| | 1 | Author: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages | | | | | The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects | |
| | | Title: | Franz Boas Collection of Materials for American Linguistics
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | 1882-1958 | | | | Extent: | 80 linear feet | | | | Abstract: | Manuscript material on American Indian linguistics and ethnography collected by the Committee on American Languages of the American Council of Learned Societies under the direction of Franz Boas. The Committee was organized in 1927 under the direction of Franz Boas and with initial funds from the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its objective was to collect materials for the study of Indian languages and dialects, but manuscript sources in folklore and ethnography also were added. Most of the documents were collected between 1927 and 1937, but additions have been made up to the present. They include field notes, dictionaries, grammars, lexical files, and texts. An index (up to 1945) can be found in the "Supplement" to Language, Journal of the Linguistic Society of America, Vol. 21, No.3 (July-September, 1945), by C. F. Voegelin and Z. S. Harris. Individual entries, indexed by subject and author, are listed in John E. Freeman and Murphy D. Smith, A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia: APS, 1980), and Daythal Kendall, A Supplement to A Guide... (Philadelphia: APS, 1982). The collection includes manuscripts of M.I. Andrade, Franz Boas, Ella Deloria, Jaime de Angulo, Roland Dixon, Reo Fortune, Leo Frachtenberg, Pliny Goddard, Herman Haeberlin, George Herzog, George Hunt, Robert Lowie, Paul Radin, Gladys Reichard, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, John Swanton, C. F. Voegelin, and others. | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Folklore, mythology, religion | Linguistics and philology | |
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