Processing information: Thomas Abler's Seneca materials were recatalogued as the Thomas Abler Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.277) in 2023.

Project report and notes from field work at Coeur d'Alene Reservation in 1987, Colville Reservation in 1988 and 1991, and the Nez Perce Reservation in 1990 (37 p.); essay, "Descent and Clan in the Plateau Culture Area" (first draft, 63 p.).

Project report (14 p.); transcripts of life history interviews with Sophie Gabourie, Sept. 18, 1979 (38 p.); and Isabel Arcasa Oct. 2, 1979 (35 p.). Conducted on the Colville Indian Reservation, Washington.

Related material: See Recording Collection 119 for accompanying audio material.

Black and white, color photographs, ink sketches of mayan processions, festivals, dances, masks.

Two archeological and ethnohistorical essays by Thomas A. Lee, Jr. and Sidney D. Markman on Coxoh Maya (16 and 20 p.); transcriptions of 17th and 18th century Spanish colonial documents relating to Chiapas (ca. 60 p.).

Paper presented at the 1981 Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, San Antonio, Texas (11 p.). Based on fieldwork in 1977, southeastern Chiapas, Mexico.

Letter to APS Librarian describing materials sent (1 p.); "Status of Archives" paper, describing archives in Chiapas (3 p.); copies of field notes, including Tzeltal religious text with interlinear gloss (62 p.).

"Pilgrimages and Politico-economic Organization: The Tzeltal and Tojolabal Pilgrimages of Southeastern Chiapas" (10 p.); "Political and Economic Correlates of Pilgrimage Behavior" (37 p.)

Field report (68 p.) plus 6 black and white photographs as figures, removed from mounting; 68 photographs (most black and white, some color) of festivals, plants, portraits of people; photocopy of unidentified historic manuscript partially in Tzotzil (ca. 105 p.). Includes discussion and photographs of religious pilgrimages and concomitant religious practices; discussion of prayers (with emphasis on the Rezo Tzeltal), the cargo system, and the Coxoh colonial project; report on pilgrimages by the Tzeltal and Tojolabal; copies of papers on the Coxoh (Chicomuceltec) coauthored by Thomas A. Lee, Jr., and Sidney D. Markham (given at the Society for Historic Archaeology and the Forty-second International Congress of Americanists); transcripts of Spanish manuscripts; field notes.

Related material: See Recording Collection 108 for accompanying audio material.

Photographs taken in Bajucu, Morelia, and Trinitaria, Chiapas, Mexico. Captions provided by Adams. Numbering created by archivist and does not reflect order originally taken.

Captions provided by Adams. Numbering created by archivist and does not reflect order originally taken.

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Consists of report (1 p.); catalog of manuscript materials (20 p.); inventory of photographs (5 p.). The catalog lists documents on the Salish, the Kwakiutl, and Indian Shakers; correspondence between Marian Smith and Ernest Bertelson; typewritten notes of Arthur Ballard on Salish; photographs on various topics.

Report on visits to archives in Missouri and Nebraska (including a visit to Santee Sioux Reservation) in search of administrative records relating to Santee, Nebraska (1p.).

Project report (3 p.), including listing of photos from Skinner-Oneroad Collection in the Heye Foundation of the National Museum of the American Indian. Also includes 46 color slides. Clearance to photograph materials grant by Michael I. Selvage, Sr., Tribal Secretary fof the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe (now Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), which requested the photography. Forty articles were photographed and 25 were omitted from photography at request of the Sisseton-Wahpeton. Copies of the photographs were also deposited with the Sisseton-Wahpteon archives.

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Paper, "Constructing Aspect in Plains Cree" presented at WSCLA 10, University of Toronto, March 4-6 2005, concerning ambiguity and telic interpretation (9 p.); release form (1 p.); three CDs of Plains Cree with consultant Toni Cardinal, Vancouver, British Columbia, and one on Blackfoot; two intermediary reports (2 p.) on fieldwork on the semantic, syntactic and morphological properties of Plains Cree intransitive predicates, and later work (due to structural similarity) on Blackfoot (3 p.).

Related material: See Constructing Aspect in Plains Cree (Mss.Rec.275) for associated audio materials.

Masters thesis, Linguistics, University of Manitoba, 1998 (184 p.). Based on fieldwork in Kitiganik, Quebec.

Related material: See Recording Collection 259 for accompanying audio material.

Typescript of unpublished (?) monograph (137 p.) Includes info on natural history, plants and animals, social life and customs, demographic statistics, genealogical charts, etc., of the Lacandon, Chiapas, Mexico, based partially on Phillips Fund research in Mitla, Mexico.

Letter to Whitfield Bell regarding materials being sent (2 p.); English translation of audio interviews Juan Gregorio (in Series B of Recording Collection 111) (105 p.); "Glossary of Papago words" (14 p.); "Glossary/Index to Texts" (14 p.). Based on fieldwork conducted in southern Arizona.

Related material: See Recording Collection 111 for accompanying audio material.

Project report and photocopies of field notebooks containing transcriptions of audio recordings (185 p.). Recorded in Lewiston, Idaho, with consultant Horace Axtell. Contents page describes "various kinship terms with various possessors, and pronominal prefixes; in various cases; adjective agreement, and number"; mostly sentence elicitations.

Related material: See Recording Collection 146 for accompanying audio material.

Xerox of article in Mason, Jeffrey D. and J. Ellen Gainor (eds.) "Cultural Nationalism in American Theater" (2001, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press), resulting from a Phillips Fund grant.

