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 | Soboleff, Walter | Italio, Frank
Subject: Alaska--History | Linguistics | Music
Type: Text
Genre: Dictionaries | Field notes | Songs | Transcriptions | Vocabularies | Stories
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. Most items within this section are Frederica de Laguna's detailed notes related to her audio recordings made at Yakutat. See separate guide entries for collections "Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska" (Mss.Rec.19) and "Tlingit, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone recordings" (Mss.Rec.30). This section also includes Sapir's extensive "Comparative Na-Dene dictionary" (item Na20a.3) and "Chilcat vocabulary" (item N2.2), and Swanton's Tlingit and Haida field notebooks from 1900-1901 (item N2.1).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c