Ktunaxa materials, ACLS collection
Language: Chinook Jargon | English | Kutenai | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date: 1891, 1894, 1913-1927, 1947
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Canestrelli, Phillippo | Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, 1865-1914 | Garvin, Paul L. | Post, John | Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Chiqui, Mary | Francis, Simon | Morigeau, Mary | Francis, Nick | Ernest, Louis | Andrew, Pete | Jackson, Catherine | Stanley, Joe | Pierre, Sam | Pierre, Catherine
Subject: Anthropometry | British Columbia--History | Clothing and dress | Folklore | Idaho--History | Linguistics | Montana--History
Type: Text
Genre: Dictionaries | Essays | Grammars | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 19 notebooks, 66 bluebooks, 1052 loose pages, approx. 5600 word slips
Description: The Ktunaxa materials in the ACLS collection are extensive and concentrated primarily in the "Kutenai" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing of all contents. The earliest materials in this section linguistic manuscripts by Jesuit missionaries such as Phillippo Canestrelli (item Ku.15) and John Post (item Ku.11), as well as extensive linguistic and anthropological field notes by Alexander Chamberlain (items Ku.9 and Ku.10), all from the 1890s. Subsequently, James Teit's "Traditions and information regarding the Tonaxa" (item Ku.16) from 1913 includes ethnographic and historical information, recorded in part at Tobacco Plains. The most voluminous amount of material overall is that of Franz Boas, recorded in the 1910s, which includes numerous field notebooks, lexical files, and related notes (items Ku.1, Ku.2, Ku.3, Ku.4, Ku.5, Ku.6, Ku.7, Ku.8, and Ku.17). Finally, see also Paul Garvin's field notes from 1947, containing Lower Kutenai recorded at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho; Cranbrook, B.C.; Creston, B.C.; and Elmo, Montana (item Ku.14 for the notebooks, and Ku.13 for slips).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c