Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Accession #1976-95
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Names
- Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
- Collection Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Place
- Canada -- Discovery and exploration
- Topic
- Wyandot language
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Linguistics
- Toponymy
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Culture
- Wyandot
- See more items in
- John Peabody Harrington papers
- John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 6: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Northeast & Southeast
- Biographical / Historical
- John P. Harrington conducted a comparative study of Jacques Cartier's first and second vocabularies and the historical background of his voyages. The primary source consulted was Henry Percival Biggar, The Voyages of Jacques Cartier, Publications of the Archives of Canada, No. 11 (1924), which contained both Cartier vocabularies as well as the Horatio Hale comparative vocabulary excerpted from Sir Daniel Wilson's "The Huron-Iroquois of Canada" (1885). Harrington also sent for photocopies of Giovanni Battista Ramusio's translations into Italian of Cartier's vocabularies and the Bibliotheque Nationale manuscripts of Cartier and Andre Thevet. He inserted extensive comparative notes from Gabriel Sagard (1632); Jean Andre Cuoq (1882); Arent Van Curler (1896), cited by Harrington as "Brandt Van Curler;" and Percy J. Robinson (1948). John P. Harrington worked with a number of Wyandot speakers including Jessie Perry (Jessie); Ida Schrimpser Jones (J., Mrs. John Jones); her sister Gladys Hutchinson; ninety-two-year-old Lizzie Tussinger (Elizabeth); Mary Bracken, aunt of Jones and Hutchinson; Mag; and Norman Young (Y.). Young spoke both Wyandot and Seneca. All were apparently descendants of the Wyandots who settled in northeastern Oklahoma, and except for Mrs. Tussinger and Jessie Perry, they were interviewed in Miami, Oklahoma, and vicinity in early September 1950. Tussinger lived in Oklahoma City; Perry's home was not positively identified. On or about December 28, 1950, Harrington traveled to New York City and Amherstburg, Ontario. According to correspondence, Harrington also worked in Miami, Oklahoma, on March 12 and 13, 1951, but field notes indicate nothing of possible interviews. He continued to correspond with officials at the Canadian Archives through February 17, 1951, and with the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris in October and November of 1951. Harrington also corresponded with Elizabeth Best (Mrs. Maurice), who was apparently the "last speaker of the Canadian form of the Wyandot language," but there is no record of an interview with her. Harrington hoped to publish a rehearing with her of Cartier's 1535 vocabulary, but his notes are still in manuscript form. He was still pursuing the subject in 1953 and 1954.
- Extent
- 2 Boxes
- Date
- circa 1907-circa 1957
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.1976-95, Subseries 6.7
- Type
- Archival materials
- Manuscripts
- Vocabulary
- Collection Citation
- John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 6, reel 14. Only original documents created by Harrington, his collaborators and field assistants, or notes given to him were microfilmed.
- Genre/Form
- Manuscripts
- Vocabulary
- Scope and Contents
- This subseries of the Northeast/Southeast series contains Harrington's Wyandot research. The bulk of this material represents a comparative treatment of Jacques Cartier's first and second vocabularies and the historical background of his voyages. Although some of Cartier's terms were reheard by Wyandot speakers, most of the content is based on extractions from numerous secondary sources and organized for two proposed papers. The theme of one centered around North America's earliest vocabulary; the second was submitted for publication in March 1951 and proposed to analyze the history, meaning, and location of Hochelaga. Other isolated notes are dated between September 1950 and January 1951. The subseries also contains some brief biographical data on the Wyandot speakers with whom he worked, and general bibliographic information includes random reading notes.
- Restrictions
- No restrictions on access.
- Record ID
- ebl-1626971434170-1626971435045-3
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