Typescript of a book to be published by the National Museum of Canada (664 p., in two books); "Traditional Narratives (adaaorh) of the Tsimsyan Nations on the North Pacific Coast", with illustrations and maps (ca. 150 p.). Consists of an account of the wanderers or fugitives from Siberia who helped populate the northwest coast of the Americas. By means of epic-folklore collected by Barbeau and Beynon since 1916, he tells of migration routes, the particular traditions of the Tsimshian, and 126 traditional narratives (mostly collected by Beynon).

2 volumes, typeset and bound (738 p.). Second part in a series on North Pacific Coast migrations (part 1: "The Gwenhoot of Alaska"). Variants of origin stories; 110 traditional narratives, recorded by William Beynon, 1916-1950.

Typeset manuscript in book form (419 p.). Continuation of the series begun with "Gwenhoot of Alaska" and "Temlarh'am". Consists of 89 texts in English collected by the late William Beynon. The texts refer to many Northwest Coast peoples. Consultants are named inside.

Typeset manuscript "Matlatzinca Phonology", describing the phonology of Matlazinca/pjiekak'joo (7 p.); spectograms for tonal analysis (7 p.); 179 verbs with English and Spanish translations (11 p.); texts with interlinear Spanish glosses (19 p.). Likely from fieldwork in the Toluca Valley, Mexico.

Related material: See Recording Collection 60 for accompanying audio material.

Correspondence (1 p.); PhD thesis submitted to the University of Oklahoma (346 p.), examining the labor history of Native Americans on the Round Valley Reservation, California, based on archival research and own fieldwork in the area.

Project report with correspondence with the American Philosophical Society (7 p.). The report details the excavation of a Lenape burial ground near the Brandywine River, Pennsylvania.

Project report (1 p.). Research was conducted at the American Philosophical Society on A. Irving Hallowell's fieldnotes relating to the 1918 influenza epidemic in Berens River and Poplar River, Manitoba.

Correspondence and contents summary (1 p.); index to audio tapes (2 p.); report (2 p.); copies of published articles on Nisgha morphology and syntax, based on the fieldwork (17 p.); copy of field notebook, containing transcriptions and translations of tapes, with some typeset interlinear glosses and free translations (69 p.). Fieldwork was conducted in Vancouver and New Aiyansh, British Columbia, with consultants including Bertha Azak, Dorothy Doolan, Sam Haizimsque, Verna Williams, and Rosie Robinson. Nisga'a/Nisgha language.

Related material: Recordings of Nisgha language field studies (Mss.Rec.163).

Letter to APS Librarian (1 p.); tape inventory describing contents, fieldwork conducted with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and terms of usage (1 p.); Reading Culture: The Cherokee Syllabary and the Eastern Cherokees, 1993-1995 (Diss.: University of Chicago, 1996): transferred to Printed Materials; receipt of accession (1 p.).

Related material: See Recording Collection 262 for accompanying audio material.

Report (1 p.); notes on transcription (4 p.); transcription of texts, with 4-line interlinear glosses and separate morphological breakdown of each word (185 p.); 3 papers: "Switch-reference of Switch-topic?", 10th Inuit Studies Conference, 1996 (14 p.); "Ergativity and topic in West Greenlandic" (10 p.); and "Discourse, topic, and switch-reference in West Greenlandic," 1998 SSILA Annual Meeting (11 p.). Fieldwork conducted at the University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, 1996, based on recordings in 1995.

Report, including a full itinerary (3 p.). Ethnohistorical research on the Ebbetts-Kinninook Tlingit family.

Index (2 p.) to the Luis S. Kemnitzer Papers at the American Philosophical Society, including sections on the San Francisco Bay Area Urban Indian Relocation Project, Pine Ridge Reservation (Oglala Lakota), Yurok, Palau, and Californian railroad lore. Prepared by Tressa Berman as part of a Phillips Fund grant awarded to project director William Willard, Washington State University. The processing of the Luis S. Kemnitzer Papers has been guided by this index.

Correspondence between H. Russell Bernard and Whitfield Bell, APS Librarian, including a letter from Jesus Pedraza to Whitfield Bell written in Otomi, with English translation, described as "the first spontaneous correspondence ever to be produced in Otomi" (10 p.); summaries of Otomi stories recorded on reel-to-reel tapes (4 p.); copy of Bernard's manuscript "Otomi Phonology and Orthography" submitted to IJAL (8 p.); transcriptions of the Otomi stories in Otomi orthographic transcription, with English literal and free translations (44 p.); correspondence with the APS reporting on work in 1974 with Jesus Pedraza in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, on corpora of Otomi humor and ethnographic descriptions (3 p.).

Related material: See Recording Collection 86 and Recording Collection 90 for accompanying audio material.

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Correspondence with the APS (1 p.); copies of fieldnotes from summer 2005, Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Lame Deer, Montana, containing ethnographic notes focusing on ceremonies and social customs (ca. 180 p.); 2 CDs of photographs from a pow-wow, summer 2005.

Restrictions on Use: Researchers wishing to use these materials in a publication or publish the names of consultants must contact the Manuscripts department for permission.

Report, 1994 (1p.)

Recordings and transcriptions of Koasati from the Coushatta tribe, Elton, Louisiana. Consultants not yet identified.

Correspondence and report (6 p.); spectograms (9 p.); copy of a paper, "Vowel effects of uvular and pharyngeal consonants in Nxa?amxcin (Interior Salish)" (8 p.); charts of uvular and pharyngeal phonetic data (10 p.); original field notebook with elicitations (52 p.). Fieldwork in 1989 was with speakers of Moses-Columbia Salish in Omak and Colville Indian Reservation, Washington, and with Spokane speaker Pauline Flett on the Muckleshoot Reserve, Washington. Fieldwork in 1990 was to Plummer, Idaho with Coeur d'Alene and Colville-Okanagan speakers.

