Frank G. Speck Papers - Subcollection 1 - Series 1: Research Material


IV(20F3a) Contemporary technology
IV(20F3a) Contemporary technology
1 ink sketch of bag string (bag sling)
IV(22) Miscellaneous Notes
IV(22) Miscellaneous Notes
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 the proper tribe. Images note: 20 ink sketches of pictographs of rainbow, cloud, milky way, mountain, and morning star from various tribes. Removed from envelope in 2006, at which time original order could not be ascertained.
VII(22A1) - Hupa text
VII(22A1) - Hupa text
One-page typescript consisting of two lines of Hupa text, followed by explanation and analysis of each word or lexical unit. Author not identified, though it is likely not Speck, as he did not study Hupa or other Dene languages, nor did he specialize in linguistic analysis. Source is likely Edward Sapir or Pliny Earle Goddard.
VII(22B1) Origin of carved house posts
VII(22B1) Origin of carved house posts
Extract copied from Katherine Judson's "Myths and Legends of British North America."
VIII(22C1). Correspondence with J. M. Collio-Hualquiaf
VIII(22C1). Correspondence with J. M. Collio-Hualquiaf
Discusses several "Araucanian" (Mapuche) words. Mentions Lloyd G. Carr and A. I. Hallowell.
XIII(22H) Haskell Institute Roster, 1939-1940
XIII(22H) Haskell Institute Roster, 1939-1940
List of Native students and the Haskell Institute boarding school, giving name, age, tribe, and address. Tribes listed: Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Caddo, Catawba, Cayuga, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chickasaw, Chippewa (Ojibwe, multiple communities), Choctaw, Comanche, Creek, Crow, Delaware, "Flathead" Salish, Gros Ventre, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Inupiat ("Eskimo"), Iowa, Isleta, Kaw, Kickapoo, Laguna, Lakota ("Sioux"), Mandan, Menominee, Meskwaki ("Sac-and-Fox"), Munsee, Nez Perce, Omaha, Oneida, Oto, Ottawa, Pawnee, Ponca, Potawatomi, Quapaw, Seminole, Seneca, Shawnee, Shoshone, Stockbridge, Tsimshian, Wichita, Wyandotte.