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Culture:
Stoney includes: Nakoda
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Kainai includes: Káínaa, Blood
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Blackfeet includes: Blackfoot, Niitsítapi, Siksika, Siksikaitsitapi
Language:English
Date:1905-1910
Contributor:Jacobs, Norman Leonard, 1885-
Subject:Railroads | Fishing | Clothing and dress | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs | Architecture | British Columbia--History | Manitoba--History | Alberta--History | Saskatchewan--History | Ontario--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Photographs
Extent:1 linear foot
Description: Norman Leonard Jacobs was an engineer and surveyor with the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway in Canada. The collection consists of his correspondence with Bessie Frank (later Anathan), an acquaintance from Pittsburgh. Jacobs wrote of daily life in Canadian cities like Winnipeg and Edmonton, interactions with First Nations, and daily hardships encountered in the field (extreme cold, snowblindness, and lack of food), but also spoke of his work with pride and enthusiasm. In addition to the letters, Jacobs wrote twenty-eight pages of a "Diary of a Tenderfoot." Also included in the collection are two photobooks and various loose photographs, which display various aspects of camp life, details of work sites and the Canadian landscape, and First Nations peoples. Some of the photographs are extremely faded. Native peoples mentioned include Ojibwe, Blackfoot, Cree, "Surteau" (likely Saulteaux),"Bloods" (Kainai), "Stonies" (Nakoda, or "Stoney"), as well as Native people at Tete Jaune Cache who are likely Simpcw. The images include family groups; men, women, and children fishing; men (some apparently hired by Jacobs or his company to act as guides and carriers in the field) working with an infant in a cradleboard; Ojibwe graves; tepees [tipis]; "Sioux" warriors; a sweat bath; horse races; individuals like Joe KaeKwitch, Chief Handorgan, Chief Wingard, Muskowken, etc. Most of these materials have been digitized and are available through the APS's Digital Library. Also see the finding aid for more background information on Jacobs and detailed itemized lists for both Series I. Correspondence and Series II. Graphic Materials.
Collection:Anathan-Jacobs Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Collection (Mss.SMs.Coll.13)
Culture:
Squamish includes: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sko-ko-mish
Date:1976
Contributor:Bouchard, Randy | Turner, Nancy J., 1947-
Subject:Anthropology | Linguistics | Salishan languages | Botany | Ethnography | Food | Medicine | Folklore | Social life and customs | Ecology | Botany | Plants | British Columbia--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Monographs | Illustrations | Essays
Extent:179 pages
Description: This paper, co-authored by Nancy J. Turner and Randall (Randy) T. Bouchard, gives the comparative linguistic transcriptions of the native plant names, the botanical identification, and the common English-language names of the plant species, as well as their utilization as food or in technology, medicine, or mythology. Includes photographs. See also the other volumes in the same series in the APS collections: Bouchard and Dorothy I. D. Kennedy's "Knowledge and usage of land mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, and amphibians by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia" (1976) (Mss.970.6.K38.k); and Bouchard and Kennedy's "Utilization of fish, beach foods, and marine mammals by the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia" (1976) (Mss.970.6.K38). These publications were disseminated by the British Columbia Language Project.
Collection:Botany of the Squamish Indian people of British Columbia (Mss.970.6.B66)
Culture:
Tsilhqot'in includes: Chilcotin, Tinneh
Language:English | Tsilhqot'in
Date:1992
Contributor:Dinwoodie, David W., 1961-
Subject:British Columbia--History | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Stories
Extent:1 audiocassette (19 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Narrative about a white man named Robertson who lived in the Nemaiah Valley, British Columbia, given in the Chilcotin language. Includes conversation in English. Recorded at Nemaiah Creek Valley, British Columbia on 3 October 1992. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Chilcotin language recording (Mss.Rec.257)
Culture:
Suquamish includes: Suqwabš
Stó:lō includes: Fraser River
Puyallup includes: Spuyaləpabš, S'Puyalupubsh
Nooksack includes: Noxws’áʔaq
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Language:English
Date:1975
Contributor:Amoss, Pamela T.
Subject:British Columbia--History | Religion | Washington (State)--History | Shakers
Type:Text
Genre:Inventories | Reports
Extent:26 pages
Description: The Puget Sound Salish materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 Item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Amoss: "Catalogue of The Marian Smith Collection in the Library of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland," consisting of report (1 p.); catalog of manuscript materials (20 p.); inventory of photographs (5 p.). The catalog lists documents on the Salish, the Kwakiutl, and Indian Shakers; correspondence between Marian Smith and Ernest Bertelson; typewritten notes of Arthur Ballard on Salish; photographs on various topics.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Date:1985
Contributor:Kroeber, Paul D. | George, Mary
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Religion | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:5 audiocassettes (5 hr., 7 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in Sliammon, British Columbia in August 1985 by Paul D. Kroeber with consultant Mary George. Predominantly consists of linguistic elicitation of Comox words and phrases. Includes a brief Shaker narrative. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Comox field recordings (Mss.Rec.153)
Culture:
Language:English | German | Halkomelem
Date:1886, 1888
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks
Description: The Cowichan materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #3 and Field notes 1888 #2.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Language:Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | English
Date:1987-1988, 1999
Contributor:Austin, Josephina | Larsen, Soren | Pierre, Rose | Prunet, Jean-Francois
Subject:British Columbia--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:58 pages
Description: The Dakelh materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 2 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Larsen and Prunet.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Ditidaht includes: Nitinat
Date:1886
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Ditidaht materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic or ethnographic notes, some possibly in German shorthand, located within Field notes 1886 #3.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Ditidaht includes: Nitinat
Date:1931-1932, 1935
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Jasper | Peter, Chief | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:British Columbia--History | Ethnography | Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Maps | Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:14 notebooks and approximately 6700 slips
Description: The Ditidaht materials in the ACLS collection are found in the "Nitinat" section of the finding aid. The bulk of the material consists of field notebooks (item W2b.2, "Nitinat field notebooks") recorded by Mary Haas and Morris Swadesh primarily from Chief Peter (Batlisqawa) and his son Jasper of Port Renfrew in 1931. The notebooks include numerous texts of traditional stories, histories, autobiographical stories, and other content including place names, vocabularies, and grammatical notes. A full table of contents of these notebooks is available. An extensive lexical file of over 6700 terms, derived from these field notebooks, is also found in this collection as item W2b.1, "Nitinat lexical file". See the Ditidaht materials in the Mary Rosamond Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94) for additional notebooks and photographs recorded during this fieldwork.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Tsawwassen includes: sc̓əwaθən
Tsleil-Waututh includes: səl̓ilwətaɁɬ
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)