tales; second copy of Autobiography of an Acoma Indian with marginal notes by Parsons; supplementary data on Acoma, 83 leaves, 1932, principally ceremonies, Katcina, etc., arranged topically: second copy of Acoma material. Parsons material: miscellaneous Acoma material, 448 leaves, 25 drawings, 200 slips, cross references for lexical terms in Stirling-White Acoma manuscript; also ink drawings of mask-headdress for Acoma manuscript, 1 pattern; Acoma notes, 1922; English texts; ceremonial material. White and Parsons material: discarded Acoma materials, 10 pages; glossary parallels (for Acoma manuscript); Acoma folktale (White), 4 pages; ethnographic notes, 4 pages. Correspondence: Parsons to Stirling, May 28, 1941, typed letter, 2 pages; M. Helen Palmer to Parsons, August 21, 1941, 1 page, and Parsons to Palmer, September 16, 1941, 1 page, concerning publication by Bureau of American Ethnology; White to Parsons, August 13, 1937, 3 pages, and May 13, 1941, 1 page, regarding Acoma manuscript and informant; Parsons to White, April 14 and May 17, 1941, 1 page and 1 page.
Printed (in part), Stirling (1942) and White (1943). | | | | Collection: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29)
Section 64 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4032 4106a | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Ahtena (Athapascan) | | | | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica | McClellan, Catharine | | | | Title: | Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna | | | | Date: | 1949-1960 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 6 reels of film | | | | Language: | English | Ahtena | Tlingit | | | | Description: | Includes notes on archaeological investigations; transcripts of interviews with informants. Tlingit material taken primarily from Yakutat and Angoon; Copper River Atna (Ahtena) from Chitina, Copper Center, and Chistochina, Alaska. From originals in possession of the compilers.
See also #263-#267. | | | | Collection: | Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna (Film 1127) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 209 320 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Ahtena (Athapascan) | | | | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica | | | | Title: | Transcriptions and notes for Atna recordings | | | | Date: | 1958-1960 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 5 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | From originals in possession of Dr. de Laguna. Includes transcriptions and notes on contents of #263 and #266, Atna texts and songs. Translation of ethnographic portions of I. Veniaminov (1840), "Notes on the Islands of the Unalaska District," volume 3, "Notes on the Atkin Aleuts and Koloshi." 29 pages.
Donor, Frederica de Laguna, 1962. | | | | Collection: | Field notes on the ethnology of the Tlingit and Copper River Atna (Film 1127) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4057 4104 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Ahtena (Athapascan) | | | | Author: | De Laguna, Frederica | | | | Title: | Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska | | | | Date: | 1968 | | | | Type: | Sound Items | | | | Format: | Recordings | | | | Extent: | 17 reels of tape | | | | Language: | English | Ahtena | | | | Description: | Includes interviews; wide variety of songs and texts. Informants include Andy Brown, Annie Ewan, Pete Ewan, Bacile George, Nancy George, Arthur Jackson, Martha Jackson, Billy Joe, Elizabeth Pete, Mentasta Pete, Jenny Peters, Kate Sanford, Fanny Stanfield, and others. Also includes some Upper Tanana.
| | | | Collection: | Materials Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Rec. 68) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4043 4107a | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Alaska | | | | Author: | Society of Jesus | | | | Title: | Oregon Province Archives, Indian Language Collection. The Alaska Native languages | | | | Date: | 1976 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 28 reels of film | | | | Language: | English | Alaskan | | | | Description: | Includes dictionaries; vocabularies; texts (primarily Christian religious materials); grammatical notes; sermons; hymns; etc. Languages include Central Alaskan Yupik, Inupiaq (Inuit), Koyukon, and Ingalik (Ingalit). From originals produced in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on deposit at the Pacific Northwest Indian Center, Spokane, Washington. Guide book included.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language collection, the Alaska native languages (Film 1364) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 323 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut) | | | | Author: | Jochelson, Vladimir I. | | | | Title: | Aleut texts | | | | Date: | 1909-1910 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, part carbon copy | | | | Extent: | 906 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Attu | Unalaska | | | | Description: | Attu and Unalaska texts. No translations. Carbon copy (12 pages) of 41, 42, 43, has interlinear translation and notes. These were sent to John P. Harrington, November 6, 1941, in Unalaska. Never published.
See also #322 | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section E2.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 324 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut) | | | | Author: | Jochelson, Vladimir I. | | | | Title: | Essay on the grammar of the Aleut language | | | | Date: | 1930 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, manuscripts | | | | Extent: | 83 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Preface discusses influence of Fr. Veniaminov's grammar; section on phonology; incomplete descriptive grammar. Manuscript corrections made by Boas. Never published.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section E2.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 322 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aleut (Eskimo-Aleut) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Aleut Folklore | | | | Date: | Circa 1933 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 132 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | An ethnography of the Aleut based on study made of the Aleut texts of Vladimir Jochelson, apparently by a student of Boas. Comparative folklore and abstracts of Aleut tales are included.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 69 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 325 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Archaeology) | | | | Author: | Skinner, Alanson | | | | Title: | Letters to Frank G. Speck | | | | Date: | October 27-29, 1924 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters signed | | | | Extent: | 7 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Skinner challenges Speck's ethnic position of the Southeastern Algonquian on meaning of Eskimo-type artifacts found in Algonquian site in New York. Three pages of miscellaneous notes of Frank G. Speck.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section I(1B6) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 16 327 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius | | | | Title: | Collection of Indian captivities of Frank C. Deering | | | | Date: | 1950 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, photostats | | | | Extent: | 52 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | A brief catalogue, 30 pages of works in the inner vault, also listed in Walsh catalogue--Indian narratives and captivities (016.9701 D365w)--and described in The Deering collection of Indian captivities (016.9701 D365bb) (page 2), and a 20 page list of books "referring to, or embodying, captivities, in the outer room" and not listed in the Walsh catalogue, as well as works containing similar materials.
