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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)
Culture:
Tolowa includes: Taa-laa-wa Dee-ni’
Tsetsaut includes: Ts'ets'aut
Tsuut'ina includes: Sarsi (pej.), Sarcee (pej.), Tsuu T'ina
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Galice includes: Applegate
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Dakelh includes: Carrier, ᑕᗸᒡ
Apache, Chiricahua includes: Nde
Language:Dakelh (ᑕᗸᒡ) | English | Hupa | Tsetsaut | Tsuut'ina
Date:1935; 1976
Contributor:Hoijer, Dorothy | Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 folders
Description: Two letters in the "Series I: Correspondence" section. A letter from Edward Sapir to Harry Hoijer, dated November 2, 1935, includes comparative data on verb forms in Dakelh ("Carrier"), Hupa, Tsetsaut, with some info on Tsuut'ina ("Sarsi"). A second letter, from Dorothy Hoijer to Whitfield Bell, includes brief identifying information on Harry Hoijer's Galice, Chiricahua, Mescalero, and Jicarilla consultants, plus a note on "Navaho Texts."
Collection:Harry Hoijer Collection (Mss.497.3.H68)