
Frank G. Speck Papers
Mss.Ms.Coll.126
Subcollection I. Frank G. Speck Papers | 1897-1950 | 23 linear feet | ||
Subcollection I is divided into several series. Series I is comprised of research material, and is organized according to culture area, tribe, and community. Series II is predominantly correspondence to and from Speck regarding research topics, as well as other professional matters. This series is arranged alphabetically by author. Series III, IV, and V are comprised of graphic materials: photographs, lantern slides, and maps. This subcollection was acquired separately by the Society, and was originally cataloged as the Frank G. Speck Papers (572.97 Sp3). | ||||
Series I. Research Material | 1903-1950 | 8.25 linear feet | ||
I. Circumpolar Culture Area | ||||
A. General Circumpolar Area | ||||
I(1A1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Distribution maps for Circumpolar Traits. | n.d. | 12 items | Box 1 | |
Separate maps show distribution of divination and miracle shamanism; sweat bath; turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept; bone divination; bear veneration; curative power of mystic words and formulae; dog-ancestor myth; dog as soul leader; curvilinear patterns; confession to cure taboo violation. F&S 1464 Access digital object: | ||||
I(1A2) Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977.
Plan for Circumpolar Research | 1946 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Concerning forthcoming International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Science at Prague. Includes Birket-Smith Report to the Members of the Committee for International Research in Arctic Ethnology, May, 1936. Status of then-current research. F&S 1416 | ||||
B. General Inuit | ||||
Other Descriptive Information: Previously labelled as "General Eskimo." Changed in January 2021. The term is retained below in cases where it is used as a title in the original manuscript. | ||||
I(1B1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Physical Characteristics of the Eskimo (notes on) | n.d. | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Lecture notes. F&S 1362 | ||||
I(1B2) [no entry] | Box 1 | |||
I(1B3) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Eskimo sled dogs, MS | n.d. | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Discusses training and use of dogs. F&S 1338 | ||||
I(1B4) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Story of Eskimo woman who raised bear cub | 1923 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Bibliographical note on J. W. Bilby, (1923) F&S 1343 | ||||
I(1B5) [no entry] | Box 1 | |||
I(1B6) Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925.
to Frank G. Speck | 1924 | 5 items | Box 1 | |
Miscellaneous reading notes on Inuit: Historical Relations of Inuit and Algonkians, notes. F&S 1341 | ||||
I(1B6) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Miscellaneous reading notes on Inuit: Miscellaneous book-notes on Inuit | 1940 | 3 items | Box 1 | |
Miscellaneous reading notes on Inuit F&S 325 Other Descriptive Information: Previously labelled as "Miscellaneous reading notes on Eskimos." Changed in January 2021. | ||||
C. Labrador Inuit | ||||
Other Descriptive Information: Previously labelled as "Labrador Eskimo." Changed in January 2021. | ||||
I(1C1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Eskimo on the East Coast of Hudsons Bay (Reading notes) | n.d. | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Notes together with Speck's comments on Arthur Dobbs, (1744). F&S 1336 | ||||
I(1C2) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
"The George River Barren Ground Band of Eskimo" (MS carbon) | n.d. | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Concerning whether Inuit were first an inland or a coastal group. F&S 1339 | ||||
I(1C3) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
"Analysis of Eskimo and Indian skin dressing method in Labrador" MS | n.d. | 5 items | Box 1 | |
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I(1C4) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Report of 1934 Field Trip (typescript) | 1934 | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Summarizes activities and reasons for his field work studying Inuit in Labrador and Newfoundland. Discusses comparisons with Naskapi, and additional research on Beothuk history. F&S 1342 Access digital object: | ||||
I(1C5) Burgesse, J. Allan.
to Frank Speck | 1936 | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Letter from J. Allan Burgesse of Hudson's Bay Company, primarily regarding Innu ("Montagnais") birch bark baskets. Images note: Art design filed by Frank G. Speck with Inuit material. Pencil sketches of double curve motif. (Rationale for original cataloging inclusion in Inuit section unclear.) F&S 2290 Access digital object: | ||||
I(1C6) White, Richard Jr..
List of Archaeological Specimens | n.d. | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Harpoons, scrapers, and similar artifacts, sent by Richard White, a trader in Nain, Labrador. Handwritten note on back by Speck: "Heye list, Esk. archaeology" F&S 1315 Access digital object: | ||||
I(1C7) [no entry] | Box 1 | |||
I(1C8) [no entry] | Box 1 | |||
I(1C9) Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949.
to Frank Speck | June 29, 1934 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
"Eskimo territorialism." Discusses theism in Labrador; Inuit family rights to hunting grounds. F&S 1325 Access digital object: | ||||
I(1C10) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Labrador Inuit field notebook | n.d. | 3 items | Box 1 | |
Lists of Inuit names for animals, plants, manufactured objects, etc.; terms of relationship; general vocabulary; texts with interlinear translation. Includes several botanical specimens. Maps of Newfoundland, including railroad and sailing schedules. Also a few Naskapi items on one page. Letter to Speck from E. B. Delabarre, Mar. 4, 1924, A.L.S., 3p., discussing tales he had heard in Labrador. F&S 1337 Other Descriptive Information: Previously labelled as "Eskimo field notebook." Changed in January 2021. Access digital object: | ||||
II. Circumboreal | ||||
A. General | ||||
II(2A1a) Double Curve Motif -- a. miscellaneous notes | 1915-1943 | 4 items | Box 1 | |
Haddon, Alfred C. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 17, 1915 -- Curious as to degree of missionary influence on double-curve motif. Birket-Smith, Kaj. Letter to Frank G. Speck, October 30, 1927 -- Discusses Montagnais-Naskapi museum specimens; double curve motif in Inuit art. Asks questions on shared "culture elements" among northern tribes. Quimby, George. Letter to Frank G. Speck, February 8, 1943 -- Discusses possible double curve theme in Hopewell art. His field experience suggests Montagnais-Naskapi bands were differentiated by rivers on which they lived. Speck, Frank G. Table of double curve motif, n.d. --Northwestern tribes, Iroquois, central Algonkian usage charted by technique and variation of motifs. F&S 338, 1321, 1430, 2294 | ||||
II(2A1b) Double Curve Motif -- b. "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonkian Art" by F.G. Speck | 1914 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Images note: A copy of Speck's "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonkian Art" (1914), with interleaved photographs and sketches of designs, together with notes, suggesting natural-history origins of motives and variations. The photographs and sketches are digitized below. F&S 1443 | ||||
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II(2A2) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Traps -- a. Miscellaneous notes | 1938 | 2 items | Box 1 | |
Review of John M. Cooper, Snares, deadfalls, and other traps of Northern Algonquians and Northern Athapaskans F&S 337 Access digital object: | ||||
II(2A3) [no entry] | Box 1 | |||
II(2A4) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Distribution of Scapulimancy, etc., in Circumboreal | n.d. | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Images note: Sketches and comments on shoulder blade divination (Scapulimancy); notes on origin and distribution of deer drives (including 1p. note, undated, from A. I. Hallowell); distribution of artifacts among Algonkin, Naskapi, Mistassini. F&S 372 | ||||
II(2A5) Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert).
Letter to Frank G. Speck | 1936 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
"Miscellaneous notes on Circumboreal Region" Discusses his visit to Naskapi near Davis Inlet, to Cree, and to Chip[pewa]s. 2p. of notes (Speck?) in French-English of Indian or Canadian, discussing changes in Indian culture. F&S 2499 | ||||
B. "Montagnais-Naskapi" (Ilnu, Innu, Naskapi) | ||||
1 General Information | ||||
II(3B1a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- a. Summary of Naskapi life | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Apparently an introductory lecture, leading to study of Naskapi beliefs. 1p. notes on psycho-shamanistic performance. F&S 2319 | ||||
II(3B1b) Hammond, R..
General Information -- b. "The Naskapis of Northern Labrador from a Trader's Viewpoint." | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
A description of Naskapi customs, round of life, the fur trade, especially the role of fur-bearers vs. caribou, incidents of drunkenness among Naskapi; honesty, etc. F&S 2293 | ||||
II(3B1c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- c. History of Inuit-Algonkian relations in Labrador | n.d. | 6 items | Box 2 | |
Includes bibliographical notes, notes on Inuit-Algonkian cultural correspondences and a 3p, typed document concerning migration routes of the Inuit to the New World. F&S 1340 Other Descriptive Information: Previously labelled as "History of Eskimo-Algonkian relations in Labrador." Changed in January 2021. Access digital object: | ||||
II(3B1d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- d. Short History by Frank Speck, concerning Labrador Indians | 1922-1924 | 2 items | Box 2 | |
Includes a 15p. story of incident in Naskapi life and 7p. scraps on natural surroundings. F&S 2317 | ||||
II(3B1e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information: e. Naskapi personality | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Lecture notes. F&S 2314 | ||||
II(3B1f) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information: f. Miscellaneous notes | 1918-1946 | 27 items | Box 2 | |
Includes 4 slips of bibliographic notes; a card with notes on a lecture of Franz Boas, Philadelphia, 1918, concerning the primacy of custom over inner morality; typed reading notes, 1925 a letter of Felix Agnus Leser to Speck, Dec. 14, 1931, concerning the docking of sled dog's tails. Drawing of a Naskapi tent in the Victoria Museum. 3 miscellaneous slips; 35 slips of notes on Inuit and Montngnais culture from printed sources; and 1 notebook, 1946, containing some linguistic and informant data. F&S 2309 | ||||
II(3B1g) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- g. Catalogue of Naskapi Collection, Denver Art Museum, as of 2 October 1942, and listing other specimens collected by Frank G. Speck | 1920 - 1942 | 6 items | Box 2 | |
Materials collected by Speck. In addition to that at Denver, there are lists of Montagnais and Mistassini specimens sent to George Heye, 1920; Montagnais specimens sent to Reading Museum, 1927; materials collected in 1021 (list sent to Goddard); list dated Sept. 13, 1921, sent to Wissler. Summary of expenses in 1927. F&S 2298 | ||||
II(3B1h) h. [no entry] | Box 2 | |||
II(3B1i) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers | 1941 | 7 items | Box 2 | |
Includes 18L. of notes on birch-bark baskets from northwest to northeast; Images Note: 9 photos of Temagami Anishinaabe birch-bark containers; 18 photos of Mistassini, Algonquin containers, as well as 1 negative, 5 sketches, and 10 leaves of notes; 7L. of general notes on birch-bark containers; 4 photos of Kutenai birch-bark containers together with negative and letter of Bella Weitzner to Speck, June 2, 1941; 4p. of notes on Ojibwa birch-bark; 1 photo of Yukon birch-bark; and 4p. of notes and 5 photos of Ojibwa baskets. F&S 370 | ||||
Birch Bark Containers (Ojibwa, Temagami) | ||||
Sub-folder within "II(3B1i) General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers." Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers from the Temagami Algonquin, some from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History. Access digital object: | ||||
Birch Bark Containers (General) | ||||
Sub-folder within "II(3B1i) General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers." Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers, some relating to collections of the American Museum of Natural History. Includes photos of 4 Kutenai (Ktunaxa, Kootenay, Kootenai) baskets. Includes letter of Bella Weitzner to Speck, June 2, 1941. Access digital object: | ||||
Birch Bark Containers (Algonquin, Mistassini) | ||||
