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Culture:
Makah includes: Kwih-dich-chuh-aht, Qʷidiččaʔa·tx̌
Date:1949 and undated
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Swan, George | Caplanaho, Mollie
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Washington (State)--History | Politics and government | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Stories | Transcripts | Vocabularies
Extent:13 pages; 1 notebook; 750 cards
Description: The Makah materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Makah" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Makah lexicon" (item W2c.1) consists of 738 cards arranged in such categories as animals, parts of the body, natural objects, etc. Swadesh's "Makah field notes" (item W2c.2) from 1949 consists of 1 field notebook and some loose pages, and include vocabularies, ethnographic notes, and texts. One text on tribal councils, told by George Swan, is a transcript of a recording included in Swadesh's "Nootka and Makah songs and stories" audio collection (Mss.Rec.8), listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin
Date:1950s-1980s, bulk 1970s-1980s
Contributor:Hymes, Virginia D. | Hunn, Eugene | French, David | French, Kathrine | Rigsby, Bruce | Pistolhead, Elsie | Suppah, Hazel | Greene, Verbana | Winishut, Linton | Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971 | Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy
Subject:Oregon--History | Washington (State)--History | Linguistics | Ethnography | Animals | Animals--Nomenclature | Anthropology | Fieldwork | Language study and teaching | Orthography and spelling | Pedagogy | Sahaptin languages
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Correspondence | Stories | Oral histories | Dictionaries | Drafts | Elicitation sessions | Grammars | Vocabularies | Transcripts | Essays
Extent:10 linear feet
Description: The majority of the Virginia D. Hymes Papers relate to her work on the Warm Springs Reservation. This includes all or most of Series I, II, III and V. Series V (Card Files) contains around 35000 lexical files compiled by Hymes as well as David and Kay French and an unidentified researcher. Series III (Research Files) contains fieldnotes, texts and dictionary files. Series I (Correspondence) and IV (Works by Others) also mostly relate to Sahaptin research by others, including Bruce Rigsby (Yakima and Umatilla Sahaptin), Virginia Beavert, and Eugene Hunn.
Collection:Virginia D. Hymes Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.189)