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Title:Penobscot materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Day, Gordon M.
Gandy, Ethel
Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946
Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928
Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921
Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-1985
Ranco, Dorothy
Princess Pretty Woman
Nelson, Roland E.
Date:1908-1947
Description: Materials relating to Speck's study of Penobscot language, history, and culture, and his preparation of his book Penobscot Man. This includes several folders of Speck's field notes, notes organized around specific topics (including data not used in Speck's published works), copies and drafts of lectures and essays, correspondence, etc. Topics include Penobscot social organization, calendar system, house furnishings, hunting morality, animal lore, religion, art, sayings, alphabet, counting and measuring, canoe-making, face-painting, texts with interlineal translations, and "Bird Lore of the Northern Indians" (a faculty public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania). Additionally, significant correspondence concerns the preparation, expenses, dissemination, and reception of his Penobscot publications. Other topics of correspondence include Ethel Gandy's monograph on Penobscot art; names of chiefs and their clans; "clown" performances outside of the southwest among the Penobscot, Iroquois [Haudenosaunee], Abenaki, and Delaware; place names; the relationship of Penobscot-Mohegan and Mahican; a comparison of Zuni-Navajo and Red Paint; Tutelo. There is a particularly large folder of Speck's miscellaneous Penobscot notes containing both a variety of notes and correspondence from Penobscot consultants as well as non-Native colleagues. These include letters from Roland E. Nelson (Needahbeh, Penobscot) concerning drum for exhibit; letters from Nelson, Franz Boas, John M. Cooper, William B. Goodwin, E. V. McCollum, and J. Dyneley Prince, all concerning Penobscot Man; Clifford P. Wilson concerning moosehair embroidery; Edward Reman concerning Norse influence on Penobscot; Carrie A. Lyford concerning moose-wool controversy and Ann Stimson's report; Ann Stimson, letter of thanks; Henry Noyes Otis concerning genealogy of Indians named Sias on Cape Cod (Speck marked this Penobscot); Princess Pretty Woman (Passamaquoddy) concerning her dress (apparently at the Penn Museum); Dorothy Ranco (Penobscot) concerning Princess Pretty Woman's dress; Roland W. Mann, concerning site of Indian occupancy according to Penobscot tradition; Ryuzo Torii, letter of introduction. Other miscellaneous items include a 5-page transcript of agreements between Indians of Nova Scotia and the English, August 15, 1749; 2 pages, transcript of agreement of July 13, 1727 (letter of transmittal, Lloyd Price to Miss MacDonald, September 24, 1936); Ann K. Stimson, Moose Wool and Climbing Powers of the American Mink; miscellaneous field notes on topics like songs, kinship, totem, medicine, and social units; and 4 pages of Penobscot words and their cultural use.
Extent:27 folders
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10143
Language:English
Eastern Abnaki
Language (ISO639):eng
aaq
Spatial Coverage:Indian Island
Subject: Penobscot
Passamaquoddy
Maliseet
Mi'kmaq
Haudenosaunee
Abenaki
Delaware
Mohegan
Mohican
Zuni
Navajo
Tutelo
Anthropology
Ethnography
Social life and customs
Politics and government
Hunting
Religion
Linguistics
Art
Place names
Kinship
Material culture
Museums
Specimens
Geneaology
New England--History
Type:Notes
Correspondence
Essays
Drafts
Type (DCMI):StillImage
Text
Type (OLAC):primary_text

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Citation: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950; Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927; Day, Gordon M.; Gandy, Ethel; Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy, 1865-1946; Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967; Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986; Wilder, Harris Hawthorne, 1864-1928; Nassau, Robert Hamill, 1835-1921; Osgood, Cornelius, 1905-1985; Ranco, Dorothy; Princess Pretty Woman; Nelson, Roland E. 1908-1947. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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