Sub-folder within "II(3B1i) General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers." Notes and photographs of birch bark containers, relating to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History and Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Relates to Cree, Mistassini, Algonquin (Rivière Desert, Maniwaki), and includes a reprint Vincent Petrullo's "Decorative Art on Birch-Bark Containers from the Algonquin River du Lièvre Band." Access digital object: | ||||
Birch Bark Containers (Alaska, McKenzie, N. Plateau) | ||||
Sub-folder within "II(3B1i) General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers." Notes and sketches regarding birch bark containers, including one letter from Gene Weltfish. Concerns multiple cultures including Secwepemc (Shuswap), Dakelh (Carrier), Nlaka'pamux (Thompson), Gwich'in (Kutchin/Loucheux), Slave, Kawchottine (Hare), and others. Access digital object: | ||||
Birch Bark Containers (Ojibway) | ||||
Sub-folder within "II(3B1i) General Information -- i. Birch Bark Containers." Notes and photographs relating to birch bark containers, some from the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, Denver Art Museum, and Reading Museum. Concerns Ojibwe birch bark containers from White Earth, Bois Forte, and Long Lac. Access digital object: | ||||
Birch Bark baskets | 1941 | |||
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Birch Bark containers | 1941 | |||
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II(3B1k) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Information -- k. Account book for field trips, with miscellaneous notes | 1903-1922 | 8 items | Box 2 | |
Contains accounts for 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1919, 1920, and 1922 field trips, lists travel costs and cost of obtaining museum specimens. Also 2 newsclippings, 1911, 1913; and a postal card of Speck to his wife, 1919. F&S 2296 | ||||
Account book | 1911-1922 | |||
Written on notebook cover: "Huron notes." Inside cover, vocabulary notes from Les Escoumins (Essipit), likely in Innu-aimun. Opening 6 pages contain a mix of ethnographic and linguistic notes labelled "Huron," as well as similar notes referring to Les Escoumins (Essipit) and Tadoussac, undated. "Montagnais trip, Apr. 2, 1911": detailed record of travel expenses and prices paid for a wide range of "specimens," 9 pages. "Lake St. John Trip, Apr. 4-14, 1912": detailed record of travel expenses and prices paid for a wide range of "specimens," including note on amount "Asked of Sapir," 7 pages + 3 pages of loose slips inserted, relationship unclear. "Canada rip, June 1912": detailed record of travel expenses and prices paid for a wide range of "specimens," apparently billed to Sapir. Sections include: Lake St. John, includes mention of Tete de Boule (Atikamekw) and Abenaki (4 pages); Moisie (2 pages); Seven Islands (Sept-Îles) (2 pages). "Algonquin Trip, June 5-6, 1913": detailed record of travel expenses and prices paid for a wide range of "specimens," apparently billed to Sapir. Places noted: Temagami, Matagama, Nipissing, Temiskaming, Temagami (11 pages). "Lake St John, March 22 - Apr 2, 1913": detailed record of travel expenses and prices paid for a wide range of "specimens," apparently billed to Sapir. "Canada, June 1, 1913, with [Florence]": additional list of expenses, mentioning Maniwaki, North Bay, Nipissing, Temiskaming, Temagami, Bear Island, Chicoutimi. Wampum noted as specific expense line. "Montagnais trip, June 4-27, 1915": travel expenses and prices paid for "specimens." Mentions Tadoussac (1 page). "Montagnais trip, April 10-24, 1919": travel expenses and prices paid for "specimens" (1 page). "Lower St. Lawrence trip, June 4-24, 1919": Natural history notes on land forms, birds, animals, plants. Mentions Tadoussac, Les Escoumins (Essipit) (3 pages.) "Tadoussac and Escoumains [Les Escoumins (Essipit)] June 1920": Prices paid for "specimens" (1 page). "Lake St. John Montagnais, June 28 - July 7, 1920": Prices paid for "specimens," apparently billed to Heye. Includes 1 page on Mistassini (5 pages), + loose pages "Financial Summary, [Les Escoumin (Essipit)], [Tadoussac], and Lake St. John, June-July 1920": Summary of expenses and price paid for "specimens." Also mentions Mistassini. (2 page). Miscellaneous notes, including vocabulary, object lists, 3 small sketches, personal names and addresses. Mentions "Micmac" (Mi'kmaq), Mistassini, Lake St. John, Natashquan (7 pages). "Huron specimens": prices paid for "specimens, apparently billed to Heye. Date and location unclear. Mentions "Trip to Canada Dec 1908." (3 pages) Miscellaneous notes, brief vocabulary, sketch, expenses, short natural history notes at Abitibi river "June 23." Loose pages, June 1920: Listing prices paid for "specimens," for "Tadoussac Archaeology," "Pointe Sauvage Archaeology," "Escoumains [Ethnology?]," Lake St. John. Portions in different handwriting, possibly Gladys Tantaquidgeon. | ||||
Notes, postcards and newspaper clippings | 1903-1915, n.d. | |||
2 Hunting Territories | ||||
II(3B2a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Hunting Territories -- a. Miscellaneous notes on Montagnais-Naskapi hunting territories | 1928-1932 | 14 items | Box 2 | |
Letters concerning aboriginal us. European origins of hunting territories: Diamond Jenness to Speck, Feb. 20, 1928, 1p. T.L.S.; C. Daryll Forde (University College of Wales) to Speck, July 10, 1930, 1p. T.L.S.; Speck to Forde, Oct. 28, 1930, 2p. T.L. c.c.; John M. Cooper to Speck, Sept. 27, 1932, 2p. T.L.S. 9 leaves of miscellaneous notes. F&S 230 | ||||
II(3B2b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Hunting Territories -- b. "Terms of Relationship and Family Territorial Band Among the Northeastern Algonkins." | n.d. | 2 items | Box 2 | |
M.S. draft and additions. F&S 339 Access digital object: | ||||
II(3B2c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Hunting Territories -- c. "Conservation and the Indians of Eastern North America" | 1937 | 1 item | Box 2 | |
M.S. F&S 2299 | ||||
II(3B2d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Hunting Territories -- d. "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas." | 1922-1926 | 2 items | Box 2 | |
Typed manuscript with annotations. F&S 1365 [number wrong] | ||||
3 Social Structure | ||||
II(3B3a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- a. Review of Lips Naskapi Law | 1947 | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Review of Julie E. Lips Naskapi Law. F&S 2316 | ||||
II(3B3b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- b. "The Social Structure of the Northern Algonkian" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
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II(3B3c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Social Structure (aside from family hunting Territory) -- c. Montagnais Kinship terms | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Rough chart and notes. F&S 2327 | ||||
4. Economic Behavior | ||||
II(3B4a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Economic Behavior (aside from family hunting territory) -- a. Hunting customs | n.d. | 3 items | Box 2 | |
Concerns ownership of wounded animals; destroying elderly members of family. F&S 2312 | ||||
II(3B4b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Economic Behavioir (Aside from family hunting territory) -- b. Miscellaneous notes | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Concerns salmon at Waswanipi. F&S 2306 | ||||
5. Religion | ||||
II(4B5a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Religion -- a. Myths | 1929 | 5 items | Box 3 | |
4 folkloristic texts in English. F&S 2313 | ||||
II(4B5b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Religion -- b. Dream lore | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Brief note and sketch. F&S 2301 | ||||
II(4B5c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Religion -- c. "Game Totems Among the Northeastern Algonkins." | 1916 | 2 items | Box 3 | |
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II(4B5d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Religion -- d. Animism in Algonkian Mentality | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Lecture notes. F&S 2297 | ||||
II(4B5e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Religion -- e. Miscellaneous notes on Montagnais-Naskapi Religion | 1929 | 6 items | Box 3 | |
Undated, incomplete letter of John M. Cooper to ? concerning scapulimancy. Field notes concerning scapulimancy, bear ceremony, drumming, etc. 1 sheet of Naskapi names of moons (religious). Letter of George Heye, to Speck, Jan. 3, 1926, concerning a missionary book in Montagnais. Images note: Pencil and ink sketches of scapulimancy, bear ceremony, drumming. F&S 2308 | ||||
6. Linguistic | ||||
II(4B6a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Linguistic -- a. Miscellaneous linguistic materials | n.d. | 3 items | Box 3 | |
Charts display equivalents in 7 dialects for 30 nouns, adverbs, pronouns, and verb "to see" F&S 2326 | ||||
II(4B6b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Linguistic -- b. Montagnais loan words from English | n.d. | 45 page(s) ; 6 items | Box 3 | |
Vocabulary lists with Montagnais [Innu-aimun] and Mistassini [Eastern Cree] equivalents. Also miscellaneous notes, 3p. F&S 2328 Access digital object: | ||||
II(4B6c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Linguistic -- c. Montagnais and Mistassinni Texts | 1915 | 8 items | Box 3 | |
Montagnais texts with interlinear translation; 2 maps of hunting territory and notes; Tadoussac texts with interlinear translation; several English texts; list of kinship terms; Escoumains text with interlinear translation. Mistassini texts with interlinear translations. English texts from Mistassini and Lake St. John hands. Notebook relating to Naskapi religion; also 10p. of Michikaman Band texts. Images note: Pencil sketches, maps. F&S 2329 | ||||
7. Moisie Band | ||||
II(4B7) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Moisie Band -- A Field notes, 1930, Moisie and St. Marguerite Bands | 1930 | 1 items | Box 3 | |
Names of informants for various bands; Seven Islands data on sorcery; miscellaneous material. F&S 2303 | ||||
8. Ste. Augustine Band | ||||
II(4B8) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Ste. Augustine Band -- a. Field notes, 1935, Ste. Augustine Band | 1935 - 1936 | 12 items | Box 3 | |
Account books list expenses and press botanical and entomological specimens. Notebook includes miscellaneous ethnographic data as well as designs. Map of St. Augustin village. 1p. sketch of animals with Naskapi names; 2 hand-drawn maps of St. Augustin region; miscellaneous materials and family histories. Letters: W. B. Cabot to Speck, July 29, 1930, A.L.S., 1p., concerning his (Cabot's) visit to Labrador; Hayward Hayne to Speck, Sept. 7, 1935, and Mar. 1, 1936, A.L.S., 4p. and 10p., concerning winter activities and Hudson's Bay Company post at St. Augustin; A. Poucher, missionary, to Speck, May 18, 1936, A.L.S., 1p. Images note: 26 pencil and ink sketches maps, village, animals. F&S 2304 | ||||
9. Mistassini Band | ||||
II(4B9a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mistassini Band -- a. Miscellaneous notes, Mistassini | 1915-1930 | 8 items | Box 3 | |
Concerns hunting territories of Mistassini, Waswanipi, Tête de Boule, Chicoutimi. Ethnographic data on childbirth and chiefs. F&S 2311 | ||||
II(4B9b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mistassini Band -- b. Document, refering to Pointe Speck | 1946-1948 | 3 items | Box 3 | |
Images note: Includes 1p. blueprint of Lake Mistassini, P.Q., showing Pointe Speck. Letter of Jacques Rousseau (Director of Montreal Botanical Garden) to Speck, Nov. 3, 1948, 1p. A.L.S., concerning the adoption of the name Pointe Speck. F&S 2300 | ||||
II(4B9c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mistassini Band -- c. Field Notes, 1911-1930 | 1911-1930 | 29 items | Box 3 | |
6 English folkloristic texts, 1919, 1921, and 1930. A notebook of Montagnais and Mistassini texts in English, 1917; a 17p. typed version of Mistassini tales (1925) taken from above. A brief introductory statement, "Montagnais myths and tales from the Lower St. Lawrence"; ethnohistoric material; miscellaneous notes; 4p. concerning Gay Head Indians (Aquinnah Wampanoag). Letter of Edward Sapir to Speck, June 18, 1912, 1p. A.L.S., concerning Cree-Montagnais linguistic relationship and obtaining of museum specimens. Unrelated: Some notes by Gladys Tantaquidgeon on Gay Head (Aquinnah) Wampanoag. F&S 2310 | ||||
10. Lake St. John Band | ||||
II(4B10a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Lake St. John Band -- a. "Family Hunting Territories of the Lake St. John Montagnais and Neighboring Bands." | n.d. | 5 items | Box 3 | |
Typed M.S. with additions. F&S 2302 | ||||
II(4B10b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Lake St. John Band -- b. Field notes | n.d. | 7 items | Box 3 | |
16p. on native names of specimens and artifacts, both Lake St. John and Mistassini: 4p. give account of Wabeno and names of specimens. F&S 2305 | ||||
11. Davis Inlet Naskapi | ||||
II(4B11) Waugh, F. W. (Frederick Wilkerson), 1872-1924.
