MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1936
Abstract:
Ceremonial Songs of Tonawanda Seneca Longhouse, recorded by Martha Champion Randle on phonograph discs in 1936.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.17
Extent:
4 reel(s)
Subjects:
Format
Manuscript Collection
Subject
Sound recordings
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1984
Abstract:
Radio broadcast: "Manhattan at Large." Councilman Stanley Michaels, host. Topic: "The Future of the Museum of the American Indian." Guests: Dr. Edmund Carpenter, Anthropologist, Member Board of Trustees, Museum of the American Indian; Pamela Mann, Asst. N.Y., Attorney General; N.Y. Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr.; Randle Borshi, Deputy Commissioner, N.Y. City Dept. of Cultural Affairs.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.183
Extent:
1 tape(s)
Subjects:
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Borshi, Randle | Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011 | Farrell, Herman D. | Indians of North America | Indians of North America -- Agriculture | Mann, Pamela | Michaels, Stanley | Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation | Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation | Museums | New York (N.Y.) | Radio programs | Radio programs | Sound recordings
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1966-1967
Abstract:
Conversation with Semu Huaute, Chumash Medicine Man, on a variety of topics. Recorded at a powwow held at Tonawanda, New York, in the summer of 1966. Broadcast by Radio WBFO (Buffalo, N.Y.) in November 1967. Also includes a brief speech by Mad Bear recorded at the same time.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.233
Extent:
1 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1997-1998
Abstract:
Stories told in untranslated Nxa'amxcin, also known as Columbia-Wenatchi or Moses-Columbia. Recorded in Omak and Nespelem, Washington by Nancy Mattina in 1997 and 1998.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.250
Extent:
4 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Catholic Church -- Prayers and devotions | Columbia-Wenatchi language | Mattina, Nancy | Nespelem (Wash.) | Omak (Wash.) | Prayer | Sound recordings | Wenatchi Indians -- Folklore | Wenatchi Indians -- History | Wenatchi Indians -- Kinship | Wenatchi Indians -- Religion | Wenatchi Indians -- Social life and customs
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
December 12, 1994
Abstract:
Recorded in Peach Springs, Arizona on 12 December 1994. Autobiographical stories and conversation given in Hualapai only.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.255
Extent:
1 tape(s)
Subjects:
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Autobiography | Bender, Jorigine | Festivals -- Arizona | Hualapai Indians | Hualapai Indians -- Social life and customs | Hualapai language | Ichihashi, Kumiko | New Mexico | Peach Springs (Ariz.) | Petroglyphs -- Arizona | Sound recordings | Voyages and travel | Walema, Mary Jane | Wescogame, Betty
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1959
Abstract:
This is a recording of Fowler's remembrances of Philadelphia naturalists who were affiliated with the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, where he worked. Fowler remembers Edward D. Cope and Samuel N. Rhoads in particular.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.32
Extent:
2 tape(s)
Subjects:
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Cope, E. D. , (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Cope, E. D., (Edward Drinker), 1840-1897 | Fowler, Henry W., 1878-1965 | Harper, Francis, 1886-1972 | Hart, William | Interviews. | Natural history | Natural history. | Naturalists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia | Naturalists -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. | Philadelphia (Pa.) | Rhoads, Samuel Nicholson, 1862-1902 | Sound recordings
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1961
Abstract:
Linguistic field recordings made by Kenneth Hale with Luke Preston, Laurence Antone, and Isaac Antone in Arizona at Chichiu, Sacaton, and San Xavier Indian Reservation. Contents include several stories and brief "textlets" on various topics, including discussions of games and meaning of different words. Also includes elicitations of a variety of utterances, sentence permutations, and Vocabularies on body parts, kinship terms, and other general lists.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.39
Extent:
6 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Akimel O'odham language | Arizona -- HIstory | Chuichu (Ariz.) | Field hockey | Hale, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Locke), 1934-2001 | Sacaton (Ariz.) | San Xavier Indian Reservation (Ariz.) | Sound recordings | Tohono O'odham Indians | Tohono O'odham Indians -- Games | Tohono O'odham Indians -- Kinship | Tohono O'odham dialect
