Describes some items in the recently donated Harry Hoijer papers, includes brief identifying information on his Galice, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Jicarilla consultants, plus a note on "Navaho Texts."

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Letters regarding the application of the balance from the APS grant from Yale to University of Chicago for use by Hoijer

Copy to Jean Sapir, acknolwedging letter of April 5, approving transfer of grant to Hoijer, with handwritten note by Jean Sapier, stating the balance was to be used to support Chic Sandoval's fieldwork on Navajo.

Acknowledging receipt of check for balance of grant.

Agrees to take over Sapir's Navajo materials.

Possible suggested readers for a manuscript or suggested contacts on Sapir. Includes names and addresses of A. A. Hill, Wolf Leslau, Fang-Kuei Li, Jacqueline Linderfeld, and Yakov Malkiel.

Comparative data on verb forms in Dakelh ("Carrier"), Hupa, Tsetsaut, with some info on Tsuut'ina ("Sarsi").

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Re: research on Sapir and the history of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

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Charts of phonetic values of Carrier vowels and consonants. Based on Morice.

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Chiricahua texts with interlinear English glosses and English translations [H.H.'s fieldnotes while with the Univ. of Chicago Dept of Anthropology]. Inside cover of first notebook reads "Crook-Neck--Lipan speaking. About 60 yrs.--about mile from Sam's place". Informant: Sam Kenoi.  Texts are annotated for publication; many titles are corrected in the translation; some titles are numbered as well.

Contents:

Old Times (June 17, 1930) (pp. 1-4)

Coyote and the White Man (June 18, 1930) (pp. 4v-14)

Coyote and the Rock Rabbit 9 (or, The Rabbit Stuffed with Rocks) (June 18, 1930) (pp. 14v-15) no. 12

Coyote and the Rolling Rock (June 19, 1930) (pp. 15v-19) no. 14

Coyote Misses Rock Rabbit (n.d.) (pp. 19v-21) no. 13

Coyote and the Stink Bug (n.d.) (pp. 21v-25) no. 15

Coyote and the Lizard (June 21, 1930) (pp. 25v-33) no. 16

Coyote Dances with the Prairie Dogs (June 25, 1930) (pp. 33v-49) no. 17

Coyote Marries His Own Daughter (pp. 49v-60), no. 18 [cont'd in Notebook 2]

Contents:

Coyote marries His Own Daughter (pp. 1-5) no. 18 [continued from Notebook 1]

The Birth of Tóhágì._tcìnέ_ (pp. 6v-16) no. 1

The Killing of the Dragon (pp. 16v-38) no. 2

The Killing of the Bull (pp. 38v-44) no. 3

The Killing of the Eagle (pp. 44v-53) no. 4

The Killing of the Prairie Dogs (pp. 53v-59) no. 5 [continues in Notebook 3]

Contents:

Prairie Dogs, etc. (p. 1), no. 5 [continued from Notebook 2]

The Creation (pp. 1v-8) no. 6

The Gambling Game for Night and Day (pp. 8v-18) no. 7

Coyote Obtains Fire (pp. 18v-24) no. 10

The Quarrel between the Thunder and the Wind (pp. 24v-29) no. 8

The Sun (p. 30) no. 9

Old Apache Customs (pp. 31-57) no. 39

The First Gáhέ Dance (pp. 57v-61) no. 19 [continues in Notebook 4]

Contents:

The First Gáhέ Dance (pp. 1-22) no. 19 [continued from Notebook 3]

The Visit of the Mountain Spirits (pp. 22v-37) no. 20

Contents:

[page-numbering stops at 30; supplied numbers are in brackets]

