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Language:English
Date:1952-1953
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958
Subject:British Columbia--History | Carving | Ethnography | Medicine | Material culture
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: A work intended as a sequel to Barbeau (1953) Haida myths. In addition to discussing Skidegate and Masset carvers and their work, the author presents material on carvers as medicine men, material on shamanism and witchcraft, classification of the subjects of statuettes (chiefs and illustration of myths). An appendix includes myths recorded by William Beynon among the Skidegate, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a, from 1952-1954.
Collection:Haida carvers in argillite (Mss.970.6.B23h)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Secwépemc includes: Shuswap
Nlaka'pamux includes: Nlakapamuk, Nłeʔkepmx, Ntlakyapamuk, Thompson
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:1980-1981
Contributor:Robinson, Harry | Wickwire, Wendy
Subject:British Columbia--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Washington (State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Songs | Stories
Extent:16 hr., 46 min. : DIGITIZED
Description: Audio recordings of traditional and autobiographical Okanagan stories, recorded by Wendy C. Wickwire in Hedley and Merritt, British Columbia in 1980-1981. May contain occasional Nsyilxcən words. Otherwise predominantly in English. Access to these recordings is currently restricted, as of November 2020, while they are reviewed for which materials can be made available for general research access.
Collection:Okanagan Stories (Mss.Rec.116)
Culture:
Syilx includes: Okanagan, Okanogan
Language:English | Okanagan (nsyilxcən)
Date:2007-2011
Contributor:Lyon, John | Lindley, Lottie | Saddleman, Nancy | Menzies, Stacey | Bliss, Heather | Stewart, Rita | Tom, Theresa | McLeod, Sarah | Lindley, Isaac | Tom, Wilford | Tom, Josie
Subject:Funeral rites and ceremonies | Religion | Catholic Church | Linguistics | Medicine | British Columbia--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Stories | Songs
Extent:0.5 linear feet manuscripts; 8 compact discs containing 94 hours of audio
Description: Audio recordings and transcriptions in n̓səl̓xcin (Okanagan Salish). Consists of primarily of audio recordings, especially elicitation sessions focusing on a broad range of grammatical features; 22 traditional and autobiographical stories, most given in n̓səl̓xcin and English; conversations; and Catholic hymns and prayers. Contributors listed and subjects may not be complete. (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:Referring Expressions in Okanagan Salish: A syntactic and semantic study of demonstratives (Mss.Rec.285)