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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10105

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Title:Delaware materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Peters, Nicodemus
Moses, Jesse
Springer, Ethel M. (Ethel Maria), 1880-
Witapanóxwe
Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
Montour, Josiah
Washington, Fred
Washington, Jane
Washington, Joe
Greywacz, Kathryn B.
Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977
Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958
Wallace, Paul A. W.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Anderson, George
Date:1895-1948
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Delaware history, language, and culture. Speck's correspondence with Delaware collaborators in Oklahoma relating to Delaware history, ethnographic data, linguistics, museum specimens, and reservation affairs, etc., might be of particular interest; there are also several tales related by Witapanóxwe, or War Eagle, other tales and texts (some with interlineal translation) from Josiah Montour and other unknown contributors, and 11 sketches of Delaware art designs. Other correspondence touches on Speck's efforts to collect specimens (and individuals and institutions interested in acquiring them), his efforts to collect paintings and sketches of ceremonies and designs, his fieldwork and expenses, financial support from the University of Pennsylvania and Indiana Historical Society, Shawnee data on Oklahoma Delawares, the Big House Ceremony, efforts to acquire a Delaware Big House to erect in Harrisburg, Delawares-as-women, etc. There are also at least 82 pages (in three folders) of Speck's field notes of ethnographic and linguistic data, and over 50 pages (in two folders) of Speck's miscellaneous notes (including some correspondence) on topics such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Delaware designs, botanical specimens, linguistic materials, museum specimens, the Walam Olum, the Six Nation Delaware reservation, the celestial bear theme, native religion, reviews of Speck's publications, etc. Other notes cover Delaware grammar and vocabulary, Delaware clans and social organization, dualism in Delaware religion, the influence of Christianity on Delaware religion, the provenance of Delaware museum specimens obtained from Delawares in Oklahoma and Canada, biographical information on Joseph Montur and Nicodemus Peters, etc. There are also various drafts, essays, lectures and other writings by Speck on topics such as Delaware religion, ceremonies, peyote rites, designs, population, remnant populations in the east, history, place names, a Delaware bibliography and a notebook of reports to the University of Pennsylvania Research Committee on fieldwork among Oklahoma Delaware, St. Francis Abenaki, Munsee and Six Nations Delaware, Tutelo, Cayuga, 1931-1936.
Extent:57 folders
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10105
Language:English
Delaware
Language (ISO639):eng
del
Spatial Coverage:Grand River
Bartlesville
Subject:Delaware
Nanticoke
Pawnee
Shawnee
Cayuga
Mohawk
Haudenosaunee
Abenaki
Munsee
Tutelo
Ethnography
Anthropology
Linguistics
Museums
Social life and customs
Rites and ceremonies
Material culture
Peyote
Religion
Art
Folklore
Place names
Botany
Type:Correspondence
Notes
Drafts
Essays
Sketches
Photographs
Reports
Type (DCMI):StillImage
Text
Type (OLAC):primary_text

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Archive:  Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
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DateStamp:  2020-03-02
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Citation: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950; Peters, Nicodemus; Moses, Jesse; Springer, Ethel M. (Ethel Maria), 1880-; Witapanóxwe; Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988; Montour, Josiah; Washington, Fred; Washington, Jane; Washington, Joe; Greywacz, Kathryn B.; Lilly, Eli, 1885-1977; Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986; Shoemaker, Henry W., 1880-1958; Wallace, Paul A. W.; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Anderson, George. 1895-1948. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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