Davis Inlet Naskapi -- a. Waugh's notes | 1923-1924 | 5 items | Box 3 | |
13p. of notes, mostly in hand of Frank G. Speck, obtained from F. W. Waugh. Letters of Waugh to Speck, Dec. 18, 1923, and Jan. 19, 1924, 1p. and 1p. T.L.S., concerning Davis Inlet group; copy of William Duncan Strong to Speck, Sept. 4, 1930, concerning Davis Inlet band. F&S 2322 | ||||
12. Tadoussac-Escoumains Band | ||||
II(4B12) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tadoussac-Escoumains Band -- a. Field notes | n.d. | 7 items | Box 3 | |
Ethnobotanical data; plant names and medical uses; miscellaneous materials including names of museum specimens and myths. F&S 2320 | ||||
13. Sept-Îles Band | ||||
II(4B13) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Sept-Îles (7 Islands) Band -- a. Miscellaneous field notes | 1924-1925 | 11 items | Box 3 | |
Several texts with interlinear translations; house data; names of animals. 1p. friendly letter, in French, of Marie Louise Ambroise, Aug. 22, 1924, to Speck. F&S 391 | ||||
C. Algonquin | ||||
II(2C1) Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939.
to Frank Speck | 1924 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
"Linguistic analogues to Wiyot-Yorok" Discusses his postulated Wiyot-Yurok-Algonquian relationship; mentions his work on Subtiaba. Outlines relationships in and around Hokan-Coahuiltecan. Some discussion of migrations, seeing Athabaskan as late arrival. F&S 2061 | ||||
II(2C2) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Algonquin field notes | n.d. | 4 items | Box 1B | |
One notebook contains linguistic notes, informant and population data for Waswanipi, Abitibi, Temiskaming, Nipissing, Algonquin. The other, dated June 1, contains Temiskaming ethnography, and (in English), Wiskedjak (Wiskyjack) text. Temagami ethnology and texts (in English) and 1 Iroquois legend. Use Film 1429 Reel 1. F&S 369 | ||||
D. Beothuk | ||||
II(2D1) Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939.
to Frank Speck | 1922 | 1 item | Box 1 | |
Discusses his New England archaeological field work. Doubts Red Paint People of Maine were Beothuks; difference of art. Labels for University Museum artifacts from collections of Moorehead. F&S 462 | ||||
II(2D2) Miscellaneous notes on Beothuk | 1911 - 1922 | 55 page(s) ; 4 items | Box 1 | |
Boas, Franz. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 17, 1911 -- Discusses Beothuk report. Dahl, Richard S. Letter to Frank G. Speck, December 30, 1911 - In his career as mining engineer in Newfoundland he has opened many Beothuk sites; offers aid. Howley, James P. Letters to Frank G. Speck, December 12, 1911 and May 18, 1912 -- Howley writes Speck of the latter's meeting a Beothuk survivor, Santu Toney; doubts authenticity, but would like to know more. Images note: Folder includes newsclipping of Oct. 15, 1911, on Speck's discovery and a portion of Howley's book printing a Beothuk vocabulary with Speck pencil notes:184-186. Messurier, William L. Letter to Dr. Bowman, February 15, 1922 -- Encloses article on Newfoundland extracted from "The Great Historical, Genealogical, and Poetical Dictionary... " (London, 1701). F&S 457, 459, 460, 461 Access digital object: | ||||
E. "Athapascan" (Dene) | ||||
II(2E1) Miscellaneous Notes | n.d. | 10 items | Box 1 | |
Reading notes. F&S 429 | ||||
F. Ojibwa | ||||
II(2F1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Review of Coleman on Ojibway Designs | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
of Sister Bernard Coleman: Decorative designs of the Ojibwa of northern Minnesota [1949]. F&S 2519 | ||||
II(2F2) Miscellaneous notes | 1927 - 1948 | 4 items | Box 2 | |
Woodman, Henry. Letter to Frank G. Speck, July 16, 1948 -- Discusses decline of crafts among Bear Island Indians (Temagami). Speck, Frank G. Letter to Chief MIchel tchele Buckshot; Maniwaki, Québec, February 10, 1927 -- Requests buckskin and beadwork. Images note: Newspaper clippings, pencil sketches, maps, and photomechanical prints of utensils, dwelling, portraits. F&S 2516, 2523 Subject(s): Algonquin Indians | ||||
II(2F3) Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974.
to Frank G. Speck | 1931 | 4 items | Box 2 | |
Describes incidents on field trip to Berens River Saulteaux, Sweet Grass Cree (mentions attitude of Cree to Leonard Bloomfield) and Cold Lake Chipewyan; festivals, etc. Letter of Speck to Hallowell, Aug. 3, 1931, with pencilled responses of Hallowell to questions asked. F&S 2501 | ||||
II(2F4) Matagama Ojibwa notes | 1914-1938 | 21 items | Box 2 | |
Includes 2p. phonetic key; 1p. letter (carbon) of Frank G. Speck to Samuel (i.e., James) Miller of Gogama, Feb. 18, 1928, requesting ethnographic and map data; 2 printed maps, 1 of Lake Nipigon area, 1 of Mattagama hunting territories, boundaries in ink; 1p. typed reading notes (and a carbon); Feb. 1928 "Romance Story," 15p. sketch of a play for Mattagama Otcipwè (Matagami). Burgeese, J. A. Letters to Frank G. Speck (Jan. 13 and Feb. 24, 1938). Burgesse sends drawing of "flesher" used by Oiibwa; encloses list of hunting territories and biographical information on owners. Letters of D. H. Learmouth to Frank G. Speck (Feb. 22 and 29, and Oct. 2, 1928). Learmouth, a factor for Hudson's Bay Co. at Waswanippi, recounts his experiences in adjudicating Matagama land inheritance; provides ethnographic data sought by Speck from Samuel (i.e., James) Miller of Gogama; and gives data on hunting territories. F&S 2498, 2508, 2517 Access digital object: | ||||
II(2F5) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Ojibwa Hunting territories | n.d. | 3 items | Box 2 | |
Brief popular account, refuting Roosevelt (1889-1896), who had denied that Indians have a sense of property. 1p. typed notes from Copway (1847), and 1p. notes. F&S 2518 | ||||
II(2F6) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tamagami myths | n.d. | 5 items | Box 2 | |
5 English texts. F&S 2520 | ||||
G. Cree | ||||
II(2G1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Cree syllabary | n.d. | 6 items | Box 2 | |
Naskapi names in Cree syllabary; the Lord's Prayer in Cree; miscellaneous syllabary Cree words. Images note: 79 pictographs F&S 788 | ||||
H. Miscellaneous | ||||
II(2H1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tete de Boule | n.d. | 1 item | Box 2 | |
Miscellaneous notes on informants; word list. Notes on reverse of 2p. letter of W. C. Orchard (Heye Foundation) to Speck, Dec. 10, 1931. F&S 2330 Access digital object: | ||||
III. Northeast | ||||
Ill-defined area west of Mississippi, north of corn-growing limit, south to approximately Mason-Dixon Line. | ||||
A. General | ||||
III(5A1) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
"Remnants of the Eastern Indian Tribes" | n.d. | 1 items | Box 3 | |
Brief discussion of location of New England Algonkians. F&S 336 | ||||
III(5A2) Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953.
"The Persistence of the Mound Builder's Culture Among Recent Indian Tribes" | 1916 | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Master's thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Attempts through historical accounts to show persistence both of building of mounds and of artifacts, thought to be prehistoric, and argues that white contact produced the cultural loss. F&S 1217 | ||||
III(5A3) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Wampum - miscellaneous notes | 1913-1920 | 8 items | Box 3 | |
Includes letters of L. P. O. Picard to Speck, April 24, and May 12, 1914, concerning a belt in Picard's possession; I. B. Delay to Speck, Aug. 23, 1913, and Jan. 1914, concerning beads and sale of belts; Sankey Swan to Speck, Mar. 15, 1914; Josiah Hill of Ohsweken to Speck, June 11, 1914, offering to send wampum string and describing Nanticoke belt; Waiter Channing Wyman, collector, to Speck, Dec. 18, 1920, discussing Shenandoah belt and a Penobscot belt in his possession; W. C. Orchard, Heye Foundation, to Speck, concerning bibliography on wampum. F&S 2321 | ||||
III(5A4) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Observations on the Northeast in general | 1941 | 9 items | Box 3 | |
Notes used by Speck in summing up the symposium, Man in Northeastern America, meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 1941, at Phillips Academy, Andover. Brief comments on the various papers. On verse of 4p. are letters: Frederick Johnson to Speck, Oct. 13, 1941, Typed L.S., 2p., concerning meeting plans; and James B. Griffin to Johnson, 1941, Typed L., 2p., copy, concerning his paper. Also, 3 copies of printed program and one typed Tentative Program. F&S 1256 | ||||
III(5A5) Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005.
"The Agricultural Tribes of the Northeast" | 1941 | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Principally a discussion of Iroquois and Algonkian maize culture. Attempts to date usage. Notes of Speck on the 1941 Man in Northeastern America conference on reverse of typed sheets. F&S 1639 | ||||
III(5A6) De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004.
"The Place of the Dorset Eskimo in the Northeast" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Typed M.S. F&S 1313 | ||||
III(5A7) Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986.
Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988.
"Linguistic Considerations of Northeastern America" | n.d. | 2 items | Box 3 | |
Special emphasis on midwestern tribes, particularly Sauk and Fox. 1p. note of Frank G. Speck, criticizing the paper. F&S 1295 | ||||
III(5A8) Spaulding, A. C..
"Circumboreal Archaeology" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
A brief statement of a lengthier paper. F. S. 1232 | ||||
III(5A9) McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton).
"A Cultural Perspective of Northeastern Area Archaeology" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Typed M.S. F&S 1218 | ||||
III(5A10) Howells, W. W. (William White), 1908-2005.
"Physical Types of the Northeast" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Brief statement of formal paper. F&S 1304 | ||||
III(5A11) Ritchie, W. A..
"Archeological Manifestations in the Northeast" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 3 | |
Typed M.S. F&S 1224 | ||||
III(5A12) Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949.
"The Culture of the Northeastern Hunter" | 1941 | 2 items | Box 3 | |
A draft with very little similarity to tile published version. Contains generalizations about shared culture traits in the area. 1p. note of Cooper to Frank G. Speck, Sept. 9, 1941. F&S 1246 | ||||
III(5A13) Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939.
to Frank G. Speck | 1918-1919 | 2 items | Box 3 | |
Concerning Speck (1918a); Sapir sees Yurok comparisons; discusses general linguistic relationships; excited about reduction of language stocks; inquires after possible typographical errors, pp. 157-158 of article. F&S 362 and 2062 | ||||
B. Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) | ||||
1. General Iroquois | ||||
III(6B1a) Moses, Jesse, Jr..
