Chitimacha materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Language: Chitimacha | English
Date: 1930-1935, 1939, 1950
Contributor: Dardin, Sadie | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Louisiana--History
Type: Text
Genre: Genealogies | Grammars | Vocabularies | Stories | Field notes | Dictionaries
Extent: 5,000 slips, 1,546 pages
Description: The Chitimacha materials in the ACLS collection consists of an extensive body of materials recorded by Morris Swadesh. These are located in the "Chitimacha" section of the finding aid, which contains a full listing. Noteworthy materials include Swadesh's field notebooks, containing text (on a variety of topics) with interlinear translations, and extensive linguistic analysis of morphology, grammar, and other areas. These also include a brief genealogy. Also in this section are additional texts, and linguistic materials created from the fieldwork materials, such as a draft Chitimacha-English dictionary and a lexical file of over 4000 word slips. See also the single notebook in the "Koasati" section of the finding aid, which contains a French-English-Chitimacha wordlist from Mrs. Sadie Dardin.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c