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1951. | | | | Collection: | Indian narratives and captivities (016.9701 D365b) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 17 328 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius | | | | Title: | The Deering collection of Indian captivities | | | | Date: | 1950-1953 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 1,364 pages (and 12 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | A bibliography, together with ethnographic and historical summaries and extracts of the collection of Indian captivities of the late Frank Cutter Deering, Saco, Maine, in keeping of Joseph G. Deering, Biddeford, Maine, prepared under grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the American Philosophical Society. Pages 1-1037 describe the books of Deering; works in the libraries of Harvard, Yale, Laval, the National Museum of Canada, the Collection de Luc Lacourciere, Quebec, and McGill University. Transcriptions and extracts from manuscripts by Frank C. Deering, captivities of Mary Storer (compiled by Jacques Rousseau, 1942), 1703, with letters; Nathaniel Segar, manuscript in the Seminaire de Quebec, Toronto Public Library; and of Edmund S. Carpenter. Summaries, too, of standard printed series, such as Thwaites, etc. Relates to northeastern, plains, western, and Canadian Indians in particular. Omitted are those 40 works found in the Greenwood collection. An important set of summaries because of the inaccessibility of the collection. Reference to both the Walsh and the Ayer lists. [N.B., duplicate numbering, 1351-1362, of different material.]
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1950-1953. | | | | Collection: | The Deering collection of Indian captivities (016.9701 D365bb) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 22 329 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius | Walsh, Michael J. | | | | Title: | Collection of Indian captivities [of Frank C. Deering] | | | | Date: | 1950 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, manuscripts, photostats | | | | Extent: | 27 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Prepared by Michael J. Walsh of Goodspeed's, Boston, at death of Frank C. Deering, and corrected by Charles Marius Barbeau, 1950. Not made at first hand; lists various editions which are omitted in #328.
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1951. | | | | Collection: | Indian narratives and captivities (016.9701 D365w) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 14 326 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Barbeau, Charles Marius | | | | Title: | Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents | | | | Date: | 1953-1955 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 82 pages, 250 pages, 75 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Part of unprinted manuscript of Barbeau's calendar of captivities, based on his lists of Greenwood and Deering collections, but intended to be complete. Part I (missing, but see Deering and Greenwood manuscript lists in American Philosophical Society and Ayer catalogue). Register of documents with summary of contents. Part II, Unpublished captivities, bibliographies, and an index. Result of grants of Wenner-Gren Foundation and American Philosophical Society. Materials in 3 folders. Unpublished materials, largely northwest coast narratives of inter-Indian captures, taken by William Beynon.
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1954-1955. | | | | Collection: | Calendar of Indian captivities and allied documents (016.9701 B235) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 330 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Barton, Benjamin Smith | | | | Title: | Notes on the animals of North America | | | | Date: | June 29, 1793 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 74 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Information about various animals with additional data on birds and fish. In many instances includes Indian names and use of animals of their domestic economy, principally Algonquian and southeast Indians.
| | | | Collection: | Benjamin Smith Barton Papers. Letters to Thomas Pennant (B B284d) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 331 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Butler, Eva L. | | | | Title: | Ethnobotany and ethnozoology of the New England Indians | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies (almost illegible) | | | | Extent: | 111 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | 90 pages of ethnobotanical references, 29 pages of ethnozoological references found in a three-page bibliography of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(10D1d) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 71 332 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Greenwood, Arthur M. | Barbeau, Charles Marius | | | | Title: | Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead | | | | Date: | 1948 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 392 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Catalogue and notes prepared by Charles Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Mass., owned and collected by Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood. Data on house and its contents, and bibliography of books, including some 60 Indian captivities, books on place names, Indian wars, Indian missions, travels, colonial history pertaining to New England and Canada. Extensive reading notes included.
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1949. Printed (largely), Barbeau (1950). | | | | Collection: | Time Stone Farm and the collections of an old New England homestead (016.9701 G842b) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 333 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Pitcher, Zina | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | March 4, 1834 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Morton has asked for data on moral qualities of Indians whose skulls he has. Pitcher points to difficulties in obtaining such data from Algonquians, who won't speak of the dead, and of ambiguity of white morality to Indians. Mentions Osages, Quapaws, Missouri, Kansas, Otos, Omahas; Chitimachas or Comanches; the five tribes of the Creek nation.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 335 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Senseman, Gottlob | | | | Title: | Answers to Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton's queries concerning the northern Indians for David Zeisberger | | | | Date: | Circa 1797 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Numbered responses to the inquiries concerning Algonquian and Iroquois Indians.
| | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 45 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 338 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Table of Double Curve Motif | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Northwestern tribes, Iroquois, central Algonquian usage charted by technique and variation of motifs.
