Gwich'in materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Gwich'in includes: Kutchin, Loucheux, Tukudh
Date: 1923
Contributor: Fredson, John | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject: Alaska--History | Folklore | Kinship | Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 5 notebooks
Description: The Gwich'in materials in the ACLS collection consist of 5 notebooks, containing extensive elicited words and phrases and several stories recorded as interlinear texts. These notebooks are located in the "Gwich'in" section of the finding aid, catalogued as item Na.8, "Gwich'in notebooks, Fort Yukon dialect". They were recorded with the speaker John Fredson of Fort Yukon, Alaska, who Sapir met while Fredson was working at Camp Red Cloud in Pennsylvania in the summer of 1923.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c