The Foolish People and the Missing Pack (March 20, 1934) (pp. 1-5) no. 24

The Foolish People Imitate the Crow (March 20, 1934) (pp. 5v-7) no. 25

The Apache and the Commanche [sic] (March 20, 1934) (pp. 7v-9) no. 32

The Foolish People and the Horse (March 20, 1934) (pp. 9v-12) no. 26

The Fake Medicine Man (March 20, 1934) (pp. 12v-17) no. 33

The Foolish People and the White Man (March 20, 1934) (p. 17v-19) no. 22

The Foolish People Acquire Copper (March 20, 1934) (pp. 19v-22) no. 28

The Foolish People Go to War (March 20, 1934) (pp. 23-24) no. 29

The Foolish People Run Away (March 20, 1934) (pp. 24v-26) no. 30

The Woman Shaman (March 20, 1934) (pp. 26v-29) no. 34

A Visit to the Mountain Spirits (March 23, 1934) 29v-[p. 35] no. 22

The Mountain People and the Cripples (March 23, 1934) [pp. 35v-37] no. 23

The Woman Who Had Horse Power (March 23, 1934) [pp. 37v-40] no. 35

A Girl is Lost (March 23, 1934) [pp. 40v-42] no. 36

The Girl and the Water Spirit (March 23, 1934) [pp. 42v-45] no. 37

Stories of the Foolish People (March 23, 1934) [pp. 45v-48] no. 31

The Old Woman's Grandson [pp. 48v-60] no. 38 [indications that the legend is continued in another notebook; see notes to Box 6]

One notebook, entitled "Close of Duncan's Long Apache Texts Vol. VII, Mescalero", containing Mescalero texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses, English translation and additional notes on facing page. According to Kendall, this is last of the series begun in 4176 [= Box 5]. Contents:

[continuation of a story]

A Hunting Trip (18 pp) no. 9

Coyote and Dove (3 pp) no. 6

Coyote Marries his Daughter (6 pp) [text crossed out] no. 7

Typescript. English translations only [not proofread]; some tales in multiple copies. Informant and translator; Sam Kenoi.  Contents:

Coyote and the White Man (3 pp.)

Coyote and the Rabbit Stuffed with Rocks (1 p.)

Coyote and the Rolling Rock (1 p.)

Coyote Misses Real Rabbit (1 p.)

Coyote Marries his own Daughter (2 pp.)

The Foolish People and the Missing Pack (7 pp., several versions)

The Foolish People Imitate the Crow (2 pp.)

The Apache and the Comanche (2 pp.)

The Foolish People and the Horse (2 pp.)

The False Medicine Man (2 pp.)

5x7 handwritten slips of comparative Dene languages, alphabetically arranged, according to the English gloss. Comparative lexical data from Tsuut'ina ("Sarsi"), Denesuline ("Chipewyan"), and Navajo.

Charts of comparative data taken from 33 Dene languages and dialects. Dene ("Athabaskan") data, with English glosses, e.g., Tsuut'ina sínì, Denesuline sì, Navajo šì, Engl. 'I am'

Galice word and phrase list from a recording made with Galice speaker Hoxie Simmons at Siletz Reservation in 1956. (First part of original recording housed at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.) Handwritten on looseleaf, listing lexical items in phonemic transcription, with English glosses, e.g., dalbai. Lexicon includes nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, as well as inflected forms of nouns ('my wife, your wife, his wife') and phrases (e.g., 'I shall see it', 'what are you doing?'). According to Kendall, nouns and verbs with person markers, but no complete paradigms.

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5 notebooks of Jicarilla texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses. The notebooks, labeled 1 to 5, are paginated separately (some tales carry over). Informants: Cevero Caramillo and Alasco Tiznada. According to Kendall, texts in 4430 and 4433 are the same.

Contents:

[untitled] (pp. 1v-2)

Coyote and Lizard (10-17-34) (pp. 2v-4) no. 2

Coyote Eats a Meadow Mouse (10-18-34) (pp. 5-11) no. 3

[untitled] (10-18-34) (pp. 13-16)

Coyote and Elk (10-18-34) (pp. 16v-22) no. 5

The Gambling Game for Day [n.d.] (pp. 22v-29) no. 6

The Man Who Liked to Gamble (pp. 30-60) no. 7 [continues in notebook 2]

Contents:

[The Man Who Liked to Gamble; continued from notebook 1] [n.d.] (pp. 1-11)

The Woman who Became a Deer [n.d.] (pp. 11v-60)

Entries untitled.

