Lummi recordings
Language: Salish, Straits | English
Date: 1974
Contributor: Bowman, Elizabeth | Charles, Al | Demers, Richard A.
Subject: Canoes and canoeing | Dance | Fishing | Folklore | Food | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Material culture | Washington (State)--History
Type: Sound recording
Genre: Stories | Conversations | Speeches | Elicitation sessions
Extent: 20 sound tape reels (21 hr., 29 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings, recorded in Whatcom County, Washington, June - August 1974, with consultant Al Charles. Includes stories relating to Lummi history, descriptions of social customs, descriptions of museum artifacts, descriptions of how to prepare various kinds of traditional foods, and elicited sentences. Majority of material given in Lummi and later reviewed and translated. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection: Lummi recordings Mss.Rec.105