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Kathleen Joan Bragdon papers, 1991
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Bragdon, Kathleen Joan
- Title
- Kathleen Joan Bragdon papers
- Dates
- 1991 (inclusive)19911991
- Quantity
- 2.5" linear (1 box including 5 sound cassettes, 1 videocassette)
- Collection Number
- 2696-076 (Accession No. 2696-076-01)
- Summary
- Anthropological field research into the Passamaquoddy language
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
Access restricted: For terms of access contact repository.
- Languages
- English, Passamaquoddy
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Kathleen J. Bragdon is a professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary. Her interests include the languages and cultures of the Natives people of eastern North America, particularly the Algonquian-speaking peoples of southern New England, past and present. She has worked on historical ethnographies of the 17th century chiefdoms of coastal southern New England, examining the contact period in light of theories of economic and symbolic transformation. Her interests revolve around the intersection of linguistics, archaeology and comparative ethnology as it applies to this region. Work with contemporary Native American communities in the Northeast and Virginia includes an interest in politics and in language and cultural revival.
Historical BackgroundReturn to Top
The Passamaquoddy Tribe, having two locations, is represented by the Joint Tribal Council which consists of the individual Tribal Councils of Indian Township, in Princeton, and at the Pleasant Point Reservation (Sipayik) in Perry, Maine. A total of 3,369 tribal members are listed on the tribal census rolls with 1,364 on the Indian Township census and 2,005 listed on Pleasant Point census. The Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians are the descendants of Native American peoples who inhabited Maine and western New Brunswick since well before recorded history. Both groups speak closely related Algonquian languages, although anthropologists generally group the Passamaquoddies linguistically with the Maliseets and the Penobscots with the Abenakis. These kinship groups were never organized as tribes during the colonial period, but English officials perceived them as such and identified them by their geographical locations. The “Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes” have therefore continued as entities as jurisdiction over them has passed from Massachusetts to Maine to the federal government. Currently, most Penobscots reside on Indian Island in the Penobscot River, while the Passamaquoddies are divided between two principal locations: Pleasant Point on Passamaquoddy Bay, and Indian Township near the St. Croix River.
(Source: Official website of the Passamaquoddy Tribe @ Indian Township. Date Accessed: 01/31/23)
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Anthropological field materials of Kathleen J. Bragdon (The College of William and Mary), produced in July of 1991. The materials include: audio and video cassettes of recorded interviews and stories from tribal members, inventory of cassette recordings, typed and translated transcriptions that correspond to the tape recordings, a questionnaire, a paper delivered as a speech, and a final research report. The primary consultant for Bragdon’s research was Mrs. Anna Harnois, a fluent speaker and member of the Passamaquoddy tribe at the Indian Township reservation located in Princeton, Maine. In collaboration with the Mrs. Harnois, the researcher transcribed and translated a total of ten Passamaquoddy-to-English texts. The questionnaire was administered to 40 residents of Peter Dana Point and Princeton, Maine and concerns Passamaquoddy literacy and language use.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box | ||
| 1 | "Making Indian Bread", Basket Making, and the History of
Peter Dana Point VHS video cassette
"Making Indian Bread" with Anna Harnois, Kathleen Bragdon, Louis
Newell, Melissa Cote, and Marley Brown IV; Basket making with Mrs. Lilian
Gabriel; Interview with Elizabeth Sopiel regarding the history of Peter Dana
Point Location: Princeton, Maine
|
July 16, 1991, July 25, 1991 |
| 1 | Kathleen Bragdon and Mrs. Anna Harnois [1/3] audio cassette
Side 1: General interviews on language use, schooling, literacy;
Side 2: "Two brothers and the Priest" (story), "The Three Bears" (story);
Location: Princeton, Maine
|
July 2, 1991 |
| 1 | Kathleen Bragdon and Mrs. Anna Harnois [2/3] audio cassette
Side 1: Baby talk and body parts; Side 2: "When I Used to Live
With my Grandfather" (story), additional information on midwifery in
English
|
July 3, 1992 |
| 1 | Kathleen Bragdon and Mrs. Anna Harnois [3/3] audio cassette
Side 1: "Indian Bread" (story) and additional information in
English; Side 2: "When Grandfather fell out of the canoe" (story), "Visiting
Nicholas" (story),"Making gravy" (story). Additional information on hunting in
English.
|
July 4, 1992 |
| 1 | "When Grandfather Was a Guide" / "Magic
Whistle" audio cassette
Side 1: "When Gradfather Was a Guide" (story) and information on
premonitions in English; Side 2: "Magic Whistle" (story)
|
July 11, 1991 |
| 1 | "Making Indian Bread" audio cassette
Tape of "Making Indian Bread" film
|
July 16, 1991 |
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | Inventory of field research materials Itemized list of cassette tapes, transcriptions, and video tape.
|
undated |
| 1/2 | Transcriptions 10 transcriptions
Transcriptions correspond to specific audio cassette tapes (noted
in inventory)
|
July 1991 |
| 1/3 | Questionnaire and Research Paper Questionnaire on Passamaquoddy literacy and language use. Paper
titled "Literacy in Two Algonquian Languages", presented to the American
Society for Ethnohistory
|
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Bragdon, Kathleen Joan (creator)
Corporate Names
- Jacobs Research Funds (creator)
