Ute/Paiute/Shoshoni

Object Details

Topic: Ute language; Southern Paiute language; Northern Paiute language; Shoshoni language; Language and languages -- Documentation; Linguistics; Names, Geographical; Ethnology; Shoshone

See more items in: John Peabody Harrington papers; John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 3: Papers relating to the Native American history, language and culture of southern California and Basin

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.

Existence and Location of Copies: Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 3, reel 171, which also contains materials from other subseries. Only original documents created by Harrington, his collaborators and field assistants, or notes given to him were microfilmed.

Scope and Contents: This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Ute, Paiute, and Shoshoni. There are a variety of Ute and Paiute notes assembled on slips containing vocabulary terms, a few grammatical paradigms, and a July 1, 1909, census of Southern Ute Indians. A small group of slips contain brief descriptions of artifacts, possibly Isaac P. Richardson's collection of Paiute artifacts found in a cave near Lovelock, Nevada. There is also a draft with related notes on the first recordings of the name Ute among accounts of early expeditions and explorers, as well as names other tribes applied to Utes. The section of Paiute song texts and miscellaneous notes contain songs texts sent to Harrington from Edward Sapir in May 1910. There is also a paper prepared by Harrington on the Richardson collection. In addition, there are notes on the name Paiute and Paiute band names, as wells as Northern Paiute linguistic and ethnographic notes recorded by Johnny Smith and F.K. Kaiser. The Shoshoni notes are sparse and are from his work with William Ottogary, Garfield Pocatello, William Edmo, and Frank Russell. They cover linguistic and ethnogrographic topics and include some Bannock terms from Edmo. There are also reading notes from publications on Shoshoni.