Makah materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Date: 1949 and undated
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swan, George | Caplanaho, Mollie
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Washington (State)--History | Politics and government | Folklore
Type: Text
Genre: Field notes | Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent: 13 pages; 1 notebook; 750 cards
Description: The Makah materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Makah" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Makah lexicon" (item W2c.1) consists of 738 cards arranged in such categories as animals, parts of the body, natural objects, etc. Swadesh's "Makah field notes" (item W2c.2) from 1949 consists of 1 field notebook and some loose pages, and include vocabularies, ethnographic notes, and texts. One text on tribal councils, told by George Swan, is a transcript of a recording included in Swadesh's "Nootka and Makah songs and stories" audio collection (Mss.Rec.8), listed separately in this guide.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c