MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
Circa 1910-1930
Abstract:
These papers include materials on the Onondaga, Tuscarora, Seneca, Cayuga, and Oneida Indians, collected during the years 1928-1930 under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee on Native American Languages. Included are field notes, grammars, dictionaries, studies of Handsome Lake religion, medical prescriptions, comparative linguistics, and correspondence with Franz Boas. Contains data on consultants, texts, translations, paradigms, grammatical studies, and lexical files.
Call #:
Mss.497.3.OL2
Extent:
4.5 Linear feet
Subjects:
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American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on Native American Languages | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cayuga Indians | Cherokee language | Correspondence. | Handsome Lake, 1735-1815 | Indians of North America -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Medicine | Indians of North America -- New York (State) | Indians of North America -- Religion | Iroquois Indians | Names, Iroquois | Newspaper clippings | Nitrate negatives | Notes. | Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958 | Oneida Indians | Oneida language | Onondaga Indians | Onondaga language | Seneca | Seneca language | Tuscarora Indians | Tuscarora language