Entries untitled.

Entries untitled.

Typed mss of ten texts: Coyote stories told by Cevero Caramillo; remaining texts by Alasco Tiznada, with the help of Cevero Caramillo. Each text contains four parts: Jicarilla text in phonemic transcription, English gloss (or literal translation), English translation, second English gloss.

Contents:

The Translation: Preface (1 p)

Texts:

1. The Greedy Coyote (4 pp)

2. Coyote and Lizard (4 pp)

3. Coyote Eats a Meadow Mouse (10 pp)

4. Coyote and Buffalo (8 pp)

5. Coyote and Elk (6 pp)

Contents:

6. The Gambling Game for Day (10 pp)

7. The Man Who Liked to Gamble (54 pp)

Contents:

8. The Woman Who Became a Deer (26 pp)

9. The Trip to the Plains for Buffalo (21 pp)

Contents:

10. The Abandoned Children (193 pp total), part 1

Contents:

10. The Abandoned Children, part 2

Phonemic transcription and translation of texsts 1-10 (see Jicarilla texts 1).

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

1. The Greedy Coyote

2. Coyote and Lizard

3. Coyote Eats a Meadow Mouse

4. Coyote and Buffalo

5. Coyote and Elk

6. The Gambling Game for Day

7. The Man Who Liked to Gamble

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

8. The Woman Who Became a Deer

9. The Trip to the Plains for Buffalo

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

10. The Abandoned Children

Contents (translation):

1. The Greedy Coyote

2. Coyote and Lizard

3. Coyote Eats a Meadow Mouse

4. Coyote and Buffalo

5. Coyote and Elk

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

6. The Gambling Game for Day

7. The Man Who Liked to Gamble

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

8. The Woman Who Became a Deer

9. The Trip to the Plains for Buffalo

Contents (phonemic transcriptions):

10. The Abandoned Children

Handwritten pages on looseleaf, containing Jicarilla texts of ten tales, in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses. Approx. 250 pp.  Same stories as Jicarilla texts 1 and 2.

Contents:

Informant: Cevero Caramillo

The Greedy Coyote (2 pp. [missing p. 1]), no. 1

Coyote and Lizard (2 pp.), no. 2

Coyote Eats a Meadow Mouse (4 pp.), no. 3

Coyote and Buffalo (3 pp.), no. 4

Coyote and Elk (3 pp.), no. 5

Informant: Alasco Tiznada

The Gambling Game for Day (4 pp. [p. 1 includes taped note to add to l. 7]), no. 6

Contents:

Informant: Alasco Tiznada: The Man Who Liked to Gamble (31 pp. [only Jicarilla text, no English]), no. 7

Contents:

Informant: Alasco Tiznada: The Man Who Liked to Gamble (26 pp. [second version: Jicarilla and English])

Contents:

[Informant not specified]: The Woman Who Became a Deer (22 pp.), no. 8

Contents:

[Informant not specified]: The Trip to the Plains for Buffalo (17 pp.), no. 9

Contents:

[Informant not specified]: The Abandoned Children (pp. 1-33), no. 10

Contents:

[continues 3f]: The Abandoned Children (pp. 34-66

Contents:

[continues 3g]: The Abandoned Children (pp. 67-99)

Contents:

[continues 3h]: The Abandoned Children (pp. 100-132)

Contents:

[continues 3i]: The Abandoned Children (pp. 133-166 [conclusion])

Unpaginated [supplied page numbers are given in brackets]. Texts in Lipan Apache in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses, and notes to the texts on facing pages. N.B. This notebook is rather frail. Contents:

At School. Informant: Lisandro Mendez [pp. 4-8]

Further Schooling. Informant: L[isandro] M[endez] [pp. 8v-10]

Text 4 [no title]. Informant: Augustina Zuazua. [pp. 10v-59]

Typed texts in phonemic transcription, with English translations on separate pages. Informant: Lisandro Mendez.  Contents:

Deer and Coyote (2 pp.)

