OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10510 |
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Title: | Delaware materials, C. F. Voegelin Papers | |
Contributor: | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | |
Longbone, Willie | ||
Witthoft, John | ||
Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | ||
Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840 | ||
Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | ||
Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977 | ||
Hockett, Charles Francis | ||
Seaman, John Nelson, 1915- | ||
Pearson, Kennth E. | ||
Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998 | ||
Peters, Nicodemus | ||
Date: | circa 1925-1967 | |
Description: | The C. F. Voegelin Papers contain correspondence, card files, notes, notebooks, texts, translations, drafts, articles, maps, and other linguistic and ethnographic materials relating to Delaware (Lenape) language and culture. Many of these items pertain to Voegelin's "Walam Olum or Red Score: The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians," published by the Indiana Historical Society in 1954. Such materials are located in primarily in Subcollection I. There is relevant correspondence with Charles Hockett (with questions about Voegelin's article on Delaware and examples from other Algonquian languages), Eli Lilly (regarding various aspects of the Walam Olum, its interpretation and publication), Kenneth E. Pearson (regarding use of Delaware language in Boy Scout ceremonies), John N. Seaman (regarding language consultant Willy Longbone), Frank Siebert (regarding Walam Olum, Munsee materials, language consultants Willy Longbone, Nicodemus Peters, and Nicholas Powless), Morris Swadesh (including a brief Stockbridge vocabulary and a slip of Moravian Delaware), and John Witthoft (regarding Walam Olum) in Series I. Correspondence. Delaware materials also include 5 boxes of card files and 5 folders of document files (primarily vocabulary and linguistic notes, and including 1 box and 1 folder relating to specifically to Munsee and 1 box and 1 folder of Walam Olum vocabulary keyed to the Rafinesque translation) in Series II. 7 folders pertaining to Voegelin's work on the Walam Olum in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-A: Works Translated by Voegelin; a folder on Delaware grammar in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; 3 articles on the Walam Olum by Constantine Rafinesque, Daniel G. Brinton, and Frank Speck in Series IV. Works by Others; 2 folders on Delaware and 1 on Delaware-Munsee (containing Vocabularies, notes, texts, translations, and various typed works by the Group for Delaware at the Linguistic Institute over multiple summers) in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes; 18 folders of unbound texts in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-B: Text; Delaware materials in Blackfoot Folder #2 and Ojibwe Folder #24 in Series VI. Notebooks; an ink map of Delaware locations created for Voegelin's published translation of the Walam Olum in Series VII. Photographs; and a folder related to Voegelin's translation of the Walam Olum in the Oversized files. | |
Extent: | 48 folders, 5 boxes | |
Identifier: | https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10510 | |
Language: | English | |
Delaware | ||
Language (ISO639): | eng | |
del | ||
Spatial Coverage: | Grand River | |
Bartlesville | ||
Subject: | Delaware | |
Linguistics | ||
Anthropology | ||
Ethnography | ||
Folklore | ||
Migrations | ||
Algonquian languages | ||
Type: | Correspondence | |
Notes | ||
Maps | ||
Essays | ||
Drafts | ||
Type (DCMI): | StillImage | |
Text | ||
Type (OLAC): | lexicon | |
primary_text | ||
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Archive: | Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10510 | |
DateStamp: | 2020-03-02 | |
GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
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Citation: | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986; Longbone, Willie; Witthoft, John; Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950; Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840; Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967; Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977; Hockett, Charles Francis; Seaman, John Nelson, 1915-; Pearson, Kennth E.; Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998; Peters, Nicodemus. circa 1925-1967. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society. | |
Terms: | area_Europe country_GB dcmi_StillImage dcmi_Text iso639_del iso639_eng olac_lexicon olac_primary_text |