Kathlamet materials, ACLS collection

Culture:
Kathlamet includes: Cathlamet
Chinook
Clackamas includes: Klackamas
Language: English | Kathlamet
Date: 1890-1895
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Stories
Type: Text
Genre: Field notes | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent: 4 notebooks; approx. 2,600 slips
Description: The Kathlamet materials in the ACLS collection consist of items in two sections of the finding aid. In the "Chinook" section, Boas' notebooks 1, 2, and 4 of Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (item Pn4b.5) contain texts, ethnographic information, and grammatical notes. In the same section, Boas' "Miscellaneous notes on Chinookan languages" (item Pn4.1) includes a text in an unidentified language and fragmentary slips of Chinook-Kathlamet comparisons. In the "Kathlamet" section, there is an additional field notebook by Boas (item Pn4a.8), and two large, separate lexicons derived in part from his fieldwork (items Pn4a.2 and Pn4a.3).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c