Clackamas materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Clackamas includes: Klackamas
Language: English | Chinook, Upper
Date: 1890-1894; 1920
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971
Subject: Ethnography | Kinship | Linguistics | Washington (State)--History
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 2 pages; 2 notebooks; circa 65 slips
Description: The Clackamas materials in the ACLS collection include two items in the "Clackamas" section of the finding aid: a 2-page fragment of a Clackamas-English vocabulary (item Pn4a.1), and a brief slip file containing kinship terms (item Pn4a.7). Two notebooks recorded by Franz Boas in 1890 which partially contain Clackamas texts and vocabularies are found in "Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (item Pn4b.5) in the "Chinook" section of the finding aid. In the "Kathlamet" section, the larger "Kathlamet lexicon" (item Pn4a.2) includes some comparative Clackamas terms.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c