See also #1321, #1430, and #2294. | | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(2A1a) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 339 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Terms of relationship and the family territorial band among the Northeastern Algonquins | | | | Date: | 1918 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 12 pages, 13 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Manuscript draft and additions.
Printed, Speck (1918). | | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(3B2b) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 337 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Traps -- Miscellaneous notes | | | | Date: | After 1938 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Favorable review of John M. Cooper, Snares, deadfalls, and other traps of Northern Algonquians and Northern Athapascans.
Printed, Speck (1939). | | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(2A2) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 340 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Warren, John Collins | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | February 22, 1837 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Fulfills his promise in earlier letter, lists American skulls in his collection: mostly eastern, except for Ancient Niagara and Chinook, not flattened, plus Ohio cavern and Ohio rock and Mound at Lexington; Algonquian from eastern Massachusetts. He talks of the Guanche cast from the Canaries and some unidentified skulls he has seen.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 341 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Zeisberger, David | | | | Title: | Answers to Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton's queries on the Northern Indians | | | | Date: | 1797-1798 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 item | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Numbered responses to queries concerning Algonquian and Iroquois Indians, similar in content to Zeisberger-Senseman answers (#335), though more general.
Copy by John G. E. Heckewelder, 1816. | | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 46 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 342 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(History) | | | | Author: | Butler, Eva L. | | | | Title: | General New England -- "Colonial Letters of our Ancestors" | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Mimeograph documents | | | | Extent: | 29 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Nineteen letters of seventeenth-century colonial Connecticut, principally from Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(10D1b) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 343 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(History) | | | | Author: | Butler, Eva L. | | | | Title: | General New England -- "Letters of the Indians" | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Mimeograph documents | | | | Extent: | 31 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Twenty-nine letters of seventeenth-century Indians, principally from archives in Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(10D1a) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 346 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Ballard, Edward | | | | Title: | Letters to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | December 31, 1859 - February 7, 1860 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letters signed | | | | Extent: | 2 items (20 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning definitions of Indian place names in New England.
| | | | Collection: | Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (497.3 H39)
Section 19-20 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 347 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Letter to John G. E. Heckewelder | | | | Date: | August 3, 1816 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter signed | | | | Extent: | 4 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Indian languages.
Printed (in part), Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1: 402-405. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Historical and Literary Committee Letter Books (A.P.S. Archives, VIII.5)
Section 1 (45) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 348 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Letter to John Vaughan | | | | Date: | July 16, 1821 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Mentions return of Nanticoke, Huron and vocabularies of seven languages (Delaware, Minsi, Mohicon, Natick, Chippeway, Shawanoe and Nanticoke) compared by Heckewelder in #349.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 349 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus | | | | Title: | Comparative vocabulary of the Delaware, Minsi, Mohicon, Natick, Chippeway, Shawanoe and Nanticoke languages | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 3 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Algonquian | | | | Description: | A comparative list of circa 100 forms, arrangement used by Heckewelder.
Copied in Indian vocabularies (497 In2), 37: 114-119. Printed, Heckewelder (1887); Gallatin (1836): 307-367, 370. | | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 21, 22b | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 352 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | May 27, 1816 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Indian linguistics-meaning of names, Algonquian family, etc.
Printed (revised), Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1: 366-369. | | | | Collection: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (497.3 H35o)
Section 3-6 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 351 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau | | | | Date: | April 13, 1817 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Encloses paper on Indian linguistics [taken from a letter] by Dencke.
Printed (enclosure only), Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society 1: 427-428. | | | | Collection: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder letters to Peter Stephen Du Ponceau (497.3 H35o)
Section 81-86 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 354 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Hockett, Charles F. | | | | Title: | Algonquian comparisons | | | | Date: | 1940 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 75 slips | | | | Language: | English | Algonquian | | | | Description: | Illustrations of cognates and sound correspondences in Algonquian.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section A.3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 355 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Horsford, Eben Norton | | | | Title: | Letter to Daniel G. Brinton | | | | Date: | January 15, 1887 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Would like to print American Philosophical Society manuscript of Heckewelder's comparative Algonquian vocabulary with his edition of Zeisberger's Onondaga dictionary.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 356 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Horsford, Eben Norton | | | | Title: | Letter to the Librarian of the American Philosophical Society, Henry Phillips | | | | Date: | April 25, 1887 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Transmits proof sheets of Heckewelder's comparative Algonquian vocabulary which he wishes to be compared with the American Philosophical Society manuscript before publication. Transmits copy of Zeisberger Onondaga dictionary.
See also Heckewelder (1887). | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 357 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Leland, P. W. | | | | Title: | Letter to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | January 9, 1860 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Sends copy of publication. Has worked on Algonquin dialects only. Refers to Usher Parsons.
| | | | Collection: | Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (497.3 H39)
Section 22 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 358 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Michelson, Truman | | | | Title: | Correspondence with Franz Boas | | | | Date: | 1910-1934 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letters | | | | Extent: | 170 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Earlier letters concern work among Blackfeet in 1912 and the study of Ojibwa and Kickapoo texts among the papers of William Jones; later reports on field work among Fox, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Delaware.
| | | | Collection: | Franz Boas Collections (B B61) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 359 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Parsons, Usher | | | | Title: | Letter to Matthew S. Henry | | | | Date: | January 22, 1860 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning New England Indian place names; his report to the Rhode Island Historical Society.
| | | | Collection: | Matthew Schropp Henry Correspondence on Indian Names (497.3 H39)
Section 21 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 361 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Iroquois, Algonquian and Siouan field notes | | | | Date: | 1911 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 notebook | | | | Language: | Algonquian | | | | Description: | Vocabulary and texts in Seneca (Grand River); Mohawk (Grand River and Caughnawaga); Delaware (Grand River); Abenaki (Pierreville); Malecite (Riviere du Loup); Micmac (Cacouna); Montagnais (Pointe Blanc); Cree (Pointe Blanc); Algonquian; Tutelo (Grand River).
