Heiltsuk materials, Phillips Fund Collection
Culture:
Heiltsuk includes: Bella Bella, Haíɫzaqv
Language: English | Heiltsuk-Oowekyala | Latin
Date: 1986, 1989-1990, 1994
Contributor: Compton, Brian D. | Harkin, Michael
Subject: British Columbia--History | Botany | Linguistics | Medicine
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Interviews | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent: 265 pages
Description: The Heiltsuk materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 5 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Compton and Harkin. Compton's material include 4 items relating to Heiltsuk botanical knowledge. Harkin's material is "Ethnohistory of the Heiltsuk," is described as "research...conducted in Bella Bella, British Columbia, 1986-1987, and involved eliciting ethnohistorical narratives, and ethnological and linguistic data, with elders from the Heiltsuk band, in order to record a Heiltsuk perspective of their own history. Consultants included Gordon Reid, Evelyn and Charles Windsor, Esther and Jimmy Lawson, Stanley George, Ed Martin, Margaret Campbell, and Clarence Martin."
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection Mss.497.3.Am4