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Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 1, Northeast Archives Of Folklore And Oral History

Northeast Folklore Society Newsletter

This Newsletter will come out twice a year. The next 1962 issue should appear before Christmas. I would like to appeal to all members to keep the Editor posted on what they are doing in regard to folklore. Are you collecting anywhere in the New England-Maritimes area? Are you a teacher using folklore in your classes in some way that you have found particularly effective? Are you at present involved in some research or writing? I would also appreciate clippings and notices of events that you feel may interest other members. This is your Newsletter; I only edit it, and …

The Good Old State Of Maine, James Brown

Maine Song and Story Sampler

People have likely been singing, whistling, and humming while working for as long as music and work have existed. This relationship has developed twofold, both as a way to make work go faster (either by passing the time or establishing a rhythm for work) and as a means of expressing discontent with work or working conditions.

A Description And Classification Of Siriono, A Tupi-Guarani Language, Homer L. Firestone

Anthropology ETDs

The corpus of published material on Sirionó linguistics is small. Anselmo Schermair, a Franciscan missionary, was the first to publish a study of the Sirionó language. This work is primarily a vocabulary, with a few notes on the consonants and vowels. The words are placed in four classes: substantives, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, without any criteria being offered for the classification. A recent publication on Sirionó is that of Perry and Anne Priest and Joseph Grimes in which they discuss a specific problem of simultaneous ordering of certain syntactic and morphemic items--discussed in terms of "spans" and morphemic alterations involved …

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 23, Nos. 3 And 4, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• The Hawes Site: A Burial Stone Bowl Complex (Arthur C. Lord, Sr.)
• The Seaver Farm Site (Karl S. Dodge)
• Woodworking: An Important Industry (William S. Fowler)
• The Car-Tracks Site, Wareham (Bernard H. Stockley)
• Two Barnstable Pots (George K. Johnson)
• How Aboriginal Planters Stored Food (Howard S. Russell)
• A Cache of Artifacts from Martha’s Vineyard (E.G. Huntington)
• Index of Back Bulletin Issues Available for Sale

The Archeology Of The Lime Creek Site In Southwestern Nebraska, E. Mott Davis

University of Nebraska State Museum: Special Publications

The Lime Creek site is a stratified Early Lithic (Paleo-Indian) camp site buried in the Terrace-2A alluvial fill of a valley in the dissected loess plains. Geological correlations indicate an early Valders (Wisconsin- IV) date. A radiocarbon date (No. C-471) of 9524 B.P. from just below Lime Creek I, the lowest occupation zone, must be taken only as a minimal possible age for the site. The animal bones in Lime Creek I are primarily of pronghorn and beaver, whereas those in Lime Creek III, the highest occupation zone, are exclusively of bison. The change in hunting patterns seems due to …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 4, Don Yoder, Earl F. Robacker, Alan G. Keyser, Robert C. Bucher, Richard Shaner, Alma B. Meade

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Pennsylvania's Plain Garb
• Ai, Ai, Ai, and a Bottle of Whatever
• Eagle Date Boards
• The Continental Log House
• Waffles and Wafers
• Folk Festival Program
• Witch Tales from Adams County
• Fianna the Dunkard

An Examination Of The Concept Of Flexibility As A Tool For The Analysis Of Social Systems, Elizabeth Jane Lapovsky

Anthropology ETDs

It is the purpose of this thesis to delineate the concept of flexibility as a tool for the analysis of non-literate social systems. Despite the frequent use of the descriptive term "flexible" in discussion of ethnographic case materials, the potential analytic significance of the concept has not been examined systematically.

The major portion of the thesis is devoted to the analysis of ethnographic data for five societies which manifest fundamental elements of flexibility: the Iban, Konkoma Lapp, Mescalero Apache, Plateau Tonga, and Turkana. The data indicate that the societies share significant organizational and cultural features in addition to the feature …

The Physical Anthropology Of Pottery Mound: A Pueblo Iv Site In West Central New Mexico, Russell Lowell Gordon Schorsch

Anthropology ETDs

The thesis presents the anthropometric data on 110 skeletons obtained by the University of New Mexico from Pueblo IV site of Pottery Mound. The measurements include 27 dimensions and 11 indices of the skull, face, and long bones of all or part of the 49 individuals. Observations on pathologist of the bones and teeth are also discussed. These data are compared with similar material from the Pueblo IV sites of Paako, Pecos, and Hawikuh. The Pottery Mound materials, although of a general Southwestern physical type, are somewhat divergent from other Pueblo IV groups.