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Report (2 p.); lexical materials on "St'at'imcets elicitation", a database for eliciting CV/VC combinations (4 p.); field notebook containing elicitations (73 p.); tape inventory (1 p.); and 4 cassette tapes (Rec. 253). Includes data for Tlingit (consultants: Richard Newton, Judson Brown); Ahousaht Nuu-chah-nulth (George Louie); Gitksan Tsimshian (Barbara Sennott); St'at'imcets (Rose Whitley) and Nxa?kepmx (Dorothy Ursaki). Fieldwork in Vancouver, Lillooet and Victoria (British Columbia), and Seattle (Washington), on interaction between consonants and vowels in initial and final position in St'at'imcets, with other Salishan languages and Tlingit.

Related material: See Recording Collection 253 for accompanying audio material.

Project report (2 p.), research report (10 p.), and photocopies of documents from the National Archives of Canada (ca. 500p.). Research was on the shooting death of Dudley George, Stoney Point Band, by Ontario Provincial Police, and surrounding land rights claims, based on archival research and undisclosed fieldwork (due to sensitivities).

Field report (2 p.) and index to field recordings (7 p.). Fieldwork concerned Hopi song genre classifications, and conducted in Arizona, particularly Oraibi and Sicomovi. Consultants included Earl Albert, Charlie Talawepi, Don Talayeseva, and Sylvin Nash.

Related material: See Hopi Indian Songs for accompanying audio material.

Report (2 p.). Fieldwork aimed to determine stylistic differences between words in Hopi songs and spoken Hopi, and was conducted in seven Hopi villages of Arizona: Moenkopi, Hotevilla, Baccavi, New Oraibi, Oraibi, Shongopovi, Shipaulavi, and Sichomovi.

Related material: See Hopi Songs (Mss.Rec.47) for recordings from the session and further metadata.

Doctoral dissertation in Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, 1964 (456 p.). Fieldwork conducted during 1957, 1958 and 1960 on the Hopi Indian Reservation, Northern Arizona. Detailed analysis of contents of "secular chants or announcement-making". Includes interlinear glosses and free translations.

Photocopy of "History of the Queen Charlotte Islands: Haidas and Their Legends" by Charles Harrison, from the University of British Columbia.

APS correspondence (1 p.) and report (7 p.) on biography of Florence Davidson, eventually published as "During My Time: Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman" (University of Washington Press, 1982).

Project report and correspondence (4 p.); article "Emphatic Pronouns in Plains Cree", 1994, describing personal pronouns that only occur in emphatic contexts (70 p.); two field notebooks containing elicitations (81 p. each, some double-sided). Research was conducted at Spiritwood, Saskatchewan. Consultants: Bill Sewepagaham, from northern Alberta, near Slave Lake, in 1992, and Jane Tipewan of Wichikan Lake Reserve, Saskatchewan, in 1993.

Related material: See Recording Collection 191 for accompanying audio material.

Not yet transferred.

Masters thesis, Linguistics, University of British Columbia, 1999, including spectographs (95 p.). Includes cover letter from John Alderete (1 p.). Original title of Phillips Fund project: "Phonetic and Phonological Investigations in Tahltan Stress".

1 CD of Washo language recordings.

Report on fieldwork at the "Restigouche Micmac Indian Reserve" (Listuguj Mi'gmaq First Nation) and other nearby reservations, with commentary on political, economic, and educational changes during the period 1961-1971 (3 p.).

Report of fieldwork during summer 1969 to St. Regis Mohawk Indian Reservation, between Cornwall Island Ontario and Hogansburg New York (5 p.). The report details factors in Mohawk, English and French language use, and synchronic linguistic fieldwork.

Report (1 p.); correspondence (1 p.); inventory of tapes (4 p.). Fieldwork conducted at Newtown, North Dakota. Tapes described include a comparative study of Mandan and Hidatsa, historical narratives by Hidatsa consultant James Driver, and a reanalysis of word lists, syntax and structure in a publication by Washington Matthews, 1877.

Related material: See Mandan-Hidatsa cultural change and language studies, Fort Berthold Reservation (Mss.Rec.84) for referenced tapes, including a fuller contents description of each reel.

Report (3 p.) on archival research, mostly detailing derived publications.

M.A. thesis submitted to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (66 p.). Concerns Tuscarora political organization, and the "level of cultural development". Includes maps.

Article (32 p.) written for the Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 14, Northeast. Describes culture, history, and synonymy.

PhD thesis in Anthropology submitted to the University of North Carolina (284 p.). Study of Tuscarora village political organization, particularly their relationships to one another and ethnic identity.

Research was on the impact of smallpox on Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast, with funds used to conduct research at various archives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Project report (2 p.); copies of handwritten notes and article xeroxes with marginalia (92 p.); typeset copy of William Duncan's journal, from the William Duncan Papers at the University of British Columbia (16 p.).

PhD dissertation submitted to the University of Florida (192 p.).

Report in research in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., on Yavapai colonial history (1 p.).

PhD thesis delivered to Brown University (bound, 210 p.). Fieldwork was conducted throughout Massachusetts, including in Natick.

Xeroxes of manuscripts from various Massachusetts archives (44 p.). Used for 1981 PhD thesis, "Another Tongue Brought In: An Ethnohistorical Study of Native Writings in Massachusett".

Copy of a paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, November 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana (9 p.). Discusses stratification by age group. Criterion is the extent to which stops are spirantized. Research conducted at Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico.

PhD thesis submitted to the Southern Methodist University (142 p.). Includes historical background; Sandia Pueblo as a modern community; phonology; morphology; changes in phonology and morphology across four generations; use of Sandia, Spanish, and English in the community.

