View overlooking the junction between Umpqua and Steamboat Rivers in Oregon.
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View overlooking the junction between Umpqua and Steamboat Rivers in Oregon.
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This set contains 23 nitrate negatives shot by Reverend James O. Arthur in Oregon, 1922-1925. Among the photographs are depictions of rivers including South Umpqua and Steamboat; a train traveling on raised tracks; a house and landscape in Roseburg, Oregon; and a parade in downtown Roseburg.
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MS 191-a: Note in hand of Milhau: "...this language was spoken by nearly all the Indians who formerly occupied the valley of the Umpqua east of the Coast Range and is very similar to that spoken on the Headwaters of the Coquille."
MS 191-b: Two copies by George Gibbs of John J. Milhau's Upper Umpqua vocabulary. Consists of 1 literal copy, 6 pages, and 1 transliterated copy, 6 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 193
Local Note:
Letter of November 14, 1856 (Manuscript Number 191-a) states: "I enclose you herewith vocabularies of the Indian languages spoken between Cape Arago and Cape Foulweather viz the Coose Bay [Manuscript Number 191-a] lower Umpque or Kallawatsett [Manuscript Number 958], and the Alseya [Manuscript Number 955-a], also the Umpqua proper [Manuscript Number 193-a].
Note in hand of G. Gibbs: "The real Tinne-Umpqua."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 193, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
This appears to be essentially as published in Bureau of American Ethnology-Bulletin 40, there called: "Siuslawan (Lower Umpqua)", except that the texts given in that Bulletin, pages 611-629 are not present in the Manuscript and the last 50-60 pages of the Manuscript consist of vocabularies, possibly compiled from other Manuscripts in the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1727
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1727, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Drawings
Date:
1856
Scope and Contents:
Letter to George Gibbs, October 13, 1856, 2 pages. Letter to George Gibbs, November 14, 1856, transmitting "Coos Bay" vocabulary of two "different dialects of the same language," identified as "An-a-sitch" and Coos Bay" in Gibbs' copy (Manuscript Number 191-b), 6 pages; "a sketch of the coast showing the relative positions of the Siusclau, Alseya and Yakoner rivers," 1 page; "a few general remarks about the Coast Indians," 4 pages; and a copy of Milhau's "dictionary of sounds," 1 page.
Letter of November 14, 1856 states: "I enclose you herewith vocabularies of the Indian languages spoken between Cape Arago and Cape Foulweather viz the Coose Bay [Manuscript Number 191-a], lower Umpqua or Kallawatsett [Manuscript Number 958], and the Alseya [Manuscript Number 955-a], also the Umpquah proper [Manuscript Number 193-a]."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 191-a
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Letter of November 14, 1856 (Manuscript Number 181-a) states: "I enclose you herewith vocabularies of the Indian languages spoken between Cape Arago and Cape Foulweather viz the Coose Bay [Manuscript Number 191-a], lower Umpqua or Kallawatsett [Manuscript Number 958], and the Alseya [Manuscript Number 955-a], also the Umpquah proper [Manuscript Number 193-a]."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 958, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Approximately 65 pages original notes; approximately 80 pages and 1 kinship chart in schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages 1880. Includes 1 page (page 248) in schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages listing 7 words and 2 phrases in Upper Umpqua (Umpqua Valley), an Athapascan dialect. Information from Spencer Scott and Mrs William Smith (mother of Spencer Scott).
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Collection Citation:
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund.
Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Note in hand of Milhau: "This is the language of all the coast Indians living between Cape Perpetua and Cape Foulweather and up the Alseya and Yakoner rivers." Note in hand of G. Gibbs: "Not Tinne, not Siusclau R."
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 955-a
Local Note:
Letter of November 14, 1856 (Manuscript Number 191-a) states: "I enclose you herewith vocabularies of the Indian languages spoken between Cape Arago and Cape Foulweather viz the Coose Bay [Manuscript Number 191-a] lower Umpqua or Kallawatsett [Manuscript Number 958], and the Alseya [Manuscript Number 955-a], also the Umpquah proper [Manuscript Number 193-a]."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Vocabulary
Citation:
Manuscript 955-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