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- a. "The Long-House Man" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Discusses relationship (from point of view of a Christian Indian) of Christianity and long-house religion; emphasizes government Indian policy; expects victory of Christianity. F&S 1647 | ||||
III(6B1b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- b. "Canadian Christian Indians Revert to Pagan Beliefs" | 1929-1930 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Argues that better-educated Indians have "gone native" as a means of escaping bureaucracy and clerical greed. F&S 1659 | ||||
III(6B1c) Buck, John.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- c. Iroquois burial customs | 1888 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Letter to George S. Conover Re Iroquois burial customs. F&S 1637 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult the Manuscripts Department for more information. | ||||
III(6B1d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- d. Wabanaki War with Iroquois | n.d. | 7 items | Box 4 | |
Miscellaneous notes Iroquois, wampum. F&S 1789 | ||||
III(6B1e) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- e. Seizure of Iroquois wampum by Canadian government | 1914 - 1926 | 6 items | Box 4 | |
Letters: Josiah Hill, Ohsweken, to Frank G. Speck, April 27, 1914, concerning photos of wampum, exchange of wampum with Seth Newhouse; same to same, n.d., complaining that British are unmindful of Loyalist Iroquois aid during eighteenth century; Frank G. Speck to Chief David S. Hill, c.c., Jan. l(i, 1925, concerning dispute with Canadian Indian department (seizure of wampum: loose beads and strings); David S. Hill to Speck, Feb. 15, 1925, stating MS. of Six Nations constitution has reappeared and will be compared with Scott copy (Scott, 1912); Speck to Dr. A. Leon Hatzon, Nov. 3, 1925 and April 17, 1926, criticizing book on wampum by Hatzon; A. Leon Hatzon to Speck, April 15, 1926, reply. F&S 1655 | ||||
III(6B1f) Newhouse, Seth, 1842-1921.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- f. Letters to Frank Speck offering to sell code, etc. | 1915-1916 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
1915 Asks, at suggestion of F. W. Waugh, that Speck secure shell for wampum for Newhouse. 1916: Offers to sell Speck his history manuscript, which he has been working on since 1885 [No. 1650]; will try to secure some wampum. F&S 1648, 1649 | ||||
III(6B1g) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- g. Nanticokes visit 6 Nations with Frank G. Speck | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
A document describing meeting of Delaware, Nanticoke, and Canadian Iroquois in presence of Speck; recounts injustices suffered by Indians in United States and Canada. F&S 1755, also 2358 | ||||
III(6B1h) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- h. Cayuga Indian claim | 1914-1926 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Letter of David Jamieson (Des-ka-heh) to Speck, April 4, 1914, concerning making secure Indian rights to land at Ohsweken. Copy of letter of Fred K. Nielsen to George P. Decker, Mar. 27, 1926, with MS. note of Decker to Speck concerning validity of Cayuga land claims before American-British Arbitral Tribunal. F&S 552 | ||||
III(6B1i) Menzie, Decker V..
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- i. Cayuga Indian representative in Onondaga Council | 1925 | 1 items | Box 4 | |
Concerning Speck's aid on Deskaheh's speech. Newsclipping included. F&S 558 | ||||
III(6B1j) Ioma, John.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- j. Letter to Chief Gibson | 1914 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Letter introduces Frank G. Speck to Gibson, with request that he be given data and wampum. F&S 1643 | ||||
III(6B1k) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- k. Miscellaneous notes | 1936-1948 | 24 items | Box 4 | |
Letters and notes concerning Speck (1945), and masks. Includes: 2p. sketches of masks; 36 slips of miscellaneous Iroquois references, notes, and Wyandot data; 1p. quotation concerning Delaware as women theme; bibliographical note (to Robert T. Hatt, Director of Cranbrook Institute of Science); note on Iroquois art. Letters to Speck include: John L. Buck, Burlington, Ontario, May 18, 1936, offering to sell masks; Merle H. Deardorff, Nov. 29, 1945, concerning Speck and Fenton field work and Speck (1945); Robert T. Hatt, Nov. 18, 1943, concerning publication of Speck (1945); John E. Jacobs, Jan. 12, 1948, concerning Iroquois songs, seeking feathers, sale of bow and arrows; W. N. Fenton, Nov. 15, 1948, concerning wampum strings; Arthur C. Parker, Sept. 11, 1947, concerning splint work of Seneca, basketry-mentions Stockbridge, Mahican, and Brotherton; Mrs. Alfred Martin, May 27 and Feb. 28, 1947, conceming museum specimens and deer tails; Loren C. Eiseley, July 8, 1940, concerning beaver and Algonkin hunting territory; W. N. Fenton, Sept. 1, 1944, concerning Seneca use of Joe Pye plant. Images note: 9 pencil sketches of Seneca false faces. F&S 1662 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information. | ||||
III(6B1l) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- l. [no entry] | Box 4 | |||
III(6B1m) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- m. "Status of the Six Nations." Brief by St. Regis Mohawks | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Brief concerning Indian rights against New York and federal government after 1924; also, letter of Muzzy Cook, Julius Cook, and Ray Fadden (Akwesasne Counselor Organization). F&S 2262 | ||||
III(6B1n) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- n. Review of Listen for a Lonesome Drum by Carl Cramer | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
A romantic review of a literary work. F&S 2267 | ||||
III(6B1o) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- o. Masks (miscellaneous notes) | 1934-1944 | 42 items | Box 4 | |
Includes: 4 letters of John L. Buck Ohsweken, to Speck, Oct. 23, 1936, to March 5, 1944, concerning masks sent to Speck asking Speck to burn tobacco for mask as suggested by a dream; and, concerning pictures Buck wants of his relatives; also, notes on Iroquois and "Eskimo" masks and drama, 1p.; 4p. quotations of printed works on corn-husk masks; 3p. notes on function of masks, east; 2p. on drums, northeast; letter of G. E Fenstermaker to Speck, March 15, 1934, offering to sell Cherokee and Iroquois masks; 3p miscellany. Images note: photographs, postcard, illustrations and sketches of Tuscarora, Onondaga masks. F&S 1661 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of mask images in this folder, with the exception of the Rattlesnake mask, is restricted. | ||||
Rattlesnake mask | 1934-1944 | |||
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III(6B1p) General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- p. Reflections on Iroquois religion | 1939-1941 | 10 items | Box 4 | |
Draft of article of Speck protesting missionary competition in reservations and emphasizing Christian character of long-house religion. Submitted originally to Newsletter of Home Missions Board, but rejected for its controversial nature. Published in Crozier Quarterly in 1941. Letters discussing the contents: Alban W. Hoopes, Feb. 12, 1940; Thomas Alfred Trip, Feb. 28, 1940; Mark A. Dawber, March 11, 1940 and Nov. 27, 1940; C. E. Schaeffer, Dec. 3, 1940 (quoting M. H. Deardorff); Charles T. Loran, Oct. 20, 1939; Chief Deskaheh, Nov. 9, 1939; Luther H. Ketels, Nov. 5, 1939; W. N. Fenton, Aug. 5, 1941. F&S 1664 | ||||
III(6B1q) Deardorff, Merle H., d.1971.
General Iroquois (Six Nations) -- q. Population statistics 1792 | 1944 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
2 memoranda, March 19, 1944 and March 26, 1944, with comments on and copies of population statistics of 1792, given in I. Chapin papers in the O'Reilly Collection of the New-York Historical Society (the originals are in No. 234). F&S 1638 | ||||
2. Mohawk | ||||
III(6B2a) Rowell, Mary.
Mohawk -- a. Letter on St. Regis Mohawk | 1942 | 5 items | Box 4 | |
A former student writes of her summer experiences among St. Regis Mohawk; general impressions of culture; dangers of false traditions being taught. Images note: four photographs of basket weaving, tools. F&S 2261 | ||||
III(6B2b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohawk -- b. Mohawk words and Miscellaneous field notes | 1933-1948 | 10 items | Box 4 | |
2p. on names and designs of Caughnawaga traps; 1p. St. Regis mask data obtained from Julius Cook; 4L. scraps (1 printed in Speck (1946):387, on dance). 7 cards of addresses, etc. Ray Fadden to F. G. Speck, May 7, 1947, T.L.S., 1p., congratulating Speck on his Iroquois study (1945). F&S 2277 | ||||
III(6B2c) Lagore, Margaret C. (Eli).
Mohawk -- c. Letter to Frank Speck | 1947 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Friendly letter concerning sale of baskets at Allentown Fair; mentions visit of Mary Rowell and Ray Fadden. F&S 2260 | ||||
III(6B2d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohawk -- d. Oka Iroquois notes | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Data on hunting territory, chiefships, words. F&S 1663 | ||||
3. Cayuga | ||||
III(7B3a) General, Alexander J. (Deskaheh).
Cayuga -- a. letters to Frank Speck | 1924-1947 | 14 items | Box 4 | |
General to Speck, Jan. 13, 1925, 1p., concerning Indian claim against Canada and the United States and radio talks; Dec. 29, 1925 (as Deskaheh), 1p.; Mar. 26, 1926, 1p., concerning politics, snow-snake game mentioned; July, 1926, 1p., concerning Delawares, Nanticoke recording; Feb. 21, 1927, 1p., concerning injustices of Canadian RCMP, elections, false-face masks; May 7, 1934, 2p., conceming husk masks and museum specimens; n.d., 1p. receipt and 4p. answers to queries, and questions of Speck with MS. answers of Deskaheh concerning tobacco planting. Images note: 2 sketches of rattles of hickory bark, corn husks. F&S 556 | ||||
III(7B3b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Cayuga -- b. Cayuga words | n.d. | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Names and phrases. F&S 566 | ||||
III(7B3c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Cayuga -- c. Miscellaneous Cayuga field notes | 1940-1941 | 7 items | Box 4 | |
Letter of H. W. Dorsey (Smithsonian Institution), Mar. 13, 1941, concerning a Chief Gibson text in Cayuga in Bureau of American Ethnology. Letter of William N. Fenton, 2p., concerning Cayuga winter rituals MS.; suggestions. Miscellaneous notes for Cayuga MS. F&S 561 | ||||
III(7B3d) Dodge, Ernest Stanley.
Cayuga -- d. Story about war medicine collected by Dodge | 1944 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Cayuga story about war medicine. F&S 554 | ||||
III(7B3e) Cayuga -- e. [no entry] | Box 4 | |||
III(7B3f) Cayuga -- f. [no entry] | Box 4 | |||
III(7B3g) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Cayuga -- g. Obeservations on Cayuga religion | 1925 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Letter to Alexander J. General (Deskaheh). Observations on Cayuga religion; Speck suggests a defense of the longhouse from critics by suggesting it is a form of Christanity. F&S 560 | ||||
III(7B3h) General, Alexander J. (Deskaheh).
Cayuga -- h. Directions for care and tuning of water drum | n.d. | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Concerning specimen sent Speck. F&S 553 | ||||
III(7B3i) Cayuga -- i. [no entry] | Box 4 | |||
III(7B3j) Buck, John.
Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Cayuga -- j. Large notebook of Cayuga material (This notebook also contains data on other tribes, not all of it published.) | 1933-1936 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Feasts, 3p.; notebook of 23L, Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Onondaga, and Seneca material; notebook, 1936, 8p. notes re bowl game and false faces; 9p. notes on prayer for skin dance by Mrs. Buck, copied by Speck; 4p. in notebook, describing 90 dances, mask data; 2p. Typed D., legend, by Deskaheh. Letters: John L. Buck and Mrs. John L. Buck to Speck, Apr. 25, 1936, and Feb. 29, 1938, concerning masks sent and their stories. William N. Fenton to Speck, Jan. 12, 1933, 2p., concerning field trip and Seneca-Cayuga material. Three letters to Speck concerning death of John L. Buck: John L. Buck, Jr., Feb. 17, 1935; Edward A. Brown, Feb. 18, 1935; Deskaheh, Feb. 18, 1935. Images note: photographic negatives, masks: John Buck, Jerry Aaron and wife; sketches of false face masks, diagrams of dances. F&S 562 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information. | ||||
4. Seneca | ||||
III(7B4a) Cornplanter, Jesse J..
Seneca -- a. letters from | 1941-1947 | 6 items | Box 4 | |
Cornplanter to Speck: Nov. 12, 1941, 2p., concerning his religious beliefs, and changes in the way of life; April 22, 1947, 1p., praising Speck; Feb. 27, 1947, 2p., concerning informants' pay. Typed c.c. letter of Cornplanter to [?], Dec. 20, 1946, sending Christmas greetings; Ho-wonk-gowah (Charles Congdon?) to Go-wa-non-dah Doweestowee, Feb. 8, 1947, recluesting information on husk face; and Cornplanter to Ha-ouh-wonh-go-wah (Charles Congdon?), concerning husk faces. F&S 3247 | ||||
III(7B4b) Congdon, Charles (Allegheny).
Seneca -- b. letters from | 1945 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Congratulates Speck on his Iroquois (1945); describes Alleghany ceremonials; gives sketch of arrangement of participants. F&S 3241 | ||||
III(7B4c) Congdon, Charles E. (Charles Edwin).
Seneca -- c. "The Native Religion of the Senecas" | 1942 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Religion of Handsome Lake is compared with Judaism and Greco-Roman spirits. Comparison of ceremonials. F&S 3243 | ||||
III(7B4d) Redeye, Clara.
Seneca -- d. letters from | 1941-1948 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Images note: photograph negative, 1941, of 4 generations of Seneca women; sends dolls. F&S 3273 Access digital object: | ||||
III(7B4e) Clark, Evangeline.
Seneca -- e. letter from | 1947 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Thanks for reprints, which she had sent to Suffolk University. F&S 3500 | ||||
III(7B4f) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Seneca -- f. Words and miscellaneous notes | 1944 | 6 items | Box 4 | |
3p. notes and 6 slips: miscellaneous data. 2 letters, Sherman Redeye to Speck. Nov. 9, 1944, and n.d., concerning corn-husk masks. F&S 3279 | ||||
III(7B4g) White, Clayton.
Seneca -- g. Description of the one-year death feast | 1942 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Letter to Merle H. Deardorff, encloses description of the one-year death feast (document included). Clayton White was a native informant for Deardorff. F&S 3280 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information. | ||||
III(7B4h) Seneca -- h. [no entry] | Box 4 | |||
III(7B4i) Seneca -- i. False Face Dance at Coldspring | 1944 | 1 item | Box 4 | |
Songs transcribed by Jesse Cornplanter from manuscripts of his father, Edward Cornplanter, and George Pierce; also from mernory. Occasional notes in English give tempi, behavior of dancers, sources, etc. 4 letters: Cornplanter to W. N. Fenton, Oct. 11 and 26, 1951; Fenton to Cornplanter, Oct. 18 and 30, 1951, 1p. each. F&S 3248 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information. | ||||
III(7B4j) Deardorff, Merle H., d.1971.
Seneca -- j. letters from | 1942-1943 | 2 items | Box 4 | |
Concerning informant Clayton White, Pennsylvania place names, and Speck (1942). The second is a lengthy discussion of practices of Handsome Lake adherents. F&S 3249 | ||||
III(7B4k) Seneca -- k. Notes on Oklahoma Seneca | 1940 | 3 items | Box 4 | |
Outline of ceremonials; chart; especially dances and funerary practices. Images note: pencil sketch diagram of Stomp dance. F&S 3278 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult the Manuscripts Department for more information. | ||||
III(7B4l) Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005.
Seneca -- l. Seneca Ceremonial Calendar. Coldspring, MS. | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
An organized, detailed set of field notes on ceremonies. [NOTE: 2 folders, one is a photocopy, the second is the original. Use photocopy] F&S 3252 Restrictions on Access: Reproduction of this material, including Reading Room photography, is restricted due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Please consult a librarian for more information. | ||||
III(7B4m) Isserman, Ferdinand M. (Ferdinand Myron).
Seneca -- m. Mythology of Senecas | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
A student's paper. F&S 3254 | ||||
5. Tuscarora | ||||
III(7B5a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tuscarora -- a. Canadian Tuscarora words | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Geographical terms secured at Six Nations Reserve. F&S 3817 | ||||
III(7B5b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tuscarora -- b. Notes on Canadian Tuscarora | 1918 | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Includes: names for the Nanticokes in Cayuga, Tuscarora, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida; notes on wampum, folklore, and the Canadian Tuscarora; some Nanticoke vocabulary. F&S 4559 and 4864 | ||||
III(7B5c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tuscarora -- c. Reading notes on the Chowan (incorporated by Tuscarora) | n.d. | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Consists of one page of reading notes on the Chowans, taken from the North Carolina Colonial Records, regarding encroachments of colonists, incorporation by Tuscaroras in 1733, land sale in 1735. Two pages of reading notes on the Mattamuskeet Indians, 1713-1728, from same source, particularly relating to Tuscarora War and mentioning Coree Indians as well. Three notecards labelled "Tutelo" (taken from General John S. Clark), "Suwanoos" (Shawnees, also taken from Clark), and "Nessoneicks" (taken from Bland, Discovery of New Brittaine.) F&S 751 | ||||
III(7B5d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Tuscarora -- d. reading notes on New York State Tuscarora | n.d. | 2 items | Box 5 | |
1p. Mattawascheet notes; A. I. Hallowell to Speck, Dec. 9, 193-, note concerning Nanticoke and Tuscarora. F&S 3798 | ||||
6. Nottoway | ||||
III(7B6) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Nottoway -- a. Nottoway notes | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Miscellaneous; map of Eastern Maryland shore. F&S 2468 | ||||
C. Delaware (Lenape) | ||||
1. General | ||||
III(8C1a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- a. Delaware bibliography | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
List of authorities for brief article, pp. 7, 8,9, (copy used by printer after 1935?). F&S 902 | ||||
III(8C1b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- b. Notes on place names | n.d. | 3 items | Box 5 | |
A bibliographical note from Heckewelder and a quotation. F&S 1183 | ||||
III(8C1c) General -- c. Copy of Detroit treaty, | 17 June 1777 | 1 item | Box 5 | |
A copy made by Peter F. Timothy, a Moravian Delaware, in Aug., 1888, and transmitted to Frank G. Speck by Jesse Moses, Nov. 31, 1945. Copied from British Public Record Office. F&S 1748 | ||||
III(8C1d) Peters, Irma.
General -- d. White Peters, an Indian captive | 1895 | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Letter to editor of [Buffalo Evening] Standard, 1895, concerning captivity of White Peters and his descendants; intermixture with Negro and Tuscarora mentioned. F&S 897 | ||||
III(8C1e) General -- e. Notes on Delaware-Munsee Bear Rite | after 1941 | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Handwritten notes regarding Delaware-Munsee Bear Rite. No Freeman number Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(8C1f) Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986.
General -- f. Linguistic analysis of Delaware (mimeographed) | 1939-1969 | 2 items | Box 5 | |
Includes copy of letter from R. H. Goddard III to the APS dated 1969 attributing the document to Carl Voegelin. F&S 1182 | ||||
III(8C1g) General -- g. [no entry] | Box 5 | |||
III(8C1h) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- h. Miscellaneous notes | 1933-1948 | 25 items | Box 5 | |
Includes: Gladys Tantaquidgeon, Delaware Indian designs, 5p.; miscellany, 3 slips; miscellany, linguistic notes 1941, 2p.; miscellany, 2 cards; notebook with botanical specimens and 10p. of miscellaneous. Letters: Katharine Bennet to Speck, Oct. 22, 1945, A.L.S., 2p., concerning his celestial bear article (1945); Carl Voegelin to Speck, Jan. 5, 1948, T.L.S., 2p., concerning meaning of Walam Olum title; War Eagle to Speck, March 4, 1935, A.L.S., 2p., concerning earthquake and museum specimens, and card of queries with War Eagle's answer; George P. Murdock to Speck, March 5, 1943, T.L.S., Delaware data in John Fitch MS.; Jesse Moses to Speck, A.L.S., 4p. and continued on envelope, concerning Six Nation Delaware reservations incidents. F&S 911 Restrictions on Use: This folder contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(8C1i) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- i. Review of Kinietz Delaware Culture Chronology | 1946 | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Review of Kinietz, Delaware Culture Chronology F&S 919 | ||||
III(8C1j) General -- j. [no entry] | Box 5 | |||
III(8C1k) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- k. "The Delaware Indians Past and Present" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Introduction to article; includes population statistics. F&S 904 | ||||
III(8C1l) General -- l. Quiripi and Delaware vocabularies compared | n.d. | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Quiripi words based on published sources with some Delaware comparisons arranged, in parallel columns. F&S 3201 | ||||
III(8C1m) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- m. Reviews and comments on Speck's Delaware publications | 1932-1945 | 8 items | Box 5 | |
Letters relating to Speck (1931): Ruth Renedict to Al[exander Lesser]?, March 23, 1932, T.L.S., 1p.; Frans M. Olbrechts to Speck, June 6, 1932, A.L. postal card; Dr. W. Krickeberg (Berlin Volkerkünde Museum) to Hiram H. Shenk, July 14, 1932, 1p. copy; M. R. Harrington (Curator, Southwest Museum) to Speck, March 3, 1937, T.L.S., 1p., concerns also Zeisberger analysis of Delaware "tribes"; Father P. W. Schmidt (Vienna) to Speck, A.L.S., 3p. in German, and Speck's reply, May 13, 1932, T.L.S., 2p., concerning dualism or unity in Delaware God concept; Charles F. Goddard to Speck, March 13, 1934, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Long Island archaeology. W. N. Fenton (1946), T.D., c.c., 7p. F&S 920 | ||||
III(8C1n) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- n. Delaware-as-women | 1946 | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Letters to Frank C. Speck concerning his article (1946). John H. Morice to Speck, Nov. 26, 1946, T.L.S., 2p.; Merle H. Deardorff, Nov. 25, 1946, T.L.S., 3p., discusses linguistic aspects of the problem. F&S 906 | ||||
III(8C1o) Springer, Ethel M..
