Shishalh materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Shishalh includes: Sechelt, Shishá7lh
Date: 1886, circa 1888, 1900
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Vocabularies
Extent: 32 pages
Description: The Sechelt materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items. In the "Sisiatl (Sechelt, Shishalh)" section of the finding aid, there is a 871-word German-Sháshíshálh vocabulary (item S2j.4) recorded by Boas in 1886 at Comox. In the "Salish" section, Boas' "Comparative vocabularies of eight Salishan languages" (item S.1) includes Sháshíshálh terms. See also "Squamish vocabulary," circa 1888, (item S2h.1,) which includes a comparative vocabulary for numbers in multiple Coast Salish languages.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c