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Nuu-chah-nulth includes: Nootka, Nutka, Aht, Westcoast
Nak'waxda'xw includes: Nakoaktok, Nakwoktak, Nakwaxda'xw
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Gusgimukw includes: Koskimo
Date:undated, and 1920-1942
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Cranmer, Dan | Hunt, George | Hunt, George, Mrs. | Gi'galas
Subject:Botany | British Columbia--History | Linguistics | Music | Personal names | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Extent:12+ folders; 4 notebooks
Description: The Kwakwaka'wakw materials in the Franz Boas Professional Papers consist of numerous folders containing Kwakwaka'wakw stories (some by George Hunt), notes on songs (much of it by the Namgis chief, Dan Cranmer), ethnographic and historical information, and linguistic notes on the Kwak'wala language. See items listed under "Boas, Franz -- Kwakiutl," for some materials, including those by Dan Cranmer. Under "Hunt, George - Kwakiutl," there are notebooks and texts, including 6 texts in Boas's hand in Kwak'wala with English interlinear translation. These includes "Host Speech for great great feast," two texts on "Supernatural Experience" and marriage told by Mrs. George Hunt, and Hë'mănis told by Gi'galas (Gwawa'enuxw), with revised version written by George Hunt. Finally, see the folder labeled "Kwakiutl material (on names)," which contains lists of names of plants, birds, specific people, positions, coppers, and other matters, primarily provided by Dan Cranmer.
Collection:Franz Boas Personal and Professional Papers (Mss.B.B61p)
Culture:
Language:English | Tlingit | Ahtna | Tutchone, Southern | Tsimshian | Tanacross | Tanana, Upper
Date:1954
Contributor:Abraham, Olaf | Bremner, Helen | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Dick, Frank | Ellis, John | George, Annie | Italio, Frank | James, Sheldon | Johnson, Chester, Mrs. | Johnson, Minnie | McClellan, Catharine | Peterson, Clarence | Sampson, Blind | White, Charley | White, Maggy
Subject:Alaska--History | Music | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs
Extent:10 sound tape reels (9 hr., 3 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Tlingit recordings made in Yakutat, Alaska (Tapes 1-7); Ahtna recordings made at Chitina, Tazlina, and Chistochina (Tape 8 - Tape 10, track 22); Southern Tutchone recordings made at Klukshu, Yukon Territory (Tape 10, tracks 23-31). Includes personal songs, mourning songs, drinking songs, love songs, shaman songs, and children's songs. Recordings from Yakutat called "Aleut" are of Sugpiaq Chugachmiut origin. Collection formerly titled "Tlingit and Yakutat songs." Renamed in October 2019 to clarify presence of recordings from other communities. (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:Tlingit, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone recordings (Mss.Rec.30)