The Anoka Focus, Thomas A. Witty

Anthropology Department: Theses

In 1936, the Lynch site, 25BDl, in North Central Nebraska was investigated by a party from the University of Nebraska under the qirection of Earl H. Bell. Preliminary estimates of age measured in many hundreds and even thousands of years created widespread interest. These data, with more conservative conclusions as to their ambiguity, were considered by Freed (1954) in her Master’s Thesis on file at the University of Nebraska.

In 1939, the Arzberger site, 39HU6, near Pierre, South Dakota, was excavated by a party from Columbia University led by Albert C. Spaulding, under the general direction of the late W. …

Canaday-I-O, Robert French

Maine Song and Story Sampler

The major recurring theme in these folksongs from Maine and Maritime Canada is the flow of cultural products and people within the area of New Hampshire, Maine, and eastern Canada. But while this cultural and demographic exchange helped define the region, it did not mean there was no rivalry or animosity between states, provinces, or nations.

The Bull Moose Song, Linwood Brown

Maine Song and Story Sampler

"The Bull Moose Song" is a local lumber camp satire, with the joke at the expense of the operator, Frankie Malcolm.

Old Horse Or The Sailor’S Grace, Robert French

Maine Song and Story Sampler

"Old Horse" is an old sea song (dating at least back to the 1830s, and probably long before that) that expresses sailors' dissatisfaction with the quality of their food.

Heenan And Sayers, Mrs. Elwood Nickerson

Maine Song and Story Sampler

The ballad "Heenan and Sayers" described an event so popular that it overshadowed a civil war.

The Dungarvon Whooper, Billy Price

Maine Song and Story Sampler

The Dungarvon Whooper is arguably the most famous ghost in New Brunswick (the Burning Ship of Northumberland Strait is also widely known in eastern Canada, but multiple provinces can claim it as “their ghost”).

A Proposed Site Museum: Onondaga 1684-1696, Ethel Hoffman Fine

Anthropology - Theses

This thesis is concerned with the problem of proposing an Onondaga County site museum devoted to the Iroquois Period. In Central New York the Seventeenth Century is considered as being the Iroquois Period because of an important role played by the Iroquois Confed[er]acy. During that century the Iroquois were known to distant Indian groups, as well as to many nations of Europe, because of the Iroquois wars and the accounts of traders, missionaries and soldiers. The Iroquois not only represent the culmination of approximately five thousand years of Indian occupation in Central New York, but the constitution of the League …

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 23, No. 2, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• How Early Post-Wisconsin Man Came to New England (Joseph H. Waters)
• Some Connecticut Burials (Bernard W. Powell)
• A Kingston Pot (Donald J. Viera)
• A Tyngsboro Pot (Edward J. Bielski)
• Amateur and Professional Relations (Editorial by Carl B. Compton)

Compensatory Blood-Brotherhood: A Comparative Analysis Of Institutionalized Friendship In Two African Societies, James L. Gibbs Jr.

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Sibyl 1962, Otterbein University

Otterbein University Yearbooks

No abstract provided.

Satirical Songs In Maine And The Maritime Provinces Of Canada, Edward D. Ives

Dr. Edward D. Ives Papers

Invective, ridicule, and insult are not uncommon ingredients in folk songs, and since songs containing these elements usually make us laugh, we speak of them as satirical. Sometimes the satire springs from a strong sense of social injustice, as it did with singers like Aunt Molly Jackson and Woody Guthrie. More commonly it arises from personal motives, such as a desire to annoy. This is a progress report on local songs-particularly those attributed to Larry Gorman-in Maine, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Northeast Folklore Volume 4: Eight Folktales From Miramichi, Edward D. Ives, Wilmot Macdonald, Louise Manny

Northeast Folklore Monographs

Volume 4 of Northeast Archives marked a change in the publication. No longer was it published in four editions throughout the year with a variety of small articles, but now it was a single monograph published generally once a year. The focus of the first monograph is Wilmot MacDonald, a singer and storyteller from Miramichi, New Brunswick. Helen Creighton and Edward D. Ives had both collected from MacDonald and this publication came from their collaboration on that material.

