Takelma materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Tututni includes: Rogue River
Takelma includes: Rogue River
Chasta Costa includes: Shasta Costa, Chastacosta, Rogue River
Language: Chinook Jargon | English | Shasta | Takelma | Tututni
Date: 1903-1904; 1906
Contributor: Johnson, Frances | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | St. Clair, H. H. (Harry Hull)
Subject: Language families | Linguistics | Medicine | Music | Oregon--History | Penutian languages
Type: Text
Genre: Grammars | Musical scores | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent: 5 notebooks (approximately 120 pages each), 6 pages (sheet music), 36 loose pages
Description: The Takelma material in the ACLS consist primarily of materials found in the "Takelma" section of the finding aid, item Pn1.1. The bulk of this material is that recorded by Edward Sapir in 1903-1904, consisting of 5 field notebooks with texts with English translations and medicine formulas (published in 1909) as well as paradigms and other grammatical notes. This material also contains sheet music with transcriptions of four Takelma songs and one each for Chasta Costa, Shasta, and Chinook Jargon. Remaining leaves are vocabulary notes made by H. H. St. Clair. In the "Penutian" section, there are also two sets of "Coos-Takelma-Penutian comparisons" (item P1.2 and P1.3).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c