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section I1.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 360 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Beothuk-Algonquian comparisons | | | | Date: | 1915 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 5 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Beothuk | Algonquian | | | | Description: | Document prepared for Sapir, copied from Rev. John Leigh's transcription of John Peyton's vocabulary. Compares 45 Beothuk items with Montagnais and Penobscot as well as isolated Micmac, Ojibwa, and Abnaki equivalents. English translations given. Copyist felt transcription was inadequate.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Be.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 362 2062 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Letters to Frank G. Speck | | | | Date: | August 1, 1918 - July 9, 1919 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letters signed | | | | Extent: | 2 items (5 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Speck (1918a); Sapir sees Yurok comparisons; discusses general linguistic relationships; excited about reduction of language stocks; inquires after possible typographical errors, pages 157-158 of article.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section III(5A13) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 363 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Siebert, Frank T. | | | | Title: | Classification of Algonquin languages | | | | Date: | 1935 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 7 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Classified list of languages and bands, showing which are extinct and which are extant and approximate number of speakers as of 1935. Attached note of Edward Sapir to Morris Swadesh on revision in classification of Wiyot and Yurok.
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1950. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section A.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 345 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | American Philosophical Society | | | | Title: | Extract from the minutes | | | | Date: | February 5, 1841 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Remarks by Peter S. Du Ponceau upon the Indian manuscript found on the coast of Labrador. He regards it as Algonquin; hopes the Quebec Philosophical and Literary Society will publish it.
See also Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2: 16, and facsimile reprint "Early Proceedings" (1885). | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Minutes (A.P.S. Archives, I.5) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 364 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Wiyot-Yurok and Algonquian comparisons | | | | Date: | 1915 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 3 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Cognates in Algonquian languages sent by Speck to Edward Sapir to supplement those used in Sapir (1913). Covering note enclosed.
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1950. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section A.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 365 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Tooker, William Wallace | | | | Title: | Letters to the American Philosophical Society and Henry Phillips | | | | Date: | September 22-25, 1888 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed, postal card | | | | Extent: | 2 items | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Seeks copy of Heckewelder's comparative Algonquian vocabularies for his work on Long Island place names.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 366 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Voegelin, Carl F. | | | | Title: | Letters to Frank G. Speck | | | | Date: | May 7, 1937 - January 31, 1945 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed, typed letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 items (4 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning usefulness of Speck's Naskapi material for comparative study of Algonquian languages; seeks article on process by which Algonquian languages become extinct; general discussion.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section Series II | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 367 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquian
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Witthoft, John | | | | Title: | Preliminary listing of resources in American Indian languages in the...Archives of the Moravian Church | | | | Date: | November 1, 1953 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 20 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Algonquin, Delaware, Iroquois, Mohawk, Onondaga, Eskimo, Cherokee, Checameca, Mahican, Scatticook materials, eighteenth and nineteenth century: Zeisberger, Pyrlaeus, Dencke, Heckewelder, Gambold, Ettwein, etc.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 369 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Algonquian field notes | | | | Date: | 191? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 2 notebooks, circa 10 loose sheets, 2 maps | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | One notebook contains linguistic notes, informant and population data for Waswanipi, Abitibi, Temiskaming, Nipissing, Algonquian. The other, dated June 1, contains Temiskaming ethnography, and (in English), Wisiledjak (Wiskyjack) text. Temagami ethnology and texts (in English) and one Iroquois legend.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(2C2) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 372 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Distribution of Scapulimancy, etc., in Circumboreal | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 15 leaves, 1 printed item | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Sketches and comments on shoulder blade divination (Scapulimancy); notes on origin and distribution of deer drives (including 1 page note, undated, from A. Irving Hallowell); distribution of artifacts among Algonquin, Naskapi, Mistassini.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(2A4) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 371 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | Contributions to Social Science Abstracts | | | | Date: | 1928-1929 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 11 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Speck's abstracts of published works on the Rama-Chibcha of Nicaragua; the River Desert Algonquins; Southern Ontario Indians, and the Maya; also other subjects.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section XIII(22J) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 370 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Speck, Frank G. | | | | Title: | General Information -- Birch Bark Containers | | | | Date: | 1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 37 photographs, 40 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Includes 18 leaves of notes on birch-bark baskets from northwest to northeast; 9 photos of Timagami Ojibwa birch-bark containers; 18 photos of Mistassini, Algonquin containers, as well as 1 negative, 5 sketches, and 6 leaves of notes; 7 leaves of general notes on birch-bark containers; 4 photos of Kutenai birch-bark containers together with negative and letter of Bella Weitzner to Speck, June 2, 1941; 4 pages of notes on Ojibwa birch-bark; 1 photo of Yukon birch-bark; and 4 pages of notes and 5 photos of Ojibwa baskets.
