Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Language: English | Nuu-chah-nulth
Date: circa 1900-1920
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Thomas, Alex | Williams, Frank
Subject: Anthropology | Ethnography | Folklore | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type: Text
Genre: Microfilms | Drafts | Vocabularies | Notes | Stories
Extent: 2 reels
Description: These materials were compiled by various anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Franz Boas, Alex Thomas, and Frank Williams. Sapir (ca. 1920) collected and annotated a series of Nootka ethnographic and legendary texts (600 pages of materials), initially intended as a third volume of Sapir and Swadesh, Nootka Texts (1939). Boas (ca. 1900-1913) contributed Nootka vocabularies and grammatical notes (100 slips and 100 pages). Thomas obtained Nootka texts for the collection (ca. 1910-1920). Originals at the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa.
Collection: Nootka ethnographic and linguistic materials Mss.Film.687