Reprints of articles in Southwestern Journal of Anthropology: "The Cultural Position of the Kiowa-Apache", 5(1); "Peyotism Among the Kiowa-Apache and Neighboring Tribes", 6(2); "Kiowa Apache Culture History: Some Further Observations", 9(2).

Report (2 p.); copies of correspondence verifying that "The Mourning Dove and L. V. McWhorter Correspondence" may be published (2 p.). The Phillips Fund funded travel to multiple places, including to visit the Mourning Dove and McWhorter heirs in British Columbia and elsewhere.

Report (1 p.) on research into phonetics and phonology of Upriver Halkomelem. Consultants include: Elizabeth Herrling, Strang Brown, Maliol Harris, James Thompson, and Martina Wiltschko. Chiliwack, British Columbia.

Related material: See The Tonal Phonology of Upriver Halkomelem (Mss.Rec.282) for associated audio materials.

Project report (2 p.); 1 CD-R. Electronic database "containing all of the extant textual material on the Algonquian language Wampanoag (aka Massachussett, Natick)". The report mentions plain-text versions of the texts, accessible (as of 8/29/2017) at The Internet Archive.

Project report (2 p.) on research at the University of Arizona and Hubbell's Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona, on railway travel's relationship with the consumption of Navajo-made products, and the necessity of using pre-industrial production techniques to fulfil an image to non-Natives.

Project report (1 p.); correspondence with Eleanor Roach, Phillips Fund Research Administrator (2 p.); PhD thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota (380 p.). Research was conducted at the Crow Reservation, Big Horn County, Montana. Identity in on the Crow Reservation; histories and re-enactments of the Battle of Little Bighorn/the Battle of the Greasy Grass/Custer's Last Stand.

PhD thesis submitted to Indiana University (154 p.); correspondence with the American Philosophical Society (1 p.); copies of fieldnotes from 1976 (172 p.). Research was conducted on the Kaibab Paiute Reservation (Kaibab Indian Reservation), northern Arizona. The thesis describes declarative sentences; the interface of Southern Paiute morphology and syntax; subordination (syntax); suffix /kai/; and contemporary sociolinguistics of Southern Paiute. Fieldnotes are mostly elicited narratives with interlinear glosses.

Correspondence with the APS (1 p.); report (9 p.); "The Position of Potawatomi in Southwest Michigan", presented to the American Anthropological Association in 1992 (3 p.); contents of audio tapes (6 p.). Consultants were Julia Wesaw, Martin Wesaw and other members of the Wesaw family; Ella Lois. Research conducted in Southern Michigan, especially Rush Lake, and was part of the Potawatomi Language Project, started in 1991, which aims to document Potawatomi.

Related material: See Potawatomi language recordings (Mss.Rec.193).

Report (2 p.); 52 photocopies of photographs from originals in the Southwest Museum, Huntington Library, Pasadena Public Library, and the Seaver Center, Los Angeles County Museum. Images include Hopi dwellings, dance formations, individual and group portraits.

Correspondence with the APS (1 p.); report (1 p.); abstract of paper "The Conjunct Order in Algonquian" (1 p.); notes on particle placement, uses of referents, the structure of noun phrases, and question formation, with examples from the recordings (24 p.); paper: "The Conjunct Order in Algonquian" (29 p.). Research conducted at Pleasant Point, Maine and later Orono, Maine, primarily with consultants David Francis, Joseph Louis (Passamaquoddy speakers), and Robert Leavitt (director of Micmac-Maliseet Institute, University of New Brunswick).

Related material: Passamaquoddy Syntax Project (Mss.Rec.245).

Copy of an Aztec manuscript in Nahuatl discovered in Santa Maria Ixhuatan, Guatemala which, as described by Campbell, "bears several dates, 1605, 1649, etc., and speaks often of the Conquerors of Guatemala and the Southern region (Pedro Alvarado, Chavez, etc.)" including a map (109 p.); copies of Lyle Campbell's Xinca fieldnotes, recorded 1972 in Guazacapan, Santa Rosa, Guatemala, consisting mostly of elicited lexica with consultants Tomas Garcia, Ciriaco Santo, Lucio Soliz Perez, Cipriano Gomez, Teofilia, Eugenio Lopez Martinez, and Felipe Marroquin (111 p.).

Project report including information regarding attempt to locate Chicomuceltec speakers in Chiapas, location of some Mam speakers, continuation of work in Guatemala with Xinca speakers to determine extent of where Xinca is spoken, location of a different variety of Xinca in Jumaytepeque, and discovery in Santa Maria Ixhuatan in the possession of the sindico a manuscript written in Nahuatl dating from the early 17th century, which he was permitted to photocopy.

Report (2 p.) on fieldwork in Todos Santos, Guatemala, with speakers of Northern Mam. Mostly traditional stories and narratives of activities were collected.

Report (1p.); 8 35mm slides Images include village scenes, councils, dancing, cooking by Native American artists Richard West, Woodrow Crumbo, Acee Blue Eagle, Stephen Mopope, and Solomon McComb, of Seminoles, Kiowa, and Chickasaw.

Project report (with correspondence) on field work with Spokane language speakers (named as Margaret Sherwood, Nancy Flett, Albert Sam and Antoine Andrews) as part of Spokane Dictionary Project (4 p.); tape inventory and information on notebooks (4 p.); draft version of Spokane dictionary (153 p.). Research was conducted on the Spokane Indian Reservation, eastern Washington, United States. The tapes and notebooks were not deposited at the APS. A version of the Spokane dictionary was published in 1989 with Pauline Flett.

Report (1 p.) describing research trips to various archives in Oklahoma, North Carolina and Mississippi.