General -- o. Delaware remnants in state of Delaware | 1917 | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Concerning Delaware remnants in the state of Delaware, intermixture with Negro. F&S 923 Access digital object: | ||||
III(8C1p) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- p. Delaware religion evaluated | n.d. | 6 items | Box 5 | |
Notes for a lecture on dangers in Indian policy and the destruction of Indian culture. F&S 905 | ||||
III(8C1q) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- q. Delaware grammar and vocabulary materials | n.d. | 27 items | Box 5 | |
Contains a transcript of Jefferson's Edgepullock Delaware vocabulary with phonetic transcription by Speck, 21p. [Chief Webber thinks it is Munsee]; transcript of Heckewelder's Munsi and Mahicanni vocabularies, 8p.; text froth Gabriel Thomas' "Account" in Myers (1912), 5p.; 1p. from printed source; field notes; 2p. of Objurgatives (profanity); 12p. of verbs; 4p. abstracts of grammar and sacred terms; 3 vocabulary slips and 5 cards of linguistic items. F&S 1178 | ||||
III(8C1r) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- r. Delaware ceremonial patterns | n.d. | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Contains 3p. discussion, 10p. of charts illustrating origin, procedure and ceremonial host for various ceremonies, and a page indicating facing directions. F&S 903 Restrictions on Use: This folder contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(8C1s) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General -- s. Delaware High God concept | 1937 | 2 items | Box 5 | |
Includes 2 documents: 1. discussion of Supreme Deity in Delaware, including some peculiar linguistic usages, suggesting difference from general Algonquian. 2.a translation from the Swedish of "Om Gudsbegreppet's Hos Lenape," Albin Widdn, vol. 2, no. 4 (July, 1937), an article which rejects Father Schmidt's contention that Delaware religious concepts of supreme being are independent of Christian influence, citing John Campanius' mission work and his translation of Luther. F&S 922 Restrictions on Use: This folder contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
2. Oklahoma Delaware | ||||
III(9C2a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- a. List of Museum specimens | 1929 | 3 items | Box 6 | |
Lists of 1929 and 1935 specimens obtained by Speck from Oklahoma and Canadian Delaware with provenance of items given. 1935 list of items deposited at Delaware County Institute of Science. F&S 910 | ||||
III(9C2b) Parks, J. A..
Oklahoma Delaware -- b. Letter concering painting of ceremony | 1930-1933 | 3 items | Box 6 | |
Parks, Sept. 12, 1930, discusses drawings he will make of ceremonies; March 30, 1932, discusses painting of ceremony; March 7, 1933, discusses loan of painting. F&S 895 | ||||
III(9C2c) Washington, Joe.
Oklahoma Delaware -- c. Drawings of cow-bone roach spreaders | 1946 | 2 items | Box 6 | |
Images note: 10 color pencil drawings by an Oklahoma Delaware Indian of cow-bone roach spreaders. F&S 935 | ||||
Cow-bone roach spreaders | ||||
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III(9C2d) Oklahoma Delaware -- d. Field notes | 1932 | 4 items | Box 6 | |
Texts, names of tribes, and ceremonies (Delaware-English); also kinship terms, names, and ceremonial and ethnographic data. Partly used in publications. Images note: sketches of Peyote designs from Yuchi feather wand of 12 eagle feathers, face colors of war chief, round stone, dance bustles, fan of hawk tail feathers. F&S 1180 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2e) Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988.
Oklahoma Delaware -- e. Field notes | 1938 | 1 item | Box 6 | |
Concerning names and data on Delaware informants. Shawnee data on Delaware in Oklahoma. F&S 925 | ||||
III(9C2f) Washington, Fred.
Oklahoma Delaware -- f. letters from | 1932-1947 | 15 items | Box 6 | |
Letters concerning museum specimens and their manufacture; meanings. One from Mrs. Jane Washington (Fred's mother), Sept. 18, 1942, 1p., re specimens. F&S 934 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2g) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- g. Myth of the great earthquake by War Eagle | 1938-1939 | 6 items | Box 6 | |
Materials relating to Speck (1941d): (1) 2p. quotation from Sidney Perley on the earthquake of 1638 in Esser Antiquarian, vol. 1, 1895, p. 173. (2) 2p. abridgment of same. (3) 2p. T.D. Report on effects of earthquakes by Joseph Berman, 1938. (4) Fred Washington to Speck, Nov. 24, 1939, 1p. and 8p., account of Delaware earthquake legend. (5) F. G. Speck, "The great Pennsylvania earthquake of Indian days," 3p. T.D. F&S 915 | ||||
III(9C2h) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- h. Miscellaneous notes | 1932-1941 | 9 items | Box 6 | |
Letters to Speck from native informants: George T. Anderson to Speck, Dec. 27, 1932, 1p., and March 24, 1933, 2p., concerning museum specimens; Mrs. Alex Elijah, March 23, 1935, 1p., concerning baskets (Ontario Delaware); A. F. Frenchman, Nov. 5, 1941, 2p., (son-in-law of George Anderson); Fred Keeler, Jan. 11, 1940, 2p., discussion of Delaware by an Oklahoma Cherokee; Minnie A. Garrett, March 14, 1935, 3p., asking for genealogical data on her Indian forebears. 5 cards and a 1p. typed document on a test for determining a murderer. F&S 913 | ||||
III(9C2i) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- i. Peyote notes | 1923-1940 | 4 items | Box 6 | |
Includes 3p. critical notes on peyote as described in Lindcluist (1923); 2p. scraps; of Omer C. Stewart to Speck, Feb. 6, 1940, T.L.S., 1p., seeking data for comparative study of peyote. F&S 918 | ||||
III(9C2j) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- j. "Additional notes on Big House Ceremony" | n.d. | 2 items | Box 6 | |
Speck has, with aid of George Anderson, informant, discovered evidences of "dualism" in Delaware religion. F&S 900 Restrictions on Access: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2k) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- k. Delaware relations with Quapaw Indians | 1942 | 1 item | Box 6 | |
Also concerns Peyote Cult. F&S 927 | ||||
III(9C2l) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- l. Delaware witchcraft | 1939 | 2 items | Box 6 | |
An 8p. account, noting Plains Indian difference from Nanticoke; 10p. revision to Frank G. Speck. Cf. Pawnee witch story with letters of War Eagle, No. 932. F&S 929 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2m) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- m. Story of a reace between man and horse | n.d. | 2 items | Box 6 | |
11p. story with 16p. free revision by Speck. F&S 933 | ||||
III(9C2n) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- n. Objects used in Delaware Peyote rites | n.d. | 3 items | Box 6 | |
3p. account by Speck of specimens collected from War Eagle and 5p. account of the same by War Eagle, Nov. 1, 1939. F&S 917 Restrictions on Access: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2o) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- o. Legend of Snow Boy | 1933 | 3 items | Box 6 | |
3p. original by War Eagle; 2p. free revision by Speck. F&S 930 | ||||
III(9C2p) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- p. Legend of Woods dwarf | n.d. | 2 items | Box 6 | |
2p. original by War Eagle; 1p. typed D. free revision by Speck. F&S 931 | ||||
III(9C2q) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- q. Cherokee and Delaware Alliance | 1933 | 2 items | Box 6 | |
3p. original account by War Eagle; 3p. free revision by Speck. F&S 640 | ||||
III(9C2r) Oklahoma Delaware -- r. Delaware art designs in color | n.d. | 10 items | Box 6 | |
Images note: 11 crayon sketches. F&S 859 | ||||
III(9C2s) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- s. "Delaware Tales" | 1928 | 1 item | Box 6 | |
18p. section concerns Peyote and the Delaware; 10p. concerns George Wilson (related to John Wilson of Peyote Cult). F&S 928 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2t) Moses, Jesse, and Nick Peters.
Oklahoma Delaware -- t. Little people slay great bull | n.d. | 3 items | Box 6 | |
Material obtained by Frank G. Speck. In English. F&S 894 | ||||
III(9C2u) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- u. song texts | n.d. | 2 items | Box 6 | |
Text with interlinear translation; 2 versions of 1 song. Meant to accompany "Record H" (unknown). F&S 1184 | ||||
III(9C2v) Oklahoma Delaware -- v. Text on morality | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
Text with interlinear translation. F&S 1189 | ||||
III(9C2w) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- w. Social organization field notes | n.d. | 12 items | Box 6 | |
Notes and brief typed documents relating to the Turtle clan (7p.), class divisions (6p.), funeral ceremony (2p.), history of clans (3p.), names (13p.), locations and place names (4p.), concept of soul (4p.), miscellaneous (10p. and 8 cards). Fred Washington, Wolf Clan Ceremonies (2p.). Images note: pencil sketches of totem emblems: turtle, horse, turkey symbolizing signatures. F&S 921 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
III(9C2x) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Oklahoma Delaware -- x. Gourd designs | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
Images note: pencil sketches of symbols on gourd rattle with interpretations; rattle for Peyote ceremonies. F&S 908 | ||||
III(9C2y) Wilson, Reuben.
Oklahoma Delaware -- y. letters from | 1941 | 12 items | Box 6 | |
Letters concerning museum specimens, model, and sketch of Big House. March 18, 1941, 1p. and enc., concerning masks, other specimens, sketch of Delaware church (1925); April 23, 1941, 1p., concerning Big House and "Messing 1941, 1p. sketch of mask and costume of Messing; May 2, 1941, 2p., concerning Messing; May 7, 1941, post card of Fred Washington to Speck concerning Wilson; Sept. 12, 1941, 1p., concerning a mortar; Oct. 11, 1941, 1p., concerning Lenape words and Big House model. List of articles and prices; 1p. 2 queries of Speck on cards with Wilson's answers. Images note: photographs of Reuben Wilson, Washington County, Oklahoma Delaware; sketches of peace pipe, tobacco pouch, homing spoon, canoe, paddle, figure with bear hide cover and mask. F&S 937 Restrictions on Use: This item contains potentially culturally sensitive material. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is prohibited. | ||||
Reuben Wilson (Weekpakehing) | 1941 | |||
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III(9C2z) War Eagle.
Oklahoma Delaware -- z. letters from | 1933-1944 | 36 items | Box 6 | |
Concerning War Eagle's collecting legends and traditions; his obtaining museum specimens; information on peyote and on Big House; his health; reservation and national Indian affairs; some mention of Pawnee, Nanticoke, etc. See various other documents listed separately, but transmitted with these letters. Includes the following tales: snow boy tale, boy captive of bear, trickster tale, Pawnee witch story. F&S 932 | ||||
3. Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware | ||||
III(8C3a) Moses, Jesse, Jr..
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- a. letters from | 1932-1948 | 19 items | Box 5 | |
Letters: April 7, 1934, 1p., concerning obtaining data; Oct. 5, 1940, 4p., concerning reservation activities; Dec. 11, 1941, 4p., reservation affairs; Nov. 23, 1942, (typed copy?), 1p., concerning Speck (1942) and Indian affairs; Nov. 13, 1944, 5p., wrongs to Indians and miscellaneous; Nov. 29, 1944, 4p., concerning Lenni Lenape and data Moses is gathering; Dec. 3, 1944, 8p., same subject; Dec. 7, 1944, 4p., (typed), Story of Nick (Peters?) and white captives; Sept. 7, 1945, 3p., concerning Delaware affairs, speculations on Delaware religion, concept of Great Spirit and conversion to Christianity; Aug. 4, 1947, 4p., miscellaneous Cayuga and Delaware affairs; Nov. 31, 1945, 6p., sends treaty of 1777 of British and Indians at Detroit, discusses manufacture of museum specimens; Sept. 7, 1948, 3p., miscellaneous, discusses meeting with Mormon missionaries; ca. 19431944, 1p., fragment of letter. Speck field notes taken from Jesse Moses, 1944, 3p. Images note: 7 photographs of old and young Jesse Moses. F&S 893 Access digital object: | ||||
III(8C3b) Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- b. [no entry] | Box 5 | |||
III(8C3c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- c. Miscellaneous notes | 1938-1945 | 16 items | Box 5 | |
Abstract of report on University of Pennsylvania grant (Bear Ceremony), 1p. Ethnographic notes, 17p. Letters: M. R. Harrington (Southwest Museum) to Speck, March 11, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., concerning his MS. on Delaware (1945a) and comparisons with Minsi; Charles Edgar Gilliam to Speck, Oct. 22, 1945, A.L.S., 2p., concerning the celestial bear theme, refers to William Byrd's attributing aphrodisiacal powers to bear meat and Gilliam suggests that the winter ceremony thus insures birth of children at harvest when there will be food; Paul A. W. Wallace to Speck, Sept. 11, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerns Joseph Montour and his return to his native religion. Images note: ink sketch of shaft and cup. F&S 912 Restrictions on Access: This material has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information. | ||||
III(8C3d) Hill, Jasper "Big White Owl".