At School (4 pp.)

Further Schooling (2 pp.)

Offprint of an article published by Harry Hoijer in the journal Linguistics 161 (1975): 5-38. Also contains typed draft. This is the final version of the text contained in Kendall 4474.

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Mescalero texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses, and notes to the texts on facing pages. Not fully paginated [supplied page numbers are given in brackets].

Contents:

Apache Prayer. Informant: Horace Torres [with symbols] (pp. 1-[7])

Bird Song. Informant: Arnold K. [pp. 7v-8]

Squirrel Song [pp. 8v-9]

Turkey Song [pp. 9v-10]

War Song. Informant: Arnold K.[pp. 10v-11]

War Dance Song. Warm Springs Chiri [p. 11v]

Gá.hé Song. Informant: Leon Pariko [p. 12]

[no title][pp. 13-14]

Prayer. Informant: Sam Chino [pp. 15-21]

Songs [pp. 21v-23]

Moccasin Songs. Informant: Sam Chino [pp. 24-26]

Mescalero 3 Text. Informant: John Shanta [pp. 27-29]

Contents:

Mescalero Creation Myth. Informant: Sam Chino (pp. 1-10)

Mescalero Creation. Informant: Sam Chino (pp. 11-27)

Fire Story (pp. 28-34)

The Sun Wind Thunder Rain etc. Have a Quarrel (pp. 33-38)

Coyote (pp. 39-44)

Coyote (pp. 45-60)

Contents:

[Only last twenty pages are numbered, beginning with p. 1]

[no titles] [pp. 1-40]

The Killing of the Monsters [41-60]

Contents:

Coyote and the Blue Bunting (April 2, 1934) (pp. 1-5), no. 1

Coyote and Owl (April 2, 1934) (pp. 6-16), no. 2

Coyote and Beaver (April 3, 1934) (pp. 17-35), no. 3

Coyote and Turtle (pp. 36-44), no. 4 [continues in notebook 5]

Contents:

Coyote and Turtle [continued from Notebook 1] (April 3, 1934) (pp. 1-5)

Frog and Coyote (pp. 6-44) [possibly this text continues in another notebook]

Assorted lexical material, arranged in groups, including theme prefixes, stems, particles, enclitics, etc. According to Kendall, this is the manuscript of a lexicon published in the University of California Publications in Linguistics series (no. 78, 1974). Lexical items are numbered; pages are mostly unnumbered.

All vols. labeled "Harry Hoijer, Navaho Night Chant," numbered consecutively, vols. I-V. Chant is written down in phonemic transcription, with additional notes in English on language and ceremony. References to cylinders [recordings]. Additional notes in the front pages of notebook 1 indicate that these are songs of Navaho Night Chant, started Feb. 25, 1930. Kechi-informant Frank Gould--interpreter". Reverse of page reads: "The first 75 not recorded by me--previously done by A. J. [?] Newcomb".  According to a letter from Dorothy Hoijer [see correspondence], this was done in collaboration with Edward Sapir.  Diagrams in vols. II and IV. Note at the end of vol. V: "Written up April 3, 1932".

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Numbered consecutively, labeled "Harry Hoijer, Navaho Songs". Songs are written in phonemic transcription, with interlinear glosses and English translations. Some notes on ceremonial conduct. Internal reference to cylinders [recordings]. Navajo titles are listed on the first page of each notebook.

