Downriver Halkomelem materials, ACLS collection

Culture:
Tsawwassen includes: sc̓əwaθən
Tsleil-Waututh includes: səl̓ilwətaɁɬ
Salish, Coast
Stó:lō includes: Fraser River
Musqueam includes: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm
Language: English | German | Halkomelem
Date: 1890, 1934
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961 | Sts'ailes, George
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | British Columbia--History
Type: Text
Genre: Shorthand | Vocabularies | Genealogies
Extent: 2 notebooks, and approx. 100 loose pages
Description: The Downriver Halkomelem materials in the ACLS collection include 1 item in the "Chinook" section of the finding aid. This item is "Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (Pn4b.5). Notebooks 3 and 4 include ethnographic and linguistic notes on "Lower Frasier" language, some of which was recorded with George Sts'ailes. Some of these notes are in German shorthand. In the "Nooksack" section of the finding aid, Smith's "Vocabularies in Nooksack and other Coast Salishan languages" (item S.8) consists of a comparative word list that includes "Muskokwim" (probably Musqueam) and Katzie. In the "Halkomelem" section of the finding aid, see "Nanaimo, Cowichan, and Lower Fraser materials" (item S2i.1).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c