Project report (2 p.); copies of fieldnotes consisting mostly of phonemes, lexica, narratives and sentences with interlinear glosses (75 p.). Research was conducted between 1969 and 1970. Research in 1969 was on the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota on phonetics and phonology, with consultants Noah, Maxine and Garfield Grassrope, and Herbert Flute. Research in 1970 was on the Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota on phonological analysis, polymorphemic words, and verb paradigms, with consultants Joseph Marshall, Lloyd One Star, Moses Big Crow, and Noah Kills. All spoke the Western variety of Dakota.

Related material: See Dakota language, Western dialect (Mss.Rec.84A) for associated audio materials.

Copy of an unpublished typeset manuscript draft on Onondaga phonological processes, simple sentences, and semantics of verbal and nominal units (183 p.). Research was conducted on the Onondaga Reservation in New York.

Report (1 p.) on a project to assess the social, economic and environmental impact of oil discoveries on the Navajo Reservation. Research was conducted at various locations in Arizona and New Mexico.

Related material: The dissertation was separated to Printed Materials, catalogued here.

Over 80 hours of audio recordings of children aged 1-11 years.

Restrictions on Access: Permission to access must be obtained from researcher for 10 years after deposit. Please speak to the Manuscripts department.

Correspondence with the APS (1 p.); photocopy of article, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 30 (1987), 269-290 (22 p.).

Report (1 p.) on research conducted at the Minnesota History Center, Minnesota, and Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on missionary correspondence, involving some oral histories with Dakota elders.

Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society dated 1988 (1 p.); research report for "Smith River Athabaskan, Phase II" describing the collection of 185 pages of fieldnotes and 60+ hours of audio recordings in Smith River, California, and the phonological, morphological, syntactic and narrative products (7 p.); "Vowel Reduction and Syllable Structure in Tolowa" typeset manuscript draft (32 p.); "Nasalization, Lengthening and Phonological Rhyme in Tolowa" typeset manuscript draft submitted to IJAL for 1988 (24 p.); "Tolowa lexical structure, the verb", described as the "background to a proposed Tolowa Lexicon Project" (8 p.); "Working Draft: Order Classes, Tolowa Verb, October, 1987" (20 p.); and many brief working documents titled: "lexical entries" on verb themes, bases and forms (4 p.); "Nominals in Tolowa" (4 p.); "Optative: a fragmentary paradigm" (1 p.); "WH-movement" (4 p.); "relatives" on syntax (4 p.); "control structures" (2 p.); "adverbials" (2 p.); "provisional transcript of sk'3m' nedaS" interlinear text (1 p.); "provisional transcription: xweYa'xaSne'" interlinear text (2 p.).

Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society (1 p.); report on "The Structure of Smith River Athabaskan" describing fieldwork at Smith River, California, on phonological contrasts, nominal morphology and verbal morphology (1 p.); "Tolowa Morphology and Syntax in Comparative Perspective", presented at the American Anthropological Association meetings 1984 (13 p.); and "Outline of Tolowa Grammar" typeset manuscript draft (22 p.); "Pronouns, markedness, and stem change in Tolowa" to be published in IJAL 1985 (7 p.). Copies of the fieldnotes are described as being at the University of Washington Library.

Typeset manuscript concerning etymologies of "smoke" and "puffball" in Indigenous languages of North America (8 p.). See "Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian ethnobotany fieldnotes" for details of original fieldwork.

Typeset manuscript concerning the consumption of the fungal parasite "ghost's ears" of fool's huckleberries (11 p.). See "Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian ethnobotany fieldnotes" for details of original fieldwork in British Columbia.

Typeset manuscript on "the talismanic use of fungal and plant species belonging to four genera [...] among the Upper North Wakashan groups (Haihais, Haisla, Heiltsuk, and Oweekeno)", from fieldwork in British Columbia (26 p.). See "Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian ethnobotany fieldnotes" for more detail on the fieldwork.

PhD thesis submitted to the University of British Columbia titled "Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants and Fungi Among the Oweekeno, Hanaksiala (Kitlope and Kemano), Haisla (Kitamaat) and Kitasoo Peoples of the Central and North Coasts of British Columbia" (bound, 530 p.). Describes botanical knowledge, use and nomenclature among the named Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian groups. Appendices include indexes of botanical names in the subject languages.

Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society (2 p.); contents list (1 p.); and typeset ethnobotanic fieldnotes (mostly descriptive of conversations with Indigenous and Latin names for plants) recorded in 1989-1990 divided into sections titled: "Heiltsuk" (65 p.), "Oweekeno" (35 p.), "Haihais" (7 p.), "Haihais/Kitasoo" (14 p.), "Kitasoo" (2 p.), and "Kitlope (Hanaksiala)" (8 p.). Research was conducted at various locations in British Columbia including: Pauline Waterfall, Klemtu, Bella Bella, North Delta, Oweekeno village, Sointula, and University of British Columbia Native Plant Garden. See correspondence for details of restrictions on Waglisla (Bella Bella) materials.

Project report (1 p.); summary of tapes and contents, with interlinear transcriptions (25 p.). Grantee documented "all of the verb paradigms of the various modes of the conjunct order in Arapaho" during research at Wind River Reservation, Wyoming and Boulder, Colorado, mostly with consultants Alonzo Moss and Merry Kate Underwood. Elements were used for a pedagogical grammar of Arapaho.

Related material: The recordings made as part of this project are cataloged under Recording Collection 278.

Report, 1996 (1p.) and report, 1998 (2p.). Concerns preparations for a book tentatively titled "Faces of the North: The Ethnographic Photographs of John Honigmann", on First Nations peoples, and other research on John Honigmann.

Typeset manuscript draft based on archival research conducted in Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Cambridge, Massachusetts (27 p.).

Recorded by Davidson in Neh (Neah?) Bay, Washington, 2003. Not yet transferred.

