Discusses the similarity of Seneca and Cayuga, and possible future work on Wyandot. This program was made as part of a wire recording sent to Floyd Lounsbury by John W. Gillespie, containing recordings made by himself and excerpts of other field recordings he had acquired.; Also see the John W. Gillespie correspondence in the Floyd Lounsbury papers.
audio:9521; APSdigrec_3912; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description
A previously recorded Cayuga story, played back in short phrase sections, each of which are repeated three times by the speaker.; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Singer and date of recording not given. Probably recorded between 1935-1937.; Identified as Tutelo, but may be in Cayuga or Onondaga. This item has been designated as potentially culturally sensitive. Reproduction and digital access is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
On sound tape reel copy made in 1964 from original recorded on phonograph disc.; Identified as Tutelo, but may be in Cayuga or Onondaga. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Digital access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
audio:6159; APSdigrec_0549; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 02
Description
Records the responses of participants after having heard played-back recordings of texts in various languages. Part of a study of the mutual intelligibilty of Iroquois languages. The languages of the texts are Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Cherokee, Onondaga. The recordings that were played to the partipants are Text 1 through Text 8 from this same collection.; Program runs slightly fast. Original tapes in Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University.
Source
Hickerson, Harold, Glen D. Turner and Nancy P. Hickerson. Material on Iroquois dialects and languages, [1950]. (Mss.Rec.13);
audio:6144; APSdigrec_0550; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 03
Description
Records the responses of participants after having heard played-back recordings of texts in various languages. Part of a study of the mutual intelligibilty of Iroquois languages. The languages of the texts are Seneca, Mohawk, Oneida, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Cherokee, Onondaga. The recordings that were played to the partipants are (in order) Text 5B, 1C, 7B, 3B, 2B, 4A, and 6B from this same collection.; Program runs slightly fast. Original tapes in Archives of Languages of the World, Indiana University.
Source
Hickerson, Harold, Glen D. Turner and Nancy P. Hickerson. Material on Iroquois dialects and languages, [1950]. (Mss.Rec.13);
Field notebook kept by Edward Sapir while surveying languages in several languages in Ontario and Quebec. All sections consist of recorded words and phrases unless otherwise noted: Chief Gibson, Seneca, at Six Nations of the Grand River, giving 1 page story, then list of names Haudenosaunee chief positions in Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk; Seth Newhouse, at Six Nations, giving Mohawk clan names; Nelson Moses, Delaware Unami speaker, at Smoothtown; Andrew Spragg, Tutelo speaker, at Six Nations; Mrs. M. Martin, Mohawk speaker, at Kahnawake ("Caughnawaga"); Mrs. Obamsawin, Abenaki speaker, at Pierreville, Quebec; Thomas Paul, Maliseet ("Malecite") speaker at Riviere du Loup; Mrs. Thomas, Mi'kmaq ("Micmac") speaker, at Cacouna; Maggie Robertson, East Cree speaker from Waskaganish ("Rupert House"), at Pointe Bleue; Louis Clairie, Innu-Aimun ("Montagnais") speaker, at Pointe Bleue; Chief Michel Comanda, Algonquin speaker, from (and perhaps at) Maniwaki.; Item I1.2
Comparative vocabulary of 22 Native American languages, based on Jefferson's collection of vocabularies on printed forms. This document was damaged in transit from the White House to Monticello in 1809 (see letters of Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817, and April 26, 1816.)