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| | 1 | Author: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | | Title: | Haida Grammatical Notes and Word List
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Haida | | | | Dates: | 1900-1911 | | | | Extent: | 127 leaves | | | | Abstract: | English-Haida lexicon, circa 1200 words; Haida-English lexicon, circa 800 items. Also organized notes and word lists, a composite, based on 1900-1901 field work among Skidegat and Masset. Some work done by Theresa Durlach | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, N1.6) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 2 | Author: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | | Title: | Haida texts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Haida | | | | Dates: | 1900-1902 | | | | Extent: | 333 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Copies of texts obtained from Masset and Skidegat Haida, 1900-1902. Two texts have interlinear translation. Marginal comments by Franz Boas and Theresa M. Durlach | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, N1.4) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 3 | Author: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | | Title: | Haida texts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Haida | | | | Dates: | 1900-1901 | | | | Extent: | 350 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Skidegat texts obtained in 1900-1901 | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, N1.5) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 4 | Author: | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | | | | | Ethnologist. Assistant ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900-1903, ethnologist, 1903-1944; associate editor, American Anthropologist, 1910, 1912-20, editor, 1911, 1921-1923 | |
| | | Title: | Tlingit and Haida word list
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Haida | Tlingit | | | | Dates: | 1900-1901 | | | | Extent: | 2 notebooks (20 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Field notes taken at Sitka and Wrangell for Tlingit; Howkan, Klinkwan, and Kassan, Alaska, for Masset-Haida | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, N2.1) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 6 | Author: | Speck, Frank G., 1881-1950 | | | | | Anthropologist. Assistant curator, ethnology, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911; instructor, ethnology, University of Pennsylvania, 1909-1911, assistant professor, 1911-1925, professor, 1925-1950; lecturer, ethnology, Swarthmore College, 1923-1927; assistant editor, American Anthropologist, 1920-1937 | |
| | | Title: | Wiyot-Yurok and Algonquian Comparisons
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | Wiyot-Yurok | Algonquian | | | | Dates: | 1915 | | | | Extent: | 3 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Cognates in Algonquian languages sent by Speck to Edward Sapir | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, A.2) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 7 | Author: | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | | | | | Anthropologist, Structural Linguist. Assistant professor anthropology DePauw University, 1935-1940; lecturer Linguistic Institute, 1938-1941; associate professor anthropology Indiana University, 1941-1946, professor of anthropology, professor of linguistics, department chairman, 1947-1966, "Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Linguistics", 1967-1976, professor emeritus, 1976-1986; visiting scholar University of Hawaii | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Paul A. W. Wallace
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1940 | | | | Extent: | 4 letters | | | | Abstract: | Native American names | | | | Source: | Wallace Family Papers, Subcollection II. Paul A. W. Wallace Papers (Ms. Coll. 64) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 8 | Author: | none | | | | | | |
| | | Title: | Vocabularies and Miscellaneous Papers Related to Indian Languages
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Native American languages | | | | Dates: | Circa 1784-1828 | | | | Extent: | 3 volumes | | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous Manuscripts on North and Central American Indian Languages. Vocabulary lists and correspondence concerning Cherokee, Chippewa, Choctaw, Creek, Delaware, Lenni Lenape, Miami, Mohican, Osage, Shawano, and other Indian languages. Manuscripts and correspondence by James Barbour, Benjamin Smith Barton, Daniel Butrick, Peter S. Du Ponceau, Martin Duralde, George Gambold, George Gurley, Benjamin Hawkins, John Heckewelder, George Izard, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Kells, William V. Murray, Constantine Rafinesque, Daniel Smith, William Thornton, David Zeisberger, and others | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee American Indian Vocabulary Collection (497 V85) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 9 | Author: | Wood, John, 1775-1822 | | | | | Author, cartographer. Immigrated to U.S., 1800; tutor to Aaron Burr's daughter; political writer and pamphleteer; associated with Western World, Frankfort, Kentucky, 1806; cartographer, state of Virginia, 1819 to 1822; Professor of mathematics, College of William and Mary | |
| | | Title: | Vocabulary of the Language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Nottoway | | | | Dates: | Circa 1820 | | | | Extent: | 1 volume (32 leaves) | | | | Abstract: | Obtained from Edie Turner, "an old Indian Woman." This volume contains also John Heckewelder's English-Algonquian and Delaware comparative vocabulary and his "Names of various trees, shrubs, and plants in the language of the Lennape." | | | | Source: | Vocabulary of the Language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians (497.3 W85) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