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1965
Abstract:
Linguistic field recordings of elicited vocabulary, pronunciation, and some grammar in the Columbia-Wenatchi language, often referred to on the recording as Moses. Includes occasional vocabulary in the Colville dialect of the Okanagan language. Recorded in the Methow Valley south of Carlton, Washington, in June - August 1965.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.53
Extent:
6 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Columbia-Wenatchi language | Colville dialect | Indians of North America -- Washington (State) | Kinkade, M. Dale (Marvin Dale), 1933-2004 | Miller, Agnes | Miller, Jerome | Okanagan language | Okanagan language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. | Okanogan County (Wash.) | Sound recordings | Washington (State) -- Languages
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1949
Abstract:
Nahuatl Texts, recorded on phonograph discs by Robert Barlow circa 1949, in Milpa Alta, Mexico. Stories given entirely in untranslated Nahuatl, with the exception of two stories given in Spanish. Almost all stories are given by Luz Jimenez. The identifiable texts include a story about the Mexican Day of the Dead holiday and the mountain Popocatepetl. Also includes one Yaqui song and one text that may be in a Totonac language. There is occasional prominent cracking and hissing background noise on the recording
Call #:
Mss.Rec.6
Extent:
1 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1968
Abstract:
Five short texts recorded to conducted a mutual intelligibility study of Siouan languages. The speakers of the stories are from Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Sintaluta, Saskatchewan; Fort Totten, North Dakota; Griswold, Manitoba; and Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. This recording is the basis for Harbeck's report, "A Study in Mutual Intelligibility and Linguistic Separation Among Five Siouan Languages" (37 pages) (Mss.497.3.Am4).
Call #:
Mss.Rec.71
Extent:
1 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Assiniboine dialect | Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs | Dakota language | Fort Totten (N.D.) | Griswold (Man.) | Harbeck, Warren A. | Indians of North America -- Languages | Lakota dialect | Rapid City (S.D.) | Rocky Mountain House (Alta.) | Sintaluta (Sask.) | Siouan languages -- Mutual intelligibility | Sound recordings | Stoney language
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1968-1969
Abstract:
Texts, conversations, and huayno songs in Kawki (Cauqui) and Jaqaru (Haq'aru). Numerous speakers. Recorded Cachuy, Canchán, Chavín, Huantán, in Peru circa 1970.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.78
Extent:
12 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Aymara Indians -- Music | Cachuy (Peru) | Canchán (Peru) | Cauqui language | Chavín (Peru) | Hardman, Martha James | Huantán (Peru) | Huaynos -- Peru | Indians of South America -- Languages | Indians of South America -- Peru | Indians of South America -- Peru -- Music | Indians of South America -- Peru -- Rites and ceremonies | Peru -- Languages | Sound recordings
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1972
Abstract:
Multiple unidentified stories and speech given in Malecite-Passamaquody only from multiple consultants. Recorded in 1972, in Kingsclear, Oromocto, and St. Marys, New Brunswick.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.85
Extent:
6 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1971
Abstract:
This collection consists of numerous recordings of Otomi stories, primarily folklore, along with a number of unidentified, untranslated stories, and story about the Mexican Revolution. There is also one recording of various songs sung by children. Includes Spanish, English, and Otomi version of "Frère Jacques.". The researcher is Bernard Russell and consultant Sebastian Salinas Lugo.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.86
Extent:
2 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940- | Frère Jacques | Ixmiquilpan (Mexico) | Lugo, Sebastian Salinas | Mexico -- History -- Revolution, 1910-1920 | Otomi Indians -- Folklore | Otomi Indians -- History | Otomi Indians -- Music | Otomi language | Salinas Pedraza, Concepción | Salinas Pedraza, Jesús | Sound recordings
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1971-1972
Abstract:
Tuscarora linguistic material, given by consultant in English and Tuscarora. Includes verbs, grammar, numerals, days, months, seasons, greetings, weather, body parts, and colors. Also includes a short speech given in Tuscarora, then English, on how Tuscarora chiefs are chosen and the preservation of Tuscarora language and customs.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.88
Extent:
6 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1972
Abstract:
Stories and jokes in Otomi, including discussion in Spanish on the meaning of each story. All stories are followed by Spanish translation. Recorded in San Diego, California, in July and August of 1972, by H. Russell Bernard with speaker Jesús Salinas Pedraza of Orizabita, Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, Mexico.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.90
Extent:
3 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1971-1972
Abstract:
Includes paradigms; suffix forms; prepronominal prefixes; texts.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.92
Extent:
2 reel(s)
Subjects:
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1973-1974
Abstract:
Performances of Delaware sacred and secular songs with interspersed commentary, commentary on Big House ceremony in Delaware in English, Delaware vocabulary, and prayers. Recorded by Sue Roark-Calnek in Oklahoma in Wann and Dewey, Oklahoma in 1973 and 1974.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.106
Extent:
5 tape(s)
Subjects:
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Big House Ceremony (Delaware rite) | Cherokee dance | Dean, Nora Thompson | Delaware Indians -- Music | Delaware Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Delaware dance | Delaware language | Dewey (Okla.) | Ghost dance | Invocation | Peyote songs | Prayers | Prayers. | Roark-Calnek, Sue N. | Sound recordings | Stomp dance | Wann (Okla.) | Washington, Fred | Wilson, Tom
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1980
Abstract:
Autobiographical and folkloric stories told in Choctaw, followed by English translation, recorded by William D. Davies in McCurtain County, Oklahoma in May 1980.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.120
Extent:
2 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Billy, Cynthia, 1932-2006 | Choctaw Indians | Choctaw Indians -- Domestic life | Choctaw Indians -- Folklore | Choctaw Indians -- Food | Choctaw Indians -- Games | Choctaw Indians -- Material culture | Choctaw Indians -- Social life and customs | Choctaw language | Corn bread | Davies, William D. | Durant, Simon | Jacob, Nettie | Oklahoma | Rabbits -- Folklore | Rain | Sound recordings | Turtles -- Folklore | Water
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
November 6, 1965
Abstract:
This program is a luncheon address given by George Washington Corner at the 8th Annual Conference of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, held at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel, New York City, November 6, 1965.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.121
Extent:
1 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Biologists. | Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981 | Human reproduction | Kinsey, Alfred C., (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Kinsey, Alfred C., (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Medicine -- Research -- United States | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex. | New York (N.Y.) | Rockefeller Foundation | Sexology -- Congresses | Sexology -- Research | Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (U.S.) | Sound recordings | Speeches, addresses, etc. | Speeches, addresses, etc.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1969-1971
Abstract:
A reading and translation of the Onondaga text of The Great Law as given in 1912 by Chief John A. Gibson and transcribed by Alexander Goldenweiser. The tapes alternate between two types: the re-reading of short segments of the text by William Fenton, which are then repeated in correct pronunciation by the native consultants; the replaying in short sections of these first tapes with translations and English glosses provided by the consultants. Howard Sky is the consultant on tapes 1-23, with his nephew James Sky taking over on tapes 24-31. Includes occasional additional commentary in English.
Call #:
Mss.Rec.125
Extent:
31 tape(s)
Subjects:
View Subjects
Brant (Ont. : County) -- History | Brantford (Ont.) | Deganawida | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Gibson, John Arthur, 1849-1912 | Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940 | Iroquois Indians -- Folklore | Iroquois Indians -- History | Longhouses | Onondaga Indians -- History | Onondaga Indians -- Kinship | Onondaga language | Onondaga language -- Texts | Skye, Howard | Skye, James | Sound recordings
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