| | | | Collection: | Frank Gouldsmith Speck Papers (Ms. Coll. 126)
Section II(3B1i) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 368 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Registre de Sillery 1637 a 1690 | | | | Date: | 1637-1690 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 125 pages | | | | Language: | French | Latin | | | | Description: | Original in Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec. Note on the inside cover in an older handwriting reads: "Ce Registre etait au nomber des Livres et Papiers qui furent trouves a la maison des RR. PP. Jesuites a Quebec lors deces du R. P. Casot qui a eu lieu en mars 179[2?] / Apres avoir disparu pendant plusieurs annees, ce Registre a ete decouvert vers l'annee 1815 par l'Hon[ora]ble M. Cochran, dans le bureau de Conseil executif, qui en a conserve la possession jusqu'a son deces en juillet 1849. Peu de temps apres, Madame Veuve Cochran l'ayant remis entre les mains de M. G.B. Fairbault, ce dernier l'a depose a la cure de Notre Dame de Quebec..." Baptismal record and confirmation.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 6:2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 374 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Chaumont, Pere | | | | Title: | Huron and Algonquin materials | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (180 frames) | | | | Language: | French | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice. Prieres et cantiques en Algonquin precedees de neuf pages d'expressions indiennes; Catechisme Huron by Pere Chaumonot (le 17e siecle); Dictionnaire Francais-Algonquin.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 8a | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 387 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Laure, Petro | | | | Title: | Catechismus Algonquinus | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 26 pages | | | | Language: | French | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Archive de l'Archeveche de Quebec. This volume contains an Algonquin catechism, prayers in that language, explications of the prayers. Catechism and prayers in Montaignais.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 5:7 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4109b | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Voegelin, Carl F. | | | | Title: | Comments on the Linguistic Institute | | | | Date: | 1937-1940 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 21 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Regarding teaching methods; Algonquian languages. Mentions Edward Sapir, Leonard Bloomfield, Zellig Harris, and others.
Donor, Carl F. Voegelin, February 1979. | | | | Collection: | C. F. Voegelin Papers (Ms. Coll. 68)
Section Series V-C | | | | |
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| | 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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| | Entry: | 383 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Ecriture Sainte | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 26 frames | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | 4e cahier [of Daniel]. Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 8c | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 378 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Dictionnaire Algonquin-Francais | | | | Date: | 1661 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 144 pages | | | | Language: | French | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice. Also, Mots Loups (Words of Wolf Tribe) 126 pages; Dictionnaire Algonquin-Francais phrases [circa 1750]. [Attributed to M. Mathevet by M. Cuoq]: 160 pages.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 386 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Hymns, canticles and music in Algonquin | | | | Date: | 1700-? | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 589 pages | | | | Language: | French | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Archives de l'Archeveche de Quebec. In the hand of a Jesuit father. Page 1, 8i8in8ans8anganar; Peg8irranmeghe aneghi...; page 105, Antiennes en plain chant, page 119, Kirie, gloria; page 197, Autre ecriture; page 263, S. Francois Xavier; page 277, S. Stanislai; page 335, note "Du Detroit, le 15 May 1761." Tons du Plein chant en faux Bourdons, 1er ton...2e ton..., etc. musi a portee de 5 lignes.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 5:3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 379 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Dictionnaire Algonquin-Francais, etc. | | | | Date: | 1737 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 148 frames | | | | Language: | French | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice. Includes Mathevet grammar of M. Gay. Note (accurate copy) of M. de Quere. Microfilm of 44 frames.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 10a | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 381 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Dictionnaire Nipissing-Algonquin | | | | Date: | 1793? | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 252 pages | | | | Language: | Nipissing | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice. The name "Guichart" appears high on the inside front cover. Includes a calendar for 1793; a "credo" is bound in the middle of the volume, extracts from Robertson.
| | | | Collection: | Indian language manuscripts, principally Iroquois and Algonquin (Film 1109)
Section 6a | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 390 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Algonquin (Algonquian)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Modus excipiendarum barbarorum confessionum | | | | Date: | Before 1823 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 191 pages | | | | Language: | Algonquin | | | | Description: | Original in Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec [Fonds du Seminaire], Archives, No. 70. Contains prayers and hymns in Algonquin. Many blank pages.
| | | | Collection: | Selected materials on Indian linguistics (Film 453)
Section 4:16 | | | | |
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| | 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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| | Entry: | 394 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Alsea (Penutian) | | | | Author: | Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim | | | | Title: | Yakonan (Alsea) grammar | | | | Date: | 1918 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, with manuscript additions | | | | Extent: | 422 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Alsea | | | | Description: | Work intended for publication in Handbook of American Indian Languages, but never printed. Based on field work of J. Owen Dorsey (1884-Siletz, Oregon: vocabularies), Livingston Farrand (1900-Siletz reservation) and the author (1910). Table of contents, grammar, and texts with interlinear and free translations and grammatical notes.