| 11 | Author: | Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808 | | | | | Moravian missionary. Worked and lived among the Delaware and other Indian tribes; helped establish settlements in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canada. Student and recorder of Indian languages and customs | |
| | | Title: | Grammar of the Language of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, Indians
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | Delaware | | | | Dates: | 1816 | | | | Extent: | Approximately 210 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Translated from the original German manuscript in the archives of the Society of United Brethren, Bethlehem, Pa., by Peter S. Du Ponceau, 1816. It is a description of the Delaware language and lists words and their corresponding meanings | | | | Source: | Grammar of the Language of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delaware, Indians (497.3 Z3g) | | | | |
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| 14 | Author: | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990 | | | | | Anthropologist. Associate director, Research in Contemporary Cultures, Columbia University, 1947-1951, lecturer, anthropology, Columbia University, 1954-1960, adjunct professor, 1960-1969, senior research associate, 1969-. | |
| | | Title: | Zuni lexicon
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Zuni | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | Approximately 7,000 slips | | | | Abstract: | Arranged alphabetically and in terms of grammatical categories | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, Zu.2) | | | | |
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| 17 | Author: | Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1934 | | | | | Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898; instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915, professor, 1915-1934. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, National Research Council, 1922, Social Science Research Council, 1926-1929. | |
| | | Title: | Shasta Texts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Shasta | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 6 notebooks | | | | Abstract: | Shasta linguistics | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, H1c.2) | | | | |
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| 18 | Author: | Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1934 | | | | | Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898; instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915, professor, 1915-1934. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, National Research Council, 1922, Social Science Research Council, 1926-1929. | |
| | | Title: | Shasta Texts
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Shasta | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | Approximately 150 leaves | | | | Abstract: | Shasta texts edited and revised by Lucy S. Freeland | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, H1c.3) | | | | |
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| 19 | Author: | Dixon, Roland B., 1875-1934 | | | | | Anthropologist. Member, Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1898; instructor, anthropology, Harvard University, 1901-1906; assistant professor, 1906-1915, professor, 1915-1934. Curator, ethnology, Peabody Museum; member, National Research Council, 1922, Social Science Research Council, 1926-1929. | |
| | | Title: | Zoque and Xinca compared with Penutian
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | Zoque | Xinca | Penutian | | | | Dates: | 1924 | | | | Extent: | 4 leaves | | | | Abstract: | In English-Zoque-Penutian and English-Xinca-Penutian. Typed tabular lists of 60 and 45 items. Penutian languages identified by abbreviation | | | | Source: | American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages (497.3 B63c, Mz.1) | | | | |
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| 20 | Author: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | | | | | Lawyer, philologist. Du Ponceau was an emigre to the American colonies in 1777, and served as an aide to Baron von Steuben in the War for Independence. In 1781 he was appointed secretary to Robert Livingston, Secretary for Foreign Affairs. After the declaration of peace, Du Ponceau took up law, specializing in matters of international law and trade. A life-long student of languages, Du Ponceau took up the systematic study of American Indian languages while in Philadelphia. Much of his linguistic work was done under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society. He served the Society as councilor, from 1801-1816; vice-president, 1816-1827; and president, 1828-1844. See Murphy D. Smith, "Peter Stephen Du Ponceau and his Study of Languages," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 127 (1983): 143-179. | |
| | | Title: | Miscellanrous correspondence and manuscripts of Peter Stephen Du Ponceau
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Manuscripts | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | Circa 1801-1844 | | | | Extent: |
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| | | | Abstract: | Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts, primarily concerning the research and functioning of the APS | | | | Source: | American Philosophical Society Archives (A.P.S. Archives) Miscellaneous Manuscripts (Misc. Mss.) | | | | |
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