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- d. Stories | 1934-1943 | 11 items | Box 5 | |
Two narratives by an acculturated Moravian Delaware and accompanying letters (seeking and transmitting information): Hill to Frank G. Speck, Mar. 15, 1934; April, 1934; April 28, 1934; Feb. 28, 1943. Images note: photograph of Big White Owl, sketch by Big White Owl of logo. F&S 892 | ||||
III(8C3e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- e. Notes on life and geneology of Joseph Montour | 1932 | 3 items | Box 5 | |
Includes chart of succession of chiefs, 1855-1937; data from Joseph Montour (biographical). 3p. biography of Nicodemus Peters (1859-1938). F&S 916 Access digital object: | ||||
III(8C3f) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- f. Field notes | 1945 | 1 item | Box 5 | |
Linguistic materials: names of objects, materia medica names. Images note: 2 pencil sketches by John Witthoft of bow. F&S 1177 | ||||
III(8C3g) Montour, Josiah.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- g. Texts narrated by | 1931-1936 | 7 items | Box 6 | |
Six texts in Delaware with interlinear translations. F&S 1173 | ||||
III(8C3h) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- h. Field notes | 1946 | 4 items | Box 6 | |
Field trip with Anthony F. C. Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Carpenter: Delaware text, no translation, from Josiah Montour; Delaware, Cayuga, and Mohawk words. F&S 1181 | ||||
III(8C3i) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- i. Field notes | 1936 | 2items | Box 6 | |
Ethnographic and linguistic notes; concerns ceremonies and text. Letter of Nicodemus Peters to Speck, March 2, 1936, concerning masks and a turtle rattle. F&S 907 Restrictions on Access: This material has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive. Reproduction, including Reading Room photography, is restricted. Please consult the Curator of Native American Materials for more information. | ||||
III(8C3j) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- j. Hoop game | 1944-1945 | 3 items | Box 6 | |
Cayuga hoop game data from Deskaheh. Typed D. description of Delaware-Munsee hoop game. Postal card, Nov. 24, 1944, of Ernest S. Dodge to Speck, concerning reference to hoop game in Morgan's League of the Iroquois (1851). F&S 559 | ||||
III(8C3k) Peters, Nick.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- k. Letters from and concerning | 1935-1939 | 15 items | Box 6 | |
Letters of Peters to Speck concerning museum specimens being obtained by Peters: Jan. 3, 1938; April 11, 1938; May 1, 1938; and no date. Letters concerning death of Peters and his collecting museum specimens: Irma Peters to Speck, Nov. 23, 1938, 2p., Margaret Vanderberg to Speck, Jan. 8, 1938; ? to Speck, n.d., concerning Peters data on executions; three letters of Frank Siebert to Speck, July 24, 1938, 2p., Nov. 20, 1938, 2p., and June 25, 1939, all concerning linguistic field work with Peters and museum specimens. 4p. biographical data concerning Nekatcit. F&S 898 | ||||
III(8C3l) John, Samuel.
Canadian (Grand River, Ont.) Delaware -- l. letters from | 1934-1935 | 4 items | Box 6 | |
Three letters concerning John's Tutelo background and Speck's visit to Canadian Delawares. Sept. 4, 1934, 3p.; Jan. 8, 1935, 4p.; June 2, 1935, 2p. F&S 3821 | ||||
D. New England Algonkians (also including Algonkians of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) | ||||
1. General New England | ||||
III(10D1a) Butler, Eva L..
General New England -- a. "Letters of the Indians" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
29 letters of seventeenth-century Indians, principally from archives in Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. F&S 343 | ||||
III(10D1b) Butler, Eva L..
General New England -- b. "Colonial Letters of our Ancestors" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
19 letters of seventeenth-century colonial Connecticut, principally from Connecticut State Library. A pamphlet issued by Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. F&S 342 | ||||
III(10D1c) General New England -- c. Tribal Maps | n.d. | Box 6 | ||
[see map files] | ||||
III(10D1d) Butler, Eva L..
General New England -- d. "Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology of the New England Indians" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
90p. of ethnobotanical references, 29p. of ethnozoological references found in a 3p. bibliography of seventeenth and eighteenth century sources. F&S 331 | ||||
III(10D1e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
General New England -- e. Bibliography of New England Tribes | n.d. | 1 item | Box 6 | |
Nineteenth-century printed references; some twentieth-century. F&S 2092 | ||||
2. Penobscot | ||||
III(11D2a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- a. "Bird Lore of the Northern Indians" | n.d. | 2 items | Box 7 | |
A faculty public lecture, University of Pennsylvania. Images note: photomechanical print of Penobscot around campfire. F&S 2925 | ||||
III(11D2b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- b. Miscellaneous Notes | 1912-1946 | 55 items | Box 7 | |
Correspondence relating to Speck's Penobscot work also, letters from informants, and various documents. Speck to Roland E. Nelson (Needahbeh), May 14, 1928, T.L., c.c., 1p., concerning drum for exhibit. Franz Boas, May 31, 1940, T.L.S., 1p. John M. Cooper, Aug. 11, 1940, A.L.S., 2p. William B. Goodwin, Nov. 9 and 21, 1940, T.L.S., 6p. and 1p. E. V. McCollum, May 24, 1940, T.L.S., 1p. Roland E. Nelson, April 28, 1940, A.L.S., 2p. J. Dyneley Prince, May 18, 1940, A.L.S., 2p. all concerning Penobscot Man; Clifford P. Wilson to Speck, Dec. 29, 1937 and Feb. 2, 1938, T.L.S., 1p., both concerning Moosehair embroidery; Edward Reman, May 19, 1940, T.L.S., 2p., concerning Norse influence on Penobscot; Carrie A. Lyford, May 9, 1941, A.L.S., lp., concerning moose-wool controversy and Ann Stimson's report; Ann Stimson, n.d. (1941?) T.L.S., 1p., letter of thanks; Henry Noyes Otis, March 20, 1939, A.L.S., 2p. concerning genealogy of Indians named Sias on Cape Cod (Speck marked this Penobscot). Princess Pretty Woman, April 13, 1946, 1p., concerning her dress. Dorothy Panco, April 27, 1946, A.L.S., 2p., concerning Princess Pretty Woman's dress (both are Indians). Roland W. Mann, Nov. 8, 1943, A.L.S., 2p., concerning site of Indian occupancy according to Penobscot tradition; Ryuzo Torii, July 26, 1943, T.L.S., 1p., letter of introduction. 1p. typed transcript from printed D., 5p. transcript of agreements of Indians of Nova Scotia and English, Aug. 15, 1749, and 2p. transcript of agreement of July 13, 1727 (letter of transmittal, Lloyd Price to Miss MacDonald, Sept. 24, 1936, A.L.S., 1p.). Ann K. Stimson, Moose Wool (A.D., 2p. and 3 1p. typed copies) and Climbing Powers of the American Mink (A.D. 2p. and 3 1p. typed copies). Miscellaneous: 14p. and 17p. of field notes, Malecite and Penobscot. 9p. songs, kinship, totem, medicine, social units, 4p. Penobscot words and their cultural use; 10p. misc., and B cards. Images note: 10 sketches of face painting. F&S 2932 | ||||
III(11D2c) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- c. Penobscot religion | 1910 | 15 items | Box 7 | |
An introductory statement in 4p. with a 5p. revision; also, 8L. of miscellaneous notes. F&S 2938 | ||||
III(11D2d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- d. Penobscot field notes | 1909-1911 | 32 items | Box 7 | |
An introduction and description of canoemaking; miscellaneous ethnographic field notes; data on face painting, etc. Images note: 11 contact prints, 3 albumen prints, 42 sketches of canoe-making, face painting, double curve design, portraits, snow snake, game diagrams. F&S 2927 | ||||
III(11D2e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- e. MS. of Penobscot Man | n.d. | 46 items | Box 7 | |
77p. of manuscript for Speck (1940a); plates (figures); Bp. letter of Frank (Siebert?) to Speck, May 29, 1939, concerning his Penobscot MS. Images note: 112 ink sketches of mocassins, baskets, utensils, bowls, spoons, show shoes, combs, shelters, bark implements. F&S 2937 | ||||
III(11D2f) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- f. Counting and measuring | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
Material not printed in Penobscot Man (1940a): 4p. on counting; 2p, on names of acculturated objects; 4p. on manners and dispositions; 2p. on attitudes and behavior. F&S 2926 | ||||
III(11D2g) Swadesh, Morris and Charles F..
Penobscot -- g. Scientific Penobscot Alphabet | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
Scientific Penobscot alphabet F&S 2946 | ||||
III(12D2h) Echstorm, F. H..
Penobscot -- h. letters from | 1936-1941 | 14 items | Box 8 | |
Letters concerning publication and criticism of Penobscot Man; ethnographic data on Penobscot; relationship of Penobscot-Mohegan and Mahican; also, comparison of Zuñi-Navajo and Red Paint; Tutelo. F&S 2920 | ||||
III(12D2i) Penobscot -- i. [no entry] | Box 8 | |||
III(12D2j) Penobscot -- j. [no entry] | Box 8 | |||
III(12D2k) Needahbeh.
Penobscot -- k. Penobscot sayings | n.d. | 1 item | Box 8 | |
Miscellany not used in book (1940). F&S 2939 | ||||
III(12D2l) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- l. House furnishings | 1935 | 2 items | Box 8 | |
Some parts not used in Speck (1940a). F&S 2928 | ||||
III(12D2m) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- m. Hunting morality | n.d. | 1 item | Box 8 | |
Religious aspect of hunting. F&S 2929 | ||||
III(12D2n) Penobscot -- n. [no entry] | Box 8 | |||
III(12D2o) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- o. Notes on Penobscot Social Organization | n.d. | 6 items | Box 8 | |
Charts on family, its size, totem, etc., 2p.; 2p. on family history and names; 39p. miscellaneous notes, 1918, including text interlinear translation; Micmac data. F&S 2933 | ||||
III(12D2p) Penobscot -- p. [no entry] | Box 8 | |||
III(12D2q) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- q. Penobscot calendar system | 1916-1928 | 2 items | Box 8 | |
Notebook on calendar and seasons for hunting and sugar-making. Letter (part c.c.) of A. L. Kroeber to Speck, together with 1p. cluestionnaire on comparative calendars. F&S 2936 | ||||
III(12D2r) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- r. Penobscot animal lore | 1924 | 2 items | Box 8 | |
Data; cf. Speck (1935b) (?). F&S 2934 | ||||
III(12D2s) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- s. Penobscot Art and the Penobscot texts | n.d. | 5 item | Box 8 | |
Material not used in Penobscot Man because of duplication in Speck (1927b). Images note: 6 photgraphs of wampum, tobacco pouch, mocassins, beaded cuffs, woman's hair ornament; 118 ink sketches of double curve designs. F&S 2935 | ||||
Buckskin tobacco pouch | n.d. | |||
Access digital object: | ||||
III(12D2t) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- t. Penobscot texts (I) | 1928 | 19 items | Box 8 | |
Texts with interlinear translations; several English texts; typed versions of texts in English. F&S 2945 | ||||
III(12D2t) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Penobscot -- t. Penobscot texts (II) | 1928 | 5 items | Box 8 | |
F&S 2945 | ||||
3. "Malecite" (Wolastoqiyik) | ||||
III(13D3a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Malecite -- a. Malecite Dance | 1936 | 4 items | Box 8 | |
Pedlar's dance in Wolastoqiyik ("Malecite") and Penobscot versions with interlinear translation (2 p.); separate Wolastoqiyik song given in musical score (1 p.) and with words in interlinear translation (1 p.) [Previous description: "Text with interlinear translation; notes; musical score." Changed February 2021.] F&S 2099 | ||||
III(13D3b) Prince, J. Dyneley.