See also texts published in Frachtenberg (1920). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Pn2c.1 | | | | |
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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: | 399 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Apache (Athapascan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Goodwin, Grenville | | | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons | | | | Date: | November 22, 1936 - May 18, 1938 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letters signed | | | | Extent: | 3 items (5 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Apache breath rites; parallels among Pueblo, Apache, and Zuni; list of comparative traits sought by Gifford.
| | | | Collection: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29)
Section 1-2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 400 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Apache (Athapascan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Opler, Morris E. | | | | Title: | Letters to Elsie Clews Parsons | | | | Date: | May 6, 1938 - November 7, 1941 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letters signed | | | | Extent: | 11 items (13 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning his studies among the Jicarilla, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Lipan Apache; folklore, ethnography, acculturation, comparative.
| | | | Collection: | Elsie Clews Parsons Papers (Ms. Coll. 29)
Section 2-4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 402 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Apache (Athapascan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Goddard, Pliny Earle | | | | Title: | San Carlos Apache Lexical File | | | | Date: | 1920 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, manuscript and printed | | | | Extent: | Circa 400 cards | | | | Language: | Apache | | | | Description: | Words cut from printed text, Creation Myth, in Goddard (1920): 147-155, pasted on cards.
Printed source, Goddard (1920). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Na31.4 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 401 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Apache (Athapascan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Apache (Chiricahua, Lipan, and Jicarilla) morphological lexicon | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 112 cards | | | | Language: | Apache | | | | Description: | Cards arranged in tables; conjugations of all prefixes (aspectual and pronominal) and combinations thereof. Mentions Edward Sapir.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Na31.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 404 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arapaho (Algonquian) | | | | Author: | Salzmann, Zdenek | | | | Title: | Arapaho texts | | | | Date: | 1950 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 98 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Sample of field notes of texts collected at the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming. Includes sample paradigms.
Printed (nos. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.3, 3.2), Salzmann (1956): 151-158, 266-272. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section A4.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 405 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arapaho (Algonquian) | | | | Author: | Salzmann, Zdenek | | | | Title: | Linguistic studies of the Northern Arapaho | | | | Date: | 1961 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 61 pages | | | | Language: | English | Arapaho | | | | Description: | Copy of work to be printed: doctoral dissertation. Contains discussion of phonology, noun morphology, and verb morphology.
Donor, Zdenek Salzmann, 1961. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 6 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 410 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arawak (Arawakan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Philological notebooks | | | | Date: | 1815-1834 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 9 notebooks | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Compares Jajois, Arawack, and Shibajois vocabularies. Notes on grammar and dictionary of Theodor Schulz, [Grammatische Satze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache (498.3 Sch8g). Arawak dictionary and grammar, Aruwakkisch Deutsches Worterbuch (498.3 Sch8)]. Also consists of extracts from rare published works on American Indian, African, and Asian languages, together with the notes and comments of Du Ponceau; linguistic essays, vocabulary lists (mostly of numerals) for North, Middle, and South American languages; materials on Chinese, Pacific, Asian, and African languages. Included are copies of several manuscripts as well as copies of two letters of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Important for references to the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society; to Du Ponceau's publications on Delaware, Chippewa, and Chinese; and to his correspondence with philologists Adelung, Heckewelder, Humboldt, Gallatin, and Vater.
| | | | Collection: | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau notebooks on philology (410 D92) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 59 407 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arawak (Arawakan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Commonplace book | | | | Date: | 1820 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (150 pages) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | A record begun March 10, 1820, principally of chronology of early Pennsylvania, with mention of Penn-Logan correspondence and extracts from same. Arruwak words, page 11; extract, Narrative [of the late massacres], pages 132-133.
| | | | Collection: | Peter Stephen Du Ponceau commonplace book (B D92c) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 409 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arawak (Arawakan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen | | | | Title: | Letter to Theodor Schulz | | | | Date: | September 8, 1821 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter signed with initials | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Concerning Indians of South America. Has copied Schulz's Arruwak vocabulary [Indian vocabularies (497 In2), 44] into his book of 45 vocabularies. Queries on men's and women's languages. Inquires after DeLaet's vocabularies of Yaois, Sapajoi, etc.; Caraibi mentioned.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Historical and Literary Committee Letter Books (A.P.S. Archives, VIII.5) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 165 413 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arawak (Arawakan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Schulz, Theodor | | | | Title: | Grammaticalische Satze von Aruwakkischen Sprache | | | | Date: | 1803? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (173 pages) | | | | Language: | German | Latin | Arawak | | | | Description: | A grammatical treatise based upon a Latin model, with Latin terms used throughout, though most of the text is German.
Donor, Theodor Schulz, 1819. | | | | Collection: | Grammatische Satze von der Aruwakkischen Sprache (498.3 Sch8g) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4476 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arawak (Arawakan)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Schulz, Theodore | | | | Title: | Letter to Peter S. Du Ponceau, Philadelphia | | | | Date: | September 25, 1821 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed, photocopies | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Written from Schoeneck. Regarding men's and women's speech in the Arawak language. From original in the College of Physicians, Philadelphia.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Manuscripts) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 252 417 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Arikara (Caddoan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Trudeau, Jean Bapiste | | | | Title: | Journal among the Arikara Indians, and other papers | | | | Date: | 1794-1796 | | | | Type: | Microfilm | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 190 pages, 6 sheets in photostat, 1 reel | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | Original in possession of Seminaire de Quebec. Extracts from journals, June 7, 1794 - June 1796 (part printed from copy in Department of State Archives, Washington), 190 pages. Approximately 200 pages of letters. "Description abregee du Haut-Missouri adressee a Monsier don Zenon Trudeau" [Lieutenant Governor of the Country East of the Illinois], no dates, but after 1795. Describes culture of plains Indians (Cheyenne, Arikara, Mandan, Pawnee, Gros Ventres, Sioux, Poncas), dress, customs, marriage, birth, calumet dance, sun dance, buffalo dance, warfare.
