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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:
Isleta includes: Tiwa
Language:English | Tiwa, Southern
Date:circa 1921
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Linguistics | Botany | Plants
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:6 pages
Description: The Isleta materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Isleta" section of the finding aid: a word list of approximately 175 terms, primarily consisting of plant names, catalogued as item T1b.1, "Isleta word list".
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Date:1983
Contributor:Certini, Rose | Hanson, Dugan | Shaul, David
Subject:California--History | Linguistics | Social life and customs | Anatomy | Plants | Animals | Food
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Elicitation sessions | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent:9 audiocassettes (7 hr., 50 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings, recorded at Ridgecrest, California in 1983. Elicited vocabulary and grammar, with English glosses and frequent commentary on Panamint history and customs. Includes an interview with the consultant by a newspaper reporter on his life and local history. (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:Panamint language recordings (Mss.Rec.170)
Culture:
Washo includes: Wašiw, Washoe, Waashiw
Language:Washo | English | Paiute, Northern
Date:1942-1947
Contributor:Marsh, Gordon H. | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 | Dyk, Walter | Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
Subject:California--History | Nevada--History | Linguistics | Plants | Botany
Type:Text
Genre:Newspapers | Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:42 p.
Description: The only identified Washo materials in the ACLS collection are found in the "Iowa (Chiwere)" section of the finding aid, under the large item "Materials for a study of the Iowa Indian language" (item X4a.2). Part 17 consists of correspondence with Gordon Marsh regarding research on Iowa-Oto and Washo, some wordlists, research notes on plants and fish names, and published material. This has been digitized.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)