Tlingit materials, ACLS collection
Date: 1900-1901, 1914, 1952, 1954
Contributor: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Shotridge, Louis, 1882-1937 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject: Alaska--History | Linguistics | Music
Type: Text
Genre: Dictionaries | Field notes | Songs | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent: 272 pages; 4 volumes (approximately 500 pages each)
Description: The Tlingit materials in the ACLS collection are concentrated primarily in the "Tlingit" section of the finding aid. They include Frederica de Laguna's detailed notes related to her audio recordings made at Yakutat. (See collections Mss.Rec.19 and Mss.Rec.30, listed separately in this guide.) This section also includes Sapir's extensive "Comparative Na-Dene dictionary" and "Chilcat vocabulary." See also Swanton's Tlingit and Haida field notebooks from 1900-1901.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)