Printed (in English translation), Trudeau (1914) and (1912) and Abel (1921). | | | | Collection: | Journal among the Arikara Indians, and other papers (Film 1036) | | | | |
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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: | 23 419 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Assiniboin (Siouan) | | | | Author: | Barker, Anna E. | | | | Title: | Around 500 words in the Mountain Stoney dialect gathered from a branch of the Sioux Indians | | | | Date: | 1883-1886 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, photostats | | | | Extent: | 9 leaves, 1 page | | | | Language: | English | Assiniboin | | | | Description: | List gathered by matron of Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morely, North West Territories [i.e., Alberta]. English-Assiniboin, alphabetical by English. Numerals. Letter, Lucile Yerdon (owner of original, who made the typescript in January 1948), Fort Plain, New York, to Charles Marius Barbeau, March 21, 1948.
Donor, Charles Marius Barbeau, grantee, 1950. | | | | Collection: | Around 500 words in the Mountain Stoney dialect gathered from a branch of the Sioux Indians (497.2 B24) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 420 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Assiniboin (Siouan) | | | | Author: | Deloria, Ella Cara | | | | Title: | Notes on the Assiniboine (Belknap or Watopahnatu dialect) | | | | Date: | 1936 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 59 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Assiniboin | | | | Description: | A sketch of Assiniboin grammar, compared with that of Dakota. Includes Assiniboin text, with literal and free translation and notes. Letter from author to Boas, January 6, 1936, covering the document.
See also Boas and Deloria (1932). | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section X8d.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 421 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atakapa (Gulf)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Duralde, Martin | | | | Title: | Letter to William Dunbar | | | | Date: | April 24, 1802 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Letter | | | | Extent: | 11 pages | | | | Language: | French | | | | Description: | Letter in French; translation; transmits vocabularies of the Chetimachas and the Atacapas; mentions Opeloussas and Conchati, also "mobilian language," agriculture; bones in wells, skeleton of elephant.
| | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 12-13 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 422 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atakapa (Gulf)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Duralde, Martin | | | | Title: | Vocabulaire de la Language des Atacapas | | | | Date: | 1802 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 8 pages | | | | Language: | French | Atakapa | | | | Description: | A vocabulary with examples; together with comment on their traditions and on the discovery of an elephant "carcasse."
Copied in Indian vocabularies (497 In2), 2. Printed, Gallatin (1836): 307-367. | | | | Collection: | American Indian Vocabularies Collection (497 V85)
Section 10 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 423 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atakapa (Gulf)
(Linguistics) | | | | Author: | Haas, Mary Rosamond | Swadesh, Morris | | | | Title: | Atakapa fragments recorded from descendants of speakers | | | | Date: | 1934 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 3 leaves | | | | Language: | English | Atakapa | | | | Description: | Fragmentary list of Atakapa items with English equivalents. Obtained near Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Donor, 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 G5.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 424 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atakapa (Gulf)
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Barabino, Joseph | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | January 17, 1834 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Death of Dr. Lebair has brought Morton's letter and diploma to Barabino who has visited Atakapas Indians. Will do so again in April to secure skulls for Morton. Can't identify Lebair skulls.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 425 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atakapa (Gulf)
(Physical) | | | | Author: | Powell, William Byrd | | | | Title: | Letter to Samuel G. Morton | | | | Date: | August 12, 1839 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Powell comments on deformation of cannibal Atakapas Indian skulls-frontal, but not occipital, while Natchez deformation is reverse. Argues while each tribe has its own characteristic head shape, Morton's use of single examples is hardly valid. Wants to go to Europe with 500 skulls on phrenological speaking tour. Objects to comments of Combe to appear in Crania Americana. Combe does not know Indians well enough to write. Professional quarrel mentioned.
| | | | Collection: | Samuel George Morton Papers (B M843) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 426 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Boas, Franz | | | | Title: | Lexical file in an Athabascan language | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 75 cards | | | | Language: | English | Athapascan | | | | Description: | Stems and paradigms, reference numbers to field notes.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Na.6 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4111 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Gillespie, Beryl C. | | | | Title: | Athapascans Who Have Cree For Neighbors | | | | Date: | 1971 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, photocopies | | | | Extent: | 58 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Regarding influences of contact with Whites. The study concerns territory now associated with the Chipewyan, Slave, and Beaver Indians for the period 1700-1830.
Donor, grantee, June 1971. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 112 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 427 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Goddard, Pliny Earle | | | | Title: | Field notes in California Athabascan languages | | | | Date: | 1903-1911 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 4 notebooks | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Two notebooks of Kiowa Apache materials (including text, discussion of warfare; list of specimens and cost). Two notebooks Athapascan, including Tolowa texts in English translation [See Tolowa field notes, American Council of Learned Societies Collection (497.3 B63c), Na20f.1.].