"Translated: ready to type, written up Oct. 9, 1931" Contents:

Two Twins (Song #1)

Red Ants (#2)

Coming of the Water (#3)

Wolf (#4)

Locusts (#5)

Emergence (#6)

There are No Men (#7)

Coyote Steals Fire (#8)

Locust (#9)

Sweathouse (#10)

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Contents:

Hogan (#11)

Mountain (#12)

Sun (#13)

World Spirit (#14)

Salt Woman Song (#15)

Making the Stars (#16)

They Saw Each Other (#17)

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"Finished Feb. 18, 1932" Contents:

Changing Woman is Born (#18)

Changing Woman is Washed (#19)

Corn Song (#20)

Changing Woman East (#21)

Changing Woman Puberty Ceremony Song (#22-23)

Changing Woman is Dressed (#24)

Changing Woman Praised (#25)

First Menstruation (#26)

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"Finished Feb. 22 [1932]" Contents:

Pray for birth (#27)

Impregnation (#28)

Birth (#29)

Afterbirth (#30)

Cutting of cord (#31)

Washing of babies (#32)

The babies eat (#33)

[songs 34 - 50: Visit to the Sun]

Boys are to leave home (#34)

Their visit to their Father, the Sun (#35-38)

The boys go over the sacred mountains (#39)

Other obstacles (#40)

Through the darknesses (#41)

They great the darknesses (#42)

Greeting the dawn (#43) [continued in Vol. V]

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Contents:

Greeting the dawn (#43) [continued from Vol. IV]

Pass through old age demons (#44-47)

Spider song (#48)

Caterpillar song (#49)

Cross the ocean (#50)

[songs 51-63: Tests and acceptance at Sun's house]

Arrival at Sun's house (#51)

Tests by the Sun (#52-53)

Tobacco Song (#54)

Sun clothes them (#55)

Sun feeds them (#56)

Sun talks with them (#57)

They work together (#58)

Kills the Talking Giant (#59-63)

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Contents:

[Boy's adventures]

Wind song (#64)

Ssongs 65-82 [no titles]

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Contents:

Election of First Chief (#83-90)

Creation of men as things of our present earth (#91-99)

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Contents:

Earth song (#100-101)

Mountain song (#102-103)

Dawn songs (#104)

Changing Woman's journey to Santa Cruz (#105-106)

Bear song (#107-112)

Hogan song (#113)

Gods come to hogan to welcome children (#114)

Children arrive at hogan (#115-116) [continued in Vol. IX]

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Contents:

Children arrive at hogan (#117-118)

Changing Woman's prayer stick (#119-120)

He who comes with dawn = Talking God's song (#121-122)

Corn Pollen Boy's song (#123-124)

Talking God's song (#125-132) [continued in Vol. X]

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Contents:

Talking God's song (#133-135)

Sun Song (#136)

Food Song (#137)

Tobacco Song (#138-139)

Song of Mountain's Little Ones (#140-143)

Children's song (#144-152) [continued in Vol. XI]

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Contents:

Children's song (#152-153)

[one of the principal gods] (#154-158)

Rainbow song (#159)

Changing Woman's song (#160)

Children answer questions of Changing Woman (#161)

Blue Horse Song (#162)

Corn Song (#163-164)

Corn Bug Boy song (#165)

Dawn song (#166-169)

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Two untitled texts. Handwritten looseleaf pages, in phonemic transcription with interlinear English glosses, taken from a recording [not included in collection?].

(1) Informant: Ralph Roanhorse. Nov. 21, 1956. Begins: "When I was still a small child..." (17 pp.)

(2) Informant: Ralph Roanhorse. Dec. 12, 1956. Begins: "This coyote, the bolting one..." (15 pp.)

Note inside reads "San Carlos or Chiricahua?" Texts in phonemic transcription: (a) with handwritten corrections, (b) in corrected copy, with carbon copy of same [no English glosses or translations]; each section numbered separately.