Malecite -- b. Passamaquoddy-Malecite Dictionary | 1921 | 1 item | Box 8 | |
Indian-English, arranged according to English alphabet; also, English-Indian. Based on 1911 collection of Passamaquoddy texts printed in Prince (1921). F&S 2649 | ||||
III(13D3c) Malecite -- c. [no entry] | Box 9 | |||
III(13D3d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Malecite -- d. Miscellaneous Malecite field notes | 1917-1948 | 19 items | Box 9 | |
7p. of slips containing Wolastoqiyik words; 1p. printed map of St. John's River with Wolastoqiyik villages marked; 12p. Wolastoqiyik, Mi'kmaw, and Penobscot word list, from Mrs. Barlow, Old Town, Maine, 1948,: 12p. unpublished notes on hunting territories. Some of the informaiton provided by Gabe Perley. Letter of J. Clarence Webster (Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada), July 24, 1945, T.L.S., 1p., concerning present life of Wolastoqiyik and Mi'kmaq. Letter of Edwin Tappan Adney, Feb. 9, 1946, T.L.S., 1p., concerning the Celestial Bear, Wolastoqiyik-Delaware comparisons. F&S 2101 | ||||
III(13D3e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Malecite -- e. Malecite notes | 1949 | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Vocabulary list, hunting terms, names of trees. Images note: 7 sketches of pictographs. F&S 2100 | ||||
4. Mohegan-Mohican | ||||
III(10D4a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohegan-Mohican -- a. Mohegans in Maine | 1939 | 2 items | Box 7 | |
Reading notes. Images note: sketches and newspaper clippings photographs of tribal living. F&S 2283 | ||||
III(10D4b) Tantaquidgeon, Gladys.
Mohegan-Mohican -- b. Correspondence with | 1938 | 2 items | Box 7 | |
A Connecticut Mohegan Indian, employed by the Government, writes of Shawnee legends and inquires about silk appliqué techniques. Newsclippings. F&S 3648 | ||||
III(10D4c) Mohegan-Mohican -- c. Miscellaneous notes | 1916-1936 | 19 items | Box 7 | |
Commentary on Fidelia Fielding's Texts, 15p. in notebook; notes for 1920 Pequot trip, with Nehantic and Pennacook notes. 3 letters of Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell to Frank G. Speck, Feb. 11, March 1, and March 11, 1924: commentaries on lectures, etc. concerning Indians in Rhode Island. Notes on Mohegan social organization 2p.; 1p. of incomplete letter of Red Wing concerning Indian affairs; miscellaneous Stockbridge notes, 5p.; George Heye to Speck, Feb. 8, 1916, T.L.S., 1p., re publication; J. R. Swanton to Speck, June 22, no year, A.L.S., 3p., concerning his exhibition for Mohegan Stockbridge data, 3p. from published sources; postal card from Princess Pretty War, re dress, Oct. 26, 1943; Ernest E. Rogers to Speck, March 7, 1934, T.L.S., 1p., of New London Hist. Society re Mohegan-Pequot Diary of Speck. Miscellaneous 4p. and 6 cards F&S 2284 | ||||
III(10D4d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohegan-Mohican -- d. Plants at Mohegan | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
21 trees and uses of their products noted on cards; other cards lacking data. F&S 2287 | ||||
III(10D4e) Butler, Eva L..
Mohegan-Mohican -- e. "Mohegan Indians Deeds" | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
22 deeds of seventeenth century signed by Connecticut Mohegan Indians: Connecticut archival sources. A pamphlet of the Industrial Arts Cooperative Service. Contents and index. Images note: 48 ink sketches of totem symbols as signatures. F&S 2285 | ||||
III(10D4f) Mohegan-Mohican -- f. [no entry] | Box 7 | |||
III(10D4g) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohegan-Mohican -- g. Mohegan elect chief | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
Copy for a news release. F&S 2282 | ||||
III(10D4h) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Mohegan-Mohican -- h. Mohegan Pequot Texts and vocabulary material | n.d. | 1 item | Box 7 | |
Mohegan-Pequot texts, 28p. together with a 22p. carbon of another draft. 2p. text and interlinear translation; 2p. phonetic notes; 5p. comparative material and names; 3p. grammatical notes and comparisons; an 1892 vocabulary of Mohegan, 2p. and 1 card. 4p. comparisons. F&S 2286 | ||||
5. "Micmac" (Mi'kmaq) | ||||
III(13D5a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Micmac -- a. Micmac Dance | n.d. | 2 items | Box 9 | |
Text with interlinear translation and notes; musical score. F&S 2246 | ||||
III(13D5b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Micmac -- b. Miscellaneous Micmac notes | 1909-1926 | 26 items | Box 9 | |
15 bibliographical slips, 8p. of reading notes, concerning hieroglyphics of Micmac. 2p. list of informants; 1p. list of specimens, 1916; 2 copies of printed Micmac mission newspaper, Setaneoei. 1910 and 1920. Note book 1914, 24p. containing words and names of informants; 1 card. 8p. notes including a text in English; 12p. reading notes; 2p. "nominal suffixes"; 1p. bird names of Micmac; 2p. miscellaneous. Letters: Stansbury Hagar to Speck, Jan. 7, 1909, 3p. A.L.S. concerning his Micmac and Cherokee notes; also his bibliography. Same to same, March 8, 1926, 2p. incomplete and 1p. typed copy, concerning his explanation of triangulation to a Micmac chief. John Sark to G. A. Paul, June 30, 1914, 1p. transmits 3p. Micmac text (in mission Micmac). Newell Lyon to Speck, Feb. 21, 1919, 2p. A.L.S. thanking Speck for book. Mrs. Newell Lyon, March 13, 1919, 2p. A.L.S. concerning Lyon's death. News-clipping. F&S 2231 | ||||
III(13D5c) Milais, J. J..
Micmac -- c. Observations | 1907 | 7 items | Box 9 | |
An incomplete article or set of reading excerpts taken after 1922 by Speck from J. J. Millais (1907). F&S 2232 | ||||
III(13D5d) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Micmac -- d. Traveler's account of the Micmac in 1822 | n.d. | 1 item | Box 9 | |
A brief article. F&S 2233 | ||||
III(13D5e) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Micmac -- e. Micmac Field Notes | 1915 | 9 items | Box 9 | |
Notebook of 13p. concerning wampum, Hunting Territories; some reference to Passamaquoddy; notebook of 29p. Cape Breton Micmac texts; Newfoundland Micmac data and traditions. 7p. Cape Breton Micmac Texts (English); 1p. map with names of Bear River Band members; 4p, draft of article on Micmac Hunting Territories; 1 envelope of miscellaneous notes; 1 piece birch bark with pictographs inscribed. F&S 2230 | ||||
III(13D5f) Butler, Eva L..
Micmac -- f. Notes from Jesuit Relations | n.d. | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Extracts concerning the sweat house. F&S 2227 | ||||
III(13D5g) Witthoft, J..
Micmac -- g. Micmac notes | 1949 | 4 items | Box 9 | |
10p. of linguistic notes and vocabulary collected along the Miramichi River. 6p. typed copy by John Witthoft. F&S 2247 | ||||
6. Narraganset | ||||
III(14D6a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Narraganset -- a. Physical measurements of the Narraganset male | 1917 | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Male 1/4 Nehantic, 1/2 Brotherton (Narraganset). F&S 2369 | ||||
III(14D6b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Narraganset -- b. Miscellaneous notes | 1916-1926 | 4 items | Box 9 | |
Comparative vocabulary of Massachusetts, Narraganset, Mohegan, Pequot, and Naugatuck (ca. 30 items); 3 vocabulary lists on cards; 1p. of names. E. B. Delabarre to Speck, May 6, 1920, A.L.S., 2p., prefers Cherokee to Narraganset as explanation of origin of characters on Rhode Island stone. Images note: newspaper clipping photographs peace pipe, native attire, tipi. F&S 2368 | ||||
7. St. Francis Abenaki | ||||
III(14D7a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
St. Francis Abenaki -- a. Conjuring lodge | n.d. | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Description. F&S 296 | ||||
III(14D7b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
St. Francis Abenaki -- b. Miscellaneous notes | 1901-1946 | 6 items | Box 9 | |
Two cards of reading notes; typed copy of Indian poem in English, from John Reade (1887). Also 3p. A.L.S. Frederick S. Dick son to Speck, re Abenaki vocabulary, May 5, 1920, 1p. Typed L.S. Edwin Tappan Adney, February 18, 1946, concerning place names and Maine Indian shamans. Images note: photomechanical print of Montagnais in camp. F&S 297 | ||||
8. Abenaki | ||||
III(14D8a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Abenaki -- a. Field notes | n.d. | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Notes on Abenaki "demons" and "personal magic," mainly consisting of terms in Abenaki and English. Four short interlinear texts on various topics, including "The Place of Skulls" and "When a person wants to propose." Brief notes on games, villages, chiefs. 3 place names for Saratoga Springs, Glens Falls, and Lake George, NY. Location where notes were recorded and with whom is unclear. Also contains some briefer notes on similar Innu-Aimun ("Montagnais-Naskapi") terms for some of the topics noted above. Notebook was in the possession of Speck's student A. Irving Hallowell and was located among his papers when they were donated to the APS Library in 1983. The notebook was then added to the Frank Speck Papers. Some of the handwriting in the notebook may be Hallowell's. | ||||
9. Scatticook | ||||
III(14D9a) Scatticook -- a. Miscellaneous notes | 1904, 1939-1940 | 4 items | Box 9 | |
1904 vocabulary. 2 letters of Chief Swimming Eel to Speck, Aug. 16, 1939 and Aug. 5, 1940, concerning Indian social activities; 1 broadside. Images note: newspaper clipping photograph of George Coggswell. F&S 3230 | ||||
III(14D9b) Scatticook -- b. Scatticook field notebook | 1903 | 1 item | Box 9 | |
Vocabulary census, and reservation data; biographical notes and traditions. F&S 3231 | ||||
10. Pequot | ||||
III(14D10a) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Pequot -- a. Miscellaneous notes | 1922-1941 | 8 items | Box 9 | |
2 cards with Mohegan names; 7p. reading notes; 1p. animal names; 3p. typed letter, c.c., of Harral Ayres to the Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 15, 1941, concerning Connecticut place names; Gertrude Bell Browne to Speck, Feb. 19, 1924, A.L.S., 7p., concerning seventeenth-century Pequot-Mohegan history. F&S 2281 | ||||
III(14D10b) Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950.
Pequot -- b. Pequot archaeology | n.d. | 1 item | Box 9 |