Includes folkloric stories, conversation (concerning religion, sons in the military, letters from friends), and a variety of elicitations to test freedom of word order between two generations of speakers, classificatory verbs, word pairs with contrast of vowel length and stress, verb affixes and suffixes, and immediate and regular imperative verbs. Recorded at the Cherokee Indian Reservation, North Carolina from 1951-1952.

Narratives of travels and adventures, 1861-1864, 1881-1916, in the far western, southwestern, northwestern United States, as well as Ohio and New York; northern Mexico and Europe; apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describes an Indian attack. Visits 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. Also writes of the Nevada mines and of military service in the Southwest, 1860-1864. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum.

Recorded at the Tuscarora Reservation in Niagara County, New York from December 1950 to January 1951. Consists of Tuscarora vocabulary, paradigms, and stories regarding tribal history told in Tuscarora only.

Recorded by Anthony Wallace in 1948 and 1949 at the Tuscarora Reservation in Niagara County, New York. Contains folkloric stories, tribal histories (especially relating to the 18th and 19th centuries), autobiographical stories, reminiscences, word lists, and descriptions of tribal government, organizations, and customs. Almost all stories are given in both Tuscarora and English. Originally recorded on 16 wire spools, transfered to open reel tape in 1950.