Eight Folktales from Miramichi: as Told by Wilmot MacDonald

Table of Contents:

Wilmot MacDonald by Louise Manny

Introduction

1) The Bull Story …

The Team Rules Mining In Southern Africa, Alvin W. Wolfe

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 23, No. 1, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• The Mansion Inn Site: Wayland (J. Alfred Mansfield)
• Projectile Points and Their Cultural Significance (William S. Fowler)
• An Introduction to Soils (Arthur C. Lord, Jr.)
• A Cape Cod Canal Pot (Jesse Brewer)
• Was the Guida Side the Center of Ceramic Influence? (Editorial)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 3, Earl F. Robacker, Ada Robacker, J. William Frey, Vincent R. Tortora, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Alfred L. Shoemaker, John A. Hostetler, Laura Huyett, Andrew S. Berky, Don Yoder, Amos Long Jr., Alan G. Keyser, Richard Shaner, Alliene Dechant

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Antiques in Dutchland
• Antique or Folk Art: Which?
• Pennsylvania Dutch
• Amish Barn Raisings
• Building a Pennsylvania Barn
• Water Witching
• Amish Family Life: A Sociologist's Analysis
• Straw Hat Making Among the Old Order Amish
• Bread and Apple-Butter Day
• Schnitz in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Dutch Country Scarecrows
• The Man Who Was Buried Standing Up
• Living Occult Practices in Dutch Pennsylvania
• Farewell to Ollie

Glou Glou Glou, Allan Kelly

Maine Song and Story Sampler

"Glou" appears in Helen Creighton's collection of Acadian folksongs, La Fleur du Rosier, as the "B" version of a song called "Le Matin Quand je me Leve," or "In the Morning When I Get Up." Both are versions of a French song well-known in French Canada and Louisiana, with a version dating back to at least 1658.

The Headless Ghost, Wilmot Macdonald

Maine Song and Story Sampler

“The Headless Ghost” is a common story told with too many variations to count.

Guy Reed, Philip Walsh

Maine Song and Story Sampler

"Guy Reed" is one of several songs by one of the great woods songmakers in Maine and the Maritimes, Joe Scott. Guy Reed, son of Joseph and Remember Mitchell Reed, was born in 1874 in the Byron, Maine area, and died in a logging accident just a few miles above Livermore Falls, Maine, on September 9, 1897.

Benjamin Deane, Chester Price

Maine Song and Story Sampler

“Benjamin Deane” is a classic example of a confessional ballad, with a man in prison lamenting how he came to be there: bootlegging, adultery, and murder.

Observations On The Social Structure Of The Lao Elite, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 22, Nos. 3 And 4, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

• The Coburn Site: A Burial Complex on Cape Cod (Frank Kremp)
• Ceramic Pot from the Indian Hill Site (William L. Greene)
• The Eaton Site: A Dugout Workshop (Arthur Petzold)
• Domestic Evidence at Steatite Quarries (William S. Fowler)
• A Rock Shelter at the Stony Point Battle Field Site (Edward J. Kaeser)
• New England Indian Agriculture (Howard S. Russell)
• Movement of Prehistoric Peoples in the Northeast (William S. Fowler)
• Gleanings from the Indian Languages (Laurence K. Gahan)
• Chips (Arthur George Smith)
• Research Council

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 12, No. 2, Earl F. Robacker, Vincent R. Tortora, Don Yoder, Robert C. Bucher, Paul R. Wieand, Amos Long Jr., Clarence Kulp Jr., Gary S. Dunbar, Alfred L. Shoemaker, Alan G. Keyser, Christ Geiger, Victor C. Dieffenbach, Richard Shaner

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• The Township Weavers of Pennsylvania
• Amish Funerals
• The Bush-Meeting Dutch
• Steep Roofs and Red Tiles
• Carpet Rag Parties
• Fences in Rural Pennsylvania
• Folk Festival Program
• A Study of the Dialect Terminology of the Plain Sects of Montgomery County, Pa.
• Henry Chapman Mercer, Pennsylvania Folklife Pioneer
• The "Glingelsock"
• Sauerkraut in the Pennsylvania Folk-Culture
• Collectanea