PhD thesis submitted to the University of California, San Diego (bound, 475 p. printed double-sided, two pages per side). Research conducted in Oklahoma, particularly Broken Bow. Analysis of major clausal constructions in Choctaw within the framework of relational grammar.

Contents listing and abbreviations (3 p.). Copies and reprints of Davies' articles and manuscripts on Choctaw between 1981 and 1984 (see also Davies, William D.: "Choctaw Clause Structure", PhD thesis) (7 articles, total 175 p.). Copies of typeset interlinear texts, some with lexica: "Bana:ha/Shortbread" (2 p.); "Chahta Yakni/Choctaw Land" (2 p.); "Chokfi anoti Shilaklak/The Rabbit and the Geese" (3 p.); "Chokfi, nashoba, anoti ohoyo alhtakla/The Rabbit, the Wolf, and the Widow" (10 p.); "Kitti anoti kitosh/Mortar and Pestle" (3 p.); "Kowi anoti Shokhata/The Lion and the Opossum" (12 p.); "Loksi anoti Oho:yo Alhtakla/The Turtle and the Widow" (6 p.); "Oka/Water" (3 p.); "Tolih (traditional Choctaw ball game)" (14 p.); "Simon Durant Tells of Moving to Oklahoma" (3 p.). Elicited sentences with Choctaw morpheme divisions and English translations, copied from fieldnotes taken in 1980 (77 p., ca.1875 sentences). Consultants for texts and elicited sentences are named as Cynthia Billy, Simon Durant, and Diane and Nettie Jacob.

Related material: See Choctaw Stories (Mss.Rec.120) for associated audio materials.

Orthography and source note (2 p.); preliminary dictionary of Acoma Pueblo Western Keresan, New Mexico (135 p., ca.1950 lexical items). Sourced from work by Wick R. Miller and Davis' fieldwork (no consultants or placenames are provided).

Report on archaeological expedition to the island of Inugsuk (north of Upernivik, Greenland). Taken from letters to her family. For photographs taken by de Laguna during the expedition, see: Frederica de Laguna Photograph Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.31).

Brief description of Greenland Recordings (Mss.Rec.123), including work with Greenlandic consultants Birgithe Møldrop, Paulita Petrussen, Pavia Geisler, Niels Møller, Kristoffer Kleeman, and Peter Geisler, and tape contents (2 p.). See also "Study of childhood memories of Greenlanders" project report, also in the Phillips Fund Collection.

Correspondence with the American Philosophical Society and project report (9 p.). Contains a fuller description of Greenland Recordings (Mss.Rec.123) and plans for derived publications. Fieldwork was conducted in Upernavik, Greenland.

Project report (3 p.); typeset manuscript of paper "Native Peoples of Connecticut: Culture, Politics and Power, 1700-1994," presented at annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, 1994 (12 p.). Research was on ethnic identity and political mobilization among Native peoples of southern New England in C18, involving archival research and an oral history project at North Stonington, Connecticut.

Report (1 p.); photocopies, Sept. 1992: elicited lexica and sentences, verbs of speaking, and kinship terms., with consultants Lenny Solomon, Doris Williams, Adam Williams and possibly others (36 p.); interlinear gloss of narrative by Henry Solomon about a white man in the Nemiah Valley named Robertson (15 p.). Nemaiah Valley, British Columbia.

Related material: Chilcotin language recording (Mss.Rec.257).

Report (2 p.) on research at archives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, concerning Chippewa engagement in colonial economies, and Chippewa social customs.

Correspondence and report (6 p.) comparing lingua franca Creek (Drechsel's terminology) with Creek (Muskogee) and Mobilian Jargon, and providing linguistic, historical and sociocultural description of lingua franca Creek. Research was conducted at various university and national archives.

Correspondence and report (6 p.) on Mobilian Jargon's usage and linguistic structure. Research was conducted at various archives in Louisiana, and with several Koasati including Tom John and Ernest Sickey (Lafayette).

Letter, Oct. 11, 1977 (2 p.); report (8 p.); photocopy of English-"Nottawegh" (Mohawk)-Cherokee word list, in Duke of Northumberland's Library in hand of Cherokee Indian, John Norton (12 p.). Research conducted at the British Museum, U.K., in search of primary materials on Iroquois history.

Typeset manuscript on Coast Tsimshian (9 p.). Includes maps, regional history from early 19th century, Tsimshian family tree, phonology and phonotactics.

Report on fieldwork on Pima Bajo, with a very brief discussion concerning phonology and syntax (3 p.). Fieldwork was conducted with consultant Leonardo Duarte O., Yecora, Eastern Sonora, Mexico.

Related material: See Pima Bajo recordings (Mss.Rec.55) for associated audio materials.

Report (1 p.). Research conducted at the National Archives, Washington D.C.

Project report describing the elicitation of over 1400 Haida sentences and derived publications (1 p.); M.A. thesis submitted to the University of Washington, examining topicalization in Haida (43 p.).

Divided into 19 parts: Vocabulary, word list (92 p.) Word list (86 p.) and story (4 p.) Word list (86 p.) and story (4 p.) Word list dated 1983-05-05 (166 p.) "Full word list" dated 1983-05-31 (28 p.) Word list tables (160 p.) "1984 Kaigani version of the Skidegate story that occurs in Swanton 1911." (6 p.) Psalm 46 in Haida (4 p.) "Psalm 46 in Haida + list of words in the database and the sentence # of each occurrence" (18 p.) Concordence of Psalm 46 (35 p.) "A list of words in the KWOC database and the number of the sentences in which each occurs" (40 p.) Haida conversation, 1983 (22 p.) "AHT correspondences according to Boas" (5 p.) "(1) Word list and sentence of Haida First Kill Potlatch; (2) Concordance of Haida First Kill Potlatch" (28 p.) "Octopus song. Sorted database. Spring 1984." (76 p.) "All the words in the Kaigani version of the Skidegate story and the number of the sentences in which each occurs" Concordence of Kaigani version of Skidegate story (51 p.) "Octopus song; Beginning of Margaret's story; Lil's telling of Margaret's telling of the Octopus song" (37 p.) "The sorted database" (251 p.)