Donor, Alfred L. Kroeber for the Department of Anthropology, University of California, 1946. | | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Na.2 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4113 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Hoijer, Harry | | | | Title: | Comparative Athapascan - Sarsi, Chipewyan, and Navajo | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | Circa 300 slips | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Handwritten slips, alphabetically arranged, according to the English gloss. Comparative lexical data from Sarsi, Chipewyan, and Navajo.
| | | | Collection: | Harry Hoijer papers (497.3 H68)
Section Series II | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4113a | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Krech, Shepard, III | | | | Title: | Letter to Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Philadelphia | | | | Date: | February 28, 1978 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letter signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | From Fairfax, Virginia. Regarding Krech's archival research on Northern Athapascan ethnohistory.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 166 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4114 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Libby, Dorothy | | | | Title: | Ethnographic consequences of Sir John Franklin's Northern explorations | | | | Date: | February 23, 1965 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed letter signed | | | | Extent: | 2 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Letter to Richard H. Shryock. Very brief sketch of results of research at the Library of Congress.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 30 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 428 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Problems in Athapascan linguistics | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents signed, carbon copies | | | | Extent: | 3 leaves | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Sapir seeks more and better field data on all recoverable dialects, emphasizing difficulties in dealing with these languages, particularly because of tones.
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)
Section Na.1 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 4115 4342 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Athapascan | | | | Author: | Sapir, Edward | | | | Title: | Comparative Na-Dene dictionary | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents | | | | Extent: | 4 volumes (approximately 500 pages each) | | | | Language: | English | Athapascan | Haida | Na-Dene | Tlingit | | | | Description: | Volumes 1, 3, and 4 are comparative Na-Dene with provision for various Athapascan languages and dialects, Haida, and Tlingit. Volume 2 is comparative Sino-Tibetan-Na-Dene with provision for entries in Sino-Tibetan languages, Athapascan, Haida, and Tlingit. Most pages in all volumes have only a few entries.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section Na20a.3 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 431 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Atsina (Algonquian) | | | | Author: | Say, Thomas | | | | Title: | A vocabulary of the language of the Minnetaree Indians or Gros Ventres | | | | Date: | 1817-1819 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents, copy | | | | Extent: | 3 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Copied from the original manuscript of Thomas Say from the Long expedition of 1819. Taken from Mr. Chabonneau.
Printed, James (1823): 2: lxix-lxxxvii. | | | | Collection: | Indian vocabularies (497 In2)
Section 27 | | | | |
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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.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section H1b.2 | | | | |
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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: | 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: | 4121 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aymara (Aymaran) | | | | Author: | Hardman-de-Bautista, Martha James | | | | Title: | Reconstruction of Jaqi personal verbal suffxes | | | | Date: | n.d. | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents, photocopies | | | | Extent: | 4 pages | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Summarizes geographical distribution, social factors affecting the languages, and typological characteristics as prefatory to the reconstruction problem.
See also #4119, #4119a, and #4120. Donor, grantee, August 10, 1970. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society. Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (497.3 Am4)
Section 90 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 437 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aztec (Uto-Aztecan)
(Ethnography) | | | | Author: | Lange, Gertrud | | | | Title: | Das Leben im alten Mexico | | | | Date: | 1933? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 17 leaves | | | | Language: | German | | | | Description: | Discussion of Aztec culture before the Conquest: political organization, society, religion and thought.
| | | | Collection: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages. Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics (497.3 B63c)
Section 51 | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 440 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aztec (Uto-Aztecan)
(Hieroglyphics) | | | | Author: | Cushing, Frank Hamilton | | | | Title: | Concerning the symbolic account of the migration of the Aztecs | | | | Date: | December 1, 1897 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Autograph documents signed | | | | Extent: | 1 page | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Identifies document (#443) belonging to the American Philosophical Society as a copy of a codex in the Vatican, and superior to that printed in King (1831) in draftsmanship.
| | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 192 445 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aztec (Uto-Aztecan)
(Hieroglyphics) | | | | Author: | Wilbur, Walter K. | | | | Title: | Comparative study of Aztec hieroglyphs | | | | Date: | 1943 | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Typed documents | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (144 leaves) | | | | Language: | English | | | | Description: | Study of pre-Conquest Aztec hieroglyphs in the Codex Borgia group. Some attention is paid to material-culture symbols.
Donor, Walter K. Wilbur, grantee, 1943. | | | | Collection: | A comparative study of Aztec hieroglyphs (497.4 W65) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 444 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aztec (Uto-Aztecan)
(Hieroglyphics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Varios modas de pintar. Y por geroglificos en el fresco y al temple | | | | Date: | 1785-1806? | | | | Type: | Text Items | | | | Format: | Documents | | | | Extent: | 18 pages | | | | Language: | Spanish | | | | Description: | A brief discussion of coloring techniques with some mention of figures used.
| | | | Collection: | Notes on Mexican Antiquities (913.72 N84) | | | | |
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| | Entry: | 443 | Requires cookie* | | | Tribe: | Aztec (Uto-Aztecan)
(Hieroglyphics) | | | | Author: | Unknown | | | | Title: | Symbolic account of the migration of the Aztecs | | | | Date: | n.d., 1827 | | | | Type: | Still Images | | | | Format: | Printed documents | | | | Extent: | 1 pictograph | | | | Language: | | | | | Description: | Black and white printed document, similar to that in King (1831), vol. 1, fac. 3, but (according to Frank H. Cushing) better drawn and probably from a Vatican codex, although King's version is attributed to the Boturini Codex. See Boturini (1746):11 for details on manuscript.
See also #440. | | | | Collection: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) | | | | |
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