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Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish
Date:1912
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Castillo, Andrea | Pastor, Pedro Marcelino | Castillo, Ignacio | Vásquez, Ines | Vásquez, Manuel | Avesilla, Eleuteria | Trinidad, María | Martinez, Sabina | Ramos, Gil | Raquel, Mauricia | Feliciana | Réz, Joaquina | Nicha, Paula | Pina, Estanislao | Pina, Epifanio | Peñafiel, Antonio | Vásquez, Ezéquiel | Castillo, Iguario | María, José
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Field notes | Notebooks | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
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Puyallup includes: Spuyaləpabš, S'Puyalupubsh
Language:English | Lushootseed
Date:1934
Contributor:Aginsky, Ethel G. (Ethel Gertrude), 1910-1990 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Stories
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Grammars | Notebooks | Shorthand
Extent:337 pages, and 1 notebook
Description: The Puyallup materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials in multiple sections of the finding aid. In the "Puyallup" section, Aginsky's "Puyallup texts" (item S2e.1) contain texts with interlinear translations, analyses of vocabulary, and other grammatical notes. In the "Chehalis" section, there is Aginsky's "Comparison of Puyallup and Chehalis" (item S.9). In the "Chinook" section, Notebook 3 of Boas' "Field notes on Chinookan and Salishan languages and Gitamat, Molala, and Masset" (item Pn4b.5) contains Puyallup vocabulary and ethnographic notes, some of which are in German shorthand. In the "Nooksack" section, there is a comparative vocabulary of Coast Salish languages (item S.8), including Puyallup terms, also identified as "sXúλ'babš" which may be Homamish.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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St'at'imc includes: Stl’atl’imx, Lillooet
Language:English | St'at'imcets
Date:1910-1921
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Material culture | Museum objects | Music
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:200+ pages
Description: The St'at'imc materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of materials in the "Lillooet" section of the finding aid. These include ethnographic notes and multiple word lists recorded by Sapir, Boas, and Teit, including both Upper and Lower Lillooet. In the "Salish" section, Teit's "Salish (and Dene) ethnographic notes" (item 60) includes information on St'at'imc objects sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) includes notes on 80 songs (some of which are St'at'imc) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In the "Thompson" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Salish ethnographic materials" (item 61) includes some St'at'imc ethnographic information of undetermined extent.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:Columbia-Wenatchi | English | Kalispel-Pend d'Oreille | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:Circa 1900, 1908, 1913, 1915-1921, 1930
Contributor:Commons, Rachel S., 1899-1936 | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922 | Brooks, Cecile | Louis, Mrs. | Joy, Lucy | Tilson, Andrew | Louie, Johnny | Brooks, Michel | Louie, Emma | Joe, Lucy
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Music | British Columbia--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Cartographic
Genre:Field notes | Maps | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:314+ pages, 40 slips, multiple map, notebooks
Description: The Syilx (Okanagon) materials in the APS collection consists mainly of items in the "Okanagan" section of the finding aid. Boas' "Okanagan materials" (item S1d.1) include vocabulary and texts with interlinear translation, and some corresponding Kalispel forms. Teit's "Vocabulary in Okanagon and related dialects" (item S1d.2) includes forms from Nkaus, Sanpoil, Colville, and Lake dialects, with some parallel forms in Kalispel and Columbia. Rachel Commons' field notes (item S1d.4) include word lists, ethnographic notes (including a map), and some linguistic text. In the "Salish" section of the finding aid, Teit's "Songs from the Salish area" (item S.6) include notes on 80 songs (some of which are Syilx) recorded for and sent to the National Museum of Canada (now the Canadian Museum of History). In this same section, Teit's "Field notes on Thompson and neighboring Salish languages" (item S1b.7) consists of numerous notebooks, which partially include some ethnographic notes on Syilx matters.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Date:1890, 1900, 1935
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Oregon--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Stories | Vocabularies | Field notes
Extent:163 pages, and 2 notebooks
Description: The Tillamook materials in the ACLS collection consist of 3 items in the "Tillamook" section of the finding aid and one in the "Chinook" section. Material in the "Tillamook" section includes materials collected in 1890 by Franz Boas (items S4.2 and S4.3), consisting of texts with interlinear translation, pencil corrections, mixed in with materials on Siletz and Nehelim, and material from May Edel (item S4.4), collected in 1935, consisting of a combined vocabulary containing words that she recorded, combined with those recorded earlier by Boas and Melville Jacobs. Material in the "Chinook" section consists of 2 notebooks (item S4.1), partially in shorthand, by Boas from 1890, with vocabularies and texts with interlinear translation, ethnographic notes in shorthand. A table of contents is included with notebooks, which also have Nehelim, Siletz, Chinookan, Wasco-Wishram, Klackamas, Clatsop, and Chinook information, along with physical notes on Songhees skulls from an earlier field work trip.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)