Handwritten project report (1 p.); Serrano-English dictionary (ca.400 p., ca.2200 lexical entries, on continuous form stationary); APS accession receipt (1 p.). The dictionary is described by author and grantee Eric Elliott as a "rough draft of Serrano-English Dictionary, divided into Noun and Verb sections, not yet alphabetized, but does contain some 2000 entries" and was produced with consultant and speaker Dorothy Ramón at Banning, California, 1995-1996.

Report of the project titled "Cahuilla Oral Traditions" (2 p.); draft orthographic transcriptions and English interlinear glosses of 516 texts preserved in 4 folders (ca. 1000 p., as per the grantee's estimate). The project consisted of editing previously recorded and transcribed texts of Mountain Cahuilla (Ivilyuat), and updating an online Mountain Cahuilla dictionary.

Report on Jamul Diegueno (Kumiai/Kumeyaay) language research in Jamul, California (1 p.); index and interlinear glosses (34 p.) of ten texts, recorded with Gloria Casteneda and Helen Cuero, including "Wage labor," "The Coyote and the girls," "Anastasio Cuero," "Singing at a wake," "The coyote and the two brothers," "Singing in the old days," "The book of the Indians," "The sun", "Mules and names," and "Rocks".

Related material: Ten stories in Jamul Diegueño (Mss.Rec.264).

Report and inventory (5 p.); microfilm copies and photocopies of collections from the National Archives and the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) (ca.1000 p., very rough estimate, divided into 4 folders). Archival research on the 18th century Creek and the U.S. agent Benjamin Hawkins, as part of a social history of the Creek.

Project report, indices, and budget sheets (37 p. total) for a project to copy and transcribe cylinders (1931) and tapes (1982 remasters) of Mescalero Apache songs, held at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The indices provide detailed accounts of their contents, interpretations by consultant Bernard Second, and their audio quality. Cultural sensitivity information is on the first page.

Copy of typeset manuscript (136 p.). Later published as Fenton, William; Moore, Elizabeth (1974). "Introduction". In Lafitau, Joseph-François. Customs of the American Indians compared with the customs of primitive times. Toronto: Champlain Society.

Report (1 p.) of a project with Navajo speakers (three with PhDs; no location identified) to determine which nominal phrases are interpreted as indefinite, and which are interpreted as definite.

Report (2 p.); revised project description titled "Algonquian Work Roles in Southern New England, 1620-1810" (4 p.). Research conducted at various New England archives, eventually on gendered work roles.

Report (1 p.) on conversation elicitation between two native Navajo speakers, Taft Blackhorse of Bitl'a Bito (near Shiprock, New Mexico) and Ernest Johnson of Ganado, recorded at the University of New Mexico.

Related material: Navajo Conversational Discourse (Mss.Rec.256).

Copy of a typeset manuscript (17 p.) on the establishment of churches by Creek Indians in Oklahoma (specifically Dustin), after 1836. The churches' social use, structure, congregation, etc., are described, with illustrations.

Report and correspondence (2 p.); article "Degenerate feet and morphology in Tohono O'odham," Proc. West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics 15 (1996) (15 p.). Research was on the prosody of O'odham songs with consultants F. Alvarez and G. Jose (fieldwork location not named).

Dissertation. Includes photographs. (F&S 601). Item is currently located in LH-MV-E.

Restrictions on Use: Reproduction of this item, including reading room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information.

Abstract: Typed field report (13 p.) on the Cherokee ball game, field work in Oklahoma, and comments on myths and formulae. Also contains 24 formulae written in the Cherokee syllabary (18 p.).

Restrictions on Use: Reproduction or photography of material in the Cherokee syllabary is restricted.

Index of contents (1 p.); bibliography of materials about the Papiemento language (3 p.); index to slides (2 p.); typeset texts in Papiemento, Spanish, and English concerning music and dance of Curaçao (24 p.).

Related material: See Recording Collection 48 for accompanying audio material.

One set of 17 color slides, as described in "Materials on Papiamento"; one set of 22 color slides, not described by Forbes, including images of Willemstad. Previously separated from the collection and catalogued as Neg.416.

Set of 13 color slides of commercial images produced by J. L. Penha and Sons, as described in "Materials on Papiamento". Previously separated and catalogued as Neg.416

Correspondence with brief report (1 p.); typeset manuscript submission "Women Sachems" (14 p.), discussing Native American women sachems in New England in the seventeenth century.

Correspondence with the APS (1 p.); outline of contents of tapes (2 p.); report (1 p.). Describes transcription, translation and analysis of a Cayuga text outlining traditional Iroquois councils, with consultant Chief Jacob E. Thomas, Six Nations Reserve, southern Ontario, 1976.

Related material: See The Iroquois Council-Speaking Tradition: Close Linguistic Translation (Mss.Rec.165) for the described tapes.

Application for a Phillips Fund grant to perform linguistic analysis on a Cayuga political text (2 p.); inventory, description and certificate of gift of 20 audio tapes, mostly in Cayuga, recorded by Chief Thomas (Jacob E. Thomas) of the Six Nations Reserve, Ontario (5 p.). The audio tapes have been digitized and may be found at: The Iroquois Council-Speaking Tradition: Close Linguistic Translation (Mss.Rec.165).

