These recordings consist of a reading of an alphabetical listing of approximately 6200 Iroquois personal names "in the Mohawk dialect" assembled by Charles A. Cooke (Thawennensere) from 1900-1951, and edited by Marius Barbeau.

This is a typed list of about 500 words collected from a branch of the Sioux Indians at their reservation 40 miles west of Calgary, Canada. List gathered by matron of Macdougall Methodist Orphanage, Morely, North West Territories [i.e., Alberta]. English-Stoney, alphabetical by English. Included is a letter regarding the document from Lucile Yerdon to Charles Marius Barbeau dated March 21, 1948.

This is a catalogue of Iroquois songs collected by Charles Marius Barbeau for the National Museum between 1911 and 1920. Includes materials from the following tribes: Huron-Wyandot, Cayuga-Iroquois, Cayuga, Ojibwa, Malecite, Shuswap, Lillooet (Interior Salish), and Sekanais (Dene-Athapaskan); and from Thompson River (Ntlakyapamuh)Indians.

Vocabulary of Huron with French equivalents, semantically ordered (parts of body, terms of relationship, animals, etc.). List of names of occupants of Huron villages, L'ile aux bois blanc, 1747 (33 cabins); list of bands, locations, names of chiefs. Recorded by Father Potier, a missionary at Sandwich on the Detroit River and written at Lorette near Quebec.

Catalogue and notes prepared by C. Marius Barbeau of holdings of Time Stone Farm, Marlborough, Massachusetts, 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.

173 English words with Huron equivalents, compiled from Cartier, Sagard, Hale, Potier, Chaumonot. Also lists radicals, with occasional comparisons with other Iroquoian dialects.

Forty texts, literal and free translations, obtained from Canadian Wyandot descendants at Wyandotte, Oklahoma. Explanatory introduction; appendix and bibliography.

The volume consists of Onondaga verbs, possessive pronouns, nouns, Cartier's vocabulary, and compound pronouns, obtained August 5, 1951, at Ohsweken, Ontario, froman Onondaga speaker. Includes Tuscarora word list, similar to above, but with equivalents for many items in Oneida, Mohawk, and Cayuga, obtained from a multi-lingual speaker, August 10-21, 1951. List of Mohawk suffixes obtained from Charles Cooke, August 21, 1951.

The five-volume collection features a catalog of Indian captivities by Frank Deering compiled and donated by Marius Barbeau. The first volume, Mss.016.9701.D365b, is a brief bibliographic catalogue of works in the "inner vault" listed in the Walsh catalogue and a 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.

Typed copy of book manuscript, submitted to National Museums of Canada as volume 4 in the Indian Migration series. Includes Tsimshian stories in translation, and a few Haida stories in translation.

Compiled by Marius Barbeau with assistance from Charles A. Cooke, a Mohawk born in Oka, Quebec. This work on the Cayuga dialect includes: phonetic signs; noun radicals; human and animal body parts; terms for people by age, function, etc.; foods; flora; fauna; kinship terms; other nouns; verbs; adjectives; pronouns; numerals; and miscellaneous expressions. Also includes some verb paradigms and noun paradigms with possessive person markers. Informants: Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert Davey.

A work intended as a sequel to Barbeau (1953), "Haida myths illustrated in argillite carvings," National Museum of Canada, Museum Bulletin 127. In addition to discussing Skidegat and Masset carvers and their work, the author presents material on carvers as medicine men, material on shamanism and witchcraft, classification of the subjects of statuettes (chiefs and illustration of myths). An appendix includes myths recorded by William Beynon among the Skidegate, Tsimshian, and Niska from 1952-1954.

Part of Barbeau's calendar of captivities, supplementing his lists of Greenwood and Deering collections. As stated in the introduction, "'Indian captivities' usually mean books, booklets and pamphlets containing the recollections of white Americans who, after they were captured by Indians and regained their freedom, wrote down their personal experiences at the hands of their captors or had them recorded for publication." Lists unpublished captivities and bibliographies. Includes unpublished materials, largely northwest-coast narratives of inter-Indian captures taken by William Beynon.

Notes and sketches showing design of artifacts in various French and British museums. Artifacts include Canadian and U.S. Indian materials, as well as South Pacific, southeast Asian, and provincial French pieces. Bibliographic references. Repositories include the British Museum, Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), Musée du Louvre, Musée de l'homme, and the Ashmolean Museum.

An anthropologist and student of Native American cultures, Elisabeth Tooker devoted a long career, much of it as a professor at Temple University, to study of the culture and ethnohistory of the Haudenosaunee of New York State. The Tooker Papers is arranged in six series, and contain her correspondence, subject files, research notes, and both published and unpublished papers.

A Yale-educated ethnographer, William Fenton devoted most of his career to study of the Haudenosaunee. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany. The Fenton Papers covers all aspects of William Fenton's professional life, documenting his varied positions as community worker for the New York Agency of the U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937 (accounts, reports, correspondence); associate anthropologist and senior ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1939-1951 (includes notebooks, letters from the field); Executive Secretary of Anthropology and Psychology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952-1954; and Assistant Commissioner, New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968.