Contents:

Coyote and Fox (6 pp)

The Apache and the Mountain Lions (7 pp)

The Deer Hunters (7 pp)

A Misadventure with a Horse (4 pp)

An Adventure with a Bull (10 pp)

The Apache Sweethearts (6 pp)

The Boy and His Sweetheart (4 pp)

Migrations of an Apache Clan (3 pp)

An Apache Raid on the Pima (7 pp)

Contents:

First Contacts with the Whites (14 pp)

A Pima Raid on the Apache (10 pp)

Old Time Food and Clothing (9 pp)

An Apache's Advice to His Children (7 pp)

Apache Courtship (13 pp)

First Experiences with American Food (14 pp)

Contents:

The Story of Killer of Enemies (pp. 1-89)

Contents:

The Story of Killer of Enemies (pp. 1-57 and carbon copy)

Lexical files derived by Hoijer from Edward Sapir's Tsuut'ina notebooks (found in the ACLS Collection.) The first file is by Sapir himself.

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One notebook, labeled "Goddard's re-written 1-40. Jicarilla". Inside front cover reads: "Jicarilla Texts. Goddard's #22 pp. 1-27; #80 cont. 28--." Text is contained on numbered pages 1-40 (notebook was first numbered pp. 661-720). Recorded by Pliny Earle Goddard.

"Jicarilla Texts, tr. Berard Haile, O.F.M.", numbered consecutively, pp. 1-292. Jicarilla texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses on right-hand pages. Left-hand pages contain notes on the text. Some are untitled. No indication of place, date, or informant. [Handwritten note says these are not the same texts as in Kendall 4426].

Contents:

Monster Fish (pp. 70-110)

Owl Monster (pp. 111-114)

Snapping Rock (pp. 115-116)

Big Toad Monster (p. 117)

The Two Running Rocks (pp. 118-120)

Translations of Jicarilla texts and detailed additional notes on the matter of the texts, with references throughout to "H.V." and "J.J.V.". The three notebooks are numbered consecutively, pp. 17-242. The pages (now loose) were written on one side only. According to Kendall, the numbers on each notebook correspond to notebooks of Jicarilla texts [see Box 2]. No indication of place, date, or informant. Only the first title is supplied.

Typed ms, containing Jicarilla texts in phonemic transcription, with an interlinear English gloss. Typed footnotes add primarily linguistic commentary. Handwritten corrections to both Jicarilla and English. Handwritten English translations on separately numbered pages. No indication of place, date, or informant. Approximately 250 pp of typed text and 54 pp of handwritten translations. Much of the manuscript is written on the back of typed pages.

Text, pp. 1-36.

Text, pp. 37-92.

Text, pp. 93-105.

Text, pp. 160a-121.

Text, pp. 121a-145.

Text, pp. 145a-243.

Notebook labelled as "Sarcee Linguistics." Contains Tsuut'ina transcribed words and phrases, in the fashion of a compiled lexicon (pp. 1-27). "Story of Thunder and Crow, dictated by John Whitney"--text with interlinear English gloss (pp. 28-29). Parsed verbs: 'I am sitting on it, you are???, he is???', etc. (pp. 29-31).

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Handwritten pages in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses. P. 1 reads: "Texts--San Carlos Apache. Informant--Lewis Russell. Taken August 1933. D. G. Mandelbaum."

Contents:

Holy Ground Prayer

Silas John Symbols

Daily Prayer

Profession of Faith

To Learn Apache

Prayers and Symbols

Silas John's Revelation

The Apache Kid

Cover sheet reads "Navajo Texts recorded by Chick [sic] Sandoval". Handwritten pages of Navajo texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear glosses in English, followed by English translations. Annotated with dates, indicating date received [in hand of E. Sapir?]. Approx. 200 pp. [see also, correspondence, Kendall 4572]

Contents:

Letter from H. J. Ostrander to Univ. of Chicago, Apr. 10, 1939

Letter from H. J. Ostrander to E. G. Conklin, Apr. 10, 1939

Letter from Frederick Woodward to H. J. Ostrander, Apr. 14, 1939

Letter from Chic Sandoval to Harry Hoijer, Apr. 21, 1939

Letter of April 20, 1937, A. G. Sandoval [written on both sides of page] (3 pp.). Includes children's story of Tur key and giant

Yellow Fox (pp. 1-16 and 17-25) [June 3, 1937]