Project report and correspondence (3 p.); outline of the contents of The Iroquois Council-Speaking Tradition: Close Linguistic Translation (Mss.Rec.165) tapes (4 p.); brief notes on the transcribed texts (7 p.); copies of handwritten transcription and analysis of the audio tapes (241 p. in two folders).

Project report (2 p.); outline of the contents of The Iroquois Council-Speaking Tradition: Close Linguistic Translation (Mss.Rec.165) tapes (2 p.); copies of handwritten transcription and analysis of the audio tapes (155 p. as per the grantee's account).

Typeset index cards detailing contents of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) texts housed at the Archives of Languages of the World (later Archives of Traditional Music), Indiana University. 14 tapes were copied to the American Philosophical Society and are now in the Winnebago Texts collection (Mss.Rec.29).

Processing information: Moved to this collection from Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200) in 2022, where it was titled "Winnebago Texts". Accession 1962 1049.

Related material: Some tapes described are in the collection Winnebago Texts (Mss.Rec.29). There may be other related material in the Paul Radin Papers (Mss.497.3.R114).

Conference manuscript and reprint titled "Mohawk Color Terms" (12 p. total). Based on Phillips Fund research with the Saint Regis Mohawks, likely at the reservation in Franklin County, New York.

Report (3 p.) on fieldwork in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, as well as various locations in South Dakota, to begin working relationships with speakers of Dakota. Photographs, texts, conversations (including on religion and ceremonies), songs and a word list are mentioned.

Two copies of a paper presented at the meeting of the Central States Anthropological Society, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, on Navajo words for types of spaces (13 p. each). Based on fieldwork on the Navajo Reservation, Arizona, 1969.

Related material: See Navajo Texts (Mss.Rec.79) for associated audio materials.

Guide to the holdings of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania relating to Native Americans in the colonial era, including brief descriptions of materials (38 p.).

Report (1 p.); "The First Hundred Words of the Oneida Creation Story as Told by Harvey Antone", containing a transcription, interlinear gloss, free translation and analysis of the creation story, and a lexicon (23 p.). Text recorded with Harvey Antone at the Oneida Indian Nation, Oneida, New York.

PhD thesis submitted to the University of Chicago, 1974 (578 p., bound).

Correspondence to the APS (1 p.); typeset manuscript "Athabaskans who have Cree for neighbors (51 p.); typeset manuscript "A few comments on the early records for the Mackenzie Basin- Slave, Dogrib, Mountain Indians" (7 p. including map). All xeroxes.

Report (2 p.); release forms (2 p.); map of Raco, Michigan, ca. 1930-1950 (1 p.); transcripts of interviews (171 p.); 5 CDs containing the interviews; copies of materials from the state archives of Michigan (ca. 80 p.). Involved archival research and oral history interviews with members of the Bay Mills Band of Ojibwe Indians, Northern Michigan, 2004-2005: Wayne Tadgerson, Marie Cameron, Bill LeBlanc, and Donald Parish. In addition to the title, the oral histories contain discussion of participation in World War II, experiences in public and boarding schools, the maintenance of traditional subsistence strategies from the 20th century onwards, and other socioeconomic and cultural themes.

PhD thesis submitted to the University of Chicago (229 p.); report (2 p.); xeroxes of notes on archival materials from various libraries including the Newberry Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Anthropological Archives (104 p., xeroxed two to a page). Archival materials were gathered for the dissertation. The dissertation concerns various aspects of colonial relations between English colonizers and Powhatans (including war and trade), as well as Powhatan and Algonquian politics, cosmologies, and missionaries.

Report (23 p.). Description of Frank Speck's Delaware material, with consultant Chief James Webber (Witapanoxwe), 1928. Notes on comments by Freddie Washington, Ollie Anderson and Annie Parks, Washington County, Oklahoma, in response to the tapes. Includes phonemic transcriptions of audible parts of the tapes, with some grammatical analysis.

Related material: Report describes Delaware Indian material (Mss.Rec.4), recorded by Frank Speck.

Report (1 p.); copies of lexical card slips (6 p.). Discusses the use of multiple orthographies, depending on source, for Iowa/Otoe (Chiwere/Iowa-Otoe-Missouria/Báxoje-Jíwere-Ñút'achi), and the collection of sources including James O. Dorsey's notes.

Related material: For the book mentioned in the report, see Jiwele-Baxoje wan'shige uk'enye ich'e (1977).

M.A. thesis submitted to Wesleyan University, Connecticut (185 p.). Research was conducted using a Phillips Fund grant at Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico, in 1967 ("San Juan Pueblo"). The thesis concerns Ohkay Owingeh, the Basket Dance (Tun Shadei), and transcriptions, sheet music and analysis of Tewa songs.

Restrictions on Access: This manuscript has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive. Reproduction and digital access is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.

Related material: Related audio can be found in the collection San Juan Pueblo music (Mss.Rec.62).

Handwritten original fieldnotes, including text transcriptions with some interlinearization, some tone marking, grammatical analysis, and lexica including kinship terminology (80 p.). No additional information is supplied, but may relate to Penobscot Indian language study (Mss.Rec.23), with consultant Arthur Neptune in Maine.

Release form (1 p.); transcriptions (44 p.) of 17th-18th century materials.

Project report (1 p.); copies of fieldnotes toward a semantic-syntactic analysis of the Salt River dialect of Akimel O'odham ("Pima"), at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Community, Arizona, 1979 (118 p.). The project report mentions cassette tapes donated to the APS (not found), transcriptions of which are part of the fieldnotes. The fieldnotes include sentence and vocabulary elicitation, ethnological notes, grammatical analysis (especially negation). Consultants are identified as "Mr Hayes" and "Mr King".

Description and discussion of documents relating to Iroquois participation in the American Revolution (6 p.).