OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10135

Metadata
Title:		Miscellaneous materials, Frank G. Speck Papers
Contributor:		Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
		Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-
		Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940
		Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940
		Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-1963
		Gusinde, Martin, 1886-1969
		Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974
		Hiller, Wesley R.
		Mooney, James, 1861-1921
		Nelson, Dorothy M.
		Norton, Jeannette Young
		Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928
		Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977
		Ball, Carl
		Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
		Chase, Fannie S.
		Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907-
		Dunnack, Henry E.
		Field, Clark
		La Rue, Mabel G: Myres, John Linton, Sir, 1869-1954
		Oak, Liston M., 1895-1970
		Staub, Peter
		Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
		Burgesse, J. Allan
		Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956
		Raynolds, Frances R.
		Eskew, James W.
		Meier, Emil F.
		Turner, Geoffrey
Date:		1904-1950
Description:		Materials relating to Speck's research and other professional activities. Items include Speck's notes taken during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for his own anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania; Speck's miscellaneous notes comprising circa 500 bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work [other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to tribe]; correspondence concerning exhibits and specimens for the Chicago World's Fair and for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in New York City; two letters from Boas regarding the work of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; correspondence regarding topics such as the double-curve motif, family hunting areas, indigenous foods and cooking methods, wampum, silverwork, birch-bark technique, baskets, Speck's research and publications, the research and publications of others, obtaining indigenous material cultural specimens for Speck, purchases of indigenous material culture specimens (baskets, masks, etc.) from Speck, Speck's identification of items in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, Speck's bibliography, and Speck's obituary; letters requesting copies of Speck's publications, or acknowledging the transmission of publications between Speck and others; copies and/or drafts of several of Speck's presentations and publications, including "Lectures on Primitive Religion," "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas," "Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," and "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonquian Art"; a bibliography of Speck's publications through 1942; rough drafts of miscellaneous papers, 1928-1948; Speck's notes on topics such as crane posture; Birket-Smith's 1946 "Plan for Circumpolar Research"; ten distribution maps for circumpolar culture traits, colored in with crayon to show distribution of traits including divination and miracle shamanism, sweat bath, turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept, bone divination, bear veneration, curative power of mystic words and formulae, dog-ancestor myth, dog as soul leader, curvilinear patterns, and confession to cure taboo violation; and a prepublication manuscript of Hallowell's "The nature and function of property as a human institution" with additions and corrections.
Extent:		46 folders
Identifier:		https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10135
Language:		English
		German
Language (ISO639):		eng
		deu
Subject:		Navajo
		Yuchi
		Cherokee
		Creek
		Choctaw
		Penobscot
		Innu
		Naskapi
		Maliseet
		Tunica
		Chitimacha
		Catawba
		Inuit
		Tsimshian
		Seneca
		Cayuga
		Haudenosaunee
		Cheyenne
		Maya
		Pueblo
		Nanticoke
		Mi'kmaq
		Quechua
		Dakota
		Chinook
		Kwakwaka'wakw
		Klamath
		Pamunkey
		Chickahominy
		Rap
		Anthropology
		Ethnography
		Social life and customs
		Hunting
		Motifs
		Specimens
		Wampum
		Material culture
		Birch bark
		Religion
		Museums
		Art
		Masks
		Basketry
Type:		Correspondence
		Notes
		Bibliographies
		Essays
		Reports
		Drafts
		Maps
Type (DCMI):		Text
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
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
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10135
DateStamp:		2020-03-02
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950; Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881-; Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940; Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940; Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-1963; Gusinde, Martin, 1886-1969; Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974; Hiller, Wesley R.; Mooney, James, 1861-1921; Nelson, Dorothy M.; Norton, Jeannette Young; Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928; Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977; Ball, Carl; Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Chase, Fannie S.; Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907-; Dunnack, Henry E.; Field, Clark; La Rue, Mabel G: Myres, John Linton, Sir, 1869-1954; Oak, Liston M., 1895-1970; Staub, Peter; Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947; Burgesse, J. Allan; Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956; Raynolds, Frances R.; Eskew, James W.; Meier, Emil F.; Turner, Geoffrey. 1904-1950. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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