OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10112

Metadata
Title:		Linguistics materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
Contributor:		Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
		Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974
		Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Date:		1911-1934
Description:		Materials relating to linguistics. Includes an undated 4-page list of 34 questions on culturally patterned aspects of language attributed to Hallowell; correspondence with Boas relating to the American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Research in American Native Languages, principally consisting of reports on grants and their progress (1927-1934); and two folders containing 30 letters from Sapir (1911-1924). The Sapir letters cover a range of topics including Northeast material-culture specimens;s of Speck;s of Sapir; linguistic field work among the Montagnais [Innu], Cree, Delaware, Seneca, Mohawk, and Penobscot; relation of Algonquian and Wiyot-Yurok; on Yana (with Ishi); Arapaho-Cheyenne; Sapir's paper on Levirate marriage; Yurok kinship; a scheme to test response of anthropologists to an Indian design; work on his grammar of Paiute; reduction of language stocks to 6 (1920); his work on Subtiaba; relationships in and around Hokan-Coahuiltecan, and some discussion of migrations, seeing Athabaskan as late arrival. Discussion of colleagues: Mechling, Barbeau, Heye, Radin, Dixon, Skinner, Goldenweiser, Gifford, Frachtenberg, Reichard, Goddard, Boas, Hawkes.
Extent:		4 folders
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10112
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		Innu
		Cree
		Delaware
		Seneca
		Mohawk
		Haudenosaunee
		Penobscot
		Yurok
		Yana
		Arapaho
		Cheyenne
		Paiute
		Hokan
		Coahuiltecan
		Dene
		Linguistics
		Ethnography
		Anthropology
		Material culture
		Specimens
		Kinship
		Art
		Motifs
		Migrations
Type:		Correspondence
		Questionnaires
Type (DCMI):		Text
OLAC Info
Archive:		Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10112
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
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Citation:		Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974; Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939. 1911-1934. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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