Alsea texts (9 notebooks); ethnology, (1 book); Grammatical notes (1 book); Notes to texts, (4 books); traditions (2 books); Notes on Alsea language (2 books); General notes (1 book); translations of text (1 book). (Books 8 1/2 x 7 in. - average 80 pages each).
Also index to grammatical text, Lower Umpqua.
Michael Silverstein suggests that part of notebooks may not be by Frachtenberg, but may be by Livingston Farrand. Eugene Buckley confirmed on 5/25/07 that folders 4 & 5 are Farrand's notebook.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2516
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Texts
Notes
Citation:
Manuscript 2516, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
after 1877
Scope and Contents:
In 100 page printed schedule of 1877 (bound).
Author's note, page 8: "The Coos and Umpqua are cognate dialects of the same language." Note in hand of A.S. Gatschet, page 2: "The Umpqua Indians mentioned in this voc. as speaking a dialect cognate to Kusa are not Umpqua-Tinn'e, but Indians living on Lower Umpqua River, probably on its outlet."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 557
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
This manuscript is a set of comparative data containing materials in several Athabascan/Athapascan languages. The language names as they appear in the ms. with alternative spellings in parenthesis. Chipwyan (Chipewyan, Montagnais, Dene Suline, Sluacus-tinneh, Dene Soun'line), Tacully (Tâh-killy, Tâ-cully ), Klatskani [Kwalhioqua ?] (Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai Kwalhioqua- Clatskanie, Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanie), Willopah (Willapa, Willoopah) Upper Umpqua, Tootooten, Applegate Creek, Hopah, Haynarger with notes in English.
Scope and Contents:
Consists of Comparative vocabulary, 4 double leaves; Appendix, 8 pages.
Place and date of record not on manuscript; recorded at Cathlamet, Washington Territory, February 24, 1858, according to Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 14.
2 originals, apparently duplicates, in the hand of the compiler, 6 pages each. Also separate copies of each of the three vocabularies in the hand of George Gibbs, 6 pages each.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 218
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
MS 76 Umpqua (Athapascan) vocabulary, recorded at Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, Polk Co., Oregon in Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages
Collector:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Vocabularies of Upper Umpqua, according to J. I. Milhau (Bureau of American Ethnology Number 193) and of "Willopah," (Kwalhioqua, Bureau of American Ethnology Number 110), according to George Gibbs. Copy, in parallel columns, in the handwriting of F. L. O. Roehrig.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 155
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 155, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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