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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10128

Metadata
Title:Mohegan materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Butler, Eva L.
Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945
Tantaquidgeon, Gladys
Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943
Date:1897-1943
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Mohegan language, history, and culture. Includes Mohegan miscellaneous notes and correspondence from 1916-1943 including commentary on Fidelia Fielding's Texts, notes for 1920 Pequot trip with Nehantic and Pennacook notes, letters from the Honorable Thomas W. Bicknell to Speck concerning Indians in Rhode Island, notes on Mohegan social organization, 1 page of incomplete letter of Red Wing concerning Indian affairs, miscellaneous Stockbridge notes, George Heye to Speck regarding publication, John R. Swanton to Speck concerning his exhibition for Mohegan Stockbridge, postal card from Princess Pretty War regarding dress, Ernest E. Rogers to Speck regarding Speck's Mohegan-Pequot Diary, etc.; Pequot miscellaneous notes and correspondence from 1922-1941 including two cards with Mohegan names, 7 pages of reading notes, 1 page of animal names, a letter from Harral Ayres to the Smithsonian Institution concerning Connecticut place names, and a letter from Gertrude Bell Browne to Speck concerning seventeenth-century Pequot-Mohegan Mohegan-Pequot texts and vocabulary materials, notes and drafts relating to Speck (1928a); letters to his mother concerning his activities among Indians at Mohegan, Connecticut; copy for a news release on a Mohegan election; "Mohegan Land Deeds," a pamplet containing 22 seventeenth-century deeds signed by Connecticut Mohegan Indians, taken from Connecticut archival sources; 21 cards with notes on trees and uses of their products; Prince's 1907 letter of recommendation for Speck, discussing Speck's work, as a student, on the Pequot dialect of Mohegan-Pequots, Algic, and Yuchi; and Ward's correspondence with Speck regarding the printing of extra copies of Speck's Nanticoke study by the Historical Society of Delaware.
Extent:10 folders
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10128
Language:Mohegan-Pequot
English
Language (ISO639):xpq
eng
Spatial Coverage:Mohegan
Subject:Mohegan
Pequot
Yuchi
Nanticoke
Anthropology
Ethnography
Place names
Linguistics
Social life and customs
New England--History
Politics and government
Land transfers
Type:Notes
Correspondence
Deeds
Pamphlets
Drafts
Translations
Type (DCMI):Text
Type (OLAC):primary_text
lexicon

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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; Butler, Eva L.; Prince, John Dyneley, 1868-1945; Tantaquidgeon, Gladys; Ward, Christopher, 1868-1943. 1897-1943. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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