Coyote and Skunk (pp.26-34 and 35-39) [June 29, 1937]

Contents:

Coyote and Cotton-Tailed Rabbit (pp. 40-44 and 45-47)

Coyote and Deer (pp. 48-53; no English translation)

Coyote and Gray Lizard (pp. 54-56; no transcription)

Coyote and Porcupine (pp. 57-66 and 67-73)

Cripples Their Sayings [sic] (pp. 74-76 and 77-79)

Contents:

pp. 80-104 contain phonemic transcriptions with English glosses

Coyote and the Beaver People (pp. 80-82)

Coyote and Porcupine (pp. 83-84)

Coyote and Swallows (pp. 85-87)

Coyote and Horned Toad (pp. 87-92)

Coyote and Prairie Dog (pp. 93-94)

Coyote and Badger (pp. 95-97)

Coyote and Wild Cat (pp. 98-104)

English translations (pp. 105-119)

Contents:

Maiden Who Turned into Bear (pp. 120-148, phonemic transcription with English gloss; pp. 149-164, English translation)

Contents:

Concerning One Who Was Reared by Old Man Owl and Old Lady Owl (pp. 165-181, phonemic transcription with English gloss; pp. 182-191, English translation)

Admonition ("Get up! Get up!") and separately numbered (5 pages of transcription, 5 pages of translation)

Two conversations, handwritten on 3x5 slips, 7 slips total. No indications of date, place, or informant. According to Kendall, conversations and English translations, in Sapir's hand, with additions by Hoijer.

Folder 1-4 contain typed mss of Sarci tales in phonemic transcription, one or more copies of the typescript, with English glosses written in Sapir's hand. Folders #5-10 contain only the typed transcription, no English glosses; tales are not always numbered.

Includes handwritten table of contents (1 page). Inserted note reads: "original typed texts and trans[lations] sent to [Victor] Golla, Nov. 15, 1966". How Spotted-Eagle and Crow-Flag Brought Home the Medicine-Pipe (pp. 8, 7) no. 1.

Contents:

The Origin of the Beaver Bundle (pp. 2, 2) no. 2

The Origin of the Ghost Dance (pp. 7, 6) no. 4

Contents:

How the Sarcee Were Split Up (pp. 1, 1) no. 3

Buffalo Lake (pp. 1, 1)

The Girl Who Married a Star (pp. 5, 4)

Contents:

The Man Who Chopped a Log into the River with His Brother (pp. 4, 8)

Contents:

The Origin of the Dipper (5pp.)

Raised-by-his-grandmother (8pp.)

Contents:

How He Starved His Father-in-law (5pp.)

The Woman Who Married a Dog (3pp.)

Lodge-boy and Thrown-away (7pp.)

Contents:

Thunder Bird and Crow (1p.) no. 13

Old Man (in three parts; 13 pp total) no. 14

Contents:

The Wicked Medicine Man (4pp.)

How the Pipe Bundle Was Transferred to Chief Big-Belly (2pp.)

The Time the Sarcees Killed Some Gros Ventre (3pp.)

Young Bull and Lizard (3pp.)

Contents:

The Man That Was Sacrificed (5pp.)

The Girl Who Refused to Live (2pp.)

Piegan-boy Is Shot (3pp.)

Chef Bull-Head Kills His Son by Mistake (3pp.)

Contents:

Little-Chief Is Killed by the Cree (2pp.)

The Battle at Cut-Knife Creek (2pp.)

Beaver-Collar Steps into the Enemy's Tent (2pp.)

Little-Bear's Vision (2pp.)

Inserted note reads "both Sapir and Hoijer, prob. from the late 1920s, when Hoijer was a graduate student (DLK)". Acc. to Kendall, notes on various aspects of Navajo grammar and phonetics, some comparison with other Athapascan languages, some reconstruction of Proto-A. II.

Loucheux words and brief phrases given in response to English.

Related material: These recordings were separated from the collection and turned into (Recording Collection 149) Gwich'in ("Loucheux") Recordings, 1964..