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.
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NAA MS 2516
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Texts
Notes
Citation:
Manuscript 2516, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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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.
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Collection descriptions
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Date:
after 1877
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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."
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NAA MS 557
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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.
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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.
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]."
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Manuscript 958, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
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NAA MS 218
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
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."
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NAA MS 955-a
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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]."
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Vocabulary
Citation:
Manuscript 955-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Pages
Date:
undated
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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.
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NAA MS 1727
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
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Manuscript 1727, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
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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."
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 193, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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
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Collection descriptions
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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.
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NAA MS 155
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Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
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Manuscript 155, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
View overlooking the junction between Umpqua and Steamboat Rivers in Oregon.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Reverend James O. Arthur photograph collection; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
View overlooking the junction between Umpqua and Steamboat Rivers in Oregon.
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Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Reverend James O. Arthur photograph collection; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Reverend James O. Arthur photograph collection; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Reverend James O. Arthur photograph collection; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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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Collection Rights:
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Collection descriptions
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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