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Culture:
Apache, Chiricahua includes: Nde
Language:English | Apache, Western | Mescalero-Chiricahua
Date:1930-1934; undated
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Kenoi, Sam | Mandelbaum, David Goodman, 1911-1987 | Russell, Lewis
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | New Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Translations | Stories
Extent:5 items
Description: Items relating to Hoijer's field work on the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache dialects and as he prepared the resulting work for publication. These include several notebooks, five containing Chiricahua texts with interlinear English glosses and English translations and one containing Mescalero texts in phonemic transcription, with interlinear English glosses, and English translation and additional notes on facing page. There are also 23 pages of typescript taken from these notebooks, containing English translations only [not proofread] and several tales, which are listed in the guide to the Harry Hoijer Collection. Sam Kenoi is mentioned as the primary informant and translator. A Lipan-speaker, Crook-Neck, is also mentioned. There are also two items related to the San Carlos (Western Apache) dialect: David Mandelbaum's work with informant Lewis Russell in 1933 and 325 pages (undated) of phonetic texts (no English translations) with a note inside that reads "San Carlos or Chiricahua?"
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)
Date:1956, 1976
Contributor:Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Simmons, Hoxie
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Dene languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Transcriptions | Translations | Vocabularies
Extent:18 pages
Description: Galice word and phrase list from a recording made with Galice speaker Hoxie Simmons at Siletz Reservation in 1956. (Original recording housed at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.) Handwritten on looseleaf, listing lexical items in phonemic transcription, with English glosses, e.g., dalbai. Lexicon includes nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs, adjectives, as well as inflected forms of nouns ('my wife, your wife, his wife') and phrases (e.g., 'I shall see it', 'what are you doing?'). According to Kendall, nouns and verbs with person markers, but no complete paradigms. In "Series I: Correspondence," also see letter from Dorothy Hoijer to Whitfield Bell for brief info on the recording.
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)